R&D Engineer
Available for exploratory interviews.
Ref: EP20595419
Highly driven processing engineer with a proven background in project setup, execution and management. A self-starter who is passionate about making things work, offering creative and practical solutions to problems, and getting things done. Team player, with the ability to strategically place and lead team members for the optimum outcome, but also willing to step back and be led when the situation requires. Currently seeking a new, stable, opportunity that is challenging, and offers improvement opportunities for technical and leadership/management skills. Interested in broadening my horizons, be it through a new industry, new job title, or new challenge.
Company classification: Holding Company Industry in: Engineering - Mining Mineral Processing | Extractive Metallurgy - Extracting and Processing Minerals from Nature Highest formal qualification and other: Masters Discipline: Chemical Engineering Years of experience range: d. 6 to 10 years (a. Less than 1 year management) Annual package range: South African Rand - ZAR Annual package range: 951 000 - 1.1 mil, per annum Nationality: South African Home and other languages: Afrikaans, English Gender: Female Ethnicity: Caucasian/White Candidate location: South Africa Location preference: I am open to positions nationally (in my country).
ACHIEVEMENTS:
• As a graduate – successfully identifying, testing and confirming that fine chromite could be recovered at our operations with the right approach. Recoveries of up to 30% of on-spec product was achieved at lab-scale. The project required significant stakeholder engagement, expectation management, planning, technical evaluation, quality control and had a steep learning curve.
• Disproved a promising processing technology, by conducting focused test work and representative testwork in a 3-month turnaround time. This was done by teaching and leading a small team to conduct the right testwork targeting the right variables. This saved the company further testwork, piloting and implementing costs. Due to the nature of the project, quality control, thorough planning and measurement, statistical confirmation, quick turnaround time and stakeholder engagement was essential.
• Proved a promising technology at pilot scale, which would have significant impact on water usage in the right application. These technologies had a better classification efficiency than the conventional solution in minerals processing and required the use of no water. The project required engagement with an international team, organization and logistics of the testwork programme, critical and technical thinking, and stakeholder and client engagement.
• Represented employees in a S189 process and managed to save a job through empowering the employee by creating the right platform to discuss their grievances with management.
Contribution Compass Profile: Custodian
Activating: 22.43 Inspiring: 22.05 Sustaining: 31.94 Refining: 23.57
The Custodian is one of the eight natural energy profiles identified by the online profiling tool Contribution Compass that Enshrine Placements have incorporated into their recruitment process to help improve employee engagement. Putting the right profiles together means deliberately structuring your team to function at its optimum.
In this video we address some questions to demonstrate how a Custodian can leverage the most value for your team.
Online Interview Questionnaire
Primary purpose of current/most recent position:
I identify novel technologies in the mineral processing industry and test their validity in our current mining environment. The position involves identifying these technologies, testing them, investigating their applicability in the current process, and either approving or disproving them for application. The applicability of the technologies depend on their impact in the process, i.e. energy, water, efficiency improvements.
Core elements or functions that must operate effectively in order to achieve primary purpose:
Identify and investigate gaps in the current processing structure.
Investigate how these gaps can be breached with either existing or new technologies.
Set up a testwork programme with key indicators/measurements of success for these technologies.
Conclusively approve OR disprove technologies. There is benefit in both.
Description of self, along with greater purpose and passions:
Highly driven processing engineer with a proven background in project setup, execution and management. A self-starter who is passionate about making things work, offering creative and practical solutions to problems, and getting things done. Team player, with the ability to strategically place and lead team members for the optimum outcome, but also willing to step back and be led when the situation requires. Currently seeking a new, stable, opportunity that is challenging, and offers improvement opportunities for technical and leadership/management skills. Interested in broadening my horizons, be it through a new industry, new job title, or new challenge.
Ideal business title:
Senior//Principal R&D Specialist
Senior Processing Projects
Senior/Principal Project Manager
Product owner
Key responsibilities and accountabilities of ideal position:
Leading a team/Managing teamwork
Setting up work packages and plans
Engaging with clients/stakeholders
Executing planned work
Identifying gaps and finding ways to fill them
Communicating findings, ideas, concepts in a creative manner
What I do procrastinate on:
Comprehensive detailed investigation, i.e. literature studies
Writing lengthy report (short concise reports are fine)
Prepping for presentations
Formal closure of projects (I tend to want to jump to the next thing once I feel the goals of the previous project have been met)
Skill area of competence:
Testwork planning and execution
Project Management
Modelling
Power BI
Stakeholder Engagement
Processing Technology Experience: Gravity Beneficiation, Flotation and Classification
Career summary:
2 years – plant optimization experience
5 years – new technology development and deployment
3 years – chromite experience
5 years – PGM experience
3 years – gravity beneficiation
3 years – flotation
2 years – classification technologies
What do you absolutely love doing:
• Planning work
• Creative problem solving
• Optimising processes
• Leading a team
• Meeting and managing stakeholders
• Being creative when I communicate through presentations, speeches, etc.
• Executing! Getting those tick boxes ticked...
• Taking a team's ideas and bringing them together in an action plan
Ideal company (culture and values):
I want to work for a company that is well established and values its employees. The company should offer employees flexibility, and allow them to bring their whole selves to work. The values of the company should be aligned with mine, eg. integrity, loyalty, sustainability, inclusion and trust. I am a bit of a tree-hugger, so "going green", "recycling" and "sustainability" always has a nice ring to it.
If you are looking for a R&D Engineer, then do get in touch.
Call the Head Office – Gauteng, SA. + 27 10 597 0862.
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