Candidate location: South Africa, Western Cape
Home & other languages: English, Afrikaans
Designation: General Manager
Highest qualification type: Diploma
University: University of Johannesburg
Discipline: Mining
Years of experience: More than 10 years
Cost to company: Over and above R2.5 mil
Company size: 51 – 200
Division: Operations
Seniority level: Manager / Dept Head / Lead /Senior / Principal Engineer
Introduction:
- Strong Technical capabilities in Mining and Engineering applications
- Multi operational experience and exposure\
- Experience in Health, Safety and Environmental requirements and compliance
- Experience in Human Resources applications, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Procurement and Logistics Operations
- Expatriate experience
- CSR and CSI experience at multiple operations
- Experience in multi-cultural and multi-national work groups
management - Training, coaching and skill transfer experience
- Organised Labour negotiations and interaction
- Contracts and Project Management experience
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian/White
Nationality: South African
Highest Formal Qualification: NHD Metalliferous Mining
Other Formal Qualification:
Mine Managers Certificate of Competency (South Africa)
Mine Captains Certificate (South Africa)
Professional Registrations:
- Engineering Registration Board of Zambia
- Engineering Institute of Zambia
- South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (inactive at present)
What is your current/ most recent job title?
General Manager
What is the primary purpose of this position?
- Management and control of all disciplines in the organisation
- Skills transfer
- Legal compliance
- Optimisation
What are the core elements or functions that must operate effectively in order for you to achieve your primary purpose?
- Interdepartmental understanding, interaction and synergy
- Standard Operating Practice adherence
- Legal compliance
- Benchmarking and establishment of KP Areas and Indicators
- Training, Coaching and Reviews
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant markets
What are some of your greatest achievements (When and how have you saved your employers time, money and resources)?
- 33 Years mining and management without a fatal accident
- Establishment of successful multi-cultural and multi-national crews
in South Africa and Zambia during entire career - Mentoring 5 sub-ordinates to achieve management qualifications
and positions in their respective organisations - 8 years mining contracting experience with positive growth and
improved safety results in all the Companies - Successful completion of two Greenfields mining projects in Zambia
between 2005 and 2013
*US$125M between 2005 and 2008 on budget
*US$580M between 2011 and 2013 on budget - Consistently improving production performances whilst reducing
operating expenditures at all Companies employed - Provincial colours in swimming (’74 – ’78) and hockey (’90 – ’95)
If you were to illuminate your skills and abilities along with your greater purpose and passions in life, how would you describe yourself?
- Tenacious
- Adventurous
- Detailed
- Punctual
- Passionate
- Proud
- Impatient to achieve success
What is the business title of your ideal position?
- Grow and develop new business venture(s)
- Investigate business opportunities and develop strategies
What are the key responsibilities and accountabilities of your ideal position?
- Responsible for the direction of the Company and employees
- Key Inputs in Policy and Performance Indicators
- Optimisation of investments and growth opportunities
- Skills transfer and employee growth
- Operational optimisation
What are the manufacturing processes/ technologies that you have experience in relevant to your ideal position/ next career steps?
Associated competences to complete mining and processing operations by means of experience:
- Health, Safety and Environmental compliance
- Project Management
- Contracts Management
- Human Resources applications:
- Operational requirements
- Union and Association negotiations
- Multi-national working team management
- Training and coaching
- Financial management
- Prospect and exploration drilling
- Logistics: in-house as well as in terms of long distance hauling
- Procurement
Describe your career in years of experience per sector/industry/commodity serviced:
Mining Operations and Management of various commodities and related disciplines for 33 years
Describe the kind of company you would like to work for including the culture and values it should possess:
- No red tape
- Realising and growing potential in employees
- Acknowledgement of achievement
- Strict on non-performance
- Trusting
- Transparent
What do you absolutely love doing?
- Succeeding
- Operations optimisation and transformation
- Transferring skills and guiding a protégé to reach potential
- Making money
- Playing sport
Motivation to move (please select): Limited challenge
Location Preference: I am open to positions both nationally and internationally.