City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Principal Operational Execution: The Technical and Sustainability (T&S) Underground (UG) Mining teams purpose and focus is to support delivery of the Business Strategy within the business units, identifying and executing sustainable operational improvements at a Strategic and Tactical level to deliver increased business margins and ROCI through influencing Volume, Quality, Safety and Cost performance. The P101 Business Strategy forms the burning platform for this work and is a business priority. We need to approach our most value-driving areas of the business with a fundamentally different mindset and appetite for changing how we operate and maximise the benefits of technical and digital innovation. P101 will be instrumental in helping us to achieve our Burning Ambition toward FutureSmart Mining. Appointed as Senior Mining Manager at De Beers Venetia Mine VUP, supporting the OPCO team in leading capital development execution as well as full accountability on the integrated owners team (IOT) establishment - key to ramp up development within the desired state enabling first production. Transitioning Venetia Open Pit (VOP) employees to the VUP by drawing from global Tier 1 mining contractor experience to ensure the best skills remain with our employees. Systemising the day to day, weekly, three monthly and long term planning as well as execution. Embedding sustainable safe production output by identifying P101 initiatives and driving the identified key performance areas for improvement in mining quality, standard and compliance. Identifying infrastructure reliability improvement areas tracked on short interval control basis supporting the ramp up in production output. Interphase management between the mining contractors and Tier 1 contractor onboarded to transfer skills to the De Beers front line teams known as IOT. Ensuring alignment, transferring of positive learnings, while a common goal toward transforming the VOP Mine to the VU Mine is achieved in Q1 2024.
Portfolio Lead Mining in the Platinum Review Office (PRO) supporting the Executive Head of Mining, responsible for integrated and enabled delivery of mining related initiatives, supporting the mining assets in the design and implementation there of. This includes accountability for all elements of projects management, stakeholder management and integration with the full portfolio of Burning Ambition projects. Accountable to ensure a healthy portfolio pipeline of mining related business improvement initiatives, delivering the expected value, confirming and facilitating appropriate tracking, integration scheduling, budget and governance of all portfolio elements. Responsible for the integration of the portfolio, for maximum enterprise effect/benefit within the Enterprise Program and ensure that programmes/projects are optimally resourced, managed and implemented through project structures, processes and systems. Within the PRO, co-owns the overall achievement of the Enterprise strategic objectives and deliverables, maximizing value to the organisation.