Engineer: Flotation
Mintek · Gauteng
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Key Performance Indicators
Financial sustainability
- Prepare proposals under direct/limited supervision, including Open Call proposals.
Execution, People and Plannin g
• Perform routine scientific and engineering research using standard methods, procedures and equipment. Act as Principal investigators on such projects. • Perform complex scientific and engineering research under supervision. • Design, operate and oversee discipline specific experimental work and ensure that procedures are complied with, and quality control and continual improvement are applied. • Collect and interpret data at a quantitative and qualitative level using discipline specific standard methodologies and procedures. Including the preparation of analytical and descriptive narratives. Ensure that the interpretation is based on sound scientific / engineering theory. • Plan and manage projects to ensure efficient use of time, equipment and facilities, including coordinating with others.
Governance and Risk Management
- Ensure proper care in the use and maintenance of equipment and supplies, promote continual improvement in the workplace, adhere to and enforce all SHEQ requirements.
- Ensure that the project team understands and adheres to all SHEQ requirements.
- As Principal Investigator responsible for the assessment and management of all risks at a project level.
- May be responsible for equipment / facilities.
Relationship Management and Reporting
- Present at local conferences and publish conference papers, journal papers.
Interactions
• Interaction with staff in own division, across other divisions to head level; suppliers and vendors engineers, clients/collaborators at technical level.
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum: Bsc. Hons or 4 year Engineering degree
- Ideal: MSc, MEng NB: other lower degrees, must atatin the minimum requirement to stay in this position
- 1 -2 years vocational experience following first graduation BSc Hons/BEng
- Must have 2 - 3 years Communition and Flotation experience
Behavioral Competencies
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to cope in a stressful and demanding environment.
Apply by: 14 August 2026