Plant Manager
Barberton Mines (Pty) Ltd · Fairview Mine
Posted 3 November 2026
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Will oversee all daily operations of the plant from safety and production to ensuring policies and procedures are followed. To develop processes that will maximize stewardship, safety, quality and productivity.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance to relevant Safety standards of both the Company & MHSA.
- Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations
- Increase production, asset capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards
- Be responsible for production output and product quality
- Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results
- Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus
- Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions
- Share a trusting relationship with workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff
- Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime
- Commit to plant safety procedures
- Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
- Address employees’ issues or grievances and administer collective bargaining agreements
- Stay up to date with latest production management best practices and concepts
- Manage projects within the section & area of responsibility
Desired Experience & Qualification
- A degree in Metallurgical or Chemical Engineering.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience at Plant Management level
- Milling and CIL must be part of your experiential exposure.
- A keen acumen for general engineering and an understanding of instrumentation.
- Valid certificate of physical fitness.
- Computer literate. (MS Access, MS Projects, Statistical Programs and Process Modeling).
- Driver’s license.