Mining Specialist

Role: Mining Specialist

Duration: 6 months contract

Location: Rustenburg

Job description

• Drafting scopes of work, technical specifications, bills of material and bills of quantity for competitively sourced events, working from end-user requirements.

• Running working sessions with end users to understand requirements

• Building the reusable asset base: scope templates by category, a standards guide, and a what-good-looks-like repository the business keeps after the pilot

• Quality-checking scopes drafted by others (mainly end-users)

• Bringing scope issues back into the Cross Functional Team so that recurring specification problems are fixed at source

• NB: Approving scopes remains with the end user, who signs

• Typical scopes: Development and stoping contracts; shaft services; rock handling; ground support and consumables including roofbolts, mesh and blast-on mesh; explosives and initiation systems; trackless mobile machinery

• Qualification: BEng Mining, Rock Engineering, Mechanical or electrical Engineering

• 3 Years industry experience in a similar role

• Experience in personally writing scopes for competitively tendered work

• Heavy industry experience, preferably mining

• Resourcefulness in obtaining engagement and required input with operational stakeholders

• Can convert requirements into deliverables, acceptance criteria, measurable performance standards, and a pricing structure with the support of Sourcing Specialists

• Clear, unambiguous English. Documents must pass committee reviews

• Will be assessed on scope rejection rate and cycle time

• Understanding of the value chain to be able to unbundle scopes for mine community suppliers

• Excel analysis skills