Fresh Vacancies at Orion Minerals

Minimum Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in a mining related discipline with good exposure to mining economics, mine finance and resource investment is preferable.
• Strong written communications and digital media skills or qualification in corporate communication field.
• Ability to be calm and productive when operating under deadline stress.
• A team player with strong inter-personal skills
• Being presentable and well-spoken is a strong recommendation.
• Dedicated, committed and hardworking, willing to work long hours when required to meet reporting/presentation deadlines.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of seven years’ experience in the corporate communications and investor relations field
• Must have experience in the minerals, exploration and mining environment
• Experience in communication requirements for listed companies (ASX or SENS)
• Must be proficient in English and Afrikaans
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of investment markets and dynamics

Responsibilities

• Assists with the development of an investor relations strategy and framework
• Coordinates communications and investor strategy implementation across the company
• Provides insights on market activity, including conducting market research and analytics
• Coordinates logistics associated with investor conferences, meetings and road shows.
• Investor engagements and support, including responding to investor inquiries.
• Produces internal and external reports, including quarterly and annual reports with input from technical and financial management team and coordinating third party contribution for document preparation.
•  Prepares corporate communication documents and messaging, including stock exchange releases
• Provide support to the CEO in terms of collateral development (e.g. presentations, reports etc)
• Represents the company with external stakeholders as required.
• Quality control of all external and internal communication

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Minimum Qualifications

• Metallurgy or related degree equivalent at NQF level 7

Minimum Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience within mining metallurgical operations and engineering environment
• Experience in the design and operations of base metals processing concentrator plants
• Experience with feasibility studies
• Plant sampling systems and metallurgical accounting
• Focus of experience on crushing, ore sorting, milling, froth flotation, thickeners, filtration, metal accounting
• Advanced computer literacy

Responsibilities

• Scope test work programs for feasibility studies
• Coordinate test work programs at external partner and vendor laboratories.
• Interact with equipment vendors and EPC firms executing feasibility studies and projects.
• Complete trade-off studies on process alternatives or equipment to optimise process flow sheets.
• Assist with the installation and commissioning of processing equipment.
• Develop and implement metallurgical accounting systems and production reporting for operations
• Prepare and present technical reports to management and other stakeholders.
• Project planning, costing and implementation
• Assist with the development of operational budgets and costing
• Stakeholder management: liaise with management, operations, projects and external service providers.
• Performing and commissioning process modifications
• Technical process optimisation
• Review and participate in laboratory and/or pilot scale test work for process development.
• Evaluation of operating procedures
• Environmental trends analysis
• Changing technical parameters to minimise the effect of unexpected problems in liaison with line managers
• Workshop and communicate different solutions to problems with technical staff and management at mining operations
• Apply statistical methods to solve problems and design experiments.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BSc. Honours in Geology or equivalent at NQF level 7
• Appropriate post graduate management qualification an advantage

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of seven years’ post graduate mining geology experience, preferably with three years of people management in a Mine Geology Department
• Three years’ experience in an underground mining environment
• Experience in stockpile sampling and load-out grade control
• Experience in underground mapping and sampling
• Experience in laying out and managing all aspects of grade control drilling and sampling to support mining by long hole, open stope and bulk extraction
• Experience in sampling, data management and reporting
• Experience in Mineral Resource estimation and participation in Mineral Reserve estimation and management
• Strong user of MS office suite
• Experienced user of geological/mining/ modelling software
• Strong knowledge of non-ferrous metals related geology

Responsibilities

• Managing and coordinating all geology department functions and activities including:
• Drilling, logging and core sampling,
• Mapping and sampling of faces, draw points and stockpiles.
• Assay laboratory management.
• Wireframing and block modelling of updated sampling and geological data and providing this to the mine planning department for extraction planning
• Continually manage and improve the Geology department operations including training and mentoring of staff
• Accurate and timeous delivery of geological information as input into ore resource and reserve estimation for mine planning
• Formulation and implementation of site-specific systems, procedures and standards for best practice in Mineral Resource/Reserve Management
• Responsible for metal accounting and Mineral Resource/Reserve reconciliation
• Ensure appropriate departmental staffing, successful teamwork and management of departmental resources