Coordinator (Metallurgical), PGM
Job highlights
- South Africa
- Rustenburg, North West, South Africa
- Western Chrome Mines, Kroondal
Job ID
Ref. No. KDLPGMFCR – 05/10/2026
Closing date
14/10/2026
Last Updated
06/10/2026
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Reporting to the Plant Superintendent
- Applicable 2.9.2 legal appointment
- Safe and efficient operation of the PGM and PGM Feed Preparation plant/s.
- Assisting in managing production teams and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.
- Assist in facilitating training of production personnel.
- Assisting the Plant Superintendent and MES department with the metal accounting reporting processes.
- Ensuring production targets are communicated to production teams and work plans are well executed to meet set targets.
- Oversee the effective operation of the PGM and PGM Feed Preparation plants to achieve metallurgical KPI’s.
- Ensuring that specified product quality requirements are met which meet customer expectations.
- Daily product dispatching and logistics arrangements.
- Identify areas for process and metallurgical performance improvement through technical analysis and metallurgical test work programmes.
- Managing metallurgical technical plant routine tasks, technical tasks schedules and reporting.
- Optimising, overseeing and continually improving the operation of the plant by process teams.
- Planning and executing plant processing equipment maintenance.
- Performing standby duties.
About you:
- Degree in Metallurgical/ Chemical Engineering
- MDP/MAP/PME/SLP University Certificate is an added advantage
- At least 6 years’ experience in a mineral processing plant of which 4 years should have been in a PGM Flotation plant and in a leadership role.
- Extensive experience and knowledge in PGM flotation.
- Proven record of participation in fundamental research within the Platinum Concentrators.
- Good understanding of basic process control for flotation plants.
- Proven record of managing metallurgical / chemical engineering students and graduates while officially appointed as a plant or technical metallurgist in a big scale metallurgical operation.
- Ability to communicate metallurgical technical information effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Performance / Results driven, accurate and timeous completion of assignments.
- Capable of achieving KPI’s in high work pressure environment.
- Knowledge of the mining process, standards, procedures, safety, and legal requirements
- Conversant with MS Office packages (MS Office, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) with good technical report writing and presentations skills
- Good understanding of data historian and proven data analysis skills
- Good knowledge of PGM Metal Accounting Compilation & Reporting
- Code 08 Driver’s License and own transport