Plant Controller, Wet Plant – S3 at First Quantum Mineral

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• Operate within and observe all relevant and applicable laws of Zambia. • Maintain HSE standards and ensure strict compliance within the Process Plant. • Maintain a very high standard of control room housekeeping. • Drive Process Plant equipment, people and processes to maximise Copper and Gold production. • The role has functional shift leadership of field processing Supervisors and Process Plant Control Room Operators. • Oversee, monitor and control all plant parameters to exceed the KPI targets; Throughput and Recovery and Product Quality. • Coordinate and pre-empt real-time plant feed rate and ore quality with respect to impacts on plant performance through engagement with mining operations to optimise plant control response. • Ensure equipment is operated within defined operating strategies and procedures. • Ensure high utilisation of the plant ‘expert’ control system and other critical control loops. • Maintain high utilisation of critical in-line instrumentation & measurement (i.e. PSI & OSA) for real-time performance optimisation. • Set and maintain high standards of Plant Control (i.e. alarm management, operating by trends, PLC bypass management, Downtime Reason Integrity etc). • Execute daily operating instructions issued by day leaders (Operations, Metallurgists and Maintenance) and escalate when they cannot be achieved. • Ensure all appropriate performance deviations are promptly escalated by Supervisors to relevant Superintendents and Managers. • Assist in oversight of major plant shutdowns, maintenance activities and start-ups. • Direct the Maintenance Supervisor(s) on Process Plant maintenance priority.