Ongoing April Recruitment at First Quantum Minerals – Ending 25 April 2017

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. is an established and growing mining and metals company currently operating four mines and developing projects worldwide. Our aim is to become a globally diversified mining and metals company. With a strategic plan to produce more than 1 million tons per annum of copper within five years, the Company is poised to become the largest, widely-held pure-play copper producer and one of the top five copper producers in the world. We currently produce copper cathode, copper in concentrate, nickel, gold and sulphuric acid.
First Quantum’s current operations are the Kansanshi copper-gold mine in Zambia, the Guelb Moghrein copper-gold mine in Mauritania, the Kevitsa nickel-copper-PGE mine in Finland and the Ravensthorpe nickel-cobalt mine in Australia. When our current projects are in operation, we expect we will be able to triple our annual copper production capacity and be positioned within the world’s 10 largest copper producers. Sentinel is the first mine to be developed at the Trident project in the North Western Province of Zambia. The project comprises five large-scale mining licenses and the significant geological potential exists for expansion of operations, including the Enterprise nickel mine announced in December 2012. First Quantum is investing US$1.725-billion at the Sentinel mine and construction remains on time and on a budget. Plant commissioning will commence in mid-2014 and copper production is expected reach 280 – 300,000 tons per annum.

Job Title: Supervisor – Instrumentation

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to instrumentation team, ensure the FQM way and safety awareness message is well understood, accepted and practiced
• Instrumentation and field network support to the instrumentation team and operations group
• Fault finding and failure analysis of all instrument and field network devices installed
  Support the continuous improvement processes and have custodianship of the instrument change management process and configuration data archives
• Efficient time management of the instrumentation team members to ensure all scheduled tasks are performed and KPI targets met or exceeded
• Develop and implement PM tasks with input from other team members, operations personnel, senior supervisor and instrumentation superintendent
• Liaise with operations personnel at all levels in order to improve/ maintain instrument accuracy and effectiveness
• Provide technical to operations and maintenance teams. Actively participate in RCA investigations and failure analysis
• Good computer hardware and software computer skills (windows 7 and office 2010)
• Able to work under pressure
• Other duties as may be assigned by supervisor

Qualifications

• Technician certificate in Instrumentation
• Five years’ experience
• Profibus certification or significant field experience
• Must be a member of EIZ

Practical/Specialist Skills

• Experience in instrumentation management and maintenance roles
• Profibus field device network configuration and maintenance
• Siemens or similar PLCs, Simocode motor protection relays, variable speed drive controls and communications
• Experience in a mining environment or equivalent
• Previous experience and control of conveyor systems will be an advantage
• Exceptional skills in field instrumentation, maintenance, fault-finding and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of SCADA systems preferably CITECT SCADA systems will be an advantage

Operational Requirements

• Work with suppliers and OEMs to ensure a win-win situation that provides the sentinel team with appropriate on-going support
• The ability and drive to manage the integrity and reliability of the plant Instrumentation and field network systems whilst ensuring stakeholder satisfaction with system performance
• Sound analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and oral communication skills in English
• Identify suitable candidates and actively train others in their own role for absence’s in the workplace

How to apply
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