• Company: Konkola Copper Mines Plc
• Location: Chingola, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
• State: Chingola
• Job type: Full-Time
• Job category: Engineering Jobs in Zambia

KCM’s vision is to leverage minerals and human resources to enhance stakeholder value and Zambia’s pride.

To support this vision KCM wants to recruit experienced and qualified individuals for the following positions:

Sectional Engineer – Mechanical

Job Purpose

To supervise and develop the maintenance function to enable the department meets its production targets and formulate a plan, review and analyze preventive maintenance strategy for the equipment maintenance in order to achieve the highest efficiency of the activities for reliable and safe operation.

The successful candidate will be required to carry out the following:

• Provide maintenance services to enable the department to meet its production targets within budgeted costs.
• Utilize human and material resources efficiently and cost-effectively in order to achieve optimum maintenance.
• Oversee the execution of medium and long-term engineering projects to acceptable standards and on time.
• Liaise with other sections and services departments to ensure that the necessary planned and unplanned maintenance work is complete in a reasonable time.
• Supervise, guide and develop subordinates to enable them to be effective in their work.
• Promote safety consciousness among subordinates and ensure that plant maintenance standards conform to mining regulation standards.
• Ensure effective execution of MMS in the section and ensure the system is used to improved maintenance.

Qualifications / Requirements     

• University Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia.
• Registered Engineer with the Engineers’ Registration Board.
• Good Human Resource Management skills
• Engineering maintenance and project management exposure in metallurgical plants
• Project management training
• Maintenance management system training
• 5 years’ experience in various projects in a plant environment.
• Experience in the mining industry will be added advantage.

Section Engineer – Electrical

Job Purpose

To supervise and develop the maintenance function to enable the department meets its production targets and formulate a plan, review and analyze preventive maintenance strategy for the equipment maintenance in order to achieve the highest efficiency of the activities for reliable and safe operation.

The successful candidate will be required to carry out the following:

• Provide maintenance services to enable the department to meet its production targets within budgeted costs.
• Utilize human and material resources efficiently and cost-effectively in order to achieve optimum maintenance.
• Oversee the execution of medium and long-term electrical engineering projects to acceptable standards and on time.
• Supervise, guide and develop subordinates to enable them to be effective in their work.
• Promote safety consciousness among subordinates and ensure that plant maintenance standards conform to mining regulation standards.

Qualifications / Requirements 

• University Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia
• Registered Engineer with the Engineer’s Registration Board.
• Good Human Resource Management skills.
• VSD installation and repairs
• 11 KV system
• Project management training
• Maintenance management system training
• 5 years’ experience in various projects in plant environment.
• Experience in the mining industry will be added advantage

Section Engineer – Instrumentation.

Job Purpose

To supervise and develop the maintenance function to enable the department meets its production targets and formulate a plan, review and analyze preventive maintenance strategy for the equipment maintenance in order to achieve the highest efficiency of the activities for reliable and safe operation.

The successful candidate will be required to carry out the following:

• Provide technical advice during troubleshooting and corrective action of instrument breakdown of failures to find the root cause and best solution in order to restore the functionality back to normal.
• Attend to technical query by operation personnel and provide advice/solution according to best engineering practices to address issues, which affect the operation.
• Administer the relevant contract, its contractors and suppliers associated to the works as contract holder to ensure compliance, its contractors and suppliers associated to the works as contract holder to ensure compliance to the procedures, policies, and guidelines set to support the maintenance needs.
• Identify, study, purpose, and implement area for improvement (project) in the field of instrumentation engineering to enhance operation and improve total equipment reliability.
• Develop the plan, scope and lead the execution of shutdown works for instrumentation to ensure completion within the specified window.
• Forecast and prepare the budget for instrument related activities i.e. maintenance, shutdown and project for consolidation into department yearly work program and Budget (WPB).
• Supervise work execution on site, develop procedures and instruction for either maintenance shutdown or project to ensure compliance with safety, specification, standard and procedures in order to achieve the highest quality of the work.
• Supervise and groom junior instrumentation Engineers and develop them with technical knowledge, skills and competencies in order to produce potential talent for future business needs.

Qualifications / Requirements

• University Degree in Electrical/Electronic or Instrumentation Engineering
• Fundamental knowledge of all transducers, transmitters control valves and controllers – proportional (P), integral (I), derivative (D), PI, PD, PID.
• SCADA maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Control systems – Distributed control system and programmable logic controllers
• Control networks – Different network architectures, network topologies, network protocols, cyber security.
• Basics of electronics
• Basics of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.
• Good knowledge of switching theory and logic design
• All types of process Analyzers
• Basics of micro controllers and microprocessors.
• Self-driven and team player 

 We request the potential candidates to apply for this challenging role only if they fulfill the above criteria.

How to Apply

Candidates who meet the above requirements should send their detailed CVs, photocopies of their academic/professional qualifications and any other relevant qualifications to [email protected] on or before 19th October 2018. Female professionals are encouraged to apply.

Due to large no. of applications the resourcing team will be able to contact only those profiles which are fulfilling the criteria and shortlisted for the interaction.