Software Engineer: First Quantum Minerals Ltd. Zambia
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has grown from a small mineral operation in Zambia into a multinational mining business in less than two decades, with a global portfolio of copper and nickel assets in Europe, Africa, Australia and South America. This phenomenal growth is down to FQM people who have strived to be Bolder, Smarter and Driven in everything they do.
In March 2013, First Quantum Minerals acquired Inmet Mining Corporation, a Canadian-based mining company primarily producing copper and zinc from mines in Finland, Spain and Turkey, with also a major copper deposit under development in Panama, known as Cobre Panama. The combination of the First Quantum and Inmet assets has created one of the world’s leading copper producers with a geographically diversified portfolio of high-quality operations and development projects in eight countries across five continents.
With a strategic plan to produce more than 1.3 million tonnes 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.
Requisition Number: 495180
Contract Type: On-going
Country: Zambia
Location: Kalumbila (140km west of Solwezi)
Site: Sentinel
Categories: Engineering, Information Technology, Mining, Operations / General Management
In March 2013, First Quantum Minerals acquired Inmet Mining Corporation, a Canadian-based mining company primarily producing copper and zinc from mines in Finland, Spain and Turkey, with also a major copper deposit under development in Panama, known as Cobre Panama. The combination of the First Quantum and Inmet assets has created one of the world’s leading copper producers with a geographically diversified portfolio of high-quality operations and development projects in eight countries across five continents.
With a strategic plan to produce more than 1.3 million tonnes 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.
Requisition Number: 495180
Contract Type: On-going
Country: Zambia
Location: Kalumbila (140km west of Solwezi)
Site: Sentinel
Categories: Engineering, Information Technology, Mining, Operations / General Management
Knowledge, Training & Experience Required
- An Engineering degree or trade qualification in a relevant field backed up by significant field experience the maintenance and management of processing plant control systems.
- Minimum of 8years experience in control logic development and maintenance roles.
- A knowledge of Profibus networking and industrial instrumentation.
- Experience in mining or other heavy industry.
Practical/Specialist Skills:
- MS Office
- Knowledge of Pronto or other enterprise systems.
- Experience with IT system interfaces with mine scheduling and telemetry would be an advanmtage.
- Previous experience in a large open pit mining, milling and floatation operation would be well regarded.
Other Skills or Competencies:
- The ability and drive to manage the integrity and reliability of the control systems whilst ensuring stake holder
- satisfaction with system performance.
- Sound analytical, and problem solving skills.
- Well-developed interpersonal, written and oral communication skills in English.
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse third world cultures and customs an advantage.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Technical support
- Provide process control system programing and Logic compilation support to the operations group along with fault finding and failure analysis support through the process control system. This will include the custodianship of the software change management process and ensuring that software integrity and restorability is satisfied through storage of up to date backup copies both on and off site.
Continuous Improvement
- Supports the continuous improvement process’s and contribute to the defect elimination process’s across the department.
Performance Reliability Engineering
- Develop reporting systems (Hardware and software) that provide the necessary data to Superintendents to enable them to access KPI reports. Reports are to be developed in consultation with stakeholders.
Liaison - Liaise with operations personnel at all levels in order to improve the GUI and process stability. Provide support to Operations and Maintenance teams for RCA investigations and participate in these investigations as necessary.
- Provide technical support to the Mine Maintenance area for the on board control systems as necessary.
Planning and Scheduling
Ensure that any process control / instrument issues that require plant operations interruption are flagged well in advance to the appropriate planners.Advertised: 13 May 2015 FLE Standard Time
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