Company Profile

• Perseus Mining is a dual listed (Australia, Toronto) gold miner and explorer focused on the West African region. 
• Perseus Mining (Ghana) Limited (PMGL) has recently commissioned the world-class Edikan gold project in the Western Region of Ghana. 
• Edikan Gold Mine (EGM) has a current mining reserve of 3.3M oz of gold from a resource base of 4.3M oz.
• The Edikan processing facility has been designed as a 5.5Mtpa processing facility with the ability to expand this to 7.9Mtpa in the future. The plant is capable of producing at a rate of 220-270,OOOoz gold per annum. 

Job Description

Purpose of Role:

• The purpose of this role is to act as a change agent with a clearly stated goal of achieving a sustainable best in class margin performance by using Cl tools to identify process and margin improvement opportunities for the Edikan Gold Mine to realise long-term sustainable savings. The BI Manager will assist in enhancing the technical competence and operational excellence of the Edikan Gold Mine. 
   

Key Responsibilities; 

• Responsible for leading the BI process at Edikan operations. 
• Work with managers to identify production, commercial and service process best practices 
• Bring awareness of these best practices to other operations, implement and embed efficiencies. 
• Drive proficiency in the technical aspects of production, as well as the general management aspects of the business. 
• Identify new opportunities, develop benchmarking studies, coordinate peer based site reviews and facilitate improvement discussions with HODs 
• Follow up on improvement opportunities and provide assistance to HODs and staff to realise improvement goals. 
• Become a conduit for transferring best practices across the organisation, and work with the L&D team to facilitate training modules where necessary including best practice calls. 
• Responsible to lead improvements of a specialist topic and a commitment to work with multiple levels of management. 
• Ensure the achievement of high return on investment (ROI) in implementation of Cl tools, methodologies and associated technologies/ techniques e.g. Six Sigma, PIP etc. 
• Implement effective benefits tracking system. 
• Ensure that six sigma policies are validated and implemented 
• Ensure rigorous and sustainable implementation of Cl projects, methodologies and strategies 
• Utilise support from relevant HODs to remove obstacles to Cl implementation and ultimately avoid implementation failure 
• Develop Cl policies and procedures to meet the short term and strategic demands of the operation. 
• Ensure periodic review of Cl policies. 
• Align Cl policies and procedures to operational objectives and requirements of the mine

Required Skills or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mining, Metallurgical or Mechanical) or Finance 
• MBA or Masters degree in Continuous Improvement, Business Process Re-engineering or related discipline will be an added advantage 
• Certificate of competency from the Mineral's Commission at Manager or Superintendent level (Mining, Processing or Engineering) 
• At least 5 years leadership experience and optimising processes in gold mining environment 
• Understanding of mining business processes 
• Self-motivated and high energy with the ability to plan and lead projects that require interfaces with multiple stakeholders and differing levels of management. 
• Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills 
• Ability to understand the operational, technical, commercial and financial aspects of the business and how they relate to each other, including product costing and investment evaluations. 
• Ability to diagnose and optimise production steps for blasting, loading & hauling, crushing & screening, loadout, maintenance, extraction and site management. 
• Ability to apply technical recommendations in a pragmatic, hands on way to the actual operating environment. 
• Desire to engage in change management. 
• Highly driven with determination to lead Edikan operations to a best in class performance. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt) experience is desirable.