Plant Attendant (Tailings & Thickeners)

Keep throughput up and the plant stable at the chrome recovery plant near Thohoyandou. This is a good step for someone who wants proper routine and a manager who notices good work.

The work is in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Check pumps, cyclones and thickeners on the plant walk
• Watch mill loads, cell levels and densities on the SCADA screens
• Log plant readings and downtime on the shift log
• Adjust reagent dosing and air flow to hit recovery targets
• Call maintenance for bearing noise, belt damage or leaks
• Clear blocked chutes safely under isolation
• Start up, run and shut down crushers, screens and conveyors in sequence

• At least 1 year operating a processing plant
• Basic computer skills for SCADA screens and logs
• Certificate of fitness from the mine medical station
• Grade 12 with mathematics and physical science
• MQA minerals processing certificate at NQF 2 or higher

• Control room experience
• N4 to N6 or a diploma in Extraction Metallurgy
• Forklift or overhead crane licence

• Transport from surrounding towns
• Medical aid and pension fund
• Learnership opportunities toward a metallurgy qualification

• If you have worked in a control room, say which system and how many hours a shift you ran it.
• Say which plant sections you have run: crushing, milling, flotation or DMS. Recruiters match you to the open section.