Process Controller (Gold Plant)

You'll run the crushers, mills and cells that turn ore into product at the chrome recovery plant near Germiston. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

The work is in Germiston, Gauteng, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Weekend work is on a roster, so you won't be on every weekend.

• Take samples at set times and bring them to the lab
• Clean spillage and keep walkways free of hazards
• Check pumps, cyclones and thickeners on the plant walk
• Watch mill loads, cell levels and densities on the SCADA screens
• Start up, run and shut down crushers, screens and conveyors in sequence

• Basic computer skills for SCADA screens and logs
• Grade 12 with mathematics and physical science
• MQA minerals processing certificate at NQF 2 or higher
• Comfortable around noise, dust and heights while wearing full PPE
• Certificate of fitness from the mine medical station

• Laboratory or sampling experience
• N4 to N6 or a diploma in Extraction Metallurgy

• Transport from surrounding towns
• Shift allowances and overtime
• 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.