Superintendent 2-Process Plant Maintenance

Who We Are

AngloGold Ashanti is a global gold mining company with a diverse, high-quality portfolio of operations, projects and exploration activities across 10 countries on four continents. We pursue value-creating opportunities involving other minerals, where we can leverage our existing assets, shareholdings, skills, and experience. 

At AngloGold Ashanti, we assure you of work that carries significance and creates tangible results. What we do goes beyond mining. We build livelihoods in communities, champion environmental stewardship, and strengthen local and national economies.  Our leaders and teams are committed to listening to and supporting each other, valuing differences, and embracing equity. We are convinced that greatness only happens when we prioritize these behaviors and the well-being of every person.  

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OBJECTIVE OF THE ROLE

• The Superintendent - Process Plant Maintenance is accountable for the safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance of all fixed plant mechanical assets across the Processing Plant, associated infrastructure and compressors.
• The role provides strategic leadership, technical governance, and operational oversight to optimize equipment reliability, asset integrity, and plant availability in support of production and business objectives.
• The incumbent is responsible for developing and executing maintenance and asset management strategies aligned with Life of Mine objectives, while ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, AngloGold Ashanti standards, engineering best practices, and sustainable cost management principles.
• Working closely with Operations, Projects, Supply Chain, Technical Services, and HSE teams, the role drives safety, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and workforce capability development to support long-term asset performance and business sustainability.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Drive a strong safety culture through Visible Felt Leadership, frontline engagement, participation in site safety programs, and Critical Control Verifications.
• Champion process safety, material risk management, insurance audit readiness, and compliance with statutory requirements, health and safety policies, procedures, ethics, and governance requirements.
• Identify and report compliance violations, support investigations, and build team capability in compliance, governance, and safe work practices to help eliminate injuries and occupational illness.
• Lead and coordinate all mechanical maintenance activities within the processing plant and mine compressors to achieve production and reliability targets.
• Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs in line with OEM recommendations and engineering standards.
• Monitor equipment performance, review maintenance work orders, prioritize critical activities, and support troubleshooting of major mechanical equipment failures.
• Ensure timely execution of planned shutdowns and maintenance campaigns.
• Drive asset reliability improvement initiatives across the plant through reliability-centered maintenance strategies, equipment criticality assessments, and maintenance optimization programs.
• Analyze equipment failure trends, lead root cause failure analysis investigations, monitor key reliability indicators, and implement corrective actions to improve equipment availability and maintenance efficiency.
• Support life-cycle asset management initiatives aligned with long-term operational objectives.
• Contribute to Life of Mine maintenance budgets, forecasts, and cost control frameworks.
• Prepare annual mechanical maintenance budgets and forecasts, and manage expenditure within approved budgets.
• Monitor and control labour, contractor, and material costs, identify cost-saving opportunities, and ensure effective utilization of maintenance resources.
• Manage the interface with capital projects to ensure seamless development, execution, and operational readiness.
• Participate in and strengthen Management of Change processes, engineering audits, governance activities, and action closure.
• Lead employee performance management, including development, succession planning, talent management, coaching, and accountability across teams.
• Support workforce initiatives including diversity and inclusion, wellness, fatigue management, and mentorship.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives and align mechanical maintenance and engineering strategies with long-term operational and asset management objectives.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Education & Qualification

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in process plant maintenance, engineering, or reliability within mining, heavy industry, or large-scale processing environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in plant mechanical maintenance.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing multi-section teams.
• Experience in managing operational budgets, cost control, and financial forecasting.
• Exposure to capital projects, including commissioning and operational readiness.
• Experience working within regulated environments with high safety and compliance standards.
• Proven record in reliability improvement and root cause analysis.
• Shutdown planning and execution experience.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong management and leadership skills.
• Financial, commercial, and project management skills gained through work experience and courses.
• Strong maintenance competencies in fixed plants.
• Commercially astute and able to work effectively with third parties.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Project, and Excel.
• Ability to communicate technical issues effectively both orally and in writing.
• Strong background in continuous improvement methodologies and operational excellence.
• Knowledge of SAP PM module.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel from technical to management.
• Ability to delegate tasks appropriately and assign workers to oversee areas of a project.
• Ability to evaluate progression and adherence to deadlines on a routine basis.
• Ability to identify solutions to problems that others have not considered.
• Ability to meet diverse engineering challenges within the broad scope of the engineering field pertaining to production-orientated activities.
• Ability to build and sustain a team capable of delivering required outputs.
• Ability to continuously improve the processes used by the team in delivering outputs.
• Ability to model work behaviours consistent with company values.
• Ability to find innovative solutions through creative thinking and problem solving.
• Ability to create an environment of teamwork and willingness to help coworkers.
• Ability to work with different kinds of people.

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Local Benefits

• AngloGold Ashanti offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support employees’ health, financial security, and overall well-being.  

• Medical insurance, employee assistance programmes, and wellbeing initiatives.  

• Company-supported pension or provident fund contributions.  

• Annual leave, sick leave, and public holidays in line with company policy.  

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion, diversity and equity in our workplace. We are committed to creating an environment where all individuals are treated with respect and fairness. Employment decisions are based on qualification, merit, business needs and role requirements.