Superintendent 2 – Production Operations

Employer: AngloGold Ashanti Limited
Duty Station: Geita Gold Mine, Geita, Tanzania
Department: Process Plant
Level: 2H / D2
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Category: Mining Jobs
Date Posted: 11 September 2026

About AngloGold Ashanti

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. The company pursues value-creating opportunities involving other minerals where it can leverage its existing assets, shareholdings, skills and experience.

At AngloGold Ashanti, work is focused on creating significant and tangible results. The company contributes beyond mining by building livelihoods in communities, championing environmental stewardship, and strengthening local and national economies. Its leaders and teams are committed to listening to and supporting each other, valuing differences, embracing equity, and prioritising the well-being of every person.

Job Purpose

The Superintendent 2 – Production Operations will manage all plant production activities under the management of the Manager, Processing.

The role is responsible for ensuring that plant production activities are conducted safely, cost-effectively, and in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner. The position will also manage plant production crew members and contractors.

Key Responsibilities

1. Safety, Risk and Environmental Management

• Track Critical Control Verifications, leadership site walkabouts, and frontline participation in site safety programs, and proactively manage and reduce hazards.
• Monitor process safety incident rates, insurance audit readiness scores, fatal risk control overrides, injury and illness frequency, compliance violations, investigation cycle times, and close-out of corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with statutory inspections, health and safety policies, and national and international standards and regulations, including NEMC, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, IMIU, OSHAS and ICMI.
• Drive proactive risk management through Behaviour-Based Safety observations, near-miss reporting, pre-task risk assessments, safety interventions, PTOs and inspections.
• Monitor housekeeping audit scores across crushing, milling, treatment, laydown and waste sorting yard facilities and maintain environmental regulatory alignment.

2. Production Planning and Operational Performance

• Develop and execute annual production plans and budgets aligned with strategic objectives.
• Deliver plant performance in line with or exceeding budget targets for throughput, recovery and cost.
• Define and implement operating strategies to transition plant performance to future production states.
• Oversee metallurgical data integrity, analysis and reporting to support decision-making.
• Ensure robust metallurgical accounting systems and process discipline.
• Plan and execute production activities to produce gold in line with budget and future ore characteristic changes.
• Model and calculate plant runtime and throughput capacities to build accurate monthly operational plans and Life of Mine production budgets.
• Schedule mill liner relining, screen and cyclone operational maintenance to maximise runtime and meet budgeted gold production targets.

3. Process Improvement and Plant Operations

• Drive continuous improvement and debottlenecking by updating standard operating procedures and managing casual labour under the contractor framework to execute shutdowns.
• Enforce safe and responsible equipment operation across crushing, milling and treatment circuits while maintaining control over routine operational maintenance and reagent mixing.
• Stabilise automation and control systems to maintain optimum operating conditions.
• Drive the continuous improvement program within the production function by identifying, prioritising and executing improvement ideas in line with the company business improvement program.

4. Budget and Cost Management

• Manage Life of Mine budgets, Stay-in-Business capital, labour complements and reagent footprint variances to reduce operating costs.
• Formulate, manage and track section operational expenditure and enforce cost control measures to prevent budget overruns.
• Create cost awareness and drive continuous cost reduction in each operational section.

5. Projects and Technology

• Partner with technical and capital project teams to identify, prioritise and execute strategic plant improvement initiatives.
• Participate in project governance frameworks, including design reviews, construction and execution oversight, and final operational sign-off.
• Ensure the safe and effective integration of new processing technologies and automated systems into existing plant operations.

6. People Development and Performance Management

• Develop and implement Individual Development Plans for direct reports to map career paths and build competencies.
• Develop and implement Training Needs Analysis for production operations employees.
• Partner with the Plant Training Officer to assess skill gaps and develop the section training matrix.
• Facilitate crew training to ensure compliance with safe operating standards and the plant training matrix.
• Conduct timely performance appraisals in line with the company program.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education and Qualification

• Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Engineering, preferably in:
  • Metallurgy
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Process Engineering

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in gold plant operations, involving:
  • Crushing
  • Milling
  • Thickening
  • Leaching
  • Elution plants
  • Tailings Storage Facility (TSF)
  • Compressors
• Experience in analysis and management of operational budgets, cost control and financial forecasting.
• Experience preparing plant runtime and plant throughput plans for monthly operational planning and Life of Mine budgeting.
• Basic understanding of project management.

Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced understanding of plant systems, metallurgical principles and process optimisation techniques to maximise recovery and throughput.
• Safety management.
• Operational management.
• Basic understanding of business planning.
• Strong knowledge of metallurgical processes and practices.
• Advanced application of processing science.
• Basic application of information management.
• Basic application of process control.
• Basic application of metal accounting.
• Advanced application of engineering science.
• Budgeting and cost control.
• Performance management and reporting.
• Stakeholder management.
• Decision-making based on analysis of patterns and trends in existing processes or systems.
• Ability to think ahead, anticipate problems and future outcomes, and develop corrective actions and risk mitigation plans.
• Analytical and innovative thinking that results in continuous improvement and added value.
• Coaching, training and ensuring discipline for subordinates and crews.
• Goal setting, planning, execution and communication skills.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their application through the official AngloGold Ashanti careers portal using the link below:

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