Golder Associates Vacancies 2019

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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Tailings Engineer 

Golder has a new opportunity for a Senior Tailings Engineer to join our Mine Waste Division on a full-time basis based in Ghana (Accra) or South Africa (Johannesburg).

This is a senior level position in the consulting team and is regarded as a professional person leading the delivery of tailings engineering services, in line with the Golder suite of engineering products.

• Key duties and responsibilities include:
• Lead tailings engineering projects

· Provide technical advice and consultancy on complex tailings and geotechnical issues to clients and internal staff

• Provide services on tailings projects in the mining industry including:

– Design and inspection of tailings and water storage facilities

– The means of construction of tailings deposits.

– The operation and management of deposits.

– The properties and behaviour of tailings.

· Develop client relationship and build business

· Build reputation as Technical Leader/Lead Consultant

· Use advanced techniques, modifications and extension of theories, practices to synthesise and analyse data for decision making/ recommendations

· Keep abreast of advancing technologies, methods and research & development

· Provide safety leadership in identifying and alleviating/ eliminating high priority safety hazards and complete 4 OH&S incident reporting per year

· Participate in training activities, mentoring and transferring knowledge to engineers.

· Plan, develop schedules, coordinate and direct manpower on important engineering projects to meet completion deadlines.

· Supervise, coordinate and review/evaluate activities carried out by junior engineers.

· Prepare proposals and reports for clients

· Other duties as required

Skills, Qualifications, and Experience:

· Relevant Degree in the geotechnical / Civil Engineering

· Professional Register at ECSA (Min 4 years)

· 10Years experience post graduation

· Legislation related to Engineering / Geotechnical environment

· Financial Knowledge and understanding

· Geotechnical experience at a consulting firm

· Exposure to mining and industrial projects

Your benefits at Golder will include:

· Competitive benefits and remuneration packages

· Option to purchase shares in Golder

· Employee owned structure – own the business, own the result

· Deepen your expertise in a dynamic work environment

· Innovative and collaborative multidisciplinary projects

· Global projects and travel opportunities

Renowned for technical excellence, Golder is a leading, global employee-owned engineering and consulting firm with over a half century of successful service to its clients. With over 165 offices in over 30 countries, Golder’s 6,500 professionals are driven by a passion to deliver results, offering unique specialized skills to address the ever-evolving challenges that earth, environment and energy present to clients across the infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, manufacturing and power sectors.

Golder is an Equal Opportunity Employer