Background

Perseus Mining (Tanzania) Limited (SMLC) is seeking a Gold Room Operator. The Gold Room Operator will play a crucial role in the processing operations, ensuring the efficient and safe handling of precious metals.

Key Responsibilities

Management of Health, Safety, Environment, & Community Relations

• Adhere to company policies and procedures regarding health, safety, environment, health and community.
• Champion a zero-harm safety culture within all processing operations.
• Ensure processing facilities and practices meet all environmental obligations and permit conditions.
• Ensure all gold room activities comply with safety and environmental regulations.

Leadership & People Management

• Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure workforce planning meets operational requirements, including succession planning and skills development.
• Promote positive employee relations and ensure compliance with workplace policies, codes of conduct, and industrial relations frameworks.
• Encourage workforce engagement through clear communication of goals, expectations, and performance outcomes.
• Uphold a culture of process optimization and continuous improvement within the metallurgical team.

Operations

• Monitor key metallurgical KPIs and implement corrective actions where performance deviates from plan.
• Assist with the smelting and bullion pick up operations.
• Fill out gold room logs with operational data.
• Maintain accurate records of gold and silver bullion inventory at all times.

Qualifications & Licences

• Strong understanding of gold room operations and equipment.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in metallurgical or mineral processing roles, preferably gold processing operations.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in gold room operations role.

Additional Information

• Prepared to undertake external training to complement the operation.
• Incumbent may be expected to work outside Normal Working Hours on occasions.

Opportunities

Perseus values its people and offers rewarding and diverse career opportunities for aspiring candidates in the international gold mining industry.

• Adhere to company policies and procedures regarding health, safety, environment, health and community.
• Champion a zero-harm safety culture within all processing operations.
• Ensure processing facilities and practices meet all environmental obligations and permit conditions.
• Ensure all gold room activities comply with safety and environmental regulations.
• Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure workforce planning meets operational requirements, including succession planning and skills development.
• Promote positive employee relations and ensure compliance with workplace policies, codes of conduct, and industrial relations frameworks.
• Encourage workforce engagement through clear communication of goals, expectations, and performance outcomes.
• Uphold a culture of process optimization and continuous improvement within the metallurgical team.
• Monitor key metallurgical KPIs and implement corrective actions where performance deviates from plan.
• Assist with the smelting and bullion pick up operations.
• Fill out gold room logs with operational data.
• Maintain accurate records of gold and silver bullion inventory at all times.

• Knowledge of Bullion production including smelting and electrowinning.
• Proven gold room experience within a gold processing operation.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership, with sound knowledge of HSE systems and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborative approach and ability to work effectively with Processing and Maintenance departments.
• Strong alignment with Perseus values, including accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of environmental and sustainability considerations related to metallurgical processing.
• Driven and results-oriented, setting ambitious targets and relentlessly pursuing them.
• Solutions-focused, identifying problems quickly and moving with urgency to resolve them.
• High-integrity, honest, transparent, and consistent in approach.
• Maintenance experience with gold room equipment.

• Strong understanding of gold room operations and equipment.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in metallurgical or mineral processing roles, preferably gold processing operations.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in gold room operations role.