Title:  Section Manager, Flash Converting Furnace & Anode Plant

This position will be located in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia

Lead and manage Operations and Production in Flash Converting Furnace & Anode Furnace functions to ensure safe, efficient, and profitable business performance. This includes optimizing resources to meet production targets, improving operational methods, reducing costs, and ensuring environmental compliance. The role involves strategic planning, budget management, staff development, and cross-functional collaboration to drive long-term business growth and financial performance. It also requires day-to-day management of operations of the area, hands-on involvement with the crews in fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Additional Responsibilities:

1.           Manage Anode and Flash Converting Furnace Operations Team to ensure safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible operation of production units. Coordinate activities between upstream and downstream processes to maximize operating time and ensure stable, consistent operation. Meet and exceed production targets and company objectives for converting, and refining copper in concentrate.

2.           Monitor and control section's operating and capital budgets to ensure all expenditures achieve desired outcome, and do not exceed approved amounts.

3.           Monitor and control relevant plant modifications in coordination with relevant parties, which are accomplished in a timely manner.  Ensure proper due diligence is done to ensure value and desired outcomes are achieved.

4.           Stay abreast of new, relevant technologies and practices that improve safety, production, quality, cost, and environmental performance. Implement using a timely, well thought through plan, to ensure success.

5.           Promote safety and environmental awareness to all employees and contractors in section to achieve zero incidents.

6.           Develop and implement Training and Development programs to improve employee's skill levels, percentage of national employee in management and professional positions, ratio of supervisors to workforce, number of management levels, skills flexibility, counterpart program and accountability for roles and responsibilities.

7.           Partner with the Maintenance and Technical Services Team to ensure safe, responsible operation and maintenance of the asset while achieving key performance metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy or related field with twelve (12) years of hot metals work experience.
• Strong copper metallurgy and copper processing knowledge and experience.
• Measurable skills in working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrable background working within a multicultural environment.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Concerns for safety and environment.
• Willingness to work in a team environment.
• Strong computer skills.
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Highly proactive and achievement oriented.
• Highly focused toward satisfying customer requirements.
• Fluent in English (oral and written) and willing to learn Bahasa.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Flash Converting or Direct to Blister Flash Furnace is highly regarded.
• Pengawas Operasional Madya (POM) certification is ideal.