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Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling, and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the next Process and Manufacturing Engineering Manager in Alstom Rolling Stock we're looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your engineering and manufacturing expertise in a cutting-edge field. You'll work alongside collaborative, innovative, and forward-thinking teammates.

You'll play a critical role in ensuring product and process designs are optimized for manufacturability, driving industrialization resources across all phases of production. Day-to-day, you'll work closely with teams across the business (EHS, Production, Project Management, Finance, Sourcing, and Supply Chain), manage the implementation of standard processes, and ensure compliance with safety and quality standards, among other responsibilities.

You'll specifically take care of managing industrialization activities, deploying and maintain methodologies like ICONE, P-FMEA, and QRQC, but also lead the engineering team to support carbody manufacturing and delivery.

We'll look to you for:

• Ensuring the implementation of standard processes and product solutions and where established, monitor and maintain existing processes
• Validating manufacturability and transferability using validated technologies
• Driving continuous improvement actions to support production
• Deploying industrialization standards, including EHS and ergonomics
• Managing staff capacity, competencies, and end-to-end people management
• Ensuring compliance with ISO, quality certifications, and legal requirements

All about you

We value passion and attitude. We don't expect you to have every single skill, but we have listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Degree in Engineering (mandatory)
• Welding qualification (mandatory)
• Lean Manufacturing certificate (desirable)
• ECSA registration as a Professional Engineer (desirable)
• 10+ years of industrial experience, preferably in the railway industry
• Proven ability to manage a team of engineers and technicians
• Technical expertise in Process Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, and ERP systems like SAP
• Working knowledge of Quality, Health & Safety standards, and OSHACT
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and networking skills
• Financial acumen and result-driven mindset
• Advanced planning, organizing, and decision-making skills

Things you'll enjoy

Join us on a transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You'll also:

• Enjoy challenges, and a career free from boring daily routines
• Work with cutting-edge railway safety standards
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects shaping the future of mobility
• Utilise our inclusive and dynamic working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Progress towards senior leadership roles
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognizes your performance and potential.

You don't need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you'll be proud. If you're up for the challenge, we'd love to hear from you

Important to note

As a global business, we're an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone while upholding priority recruitment in line with our Employment Equity Plan.

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow's mobility. That's why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challenging journey with a tangible impact and purpose?

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

• Pro-active and continuous assembly line improvement through monitoring, evaluation and change implementation
• Provide training and support to plant operating staff to ensure compliance with processes and standardized work
• Monitor and action production line concerns daily (outcomes of SFM)
• Problem solving, corrective and preventive actions documented and implemented. (repeat machine failures; FMEA; Control Plan; 8D; A3)
• Liaise with production, quality, process and suppliers to resolve engineering, design and process problems timeously
• New equipment planning, installation and commissioning and process change implementation on line
• Assist with customer concerns and product, process and system audits
• Ensure applicable documentation is updated and point of change is documented for all changes. (FMEA; CP; WI; Change Log)
• Cycle time evaluation and population of WBC with applicable derived outcomes planned and implemented.
• Immediately escalate equipment or processes resulting in unsafe work condition or nonconforming products.
• Support emergency demands and after hours work as may be required

• Grade 12 or Matric Certificate
• NDIP Electrical / Mechatronic / Industrial or Related Qualification
• 3-year automotive industry experience is a must
• FMEA / Control Plan
• Standard Work
• Cycle Time Analysis
• Familiarity with basic machine, process design & ergonomics

• Must have a tertiary qualification in a technical or water-related field, or relevant trade certification
• Minimum two years work experience, ideally in the water treatment or related industries will be required
• Knowledge of and experience in water treatment technologies, systems and principles would be a distinct advantage
• Good communication skills, with the ability to interface with internal and external stakeholders of all levels, are important
• Must have a valid drivers license and be willing and able to travel extensively within South Africa and occasionally into Africa
• Must be willing and able to work outside normal hours during breakdowns or service requirements
• The ability to manage own workload and plan all activities is essential for this role

• Providing field service and technical support to existing customers in the field of water treatment.
• Installing, repairing, upgrading, moving, and maintaining all onsite solutions designed and supplied to customers.
• Carrying out high quality site installations, site inspections, repairs, preventive maintenances or troubleshooting at customer site without supervision and within project timescales.
• Assisting dealer technicians in installing, commissioning, and troubleshooting faults.
• Carrying out, without supervision, corrective maintenance, within acceptable timescales, escalating any solution problems if required and maintaining ownership of the problems until the customer is satisfied.
• Attending to service calls and providing telephone support.
• Overseeing emergency corrective maintenance.
• Generating parts and service RFQs from end users or through dealerships.
• Leading company installation personnel on site when required.
• Providing feedback and reporting on any ongoing problems, including reliability or under performance to management.
• Completing and submitting the relevant reports and documentation for installations.
• Engaging with the end users and represent the company in a professional and positive manner.
• Providing input on product development needs and opportunities to the Sales Manager, Executive Director and OEM.
• Assisting the sales team in promoting and sale of upgrades and parallel projects on site.
• Identifying and implementing improvements that enhance customers interactions.
• Traveling in and around Sub Saharan Africa, including surrounding countries and international travel.

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About Our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About The Role
As a Quality Engineering Lead you will champion software quality across three key products (Closd, Jarvis, CaseLawAnalytics), working closely with international teams located in France and South Africa. You will lead all quality efforts, from test strategy and tooling to hands-on coaching and process improvement. You will play a pivotal role in shaping a quality-first mindset, supporting both engineers and product teams in delivering robust, testable, and resilient software.

Responsibilities

• Owning and driving the overarching quality vision and strategy for our software products.
• Defining and continuously refining the quality roadmap with short-term and long-term objectives.
• Establishing and evolving quality standards, processes, and frameworks adapted to our tech stack (PHP back end, JavaScript front end using Angular and VueJS).
• Implementing performance tests to track the continuous improvement of our products.
• Coaching software engineers on writing meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, including what makes a test valuable, when to use each type of test, and how to approach test coverage pragmatically.
• Supporting the Product team in producing well-defined, testable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinating test writing across the team and lead test campaigns before major releases, working in cooperation with the DevOps team.
• Defining and tracking key quality metrics (test coverage, test reliability, regressions, escaped defects, etc.) and reporting regularly on quality trends, risks, and opportunities to leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Must have extensive experience in Quality Test Engineering.
• Have a BS in Engineering/Computer Science degree or equivalent.
• Must have proven experience in quality engineering leadership roles, especially in cross-functional or agile teams.
• Have solid experience in automated testing frameworks, including Cypress.
• Have hands-on experience with unit, integration, E2E, and exploratory testing.
• Have demonstrated ability to guide software engineers and product managers on quality best practices.
• Have excellent communication, cross-team collaboration, and change management skills.
• Be familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, test environments, release workflows, and experience with PHP, VueJS, Angular, .NET is a plus.

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you
Benefits
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave

About The Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

About Umicore
Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we apply our specialist knowledge to offer materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

What You Will Be Doing
You will be responsible for the integration of smart automation and robotics projects at different business units. To perform as technical support together with the external automation and robotics system providers. Meanwhile, you shall also contribute to investigate new technologies in the area of smart automation, robotics, and I4.0.

You Also Will Be Responsible For

• Technical responsible and owner for the projects of smart automation (focus on machine vision) & Simulation in collaboration with the business units' user department and external system provider:
• Coordinate system design by precisely translating the user departments' use case requirement into system specification while balancing process requirements, layout constraints, cost, and lead time limits.
• Collaborating with internal business IT application team and external vendors for the launch of the automation & simulation solution.
• Inspire the BUs and identify synergies between the BUs by showcasing use cases of one BU to other BUs showcasing external use cases within Umicore.
• You will follow-up on the latest software and hardware developments of the smart and automation & robotization and simulation technologies including:
• Flexible and modular system design and integration(focus on machine vision, drone etc.)
• Cloud-based automation and control platform
• Lab automation equipment for functional material chemical processes

Education
Who we are looking for

• You have a minimum of bachelor degree in robotics and automation control, mechatronics engineering, electrical engineering, information and communications technology or an equivalent degree.

Technical Skills & Experience

• You have at least 1~3 years of experience in system integration for automation & robotization or process simulation ideally within the Umicore relevant industries.
• Knowing how to manage the technical projects within time, budget, and defined scopes.
• Knowledge of chemical lab automation and process systems for milling, firing, wet- and solid-synthesis, and/or characterization is a huge plus.

Managerial Skills

• High technical affinity, curious and open to new automation and robotics and other I4.0 technologies.
• Analytical skills to understand the interaction between different technological modules in a digitalization project.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation and facilitation skills to internal and external stakeholders.
• Stress resistance, resilience and ability to manage tight deadlines.

Language
You are fluent in English (in both oral and written communication). Other languages such as Dutch/French/German/Polish is a plus.

What We Offer

• You can work in Olen, Hoboken or Brussels office

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds.

As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
To lead the domain in ensuring the safe, efficient and cost-effective maintenance of the plant with the minimum interruption to production / operations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• NQF level 7 qualification (BSc/Beng etc.) in Mechanical Engineering is essential.
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) is essential.
• Registered Professional Engineer with Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) is an added advantage.
• More than 3 years' relevant experience in a heavy engineering / process environment e.g. Ferrochrome, Petro-Chemical & Refining.
• Knowledge of an enterprise resource planning system essential, e.g. SAP.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation (i.e., OSH Act, LRA), project management principles/requirements, planned maintenance system and risk management principles.
• Effective leadership, problem solving, time management, and conflict handling skills.
• Strong communication, report writing and communication skills.
• Must be medically fit for the Base Metal Refinery (BMR).

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the SAP planned maintenance system to ensure plant maintenance is conducted in an optimal manner.
• Ensure all statutory inspections are undertaken within the prescribed manner and time in accordance with the OHS Act and regulations.
• Identify and establish a solid renewals and capital plan while managing these projects to finalization within set time and budgetary constraints while achieving the requisite quality requirements.
• Plan, motivate and manage annual plant engineering maintenance budgets and control working costs within these budgets.
• Ensure adherence to best procurement practices in line with corporate governance systems and standards.
• Manage and drive the domain's health and safety program in conjunction with the domain managers.
• Develop, motivate and discipline personnel to ensure sound employee performance and relations in the section.
• Develop and review meaningful work procedures and ensure that planned job observations are conducted on employees and procedures.
• Establish and review operational, safety and issue-based risks.
• Identify and analyse problems in the domain and provide workable solutions.

APPLICATIONS
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SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES MAY BE SUBJECTED TO PSYCHOMETRIC ASSESSMENTS - IMPALA PLATINUM LIMITED RESERVES THE RIGHT NOT TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT.

IN THE EVENT YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER THE APPLICATION CLOSING DATE, YOUR APPLICATION CAN BE VIEWED AS UNSUCCESSFUL.

PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO EMPLOYEES FROM THE DESIGNATED GROUPS IN LINE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE EMPLOYMENT EQUITY ACT AND THE COMPANY'S RECRUITMENT POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT EQUITY PLAN.

IMPALA PLATINUM LIMITED COMPLIES WITH THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION ACT 4 OF 2013. YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE PROCESSED IN A LAWFUL, LEGITIMATE AND RESPONSIBLE MANNER. BY SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION, YOU GIVE YOUR EXPRESS AND INFORMED CONSENT TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR RECRUITMENT PURPOSES.

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G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We create trust in the digital age with integrated security technologies in three business areas: Digital Security, Financial Platforms and Currency Technology. We have been a reliable partner for our customers for over 170 years with our innovative solutions for SecurityTech We are an international technology group and traditional family business with over 14,000 employees in 40 countries. Creating Confidence is our path to success. Trust is the basis of our co-operation within G+D.

At Payment Technology, our mission is to be at the start of every transaction and to make it secure and simple. We also create contemporary payment and banking solutions for our digital age. As a one-stop shop, we produce and personalise hundreds of millions of payment cards every year and store their "digital twins" - mobile and digital. Would you like to actively shape the digital transformation with us?

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
The main purpose of this position is for testing, integrating, and deploying software components to ensure seamless operations across business systems.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES):
The key responsibilities of the position are as follows, but not limited to:

• Test, integrate, and deploy software components in alignment with business requirements
• Identify, document, and communicate software errors/bugs to developers for timely resolution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth system integration
• Apply system testing techniques across functional and non-functional requirements
• Utilize cloud platforms (AWS) for software deployment and scalability
• Manage multiple integration projects and deliverables concurrently
• Ensure compliance with best practices for database management, system integration, and testing
• Machine Configurations: Planning, implementing, and optimizing machine configurations to ensure smooth personalization operations.
• Production Software: Installing and maintaining personalization software to support and improve personalization processes.
• Shop Floor Processes: Analyzing and optimizing shop floor processes to increase efficiency and productivity.
• Technical Project Management: Leading and executing projects for the introduction of new machines and technologies.
• Quality Assurance: Ensuring compliance with quality standards and implementing continuous improvement measures.
• Documentation: Creating and maintaining process documentation, work instructions, and technical specifications.
• Collaboration: Working closely with internal departments such as production, IT, and quality assurance, global functions as well as external partners and suppliers.
• Training: Conducting training sessions and workshops for employees on new machines and software.
• The ideal candidate mustpossess strong analytical abilities, technical expertise, and excellent communication skills to support smooth and reliable software performance in a manufacturing-focused environment.

MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree or Post Qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 4 years or more of professional experience in process engineering, ideally in the chip card personalization industry.
• In-depth knowledge of machine configuration, production software, and process optimization.
• Proficiency with MSSQL for database testing and integration
• Expertise in APIs and system integration tools
• Strong knowledge of reporting tools (Power BI, Crystal Reports)
• Experience with AWS for deploying and managing software solutions
• Understanding of system testing methodologies, including functional and non-functional testing

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

As a Senior Process Engineer in the Absa Design office, you will support Absa businesses and critical projects by creating new, world-class, innovative process designs to improve customer experience, process efficiency, and process excellence. You will provide expert advice and guidance to senior business stakeholders, and create high-quality process design methodologies, tools, and practices to increase the overall process design. An ideal Senior Process Engineer is a recognized expert in process design and process excellence and is able to provide consistently rigorous and creative process solutions to tough problems. She/he has a track record of aligning design decisions to business strategy/objectives and providing insights and direction to the business at the most senior levels. She/he has a passion for problem-solving and can turn data into actionable insights. Senior Process Engineer is an experienced coach and mentor, being able to develop process design skills and capabilities across the entire design team.

Job Description

Create process designs for critical processes across the bank

• Create high quality and innovative process designs across a business area or channel to improve customer experience, process efficiency, and process excellence in order to deliver against defined business objectives
• Provide thought leadership to multiple simultaneous projects across Absa, delivering on the highest quality, creative, and innovative design solutions to highly complex problems
• Deliver both continuous and step-change improvements in process efficiencies and process rigor that both improve the quality of delivery and reduce cost
• Conduct a thorough investigation and analysis to produce a qualified and quantified view of customer value, pain points, and priorities in relation to business strategy, and translate that into technical, business, and architecture requirements that account for risk and compliance needs and technical limitations
• Scope, prioritize and execute high-quality process design work, ensuring data-driven approach, focus on the highest impact work, timely delivery of agreed outcomes (quality, cost, service levels), and high design quality
• Collaborate with business and channels to ideate, conceptualize, develop, test, evaluate and evolve new process designs
• Ensure that end to end business impact of process design is measured, well understood, and articulated. Document and distribute project outputs in such a way that input requirements for downstream business-, delivery- and embedment partners are met e.g. Operations, Product teams, Technology
• Meet and manage stakeholder expectations with regard to timelines and expected project outcomes. Pro-actively identify failure modes and constraints and provide stakeholder community with visibility and proposed mitigation plans
• Stay involved with the BU and projects post-implementation. Track and report success against the upfront agreed project outcomes

Provide expert advice and solutions to influence and implement the business strategy

• Support business in the implementation of the long-term product and customer strategy. Develop and refine good design practices within the business area or channel to enable consistent design quality.
• Act as a senior thought partner to business and design leadership in customer experience and design innovation, driving continuous and step-change improvements across the businesses
• Provide insights and advice based on deep expertise in design methodologies (e.g., lean, six Sigma), understanding of new and advanced technologies and global best practice
• Combine the understanding of the business strategic intent and customer/process insights into tangible process recommendations and vision, with large value-add to the business
• Promote the re-usability of designs and end-to-end value chain ownership rather than silo thinking and behaviors, i.e. by managers so that designs can be shared
• Stay abreast of industry trends and role players and ensure that Absa is well-positioned to provide competitive and industry leading Design
• Contribute to the wider process design community within Absa
• Take an active role in the development of process design capability and community in Absa
• Provide ongoing training, mentoring, and coaching to process designers at all levels in the team, accelerating their design skill and capability development
• Drive the creation and continuous improvement of the team's design approach and problem-solving from initial analysis to final process implementation. Significantly contribute to the training curriculum, tools, and processes to ensure adoption across all
• teams
• Actively contribute the overall knowledge management, providing insights and direction; and by bringing people together to share knowledge
• Promote Process excellence across Absa by training and upskilling people with different functional skills and levels; provide tools, processes, and strategies to support the adoption

Additional Job Description

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management

Required skills

• Influencing Others
• Strategic Thinking
• Analytical Thinking
• Design Delivery
• Process Efficiencies
• Thought Leadership
• Creative and innovative thinking
• Process Innovation
• Business Acumen
• Highly Result Oriented
• Yes Solutions Design
• Customer Focus
• Agile/Entrepreneurial thinking
• Teamwork and collaboration

Education

NQF Level 8 or higher

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

Company Description
De Beers Group
De Beers Group – The World's Leading Diamond Company

We are the world's leading diamond company – a unique, luxury business that thrives on the creativity, passion and knowledge of our people.

As we embark on a journey to accelerate the transformation of our business into one that is better positioned to realise the opportunities ahead of us, we welcome and encourage diverse perspectives from those individuals who spark fresh thinking and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions.

We'll provide you with the space and support to grow and achieve your ambitions and – working together – you'll help us realise our own ambition to be the pioneer of a new diamond world.

Job Description
The Principal Process Engineer will serve as the subject matter expert for Process Engineering within De Beers Group, leading technical initiatives and providing expert support across Managed and Non-Managed Joint Venture process plants. This role is pivotal in driving continuous improvement, modernisation, and strategic alignment of processing operations with the Group's long-term objectives.

The Principal Process Engineer Key Tasks Include
The Principal Process Engineer is a technical leader in the field of diamond processing and actively works to improve the discipline within the De Beers Group:

• Facilitates continuous improvement and modernisation at processing plants aligned to the defined priority areas based on the monitoring and review of operational performance across De Beers Group.
• Developments/reviews process designs for new growth projects as well as for brownfield projects.
• Drives technology initiatives at processing plants (as per the agreed functional initiatives to deliver the De Beers Group Strategy).
• Interacts with the De Beers Technology Group and assists towards implementation at operations.
• Executes defined initiatives using sound project management principles and practices, which includes technical investigations, techno-economic investigations, improvement studies, etc.
• Directs work of service providers and consultants for defined work packages.
• Performs internal project reviews for the Processing discipline for large capital investments.
• Assists with people development within the Processing discipline.
• Provides expert technical support for both Managed Operations and Non-Managed Joint Venture process plants:
• Supports the sites through investigations of highly complex critical / persistent processing issues.
• Provides expert input for improvement programmes within the process plants.
• Supports the development of production and services strategies focusing on the 1-5yr window, aligned to the Life of Asset Plans of the operations within Operating Model principles.
• Review inputs, activities, and cost (Capital and Operational cost) for Processing production and service strategies as defined by operational teams as an input into the business planning cycle.

• Takes an active part in first line governance & assurance activities at the operations, which includes:

• Development, roll-out, embedment and review of relevant technical standards, frameworks and best practices for the processing plants, while managing compliance issues within the relevant managerial and governance frameworks.

• Provides input to ensure / enable the processing plants run at optimum efficiencies and within the desired technical standards.
• Diamond Value Management (DVM) related reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Metallurgical or Chemical Engineering
• Valid SA Driver's Licence
• Minimum of 10 years experience in mineral processing
• Extensive technical knowledge of diamond processing operations (Blue Areas)
• Familiarity with emerging processing technologies and Diamond Value Management

Additional Information
Who we are:
De Beers Group is a company with a sparkling future.

Our experts have searched the world for nature's most precious gem. Our diamonds bring beauty to the world. But we think they can do so much more. We want our diamonds, and our business, to make life brilliant – for our people, our customers and the world around us.

Safety
Safety first is a way of life for us. We are unconditional about the safety, health and well-being of our colleagues, at work and at home, and about that of the communities where we work. We aim to lead the industry by investing in innovation to protect people who are at the heart of our business. Our high performing teams take accountability for their own and others' actions, work collaboratively, and always show care and respect.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
As a global #HeForShe Thematic Champion, De Beers is committed to promoting an equitable, inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are. We provide equal opportunity to enable everyone to fulfil their potential. Please inform us should there be any special requirements that should be considered as part of your application.

Building Forever
Sustainability is at the heart of our decision-making – it is how we do business. Building Forever is key to our purpose as it represents our ambitious and holistic sustainability framework and is central to our ability to deliver long-term value to our communities and partners. This shapes how we protect our social and environmental license to operate, build a long-term legacy in our host communities and earn consumers' trust in our diamonds that they can wear with pride.

Important Note:
This role is ring-fenced for impacted employees as part of the current business transformation and re-organisation process within De Beers Group. Preference will be given to internal candidates who are directly affected by these changes.

Closing Date
: 2 October 2025