Principal, Shutdown & Operational Readiness at Anglo American

Job Description:

Purpose:

• Plant and equipment Shutdowns or Turnarounds are a critical success factor in the delivery of safe production to plan, and an important continuous improvement opportunity. Our planned Shutdowns account for a significant percentage of planned downtime and if not managed optimally will lead to value leakage and safety incidents.
• Similarly Operational Readiness is critical in ensuring safe production to plan through effective handover of Shutdowns and Projects to operations, and the inclusion of all Asset Management requirements.
• This role will establish and develop a Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Authority to ensure strategies, standards, best practices, and the latest technology are developed and implemented to optimise shutdown durations and to minimize ramp-up and return-to-operations durations, while ensuring zero harm (safety), and quality in delivery at optimal cost.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Define the E&M Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Strategy
• Assess global and cross-industry Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Best Practice and trends applicable to the AA environment.
• Develop, review, revise, rollout, implement and entrench new and existing Best Practice frameworks, guidelines and standards across AA
• Support AA Business Units in the rollout, implementation and entrenchment of Best Practice frameworks, guidelines and standards, and procedural application to local environments

The Shutdown and Operational Readiness Authority shall:

• Ensure awareness of Shutdowns taking place in the organisation and be part of the shutdown oversight committee.
• Support and provide oversight of Shutdown Management teams in implementation of Best Practice
• Take a longer-term view of Shutdown strategy at an AA and Business Unit level, and ensure requirements are adequately accounted for in the annual 5-year plans
• Convene a Shutdown Community of Practice and share best practices, benchmarking and cross-operational learnings as appropriate.
• Be party to Post Shutdown Reviews and ensure that the Shutdown Community of Practice adopts lessons learned
• Ensure awareness of Major Projects taking place in the organisation and be part of the Operational Readiness oversight committee.
• Support and provide oversight of Project Operational Readiness teams in implementation of  the Best Practice
• Convene an Operational Readiness Community of Practice and share best practices, benchmarking and cross-operational learnings as appropriate
• Be party to Post Project Reviews and ensure that the Operational Readiness Community of Practice adopts lessons learned
• Develop and facilitate a process by which critical stakeholders are aware of Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness activities, status, opportunities and risks
• Set goals (HoShin) for the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness teams
• Establish a culture of shutdown and ramp-up readiness to ensure safety, quality, cost and schedule outcomes
• Broad Scanning: Understand new developments and trends in the field of Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness and devise appropriate strategies to implement in Anglo American.
• Alignment with the AAOM: Ensure that the work in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness (in particular the Work Management and A&I) areas are aligned with the AAOM.

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant discipline

Experience

• 10 – 15Year’s experience in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness

Knowledge

• A demonstrated thought leader and highly knowledgeable in Shutdown, and Turnaround Management, and Operational Readiness
• The understanding and application of Asset Management key value drivers for processes across full mine-to-market value chain, safety, sustainability, and interdependence of key levers
• Comprehensive understanding of business drivers & levers linked to the extractive industry or other adjacent heavy industry context.
• Provides a consistent outstanding role model in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety
• Spanish and Portuguese skills is advantageous

Technical Skills

• Extensive experience as a site Shutdown Manager
• Mining, Oil and Gas, Aviation or similar heavy industry management
• Major Project experience with work in the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness field.
• Project Management
• Asset Management
• Strong coaching and mentoring abilities
• Ability to influence at al levels of a complex international orgainisation

Closing Date:

• 27 October, 2025