Metal Sales Officer

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Job description:

Key Responsibilities

This position will be required to adhere to all relevant requirements, policies, procedures and legal regulations pertaining to health, safety, environment and quality, as well as finance, human resources, and any other regulations as required by the company and relevant to the level of the role and responsibilities of the function.

Key responsibilities includes:

•  Managing Metal Sales Operating system: Mineman and monitoring weighbridge operation

• To ensure declared minimum product (concentrate, anodes, cathodes and scrap) stocks at the end of each month maintained.

• To ensure Customers are receiving the concentrate as per the contract in terms of quantity and quality (material specifications).

• Organizing the logistical side of the loading or and off-loading of Concentrate by scheduling trucks with transporters

• Management of trucks logistics on site for all products;

• Loading of trucks as per production and customer allocation and needed concentrate quality;

• Supervising the loading assuring safety requirements are met and making sure trucks are balancing once they are loaded to minimize turnaround of trucks in the mine;

• Receiving concentrate from both FQM Trident Ltd and any other sources i.e external purchased concentrates

• Ensure timely reconciliations on products receipts and dispatches are done with relevant stakeholders.   

• Managing the assay exchange based on contract terms per customer.

• Finalising assays with customer and/or Umpire Laboratories.

• Managing finalizations of all the provisional invoices based on different quotational periods and final assays;

• Invoicing the customers’ provisional invoices

• Follow up on customer payment as per terms of product sale;

• Handling any customer complaints;

• Supporting and ensure all service invoices are checked and booked in Pronto.

• Reporting directly to Specialist, Metal Sales Controller

Safety Management

• Taking active role implementing Safety standards in sections of Metal Sales areas in approved standard operating procedures  

• Ensuring and checking drivers are in compliance with both KMP Safety and Security procedures

Qualifications

All academic qualifications and results must be verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA).

• Full Grade 12 School Certificate 

• Relevant Diploma or/ Degree in Business/Commercial or Metallurgical qualifications

Experience

• Very good knowledge of computer based accounting systems will be advantage (preferably advance Microsoft excel programme).

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in copper mining and operations

• Experience in logistics and metallurgical/accounting

• Knowledge of Mineman System will be an added advantage 

BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS

• Teamwork

• Bold initiative

• Thinking safety

• Driving quantity and attendance to initiate and achieve results

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