Specialist Business Improvement, Ahafo North

As Part Of Our Team You Will:

• Provide data analytics and insights to ensure outcomes of business improvement initiatives are measured and monitored.
• Identify internal and external benchmarks for productivity improvement whiles monitoring the Site and Business Units performance against these.
• Provide recommendations to enhance improvement initiatives, identifying performance synergies across business improvement initiatives through assessing operational data to pinpoint efficiency gaps.
• Collaborate with the Site and Project Teams on the execution of business improvement initiatives, including providing expertise to define and monitor appropriate performance metrics to identify productivity impacts as a result.
• Develop reports and distribute information on improvement metrics.
• Formulate recommendations to enhance process effectiveness by providing insights to leadership teams based on analysis of performance metrics.
• Conduct training sessions on process improvements, based on data analysis.
• Develop and roll out presentations on improvement project outcomes, impacts and learnings.
• Comply with business improvement standards and maintain standard operating procedures to ensure consistent improvement of processes.

Your Training, Skills and Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Engineering (Mining, Mechanical, Industrial, or Process), Operations Management, or related field.

Additional Knowledge:

• Foundational understanding of continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, or Theory of Constraints.
• Working knowledge of mining operations and processes, including drilling & blasting, load & haul, processing, and maintenance.
• Familiarity with key operational key performance indicators (KPIs) such as availability, utilization, recovery, and unit cost metrics.
• Understanding of change management concepts and their application in operational environments.
• Experience or exposure to ERP (e.g., SAP) and operational data systems.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 - 10 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience in training and facilitation.

Problem Solving Ability:

• Works in established systems and processes.
• Compares data collected from processes with a known model or system.
• Imagines how tasks might be completed without direct, physical, and hands-on feedback.
• Solves problems where trial & error may not be sufficient, other methods may be required.
• Extrapolates patterns to make predictions.
• Improves work methods using significant data and patterns, determines whether a diagnosis is correct or whether it may occur from another pattern.

Technical Skills:

• Ability to collect, clean, and analyze operational and productivity data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (Excel, Power BI); basic SQL or scripting knowledge is a plus.
• Skilled in supporting root cause analysis, value stream mapping, and continuous improvement workshops.
• Capable of building reports, dashboards, and presentations that clearly communicate data-driven insights.
• Ability to support project implementation, track performance outcomes, and document lessons learned.
• Effective communication and people skills to collaborate with frontline teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrate safety awareness and ability to incorporate risk and compliance considerations into improvement activities.

Social Process Skills:

• Self-awareness: Understands own behavior and is aware of impact on others, adapts behavior to suit context and circumstances, reflects on own behavior in a variety of situations, learning from the interactions, requests feedback and identifies areas for improvement and recognizes and accepts the need to put the overall business needs ahead of their own and can deal with the internal conflict / stress that may generate.
• Team process: Understands role as a team member and team leader (where applicable) and can adjust behavior as needed, understands the behavior of other individuals and the effects on the team, resolves conflicts as needed and as a team leader - Fosters a climate that is inclusive and where team members feel safe to contribute, collaborate, receive feedback and coaching.
• Collaboration: Establishes and nurtures relationships with stakeholders by listening and asking questions to better understand others, understands how to influence or negotiate with others to achieve productive outcomes and an effectively balance positive interactions with getting the work done.

Your work environment:

• The position is located at our Ahafo North mine site.