Gold Room Operator at Perseus Mining Tanzania

Perseus Mining (Tanzania) Limited (SMLC) is seeking a Gold Room Operator.

The Gold Room Operator will play a crucial role in the processing operations, ensuring the efficient and safe handling of precious metals.

Key Responsibilities

Management of Health, Safety, Environment, & Community Relations

• Adhere to company policies and procedures regarding health, safety, environment, health and community.
• Champion a zero-harm safety culture within all processing operations.
• Ensure processing facilities and practices meet all environmental obligations and permit conditions.
• Ensure all gold room activities comply with safety and environmental regulations.

Leadership & People Management

• Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure workforce planning meets operational requirements, including succession planning and skills development.
• Promote positive employee relations and ensure compliance with workplace policies, codes of conduct, and industrial relations frameworks.
• Encourage workforce engagement through clear communication of goals, expectations, and performance outcomes.
• Uphold a culture of process optimization and continuous improvement within the metallurgical team.

Operations

• Monitor key metallurgical KPIs and implement corrective actions where performance deviates from plan.
• Assist with the smelting and bullion pick up operations.
• Fill out gold room logs with operational data.
• Maintain accurate records of gold and silver bullion inventory at all times.

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities and Attributes:

Essential

• Knowledge of Bullion production including smelting and electrowinning.
• Proven gold room experience within a gold processing operation.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership, with sound knowledge of HSE systems and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborative approach and ability to work effectively with Processing and Maintenance departments.
• Strong alignment with Perseus values, including accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Desired

• Understanding of environmental and sustainability considerations related to metallurgical processing.
• Driven and results-oriented, setting ambitious targets and relentlessly pursuing them.
• Solutions-focused, identifying problems quickly and moving with urgency to resolve them.
• High-integrity, honest, transparent, and consistent in approach.
• Maintenance experience with gold room equipment.

Qualifications & Licences:

• Strong understanding of gold room operations and equipment.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in metallurgical or mineral processing roles, preferably gold processing operations.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in gold room operations role.

Additional Information:

• Prepared to undertake external training to complement the operation.
• Incumbent may be expected to work outside Normal Working Hours on occasions.

Opportunities:

• Perseus values its people and offers rewarding and diverse career opportunities for aspiring candidates in the international gold mining industry.

Application Mode:

Applications will only be received by email to [email protected] with the advertised job title Gold Room Operator as the subject line of the email.

Applications closes on 05 November 2026