Senior Engineer Structural and Mechanical

Valterraplatinum1

Job details

  • ONSITE
  • FULL_TIME
  • Mokopane
  • za
  • Verified 2026-10-07
  • Source: Valterraplatinum1 public SMARTRECRUITERS source

Original job description

Company Description

Valterra Platinum, formerly Anglo American Platinum, is a leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), with integrated mining, smelting, and refining operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, marketing the metal we produce globally. Following our demerger from Anglo American plc, Valterra Platinum is now an independent, publicly listed company with a primary and secondary listing on the Johannesburg and London stock exchanges respectively.

As we embark on this exciting new chapter, Valterra Platinum is positioned to define and pursue its own strategy, anchored in operational excellence, sustainability, and value creation for the long-term. With full accountability for our performance and growth, we are focused on strengthening our capabilities across the entire PGM value chain, from mine to market.

Our independence empowers us to deepen our commitment to stakeholders and lead with purpose – to Unearth Value to Better Our World. We remain steadfast in our ambition to be the world’s foremost producer of platinum group metals, while embedding safety and sustainability in everything we do.

If you're driven by purpose and the opportunity to make a lasting impact, we invite you to join us. Apply today and be part of something bigger.

This role is based in Mokopane, Limpopo.

Job Description

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • Implement and maintain operation-specific mechanical and structural integrity plans, inspection regimes, defect priorities and lifecycle actions in line with approved company standards. Lead or provide specialist input into significant failure investigations and actions to prevent repeat failures.
  • Provide operational technical support, engineering assurance, project input, mentoring and discipline development within the operation, and share lessons and good practice with relevant peers.
  • Provide specialist engineering guidance that supports a risk-controlled operating environment and prevents structural failure, mechanical failure, dropped objects, uncontrolled energy and harm during lifting, safeguarding and work at height. Stop work where authorised, or recommend restriction or withdrawal from service, where mechanical or structural integrity cannot be demonstrated.
  • Develop, calculate, model, check and review mechanical and structural designs, drawings, specifications,
  • modifications, repair methods and technical reports. Approve and professionally sign off work only where this falls within the incumbent’s ECSA registration, demonstrated competence and formally delegated authority.
  •  Use approved specialist engineering applications for load determination, structural analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue assessment, vibration analysis and mechanical design calculations.
  • Define and verify dead, live, operational, dynamic, impact, vibration, fatigue, wind, thermal, pressure, equipment, material and lifting loads, including load combinations, boundary conditions and safety factors.
  • Ensure designs address constructability, operability, maintainability, inspectability, reliability, lifecycle cost, safe access, change management and decommissioning.
  • Provide specialist engineering support and discipline guidance for steel, reinforced concrete and other mining structures, including equipment supports, workshops, platforms, walkways, ladders, handrails, pipe racks, conveyors, bins, tanks, silos, chutes, crane gantries and foundations.
  • Provide engineering assurance and operational technical support for HME, underground and concentrator systems at the operation, including shovels, haul trucks, drill rigs, LHDs, winders, ropes, pumps, fans, compressors, refrigeration, conveyors, mills, crushers, screens, feeders, pressure equipment, gearboxes, piping and valves.
  • Evaluate engineered lift studies for critical and complex lifting operations, including lifted mass, centre of gravity, load distribution, lifting points, lifting or spreader beams, rigging configuration, crane or hoist capacity, supporting structures and ground conditions. Provide recommendations and approve studies only where formally delegated.
  • Provide specialist engineering input on machinery guards, interlocks, safe clearances and access control to ensure that safeguarding does not introduce new operational or maintenance risks.
  • Review the engineering aspects of platforms, walkways, ladders, guardrails, lifelines, anchor points, fall-protection supports and temporary access systems, and approve them only within formally delegated authority.
  • Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.
  • Build engineering capability through coaching, technical reviews, knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration while promoting an inclusive, accountable and continuously improving culture.
  • Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements

This role is at a Band 6 level reporting to the Engineering Asset Manager.

Qualifications
  • BEng or BSc (Eng) in Mechanical, Civil or Structural Engineering from an ECSA-accredited programme, or an ECSA-recognised equivalent.
  • Qualification and experience must support professional competence in structural and mechanical engineering applied to mining and mineral processing environments
  • Current ECSA registration as a Professional Engineer (Pr Eng) in an applicable discipline
  • Postgraduate qualification in structural, mechanical or mining related engineering will be advantageous

Experience, technical knowledge and skills

  • Minimum 10 years’ relevant post-qualification engineering experience in structural design and analysis, mechanical systems, calculations, design reviews, modifications, engineering assurance and failure investigations, including experience exercising delegated approval or professional sign-off authority.
  • Practical mining or mineral-processing experience across HME, underground infrastructure and concentrator plants.
  • Demonstrated experience in complex lifting and rigging engineering, safeguarding, work-at-height systems, consultant or OEM assurance and management of engineering change
  • Structural mechanics, strength of materials, stability, structural dynamics, load paths and steel and reinforced-concrete design.
  • Mechanical design, machine elements, rotating equipment, equipment supports and mechanical-system integration. 
  • Static, dynamic, cyclic, fatigue, impact, vibration, thermal, pressure and lifting loads and their combinations.
  • Finite element analysis, fatigue and fracture assessment, failure analysis and remaining-life evaluation.
  • Welded and bolted connections, foundations, corrosion, NDT, strain measurement, accelerometer measurement and vibration monitoring.
  • Mining machinery, underground systems, concentrator equipment, lifting systems, machinery safeguarding and working-at-height infrastructure.
  • Applicable legislation, engineering codes, company standards, OEM requirements, quality assurance, configuration control and professional sign-off.
Additional Information
  • Medical certificate of fitness
  • There could be ad hoc requirements from time to time including the need to travel.
  • Availability for operational callouts, incident response and travel between operations when required.

What We Offer

At Valterra Platinum, you will join a team committed to excellence and impact.

We offer:

  • Meaningful work in a high-performance, values-led environment.
  • Market-aligned reward and recognition.
  • Opportunities for learning, development and progression.
  • A culture that respects diversity and encourages innovation.
  • A clear commitment to safe Operations.

Inclusion and Diversity

Valterra Platinum is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfill their potential.

Valterra Platinum has a zero tolerance to dignity harms, these include all acts of gender based violence, bullying, harassment and victimisation. Ensuring the safety of our employees extends beyond physical safety and includes the eradication of harmful behaviours from our workplace. This responsibility extends to everyone at Valterra Platinum both during work hours and outside of work. We are unconditional in creating a respectful, inclusive, and safe working environment to ensure that no colleague will be violated or harassed under our watch.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please complete our online application form via this job advert.

Closing Date: 16 October 2026 

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