Anthony Mukutuma
Peterborough
Summary
Experienced and highly driven mining business leader, successful at developing operations at various stages (from green-fields to mature operations), and in different settings (continents, culture and skills maturity). Recognized for a people-centric approach to driving performance excellence in operations through setting high standards and developing high performing teams.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
General Manager
FQM Kansanshi Mining Plc
Solwezi, Zambia
06.2020 - Current
- Oversaw all aspects of safety, environment and operational and financial management, including budgeting and forecasting.
- Led organization by establishing business direction and actualizing operational plans to meet goals.
- Established policies, procedures, and protocols to improve operational safety and efficiency.
- Developed strategic plans and objectives to ensure organizational growth and profitability.
- Managed relationships with shareholders, stakeholders, customers, and other key constituents; particularly traditional, provincial and national government and other leaders.
- Led the recruitment process for executive-level positions within the organization.
- Hired, trained and mentored nationals to ensure succession plans are supported by pipeline of talent to strengthen the team and to maximize productivity.
- Spearheaded the USD1.25b expansion of Kansanshi to take the operation from 29mtpa to 55mtpa expansion, entailing a an expanded mining fleet to move 75-80m BCMs per annum, a new 25mtpa Concentrator and smelter expansion from 1.4mtpa to 1.65mtpa.
General Manager
First Quantum Minerals Australia Nickel (FQMAN)
Ravensthorpe, Australia
03.2019 - 05.2020
- Operational management – primarily safety and environmental compliance, and operating and capital costs budgets (circa. USD300M), and profitability of the business.
- Led organization by establishing business direction and actualizing operational plans to meet goals; and made a business case for the restart of the operational from care and maintenance.
- Developed strategic plans and objectives to ensure organizational resilience , growth and profitability - in a traditionally turbulent nickel market.
- Stakeholder engagement, including management of relations with stakeholders – regulatory bodies, local community groups and shareholders. Key achievement here: Successfully renegotiated terms of agreements with the Southern Port Authority for use of Esperance Port to optimize import and export logistics costs.
- Led an investigation into value-addition to the primary product (mixed-hydroxide precipitate) to improve revenue, in light of changes to the nickel markets as a result of increasing use of Ni in electric vehicles/electrical storage systems.
- Worked with Standard Chartered M&A team (Road Shows, management presentations etc. to interested parties) to search for an equity partner to part finance expansion plans for and the operations costs FQMAN. Finalized early 2021.
General Manager
Mauritanian Copper Mines SA
Akjoujt, Mauritania
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Ensure that safety protocols and operating procedures are followed in the operation of all unit operations and ancillaries.
- Work with mining department to optimize the feed to the plant to ensure best use of resource at all times.
- Provide leadership to the process team with overall objective of maximizing productivity, process efficiencies and product quality, at minimal cost.
- Review plant design for de-bottlenecking and efficiency/operability improvement opportunities and initiate, with full financial justification, related capital projects.
- Managed all aspects of daily business operations including budgeting, staffing, scheduling, inventory control, customer service and sales.
- Led the completion of commissioning of a magnetite production from Plant tailing and negotiated complex agreements to optimize export of magnetite with transporters and port authorities.
- Managed inventory levels and conducted corrective action planning to minimize long-term working capital impacts, resulting in identifying and offloading of slow-moving and obsolete inventory to release value and remedying root-causes of inventory build-up.
- Established and maintained effective communication with staff members to ensure efficient operations; particularly getting the Unions to understand the performance of the business and their role therein.
Plant Manager
FQM Kevitsa Mining Oy
Sodanklya, Finland
09.2010 - 12.2014
- Managed the construction, commissioning and optimization of the Cu-Ni-PGM process plant. Key achievement: record time from land aquisition through project construction to commissioning and commercial production.
- Ensure that safety protocols and operating procedures are followed in the operation of all unit operations and ancillaries.
- Managed the daily operations of the plant, including scheduling personnel and equipment.
- Monitored plant performance metrics, such as throughput, quality, cost, and safety; resulting in safe export of Ni concentrates and de-bottlenecking of various units operations.
- Ensured compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, particular environmental permits and protection of traditional/protected forests around the mine.
- Planned and coordinated maintenance activities for the facility.
- Responsible for continuous improvement: analyzing all unit operations in the process plant to identify areas of improvement. This resulted in installation of additional pebble crushing capacity, flotation columns to improve Ni and Cu con grades and 500m3 Rougher flotation cell for improved Cu recovery, and review of site water release permits.
Group Technical Manager - FQML
First Quantum Minerals
Perth, Australia
01.2008 - 12.2010
- Responsible for project design, design optimization, operating philosophy development, commissioning, operational optimization and de-bottlenecking.
- Working with site teams of engineers of all disciplines on capital projects implementation and on-time delivery.
- Working with site process engineers on improvement (efficiency or throughput) opportunities and troubleshooting of process difficulties.
- Mentoring and coaching of engineers of all disciplines
- Projects managed: (1) Mixed Flotation concept development, design of plant commissioning and optimization (Kansanshi, Zambia). (2) Gold flotation and CIL Plant commissioning (Guelb, Mauritania); and (3) Kevitsa process flowsheet development (Kevitsa, Finland)
Plant Manager
Bwana Mkubwa Leach-SX-EW Plant
Ndola, Zambia
01.2006 - 12.2008
- Management of the operations – including safety, tailings storage facilities, production, fixed-plant maintenance, human resource management, procurement and budgeting & cost control (opex and capex).
- Key achievements: (1) Successful of leach-SX-EW circuits from 38kt design capacity to 50kt Cu per annum in the first 2 years of operation. (2) Reduction of acid consumption by 30% by developing the split-SX concept and reformatting the CCD circuit as required
Other Roles
ZCCM - Zambia, AARL - RSA
Various, Zambia, RSA
08.1995 - 12.2005
- Chemical Engineering/Metallurgy.
- Piloting, laboratory testing and project management.
- People management.
Education
Diploma - Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Institute of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland12-2021
MBA - Accounting And Finance
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UnitedKingdom07-2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical Engineering With Minerals Engineering
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England07-1995
Skills
- Business Growth
- Stakeholder Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Operations Management
- Profit & Loss
- People-Centric Approach
- Operational Efficiency
- Budgeting and Cost Control
Accomplishments
- Zambia Chamber of Mining President's Award Recipient - 2022 in recognition for contributions to mining excellence and mining professional development in Zambia over the last 27 years.
Certification
- Fellow - Engineering Institute of Zambia (FEIZ)
- Registered Engineer - Engineers Registration Board if Zambia (REng.)
- AMIChemE (UK)
Board/Director roles:
Non-Executive Director, Standard Bank - Zambia.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
General Manager
FQM Kansanshi Mining Plc
06.2020 - Current
General Manager
First Quantum Minerals Australia Nickel (FQMAN)
03.2019 - 05.2020
General Manager
Mauritanian Copper Mines SA
01.2015 - 01.2019
Plant Manager
FQM Kevitsa Mining Oy
09.2010 - 12.2014
Group Technical Manager - FQML
First Quantum Minerals
01.2008 - 12.2010
Plant Manager
Bwana Mkubwa Leach-SX-EW Plant
01.2006 - 12.2008
Other Roles
ZCCM - Zambia, AARL - RSA
08.1995 - 12.2005
Diploma - Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Institute of Ireland
MBA - Accounting And Finance
University of Liverpool
Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical Engineering With Minerals Engineering
University of Birmingham
- Fellow - Engineering Institute of Zambia (FEIZ)
- Registered Engineer - Engineers Registration Board if Zambia (REng.)
- AMIChemE (UK)
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