Area Manager Electrical (108151) at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To cost effectively ensure safe availability, integrity and reliable production assets in the area of responsibility.
• Effective maintenance of the plants to ensure legal compliance. Ensure legal and statutory strategies are executed.
• Coordinate all maintenance activities, weekly and shutdown work by use of Work Management Systems and Tools.
• To ensure that all equipment have preventative maintenance strategies and are effective and must be reviewed regularly.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage an electrical maintenance team and multidisciplinary service providers
• Ensure development of team to deliver a high-quality maintenance service
• Manage multi-level interfaces and integrate effectively
• Ensure equipment availability to meet the production plan
• Execute critical maintenance activities and maintain the functionality of instrument and control systems 
• Establish and report on agreed performance criteria
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards
• Ensure financial discipline and governance in the department. Continuously optimize maintenance activities
• Ensure equipment availability agreed upon supports the production plan
• Cost optimization by ensuring maintenance plans effectiveness in line with three, five- and ten-year renewal strategies 
• Compile annual maintenance and shutdown budgets
• Control cost to ensure the maintenance budget is achieved within budget
• Shutdown management
• Manage operations risks by making sure that all risks are identified, analysed and mitigated to acceptable levels
• Execute SHE strategy to achieve zero harm. Continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain license to operate
• Manage, revise and improvement of Asset Management standards for maintenance
• Manage asset life cycle and plans
• Oversee the management of Maintenance and the Work Management Process 

Specific Technical knowledge and experience:

• Electrical distribution systems (11kV down to 525V)
• Electrical Distribution protection systems (Diff and Arc)
• Medium voltage switchgear and protection (ABB and Reyrolle)
• Medium voltage motors and starters (DOL, Transformer and Auto transformer)
• Medium voltage generator and protection
• Low voltage switchgear and protection (ABB).
• Variable Speed Drive’s and soft starters (ABB, WEG)
• UPS systems (single and dual systems)
• BTU systems (single and dual systems)
• Fast and automatic transfer schemes on Medium voltage and LV.
• Switching of electrical distribution systems inside a substation.
• SCADA knowledge (ABB) and communication.
• Heater systems (elements control and tracing)
• EX equipment inspection and maintenance.
• Electrical motorised actuators maintenance (Rotork, Dremo)
• Transformer maintenance
• CCTV systems
• Major hazardous installation regulation.
• Explosive regulations for Prillan plant
• Lift regulation and maintenance.

Formal Education

• B-Eng | B-Tech (Electrical Heavy Current)

Experience:

• Minimum 8 years total relevant Operations experience 
• 3 years management experience required (acting will be considered relevant)

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies

• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• People Leadership:  Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• Situational Leadership:  The ability to effectively deal with a variety of situations and circumstances that arise unexpectedly and requiring management action.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Total Quality Management: The strategy for continuously improving the quality of process output, based on five fundamental principles of Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Measurement, Total Involvement and Systematic Support.

Closing Date: 29th, April 2022