Area Manager Process Water (107843) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

Ensure that agreed, on specification, production volumes are achieved, efficiently and safely. The Production Manager ensures that processes, standards, controls and resources are in place for the team to execute Production activities to the required standard. The process, controls, standards and resources must ensure that agreed, onspecification, production volumes are achieved, efficiently and safely in adherence to the weekly schedule and monthly plan. To ensure that production contributes to the increase of the business growth. Align shutdowns and equipment outage with the value chain to maximise business performances. Ensure compliances to safety and legal requirements. To lead and manage a production team, and interface with service departments. Ensure safe operation of equipment within OWAP. To govern all SLA between business units and service departments. To manage costs effective and efficiently.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

Business results

• To lead and manage production processes at the Water Recovery Plant to ensure that operations are safe, profitable, effective, efficient and synergistically integrated into the SO value chain.
• Translate and cascade operational goals and longterm plans through effective twoway communication in the organisation
• Demonstrate One Sasol behaviour – ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain
• Meet Operations Production target in line with customer forecast and nominated quantity.
• Accept OHS Act legal responsibility for the areas.
• Prepare operating reports (Fiscal, daily, monthly).
• Personnel development and leadership capacity requirements.
• Manage the plant based on Asset Management Standards for Production.
• Establish and maintain effective work relationships and communication with subordinates, organized labour, service providers, peers and customers (internal and external).
• Perform senior standby duties for Process Water.
• Display and harness the employment equity and diversity drive.
• Visibly demonstrate behaviour that supports the Sasol Values.

Delivery Production Volumes

• Manage and enable production operations and make appropriate adjustments to deliver agreed volumes at optimal productivity and cost in time.
• Manage production plan for production unit.
• Provide, implement and manage processes and activities associated with planning, scheduling, measuring, allocating, optimizing and reporting production system volumes.
• Production system optimization including delivering on production targets.
• Responsible for recording, reconciliation and allocation of production volumes.

Quality results

• Responsible for the product quality.
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Improving and sustaining product quality.

Cost/capital competitiveness

• Achieve agreed OPEX and CAPEX Budget up to a maximum of 100% current projected operations forecast.
• Compile production budget and manage it.

Projects

• Manage projects as business representative/ commissioning manager or sponsor.
• Ensure business requirements are well represented in projects.

Productivity results

• Prioritize and optimize production opportunities.
• Consistently reduce all nonvalueadding work.
• Consistently improve productivity.

SHE Performance

• 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.
• Ensure conformance to Legal statutory ISO 9000, 14000, 180000 requirements.
• Ensure that area that compiles with requirements of water use license.
• Ensure plant compiles with and maintains green drop accreditation.
• Delivering the compliance within the Safety and environment plan.
• Safety, Health, Environment and Emergency Response.
• HAZOP attendance to ensure safe design and plant changes.
• Act as Emergency Response controller in the case of Plant Emergency.

Asset Management

• Manage, revise and improvement of Asset Management standard for production.
• Establish and run the operation within agreed envelop conditions.
• Input into 5 year rolling capital plan.
• Manage products, process materials, assets, waste and pollutants.

Technology management at functional unit level

• Liaison with technology license holder.
• Identification of technical; problems/ opportunities;
• Benchmarking optional solutions and practices;
• Participating in/ leading design decisions; managing implementation;
• Shut down management;
• Management of standards; Governance (where applicable);
• Legal compliance.

Formal Education

• B.Eng. / B Sc. Eng. / B Sc. (Hons) B Sc. Tech (Eng.) Chemical or equivalent preference

Min Experience

• Minimum of 6 years proven and demonstrated experience.

Competencies

• Leadership, people management and values: Demonstrate One Sasol way behaviour ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain.
• Business Acumen:  combination of knowledge and skill informed by experience, knowledge about key business issues.
• Effective communication: The knowledge of effective and appropriate communication pattern and the ability to use and adapt that knowledge in various contexts.

Closing Date: 8th, April 2022