Assistant Manager, Engineering at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary    
PURPOSE:To direct and co-ordinate operational aspects through project life cycles to ensure optimum performance according to Life of Mine, business requirements, organisational objectives and sound engineering practice.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Ensuring operational readiness related to projects.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Tech Mechanical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Tech Electrical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Electrical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Mechanical Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Gov Cert of Competence: Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 8 years Relevant plant, production, operational and maintenance experience; with Project Management, Design and development experience (Essential/Minimum) 

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• MHS Act Regulation 2.13.3.1 (AME) (Essential/Minimum)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:
Asset Management  

• Ensure availability, reliability and cost optimisation of assets
• Ensure asset management alignment to business strategies
• Value adding to business asset management
• Ensure effective life cycle management of assets through application of Physical Asset Management (PAM) principles and Reliability Centred Management (RCM) principles

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

• Establish an effective methodology of business operations, communications and control whereby statutory compliance and appropriate mitigation of risk is achieved
• Ensures compliance to sound engineering standards to quality
• Develop operating procedures to align with business objectives
• Ensure adherence to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA), South African National Standards (SANS) and compliance with company specific Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures
• Manage risk and monitor standards
• Create awareness and assume responsibility for SHE practices

Continuous Improvement  

• Initiate continuous improvement initiatives leading to cost optimisation opportunities whilst keeping abreast of new developments within specialist field
• Implement Theory of Constraints (TOC) principles to optimise process capability and asset management
• Liaise with other departments toward evaluating new technologies to improve process capabilities, product quality and throughput requirements
• Conduct research work in order to initiate process changes

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

• Represent operations, maintenance and service departments in projects
• Provide expert technical and operational support to project teams and operational teams

Effective People Management  

• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
• Oversee activities of reporting staff and strive toward achieving operational targets
• Perform fair and reasonable tasks related to job and working environment, at discretion of Manager

Financial Management    

• Prepare and control section's annual budget by forecasting operational costs and monitor expenditure and cash flow on a regular basis
• Focus on advancements in specialist field in order to assess advancements and potential cost reduction

Functional Excellence    

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge

Operational Support  

• Coordinate commissioning, quality assurance processes as well as performance criteria testing
• Conduct complex analysis of project systems and processes
• Provide technical inputs to the project team
• Provide inputs in designs, technical reviews, Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOPS) and other project related reviews
• Ensure design for operability, maintainability and efficiency

Project Management  

• Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements
• Manage capital projects with regard to processes, technology and equipment

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable SHE policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment  

Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective