Condition Monitoring Superintendent at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• The purpose of this role is to lead and manage all activities within the Condition monitoring team to maintain and execute a Predictive and Proactive maintenance program in line with the Engineering strategy for the Mine or Plant to determine the health status of machinery/equipment and to identify deviations and implement corrective actions.
• Provide technical expertise and competency supporting the Engineering strategy to ensure best practices, continuous improvement, integrity, reliability of Machinery equipment at the lowest life cycle cost.

Key Accountabilities

• Establish a Predictive Maintenance Program to assess machinery/equipment's condition and identify deviations. Consolidate programmes of the various sites and ensure compliance.
• Manage all the applicable Sasol Mining Condition Monitoring technique programmes (Vibration Analysis, Oil Analysis, Thermography, Ultrasound), across the complex in terms of adherence and standards setting. Instrumental in driving the Total Fluid Management (TFM) process.
• Manage condition monitoring projects to ensure effectiveness of the Condition monitoring department. Positively influence the Condition Monitoring Workgroup and drive Standardisation committee engagement sessions to ensure standardisation across the complex in terms of processes, techniques applied, instruments utilised, database set-ups and reporting.
• Involvement in the sub-assembly management process. Assist relevant role-players with root cause failure information and analysis to determine failure modes and t prevent future failures.
• Manage Condition Monitoring Specialists and Operators. Facilitate training on all Condition Monitoring techniques for maintenance personnel. Manage the standardisation of a data-based setup and equipment standards by ensuring a uniform quality control system.
• Engage with Engineering personnel to discuss deviations and ensure implementation of corrective actions and best practices, involvement in the Defect elimination process. Ensure proper governance, compliance and risk management through defined discipline specific standards and best practices.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with Engineers to enable full visibility on improvement opportunities. Coach and guide Engineers, setting competence criteria for Condition Monitoring, aligned with Central governance.
• Implement solutions based on cost effective principles.
• Ensure safe working practices to prevent injury or incidents by following SOP's. Apply evidence based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations.
• Enable continuous improvement and knowledge transfer through strategically influencing direction and keeping up to date with technical developments in area. Assess technical work of peers and consultants, conduct frequent audits, and ensure loop closure on deviations. Use expert knowledge, attention to detail and team dynamics to solve complex technical problems.
• Establish a network of internal and external experts to engage, discuss to provide input and make decisions pertaining to the Condition Monitoring strategies. Provide consultation to individuals and project teams on matters in his/her area of expertise and sharing expert knowledge in own team and at all other levels.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and contracts by building effective working relationships with Managers, Peers, Team members, Customers and Suppliers.

Formal Education

• National Diploma / B-Tech degree / Bachelor’s degree

Or

• National Senior Certificate / N3 with Mathematics, Science and English;
• Qualified Artisan Trade Test (Electronic Mechanic)

Minimum Experience

• 2 + years’ experience in Underground Coal environment

Other Experience

• Technical knowledge on Hydraulic, Electrical and Mechanical equipment
• Sound knowledge of Maintenance principles, Defect Elimination (DE) and the Work Management Process (WMP)

Certification & Professional Membership               

• Vibration Analysis certificate
• Oil Analysis certificate
• Thermography / Ultrasound / Motor Circuit Analysis – MCA certification (Wish)

Competencies

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money.  Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.  Maintains a market-focused approach to business.  Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions.  The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• 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.
• 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. Trouble shoot, analyse alternatives, and recommend Solutions.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.
• Effective communication: Development verbal and written communication skills to enable effective management and internal control business interaction.
• Sharing information: Actively seeks information and shares to coordinate and integrate action, knowledge, and requirements of planning to improve performance in own function standards and practices.
• Time management: Plans and coordinate own daily work schedule and accurate reporting. 
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well-defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• 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.

Deadline:31st July,2025