Industrial Engineer II at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

This role provides Industrial Engineering to the Regional Operations & Asset Services (RO&AS) environment, in order to enable the RO&AS business targets and strategy.

• Deliver services and intelligence in line with industrial engineering, in the assigned operations hub.
• Enable the Sasol Operations Standards framework by continues improvement and evaluating the strategic asset lifecycle value optimization for all assets impacted by the company’s long-term strategy.
• Actively identifying opportunities via system analysis and develop and implement lean, practical and focused business solutions.

The application of Industrial Engineering to enable continuous improvement is high on the agenda.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Supporting and enabling the RO&AS strategy by applying industrial engineering skills, techniques and knowledge to leverage company resources to rationalize, optimize and improve both production and nonproduction processes
• Investigate and identify improvement opportunities, design practical solutions and sustainably implementation
• Delivery of intelligence and services in line with industrial engineering
• Establish, and assure a standardised approach to strategic asset lifecycle
• Provide inputs into improvement plans
• Manage multilevel interfaces and integrate effectively
• Interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Assure operating performance and drive improvements within RO&AS.
• Work within the set standards of Business Enablement to assure quality is delivered.
• Provide practical implementation solutions.
• Support the establishment and assure an integrated improvement system (IIS), containing both enabling and operational practices and required performance standards in the operations hub.
• Delivering and informing (including optimization on operations improvement opportunities as per agreed targets & schedules.)
• Identify improvement opportunities in ROAS 
• Investigate opportunities, design practical solutions and sustainably implement
• Guide / direct the ROAS business to identifying improvement opportunities via system analysis and developing and implementing lean, practical and focused business solutions
• Evaluation of analysis to direct business to ensure optimal and lean solutions that are sustainable in the business
• Build effective working relationships with operations management
• Guide & direct operations hub in the rollout of sustained application and  improvement solutions developed
• Position integrated improvement system as driver of the operations improvement agenda in the operations hub.
• Participate in the development of the team's standard methodologies
• To apply operations excellence and asset management principles & practices, execute business improvement plans via industrial engineering support
• Support to coach Engineers in Training (EITs) pipeline through bursaries and GDP 
• Share and transfer knowledge and experience with colleagues.
• Complete training activities according to training matrix and PDP.
• Support candidate IE’s and vacation work students for development.
• Responsible for own safety through compliance 
• Execute SHE strategy to achieve zero harm.
• Notify management of SHE risks identified.
• Zero injuries.
• Represent the interests and requirements of ROAS through continuous improvements.
• Participate in communities of practice in the Operations Hub relating to operations standards, practices performance measurement, improvement and energy efficiency
• Provide system and process intelligence to the hub’s operations to drive continuous improvement and operational optimization.
• Demonstrate Continuous improvement of implemented opportunities.

Formal Education

• B.Eng. Industrial (Must)
• Six Sigma certification (wish)
• PrEng (Wish)

Min Experience

• Typically 5 years relevant experience in IE projects environment
• Sasol RO&AS Services knowledge will be to your advantage

Certification & Professional Membership

• ECSA Registered Professional Engineer (wish)

Closing Date: 23rd, May 2022