Instruments & Controls Foreman at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Accountable for first line leadership and management of team members to enable the work of self and team members and building their expertise and skills, and deliver frontline team results such as Safety, Production, Maintenance, Quality, Cost and Motivation.

Key Accountabilities

• Planning, control and management of operations/maintenance activity
• Ensure effective execution of operations/maintenance activities
• Ensure maximum task quality and efficiency, and overall effective use of equipment
• Manage and control costs (where allocated budget responsibility is assigned)
• During emergency situations, evaluate the abnormalities and take corrective action as to avoid downtime, equipment damage and/or SHERQ incidents
• Ensure own team adhere to operational/maintenance procedures for people and plant
• Ensure maintenance planning is scheduled optimally to maximise production output
• Take action on first occurrence performance problems, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases
• Manage performance of own team
• Ensure sensitisation to diversity in the workplace
• Get results through empowering others to act
• Enable artisans to achieve competence for career progression
• Coaching and technical training of own staff
• Accountable for practical "declaration of competence" of employees to operate the plant
• Ensures team motivation and team wellness
• Lives company values and ensures compliance of team to the values
• Facilitate effective Communication up and down from management and also within own and other stakeholder teams
• Participate in selection of staff (for own team) by being an active member on recruitment panels
• Ensure standard operating procedures are applied
• Ensure compliance to PSM (Process Safety Management)
• Manage certain start-up and shutdown tasks
• Participate (or conduct on own team) in potential deviation analysis (PDA), root cause analysis (RCA) and risk assessments
• Manage execution to work permit system standards and safe work procedures
• Conduct Task Risk Assessments and ensure that team conducts Task Risk
• Assessments (where applicable)
• Ensure compliance to relevant Sasol/Natref procedure, policies, legislation and business processes
• Manages behaviour based safety program
• Ensure adherence to SHERQ legal standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001)and implement SHERQ processes for own area of responsibility
• Ensure that MOC process is followed, and that modified plant/maintenance procedures are implemented by artisans
• Writing and reporting
• Understands customer requirement and ensures product/service meets customer requirements
• Ensure resources (e.g. raw materials, people) are available on site
• Ensure smooth transition of work from own shift to next shift
• Effective interaction with supporting activities e.g. P&SM, technical, engineering
• Identifies and supports inter-dependencies (synergies) with own and other departments within the value chain
• Give input into how to improve overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for the plant
• Continuously applies new ideas/work methods to improve results
• Deals with human resistance to change in own area
• Provide information/assist with projects with technical/support functions
• Avail staff for training and development required due to the change initiative

Formal Education

• Grade 12 with Maths, Science, English AND NQF 4 Occupational Trade Qualification;
• OR NQF 4Qualification -  (with the NQF 4 Occupational Trade Qualification)

Working Experience

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience as an Instruments & Control artisan and identified and measured Leadership competency.