Manager: Electronic Initiation System (Gauteng - Rosebank) at Enaex Africa

Description

• Ensure Enaex uses the best EIS systems through continuous system improvement and product expertise.
• Optimise the application of EIS systems by applying knowledge of Davey Bickford products (e.g., DTSP, DT5, Swift), ensuring safe and efficient product usage, providing training to application teams, customers, and end users.
• Overseeing product certification
• Applying industry best practices
• Generate and implement product improvement strategies based on operational insights.
• Provide technical support to the EIS manufacturing and assembly plant and resolve production issues.
• Ensure product compliance with quality management systems and certification standards.
• Collaborate with product development teams to influence design improvements and innovations.
• Manage EIS inventory and product changeovers to support supply chain continuity.
• Apply blast engineering principles to enhance field performance and optimise EIS effectiveness.
• Contribute to organisational strategy by understanding key strategic drivers and providing informed input during the annual strategy development process.
• Develop the departmental strategy by aligning with the broader business strategy, formulating a focused departmental plan, and presenting it for approval.
• Develop the departmental operations plan by aligning with corporate strategy, defining all key projects and performance indicators, and submitting approval annually or as needed.
• Report on departmental performance by monitoring progress against targets, highlighting achievements and concerns, and preparing quarterly (or ad hoc) reports for submission.
• Oversee business process development and implementation by leading process mapping, evaluating efficiency and relevance, ensuring compliance, detecting anomalies, and applying corrective actions as needed.
• Develop departmental policies and procedures by integrating best practices, regulatory standards, and compliance requirements, and submitting drafts for approval when necessary.
• Develop departmental budgets by analysing operational needs, drafting financial plans, and submitting for approval annually or as required.
• Assess the financial impact of decisions by understanding how operational choices affect the company’s financial statements.
• To manage security and disaster recovery of departmental information by reviewing measures in place, identifying risks and implementing mitigating measures as required.
• Manage SHE implementation by ensuring comprehensive training programs are delivered, completed by all relevant employees, and any training gaps or noncompliance are promptly addressed.
• Manage stakeholder relationships by engaging internal and external stakeholders, offering input and feedback, and fostering collaboration as needed.
• Recruit employees in line with the EE targets by conducting interviews, evaluating candidate performance, and providing timely feedback as needed.
• Contribute to the sustainability strategy of the department
• Ensure that the operations are aligned with sustainability principles, minimising environmental impact.

Requirements

• MHSA, Explosives Act, OHS Act
• Knowledge of the certification process of new technology and products.
• Microsoft Office
• Domestic travel required to customer sites; OEM sites and supplier sites
• Matric / Grade 12 or equivalent
• BSc / BEng in Industrial, Mining or Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Technical or professional experience 10+ years explosives / mining experience