Manager Planning (Impum) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• To provide guidance and manage the planning functions of the colliery while playing an integral part in optimisingand maintaining the operational and functional business plans supporting Sasol mining long term strategy toensure the medium- and short-term targets are met for the business unit.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Ensure alignment to Budget plan
• Ensure alignment with capacity assurance targets
• Manage and report on medium- and short-term complaince to plan reporting
• Manage root cause of deviations to plan as determined by strategic planning
• Be an integral part of monthly planning meetings with collieries, focusing on 12 weekly compliance to plan,horizontal coverage, spatial compliance, flexibility, and stonework and panel handover.
• Deliver optimised section deployment schedules, including key enabling activities such as belt extensionsand section moves
• Manage colliery expectation, buy-in and sign-off process for all planning and tonnage monthly
• Facilitate annual hand over of geological models
• Ensure integration and alignment with long term planning strategies
• Maintain process to align inputs and assumptions to demontrated performence and improvement targets.
• Facilitate generation of optimised & integrated operation plans (<5 year) for collieries
• Ensure integration of assest, infrastructure, stonework and back area support requirements
• Ensure integration, alignment and compliance to all survey, rock engineering, ventilation and environmentalrequirements.
• Manage colliery expectation, buy-in and sign-off process for all deployment, shift systems, productivity andannual tonnage prior to costing component of budget.
• Co-ordinate the financial moddeling process.
• Ensure that all reserves are managed according to the Coal Asset Management Process and assetmanagement model in order to utilise reserves optimally
• Co-ordinate integrated risk management activities at the business unit to ensure that the process is correctlyand consistently applied.
• Manage collieries water model
• Overall accountability for strategy to strive towards best in class safety performance and continuousimprovement of key safety metrics to maintain license to operate

Formal Education

• BSc/ B. Eng./ B. Tech (mining/survey/geology) or Certificate of competency (mining or survey) NQF 7

Min Experience

• 8+ years relevant mining environment experience of which 3 years is coal mining related.
• Knowledgeable in mine ventilation (SHE), rock engineering, surveying, geology, mining rights, financial, miningequipment and mining methodology.
• Competent in techno-economic evaluations.

Competencies
Collaboration:

• The action of working with someone to produce something

Compliance:

• Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines andinstructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.

Customer Focus:

• A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating theirneeds, 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 decisionssimultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.

Integration:

• The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked orcoordinated.

Problem Solving:

• Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a seriesof solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.

Project Management:

• The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish awell defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.

Reporting:

• The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reportsaccording to requirements.

Situational Leadership:

• The ability to effectively deal with a variety of situations and circumstances that ariseunexpectedly and requiring management action.