Mine Overseer at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

• To assist Manager with day-to-day management of the mine in area of responsibility.
•  Responsible for managing and directing the various activities within a specified section of the mine.
• To ensure specified targets are met and allocated resources are used effectively.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• N Dip: Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Competency Mine Overseer (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Blasting For Fiery Mines (Essential/Minimum)
• Trade: Miner Underground MQA/QCTO Accred (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)
• BEng Mining Engineering (Recommended/Desirable or)
• B Tech Mining (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  3-5 years Relevant exposure in a relevant Mining environment of which at least 2 years specific exposure as Production Foreman or Shift Leader is Recommended  (Essential/Minimum)Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• MHS Act Regulation 2.14.1(Mine Overseer) (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

• Compliance, Governance and Assurance  
• Conduct timeous investigations of incidents and ensure adequate remedial action implemented
• Execute and drive safety programs
• Ensure effective risk management by continuously identifying hazardous activities and mitigation measures

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management 

• Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships towards enhancing corporate profile
• Manage and maintain internal and external client relations, including interface with external providers and other functions to ensure that business needs are met, and employees are satisfied
• Provide relevant support and legislative service to applicable stakeholders

Effective People Management

• Ensure optimized teamwork through motivation/empowerment and leading by sound transformational leadership
• Promote teamwork/provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans for subordinates
• Enforce discipline within area of responsibility
• Ensure all employees are effectively trained and competent to perform required duties in a disciplined manner

Financial Support Services  

• Execute operations within section's annual budget
• Approve relevant contracts and documentation in line with departmental budgetary stipulations
• Ensure optimization in cost and production areas

Functional Excellence  

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge

Internal Business Processes  

• Ensure adherence to planned maintenance schedules
• Effectively manage equipment fleet within working environment

Process Optimisation

• Responsible for meeting mining production targets by adhering to production and maintenance schedules
• Attend to breakdowns whilst maintaining set production targets
• Ensure optimal use of available resources both people and equipment
• Assume responsibility for quality of maintenance work within functional area
• Conduct trouble-shooting in order to identify root cause for substandard operating conditions
• Complete, process and update all records and related documentation
• Manage and Quality assure contractors to comply to Service Level Agreements (SLA) as stipulated in applicable contracts

Project Management 

• Initiate continuous improvement initiatives leading to cost saving opportunities and operational excellence
• Liaise with other departments toward evaluating new technologies to improve process capabilities, product quality and throughput requirements
• Manage projects with respect to processes, technology and equipment
• Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgets
• Provide input and focus on projects and teams
• Provide regular progress updates to stakeholders

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment

Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

Closing Date: 11th, July 2022