Operations Foreman (Sishen) at Omnia (Pty) LTD

Overview    

• An Operations Foreman Position is available at our Sishen/Kathu operations.  
• A suitable candidate must have a Blasting Ticket with DMR or MQA but issued before April 2017.  
• He/she must also have more than 3 years experience as a Blaster with people management experience, Knowledge and Experience on MS Office Package especially Word, Excel and Powerpoint.  
• Code 10 or 14 Drivers License with PDP will be an added advantage.  
• The purpose of the position is to plan and organise resources in line with all the statutory, legal and BME SHERQ requirements. 
• To supervise the performance of employees, manage stocks, manage costs, and manage quality of products and of service delivery.

Qualifications    

• Grade 12 (with Mathematics).
• Blasting Ticket (DMR or MQA issued before April 2017)
• Certificate in Blasting Technology.
• Ms Office (Word, Excel, E-mail).

Experience    

• 5 years as Truck Operator or Blaster (including surface mining, blasting, blast reports, seismograph).
• Previous experience in supervising employees.
• Previous responsibility for managing costs.

Duties    

• Plan and organise operational service delivery:
• Works closely with internal and external customers in order to assess needs and plan operations accordingly.
• Plans and organises the availability of resources, in order to meet customer’s requests.
• Manages silos with regard to safe storage, record keeping and stock.
• Ensures that the assets of the company are protected from theft and damage.
• Responsible for the operation of seismographs.
• Organises, schedules and coordinates loading of vehicles in order to facilitate the smooth, timeous flow of deliveries to sites.
• Administers product stocks and continuous stock availability by ensuring that paper work such as loading sheets are up to date and reconciled.
• Ensures that all administration, documents, storage of information are kept according to BME standards.

Administering and controlling costs:

• Provides inputs into the annual budgeting process in line with the objectives of the department.
• Contributes to financial control and raw material stock report.
• Identifies cost saving initiatives while balancing customer requirements.

SHERQ requirements:

• Ensure requirements are met and adhered to on site.
• Ensures that the staff working at the sites meets all the statutory, legal and BME SHERQ requirements.
• Performs investigations and conducts checks on sites to ensure that risks are identified and necessary risk management is conducted to eliminate or minimise threats to SHERQ.
• Ensures that all BME standard documentation is up to date.
• Prepares for prescribed audits and ensures that the recommendations are acted upon.
• Ensures that the necessary incident investigations take place.
• Ensures that required staff training is up to date.
• Ensures that the impact of production processes on environment are understood by staff and appropriately monitored.

Staff supervision:

• Ensures that suitable employees are recruited.
• Plans daily/ weekly/ monthly scheduling of work/shift allocations.
• Ensures induction for new staff members.
• Ensures that all staff are given the required training in accordance with work requirements.
• Provides coaching and training of staff.
• Ensures appropriate procedures and mechanisms are in place to resolve IR issues.

Quality management:

• Cultivates a quality management culture in department.
• Cultivates a strong customer service orientation.
• Ensures that samples of products are taken at appropriate times.
• Ensures that necessary log sheets and updates of product quality are recorded and suitably administered.
• Rectifies problems relating to out of spec results, in order to ensure that relationships with customers are not damaged.
• Identifies causes for deviations to minimises occurrence of future problems.

Housekeeping:

• Sets standards for housekeeping in all work areas.
• Ensures that regular inspections are conducted to monitor the adherence to such standards.

Maintenance of equipment and vehicles:

• Ensures that systems, processes and procedures are in place and managed to ensure timely maintenance is performed on equipment and vehicles.
• Plans, coordinates and schedules maintenance.
• Ensures that regular inspections are conducted on equipment and vehicles.
• Ensures that Calibration of Trucks takes place at scheduled times and that the relevant documentation are being recorded and archived.
• Implements controls and does inspections to assess correct usage of PPE or equipment and to take the necessary actions.
• Implements controls to ensure that maintenance and repair work has been satisfactorily conducted.

Job Competencies    

• Planning and organising skills.
• Persuading and influencing.
• Deciding and Initiating Action.
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations.
• Leading and supervising.
• Relating and networking.
• Problem solving.
• Customer focus.
• Quality management.
• Safety conscious.
• People management skills.
• Numerical skills.

Closing Date    
2023/06/05