Production Foreman x2 (110822) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• To ensure that agreed, on-specification, production volumes are achieved, efficiently and safely.
• To ensure that production contributes to the increase of the business growth.
• To lead and manage a production shift, ensuring supply of products through the acquisition and effective innovative usage of resources.
• Continuously ensure adherence to all quality, safety and legal requirements. Continiously optimise processes to ensure maiximum output.
• Ensure sustainable plant performances.
• Ensure equipment are operated within the OWAP principles.
• Align day to day shutdown and equipment outage with the value chain.

Recruitment Description / 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 /opportunity
• 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 and for people and plant
• Ensure production planning is scheduled optimally to maximise production output
• Take action on first occurrence performance problems, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases
• Performance management Manage performance of own team
• Ensure sensitisation to diversity in the workplace
• Team skill level, succession and career progression 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 Process Safety Management
• Manage certain start-up and shutdown tasks
• Participate (or conduct on own team) in potential deviation analysis, root cause analysis and risk assessments
• Manage execution of work permit system
• Conduct Task Risk Assessments and ensure that team conducts Task Risk Assessments
• Ensure compliance to relevant Sasol procedure, policies, legislation and business processes
• Manages behaviour based safety program
• Ensure adherence to SHERQ legal standards 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
• Ensure resources are available on site
• Understands customer requirement and ensures product/service meets customer requirements
• Management of stakeholder relationships and contracts
• Ensure smooth transition of work from own shift to next shift
• Liaison with service and support functions
• Effective interaction with supporting activities
• Identifies and supports inter-dependencies with own and other departments within the value chain
• Give input into how to improve overall Equipment Effectiveness 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
• Ensure implementation of; organisational change initiatives within own team

Formal Education and Min Experience

• Grade 12 with Maths, Science, English and NQF 4 Occupational Trade Qualification Minimum of 5 years’ experience in relevant field as a Process Artisan.
• Grade 12 with Maths, Science, English and NQF 4 academic qualification Minimum of 7 years’ experience in relevant field as a Process Controller.

Closing Date: 19th, July 2022