Production Manager at Exxaro Resources

Purpose

• To ensure production targets are safely achieved.
• To ensure effective implementation and maintenance of a compliant, safe and productive working environment whilst working within budget constraints and legislation.

 

Major challenges

• Ensuring effective teamwork within production environment.
• Managing production and maintaining safety outputs within a strict legislative and highly regulated environment.
• To ensure and maintain competency of subordinates.

 

Qualifications

BEng Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum)

Certificate Blasting For Fiery Mines (Essential/Minimum)

 Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

Mine Managers Certificate of Competence (Recommended/Desirable)

 

Experience:

• 8 years Relevant experience in mining environment, operations or related with 2 years recommended related experience in Project Management (specifically planning and coordination)
• Importance : Essential/Minimum
• Involvement : Operational

 

Requirements:

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• MHS Act Regulation 2.6.1 (Essential/Minimum)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable)
• SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Recommended/Desirable)Duties & ResponsibilitiesBusiness Performance and Development
• Execute the Business Unit (BU) business plan towards the overall success of the Company
• Optimal utilization of mining and mineral resources

 

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 and Client Relationship Management

• Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships towards enhancing corporate profile
• Manage internal/external relations, including interface with external providers/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 team work through motivation/empowerment and leading through sound transformational leadership
• Promote teamwork/provide support and manage performance by creating/maintaining individual development plans for subordinates
• Enforce discipline within relevant area of responsibility
• Ensure all employees are effectively trained and competent to perform required duties in a disciplined manner

 

Financial Management

• Execute operations within sections 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/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge

 

Process Optimisation

• To reach set production targets
• Adhere to planned maintenance schedules
• Ensure optimal use of available resources, people and equipment

 

Project Management

• Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements
• Create and sustain a high-performance culture by implementing high performance culture strategy

 

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
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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

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.

If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.