Section Engineer at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary    
PURPOSE:

• To manage capital projects, as well as assets within section.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Tech Electrical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Tech Mechanical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Electrical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Mechanical Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Gov Cert of Competence: Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years Relevant Maintenance and Project Management Experience (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 2.13.3.1 (AME) (Essential/Minimum)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
POSITION OUTPUTS:

The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:
Asset Management

• Ensure availability, reliability and cost optimisation of assets
• Ensure asset management alignment to business strategies
• Value adding to business asset management
• Ensure effective life cycle management of assets through application of Physical Asset Management (PAM) principles and Reliability Centred Management (RCM) principles

Compliance, Governance and Assurance  

• Establish an effective methodology of business operations, communications and control whereby statutory compliance and appropriate mitigation of risk is achieved
• Ensures compliance to sound engineering standards to quality
• Develop operating procedures to align with business objectives
• Ensure adherence to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act/Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA)/South African National Standards (SANS) and compliance with company specific Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures
• Manage risk and monitor standards
• Create awareness and assume responsibility for SHE practices

Effective People Management    

• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
• Oversee activities of reporting staff and strive toward achieving operational targets
• Perform fair and reasonable tasks related to job and working environment, at discretion of Manager

Financial Management    

• Prepare and control section's annual budget by forecasting operational costs and monitor expenditure and cash flow on a regular basis
• Focus on advancements in specialist field in order to assess advancements and potential cost reduction

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.

Project Management  

• Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements
• Manage capital projects with regard to processes, technology and equipment

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable 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: 29th, March 2022