Section Manager Work Management – Sishen at Anglo American

Job Description:

As a Section Manager Work Management – Sishen you will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Prioritise safety and health in all team interactions, act as a role model, and ensure zero harm and fatalities.
• Collect and use scheduling information from strategy development and implementation details to develop a schedule per the OM Scheduling process.
• Compile a detailed list of production steps with input from discipline planners.
• Specific key actions, triggers, and interdependencies.
• Identify synergies between production steps.
• Review the schedule with the Integrated Planning & Operating Model Manager.
• Consolidate discipline work inputs to the Operating Master Schedule.
• Set up scheduling model elements (e.g., date, duration, trigger).
• Identify high and low-impact activities for scheduling.
• Load work packages into the schedule.
• Track, adjust and update the schedule for actual performance.
• Specify schedule activity frequency distribution and outline threats/ opportunities.
• Model schedule output distributions and calculate confidence in achieving expectations.
• Review and validate the Operating Master Schedule.
• Develop Routine Operating Schedule.
• Co-lead the engagement and contribute toward the programming activities with site leadership in establishing a platform and process for the optimum integration of the OM at the Mine (direct output, advisory authority).
• Plan, schedule, resource, and support the management team in delivering the projects to the required specifications (direct output, advisory authority).
• Manage the integration, scheduling, prioritisation and reporting of Work Management activities, ensuring alignment with the overall Mine Master Schedule and escalating any conflicts as appropriate (direct output, advisory authority).
• Support and co-facilitate identifying and analysing opportunities to enable step changes in value by continuously applying OM principles (direct output, advisory authority).
• Liaise effectively with key business contacts and technical and OM teams and build strong working relationships (direct output, advisory authority).
• Facilitate the transfer of responsibility to operational management and support the programme as directed (direct output, advisory authority).
• Assess the continuous effectiveness of Work Management, recommend improvements, and implement them for future interventions to deliver the strategic intent (direct output, advisory authority).
• Ensure that the required measures are in place, monitor the Work Management and Process KPIs, and intervene and guide each process toward sustainability (direct output, advisory authority).
• Adopt appropriate Measures to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the Scheduling process as defined in OM Work Management Measures.
• Intervene to improve scheduling measures that are not stable or capable.
• Maintain and document the required managerial routines in support of the Work Management requirements.

This role is in the Technical & Integrated Planning (T&IP) NC discipline at a Band 6.12 level (D4/D5Grade) reporting to the Manager, Technical & Integrated Planning.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ N3 Technical
• B Degree in Industrial Engineering/ Mining/ Mechanical/ Electrical/ Chemical/ Metallurgical/ Geology or equivalent NQF7
• Valid SA Drivers Licence

Experience

• 6-8 years of operational experience in the mining, process, engineering, or fabrication fields within the mining environment, with 2 years of relevant business improvement experience.
• Understanding of project management principles.
• Familiarity with key value drivers within the discipline's value chain and interdependence of critical levers.
• In-depth knowledge as a Subject Matter Expert on Work Management.
• Awareness of new technologies and their impact on operational activities within the scope of the role.
• Understanding of business acumen and commercial drivers of site performance.
• Familiarity with basic financial metrics and budgeting tools.
• Knowledge of risk management techniques and critical controls.
• Familiarity with leadership tools for implementing a culture of purpose-led high-performance and change.
• Awareness of safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, and regulatory requirements.

Closing Date:

• 21 May, 2026