Senior Commodity Engineer at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary    
PURPOSE:  

• To provide technical support with regards to development and execution of commodity strategy and formulate and execute portfolio specific commodity strategies aimed at reducing total cost of ownership of commodities, products and services.  Engage and support business unit technical management in respect of initiatives driving throughput and plant or equipment reliability.  Act as supply chain management technical expert representative to business unit.
• MAJOR CHALLENGES:  Providing commodity management service to multiple business unit.  Improve in terms of cost-effectiveness, innovation and productivity.  Challenge end-users on specifications and application issues and facilitate improvement projects (money teams) with cross- functional resources.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•  B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•  Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE:

• 6-8 years Relevant supply chain or engineering related experience in mining processes and mining equipment with a minimum of 3 years project portfolio management experience
• Importance: Essential/Minimum
• Involvement: Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

•  Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•  Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•  Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

• Best Practice and Knowledge Management
•  Identify and facilitate improvement initiatives leading to cost saving opportunities whilst keeping abreast of new developments within commodity portfolio
•  Liaise with other departments toward evaluating new technologies to improve process capabilities, product quality and throughput requirements
•  Review effectiveness of strategies and identify improvement opportunities

Commodity Management

•  Provide technical inputs to end users and commercial team members to ensure fit for purpose contracts
•  Assist with resolving technical contractual matters and ensure contracts support Commodity strategy
•  Conduct Negotiate and manage commodity portfolio specific agreements for designated commodities
•  Conduct supplier analysis
•  Execute Portfolio Target Setting
•  Review commodity and lifecycle trends
•  Identify Potential Technical Opportunities for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction and throughput improvement

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

•  Assist in the implementation of portfolio targets in alignment with legislation and charters (e.g. Mining Charter, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), etc)
•  Ensure suppliers comply with relevant Group policies

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

•  Implement SRM initiatives with key suppliers
•  Conduct technical assessments of supplier abilities
•  Provide strategic input into managing key commodity contracts
•  Act as an interface between suppliers and end-users
•  Manage internal and external relations incl. interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure business needs are met
•  Obtain sign-off for commodity strategies within area of responsibility
•  Provide relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders

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
•  Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Functional Management

•  Financial management: Assist in managing and reducing costs of the sub functions
•  Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead functional improvement and change. Create culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function
•  Engagement/communication: Engage with managers, operations and cross- functionally with peers
•  Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

Internal Business Processes

•  Establish, facilitate and lead cross functional money teams to focus on value creation initiatives and to identify and implement improvement initiatives aimed at overall sustainable TCO reduction
•  Ensure reliable market intelligence to identify and develop supply strategies and budget inputs to ensure secured supply of critical/ strategic commodities within portfolio
•  Comply with preferential procurement targets
•  Develop and implement measures and actions to ensure sustainability of supplier performance
•  Provide support to Commercial and Contract Specialist teams for on time completion and sign-off of technical scope of work

People Management

•  Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures
•  Culture/functional climate: Uphold the culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies/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

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.