Senior Engineer, Industrial - Centurion at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

• To deliver expert technical support in Industrial Engineering discipline to Operations, Business Improvement, Digital@Exxaro and Business Planning processes.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Translating Business and Operational issues into tools, models and simulations to enable better decision making
• Supporting multiple areas and multiple projects concurrently through expert technical Industrial Engineering services

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•   BEng Industrial Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
•   BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•   Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years Experience in Project Evaluation and Improvement, Industrial Engineering tools and techniques. Exposure to projects in heavy industry environment. Mining processes; Dynamic Simulation modelling; Operational Research; Work and Method studies, Economical evaluations, Improvement methodologies with Project management exposure (Essential/Minimum)  Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•   Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•   Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
•   Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
•   Competence: Simulation Modelling (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Best Practice and Knowledge Management  

•  Intellectual property management and protection
•  Create and manage professional networks
•  Participate in tertiary educational relationships
•  Participate in professional external forums
•  Continuously monitors exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
•  Stay abreast with advances in field of Industrial Engineering and Innovation
•  Encourage knowledge sharing and duplication of best practices between Business Unit's (BU’s) and areas

Business Performance, Operations and Continuous Improvement  

•  Technical contribution across multiple Industrial Engineering skills areas
•  Continuous scanning of technology advancements to ensure the Company has access to appropriate technology to meet business needs and continues to expand technical base
•  Implement appropriate systems to deliver quality engineering outcomes to support projects and Business Units (BU’s)
•  Support Business Improvement, Digital@Exxaro and Operational Excellence programme through expert technical Industrial Engineering services
•  Statistical analysis of production data to identify certain trends that might influence future business optimisation opportunities at an operational level

Customer and Client Relationship Management  

•  Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
•  Manage internal and external relations, including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and employees are satisfied

Optimisation Support  

•  Develop and maintain operational costing model to evaluate all production schedules financially, support Business Planning and Capital motivations
•  Support the process of evaluating alternative production schedules and equipment utilization philosophies through the use of simulations
•  Technically support the process of determining future equipment fleet size requirements
•  Technical support and development of tools and techniques to assist Operational Excellence, Data Science and Digital@Exxaro improvement processes

Process Support  

•  Support with the translation of the Functional Strategy into achievable outputs
•  Statistical analysis of production data to identify certain trends that might influence future production scheduling on a BU level
•  Support with the business performance reporting process

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

•  Adhere to all health and safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
•  Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
•  Comply with Safety Health and Environmental (SHE)/technical requirements
•  Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times

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