Senior Engineer Manufacturing - Secunda at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To manage activities of a Technical Services team, ensuring effective delivery of service to all levels of internal and external customers. To handle customer complaints and escalations. To maintain a positive and productive service environment which drives a customer-focused culture.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to the translation and execution of the business strategy, objectives, and plan for the business, and provide insights and recommendations to drive improvement plans. 
• Formulate, implement, and continuously improve an affective in-house draughting service strategy to enable the reduction of unit cost; optimise the use of external parties when the manpower is not available in-house. 
• Execute SHE strategy to achieve zero harm and apply continuous improvement of key safety metrics. 
• Compile annual budget, control cost in line with agreed deliverables, authorise payments to service providers, identify any deviations, and take corrective actions when needed. 
• Prepare and submit timely and accurate periodic and / or on-demand reports related to engineering information enablement. 
• Manage and maintain the provision of a centralised electrical, instrumentation, and civil information service to the hub, to enable maintenance and engineering teams to create, maintain, and modify the plant in support to operational entities. 
• Manage the engineering information process and monitor the proper utilisation of relevant technologies. 
• Enforce compliance with governance, quality control, and best practices, and take corrective measures in case of any deviations. 
• Participate in the development of engineering specifications, which are used as a standard within the engineering data base. 
• Align operations functional and technical requirements, system integration and impact assessments, and service level agreements with standards and operational hub requirements. 
• Supervise the effective migration of documentation available in legacy systems into the enhanced database technologies. 
• Maintain an effective drawing and equipment numbering system used by ECs during the design phase of a project. 
• Instil engineering information specific standards, best practices, and governance requirements, and enforce adherence by applying non-conformance processes across all projects. 
• Conduct industry benchmarking to identify improvement opportunities, engineering information related trends, best practices, and new technologies, and implement them to optimise operations. 
• Manage operations risks by ascertaining that all risks are identified, analysed, and mitigated to acceptable levels. 
• Oversee the proper utilisation and maintenance of engineering information management applicable software toolsets (i.e. SPI, SPEL, GIS, TEKLA, and SAP). 
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices, in alignment with set standards, to ensure safe operations. 
• Implement Sasol's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework. 
• Build and maintain positive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Sasol Group technology, Synfuels projects portfolio, operational hubs, in-house projects, engineering service providers, and IT service provides) to align on the delivery of effective and efficient engineering information in line with governance standards. 
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals. 
• Manage team performance and development formally and informally based on standard practices in use across Sasol Group. 
• Identify and activate learning as required based on individual and collective needs. Liaise with HR and/or specialised vendor for bespoke deployment. 
• Nurture a team spirit and openness towards feedback, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation.

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree

Min Experience
Experience:

• 10+ relevant years
• Professional Membership

Certifications

• C_Government Certificate of Competence (GCC)