Superintendent Section Conveyors at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To supervise the engineering maintenance processes within the appointed area of responsibility to enable various mining teams to reach production targets within the principles of QCDSM.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage and carry out engineering and maintenance strategies and overhaul plans on a day to day basis that ensure that departments KPI's are met deliver maintenance, if and when to replace / repair equipment.
• Manage maintenance cost vs R/t in appointed area Maintenance budget.
• Ensure availability of equipment by effectively managing downtime / shift / MTTF / MTTR (infrastructure and inspection equipment).
• Ensure adherence to maintenance programme.
• Implements operational projects, ensures engineering compliance, develops and implements engineering Standard Operating Procedures (SOP in appointed area of responsibility.
• Ensures adherence to Engineering principles and legislation.
• Compliance to engineering governance bodies (standardisation committees) SOP / COP implementation and adherence.
• Assess economics / engineering viability of no major engineering business cases and provides specific, inspection expertise and coaching.
• Manage delivery against OE initiatives.
• Carry out condition monitoring programs in appointed area of responsibility. Compliance to Condition monitoring program schedules.
• Conduct failure trend analysis and root cause elimination.
• Execution of Predictive Maintenance recommendations (backlog).
• Support departments to achieve set targets by coordinating planning within appointed area of responsibility.
• Control costs to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget.
• Ensure best in class safety performance and continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain required RCR.
• Ensure SHE compliance rates vs. targets (especially major findings, % outstanding actions on findings) Zero harm, Zero fatalities, LWDCR.
• Ensure the effective recruitment, training, coaching and career development.
• Manage vacancy rates against staff establishment (vacancies incl. Absence due to TSD / PSD, AWOP, Successors for critical positions).
• Manage team bearing in mind key role turnover rate vs. industry average, absenteeism, employee engagement and enablement score (%, Tons/man/year, Monthly bonus targets) training days for department.
• Planned Task observations.

Formal Education

• BTech University Bachelors Degree (South Africa)
• Higher/Advanced Diploma (South Africa)

Certificate

• Electro Mechanic Trade Test 

Working Experience

• Experience: 2+ relevant years