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Job Description:
As Drill & Blast Technician you will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Consistently apply Safety and Health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and the elimination of fatalities.
- Active participation in SLAMs, HPHs, relevant Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
Performance and Delivery
Planning and Design:
- Design drill patterns for optimal blasting outcomes.
- Scrutinize and approve blast block designs to ensure safety and compliance.
- Monitor drilling operations to verify alignment with design specifications, including traffic management compliance.
- Monitor charging operations to ensure on-bench practices are adhered to and compliance to design
- Validate seismograph data to ensure optimal recording data for investigations and 3rd party assessment
- Review timing designs of blasts and ensure end-users are upskilled in the fault-finding process on-bench
- Technical fieldwork, including reactive ground, rock response, lacing of blast holes, borehole calliper, etc.
Training and Certification:
- Train and prepare individuals for blasting certification.
- Develop action plans for candidates to achieve certification requirements.
- Assist with technical fault finding during timing and firing operations.
Continuous Improvement:
- Share knowledge on blasting practices and recommend proactive measures for compliance.
- Research and analyse novel blasting technologies for potential adoption.
- Provide technical support to ensure compliance with blasting standards.
- Enhance drill patterns and sequences for improved accuracy and efficiency.
- Optimize drilling equipment for maximum productivity and reduced downtime.
- Implement the latest drilling technologies to improve penetration rate.
- Work closely with explosives suppliers to optimise product performance and provide quality recons to ensure continuous A&I process.
Budget Management:
- Provide input on expenditure within the approved budget for effective cost control.
- Cost validation on consumables and norms, i.e. bits, rods, accessories, bulk explosives, et al.
Validation and Documentation:
- Validate drilling and charging operations to ensure adherence to design specifications.
- Support D&B Engineer with documentation and technical assistance in-field, as well as weekly D&B Reconciliation.
Software Execution and Data Accuracy:
- Execute BlastMaster for blast design, optimisation, and scheduling.
- Ensure the accuracy of data in BlastLogik for performance tracking and analysis.
- Ensure data accuracy of the HP GPS system on Drills; ensure accurate socket data.
- Misfire management.
- This role is in the Technical & Integrated Planning (T&IP) at a Band 7 level reporting to the Section Manager Drill & Blast Technical.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Higher National Certificate on NQF5 (NATED N4/N6 Certificate)
- Mining Degree (NQF7) Explosives Management (Preferred)
- Hard Rock Mining Certificate (Preferred)
- Opencast Blasting Ticket
- SA Drivers License
Experience
- Operational experience as a supervisor or Mine Overseer in Blasting or Drilling logistics.
- 3-4 years of experience in Blasting and Drilling Operations, with preference for Surface / Open Pit Mining.
- Explosives engineering/explosives handling.
- Autonomous drilling / HP GPS Drilling systems.
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Job Description:
As General Engineering Supervisor Drills & Support Equipmentyou will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safe and healthy work environment
- Ensure a safe and healthy work environment in which workers and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
- Keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
- Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Build, manage, and maintain healthy relations with stakeholders to assist in achieving sectional goals.
- Liaise with stakeholders to provide relevant and specialised technical support and input for operations and projects.
- Ensure that all relevant information is communicated to the supervisor accurately and in a timely manner.
People Management
- Lead and develop the team's performance according to company policies and systems.
- Demonstrate behaviour that aligns with the company values, standards, and a professional workplace.
- Optimise human resources to achieve maximum output for the section.
- Celebrate the team's successes.
- Drive the delivery of objectives and hold team members accountable for their work.
- Ensure the achievement of development goals per IDP and communicate all management instructions.
- Communicate daily with subordinates regarding scheduled tasks and resource availability.
- Enforce discipline and high performance of teams through relevant ER/HR procedures and interventions.
Manage HME/Plant and union relations.
- Manage time and attendance and plan for leave with the immediate team.
- Arrange necessary and compulsory training to help subordinates deliver their outputs and assist in implementing their IDPs.
- Advise and assist the team with complex tasks.
- Partner with HR to manage employee incapacity cases effectively.
Engineering & Maintenance Management
- Maintain equipment, machines, processes, and tools to ensure maximum availability and quality standards.
- Plan, implement, and manage maintenance schedules while considering production targets to ensure minimal interruption.
- Identify improvement opportunities, implement them where feasible, and maintain the new performance standards.
- Ensure that all system and administrative requirements are met.
- Hand over work orders to Artisan/Operators according to the Operating Model procedure.
- Ensure that the Operating Model procedures are followed.
- Implementing the Operating Model Daily Tasks:
- Provide a report on daily schedule progress.
- Report on outstanding risks and urgent work from previous days and performance.
- Review daily output, schedule, and task compliance.
- Communicate all management instructions to the team.
- Ensure that all outstanding safety and plant deviations have been addressed.
- Generate and sign off on any Routine Operating Schedule changes when required.
- Approve or cancel all SAP notifications within 24 hours.
- Monitor daily schedule compliance and address deviations promptly.
- Communicate daily with subordinates about scheduled tasks and resource availability.
- Ensure that completed work orders are returned to the Work Management Planner for closure or rescheduling/cancellation of operations.
- Escalate and Address Risks to the Schedule per the Operating Model procedure.
- Hold personnel accountable for following the Operating Model procedures.
- Give feedback on execution performance and provide coaching and development to personnel.
Weekly Tasks:
- Address compliance, reconciliation, and deviations in the weekly schedule.
- Sign off on work orders and return them to planners for closure.
- Hand over work orders to the supervisor using the operating model procedure.
- Review the draft weekly schedule.
- Attend the formal weekly schedule review meeting to finalise the execution schedule.
- Forward all risks and deviations to the risk owner and sign off on them.
- Monitor work order cost control in task status reports.
- Review work order planning and input.
- Ensure that the section safety strategy is attached to all work orders.
Monthly Tasks:
- Ensure Pre-Planning is completed within the Operating Model Procedure.
- Ensure all safety, health-related incidents, and outstanding actions are addressed in pre-planning.
- Ensure all services, quality, environment, and safety instructions are documented in the preplanning.
- Ensure all managerial instructions are documented in the pre-planning.
- Contractors Meeting (FLM to have a meeting with contractors working in his section),
- Support standards committee procedures and standards revision.
Review:
- Review previous KPI (Safety Inc. & Acc, output compliance, services compliance, schedule compliance).
- Review Routine Operating Schedule compliance.
- Review the month-end cost expenditure.
- Review high-risk tasks and actions.
- Review Maintenance Strategy.
- Compare monthly measured and scheduled compliance and pinpoint necessary actions to enhance the quality.
Budget Management and Cost Control
- Compile own budget and manage the section's expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
- Manage overtime within required limits and achieve savings in this regard.
- This role is in the Engineering - ENG at a Band 6 level reporting to the Section Engineer Drills & Support and Contractor Equipment.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 / N3 Technical
- National Engineering Diploma
- SA Drivers License
Experience
- 5 years of relevant operational experience in engineering maintenance.
- Technical expertise in HME/Opencast/Plant or Processing within the mining industry.
- Experience in a supervisory or managerial role overseeing engineering/plant/maintenance operations.
- Knowledge of engineering processes and best practices
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Job Description:
- Actively participating in the Asset tactics process.
- Apply change management as per agreed and documented requirements.
- CMMS - Set up selective (as per tactics) End-of Life Replacement Schedules and monitor the 'Remaining Life Status.
- CMMS - Optimize and improve maintenance mix.
- Create and change Functional location, Equipment and Maintenance Plan.
- Adherence to Systems & Procedures.
- Review the Work Order Task Status Report daily: To assist in prioritizing the planning work/ To track upcoming work.
- Plan approved work orders (within area of responsibility) for resource provisioning and execution prior to the Required Date.
- Encourage contribution of planning details from those expected to do the work.
- Incorporate workforce contributions into planning packages.
- Identify and escalate all critical issues that threaten the successful execution of work orders for completion by their Required Date.
- Plan work to minimize the demand for resources without exceeding the Required Date for work completion.
- Develop and use standard jobs to improve the efficiency of the planning process.
- Exhibit effective leadership skills and behaviours.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 with Mathematics and Science.
- Qualified trade-tested artisan (Electrician / Fitter / Boilermaker).
- Post matric engineering qualification diploma or similar.
- Code 10 Drivers license (for standby duties).
- Proficient with general computer programs and planned Maintenance software packages (i.e. SAP (PM) Planned Maintenance packages).
Specific Knowledge requirements:
- Experience in Engineering, Mining/Process/Manufacturing and/or similar Industry.
- Experience in Planned Maintenance systems will be necessary for the role.
- Experience in an artisan trade or as a maintenance planner.
- Computer literate in full MS office, and planned maintenance system (SAP PM).
- In depth knowledge of discipline specific work to be planned.
- Basic artisan training module, • Work Knowledge of client disciplines – Metallurgy, Chemistry, Engineering.
- Operating Model Work Management practices (would be an advantage).
- Asset Strategy and Reliability framework.
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Job Description:
As a Dispatcher you will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Adhere to all health and safety practices and requirements.
- Monitor equipment utilisation and maintenance process to ensure optimal availability during shift.
- Monitor and manage the in-shift activities of the mining production operations through the system to ensure optimal production performance.
- Manage the shift handover process to reduce inefficiencies associated with this process.
- Monitor the data captured by operators and the system's automatic event logging to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
- Monitor secondary(support) equipment utilisation and process to ensure optimal production support.
- Monitor, support, and manage the in-shift activities supporting mining production operations.
- Monitor loading accuracy through HPGPS systems: Provision, MineWare Guided Spotting, MineCare (Misfires and excluding zones).
- Monitor the data captured by operators and the system's automatic event logging to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
- Manage the shift handover process to reduce inefficiencies associated with this process.
- Monitor equipment maintenance process to ensure optimal availability during shift.
- Monitor and manage the in-shift maintenance activities to ensure optimal equipment availabilities(O4R).
- Manage the maintenance handover process to reduce inefficiencies associated with equipment utilisation.
- Monitor and optimise equipment fuel levels through systems. Distribution of shift reports.
- Enter the correct statuses and reason codes, i.e. machines in production, on delay and down.
- Assign drills and loading tools to the correct locations, and material grades and drill blocks are loaded up with correct design files at the beginning and throughout the shift.
- Lock Operators in and use production systems accordingly.
- Assign and define the correct priorities according to the weekly schedule.
- Lock and bar equipment in line with production priorities.
- Set the optimisation parameters (e.g. material blending, truck queueing, shovel hanging) on the relevant systems to ensure optimal production performance.
- This role is in the Mining (MIN) at a Band 7 level reporting to the MIOC Coordinator.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 Certificate / N3 Technical
- Relevant Higher National Qualification on NQF5, e.g. Computer Science/Information Technology: System Support/Mining Management
- Relevant Fleet Management System Certificate (Dispatch) will be an advantage
- Ms Office Suite Certificate
- SA Drivers Licence: Code B (Light vehicle)
Experience
- 3-5 years of Mining production experience.
- Understand equipment capabilities and limitations.
- Understands the mining lifecycle, value chain and impact of mining activities on business and operational performance.
- Understand the impact of operational stressors.
- Understanding CAD system features such as mapping, GPS tracking, and automated routing.
- Knowledge of radio protocols and procedures.
- Basic understanding of GIS software to visualise and analyse spatial data.
- Knowledge of MMS software for tracking production data, equipment performance, and personnel locations.
- Understanding FMS software for tracking vehicle location, fuel consumption, and maintenance schedules.
- Knowledge of safety management software for tracking incident reports, safety inspections, and training records.
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Job Description:
As Operator Gr2 (Processing)you will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Ensure that personal protective equipment (PPE) is used and maintained according to safety regulations.
- Follow SHE standards when performing any work and read, sign off and adhere to all appropriate work instructions and standards.
- Attend safety meetings as instructed and keep the allocated area clean and hazard-free by applying good housekeeping practices.
- Always correctly apply HIRA/Mini HIRA and report safety and health-related issues.
- Ensure that work practices do not harm others and take all necessary safety precautions when working on production equipment.
- Actively participate in safety initiatives and continuously promote good housekeeping by adhering to all safety and health standards.
- Active participation in SLAMs, HPHs, relevant Risk Assessments, and closed-out of Safety Actions.
Performance and Delivery
Cleaning the Work Area:
- Maintain good housekeeping standards by keeping the work area clean and organised.
- Use appropriate tools and materials to clean equipment thoroughly.
- Ensure that cleaning activities are performed beyond the allocated area, as required.
- Clean safety signs and equipment regularly to ensure they are visible, legible, and fit for use.
- Collect spillage material, sort it, and dump it at designated areas to prevent contamination and pollution.
- Store tools not used in designated places and keep them clean.
- Clean equipment and associated components continuously per work instructions to maintain optimal performance.
- Restore the work area to its original state by cleaning it before leaving.
Assistance:
- Assist the supervisor and co-workers.
- Assist in the absence of the responsible person.
- Assist within your level and area of competence.
- Assist in alignment with KIO policies, procedures, and guidelines.
- This role is in the Processing (PRO) at a Grade P6 level reporting to the Supervisor.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12/N3
- National Certificate Mineral Processing Level 2
- SA Drivers License
Experience
- 2 Years’ operational experience.
- Knowledge and experience of Plant processes.
- Basic knowledge of maintenance and cleaning processes and standards.
- All relevant procedures.
- Acquainted with the section’s layout.
Closing Date:
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Job Description:
As our Driverof your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Adhere to all safety, health, and environmental practices and requirements.
SHE policies and procedures:
- Escalate all unsafe practices or risks to the direct supervisor/manager.
- Support good housekeeping in the department and on-site to ensure compliance.
Performance and Delivery
Equipment and Machinery Movement
- Assist in the safe loading, moving, and shifting of equipment and components as instructed, in such a manner as to prevent any damage to assets or injury to people.
- Ensure correct lifting equipment and tools are selected when executing a task to comply with the necessary procedures, specifications, requirements, and timeframe.
Equipment Inspection
- Check that all equipment is available at the commencement of the shift and escalate when not.
- Inspect all equipment for functionality and safety before commencing with the task to prevent damage and injury and to adhere to required safety standards.
- Report equipment and component deviations to the Supervisor to ensure defects are followed up and attended to
Assistance
- Liaise with relevant personnel to arrange assistance regarding resources required (equipment and people) to ensure successful task execution.
- Assist Supervisor and co-workers according to own level/area of competence and by company policies when instructed.
Pre-Shift Inspections
- Do pre-shift inspections of vehicles, equipment, machines, machine parts, and components to check functionality and safety, prevent injuries and damage to assets, and ensure that operations occur within prescribed processes, procedures, and standards.
- Continuously observe and monitor equipment/vehicle performance against standards to identify non-conformances or deviations and escalate to the direct Supervisor to ensure defects are followed up and attended to
This role is in Various (refer to published OrgStructure) department on a band J6 level reporting to the Transport Coordinator/Planning Advisor
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- SA Drivers Licence
Technical
- Vehicle / Equipment components and functionality.
- Basic interpretations and understanding of manufacturing standards, component drawings, blueprints, and shop manuals.
- Operational experience in Maintenance.
Technical Skills
- Communication skills.
- Time Management and organising skills.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in English and any local language/s as deemed appropriate for the position.
Closing Date:
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