Available Job Openings at Tronox

Position Overview

To ensure machines and equipment in designated area are maintained toward meeting targets. Accountable for Supervision of the execution on electrical, mechanical maintenance work and statutory compliance. Accountable for Supervision of the execution on civil and facilities maintenance work and statutory compliance. To ensure compliance to the MHSA and regulations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead in developing maintenance budgets, monitoring/controlling maintenance costs to find opportunities for improvement
• Develop maintenance procedures, methods, and testing
• Technical support for repair methods for installed equipment and rotables - expert in diagnosing faults and repairing equipment
• Support craftsmen performing difficult or major maintenance work and responding to critical equipment faults
• Troubleshooting equipment breakdowns (i.e. resource for the Maintenance Supervisors)
• Inspecting critical jobs to verify the work is performed correctly
• Partners with the Maintenance Coordinator to support improvement in quality and efficiency
• Provide skill-based training to craftsmen on specific equipment in the plant and general
• Acts as a relief for other leaders in the Maintenance Organization (Manager, R&I Lead, Planning Lead, Coordinator)
• Perform engineering design calculations as needed
• Supports the rotables team by defining the repair scopes (in conjunction with vendor) and definition and development of repair procedures
• Manages replacement or small to medium execution improvement projects, either capital or expense
• Identifies improvement opportunities with Maintenance teams and drives these projects to competition with assistance of R&I and Projects
• Assists in responses for emergencies, unplanned problems and repairs Strategy
• Draft and review of Codes of Practices.

Strategy

• Approved engineering solutions and outcomes
• Client / Customer satisfaction index
• Ensure successful application of quality management systems
• High quality engineering outcomes
• Implementation of discipline strategy
• Managed operational plans
• Networks built and maintained
• Sourcing of New Technology/Innovation

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

• Adherence to set standards
• Alignment with Tronox standards
• Compliance with governance, legal and other requirements
• Reports and analysis
• SHEC compliance assured
• Threats and risks monitored and mitigated
• Adherence to MHSA and Regulations

Projects and CI

• Document control system implemented
• Document control system maintained
• Enhancements / improvements identified
• Non-conformances identified and minimized
• Quality assurance measures / controls
• Reports
• Zero non-conformance incidents

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Ensure and maintain a healthy environment, safe operations and practices.
• Comply with SHEQ and technical requirements, in line with Plant / Mine availability targets.
• Monitor, identify and respond to defects and / or sub-standard equipment performance and other improvement opportunities.

Qualifications & Experience

• BEng Mechanical or Electrical Engineering; or BTECH Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (Mandatory)
• Grade 12/ Standard 10/N3 with Mathematics and Science (Mandatory)
• GCC (Mines - Electrical or Mechanical) (Mandatory) Driver’s License (Mandatory)
• Maintenance, Planning and Development, Hazard identification, Risk assessment, RCFA / RCM facilitated and implemented, Procurement, Contract and Project Management Experience within a heavy industry/ production / mining environment (Mandatory)
• Computer Literacy (Recommended) 3-5 years.

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Primary Responsibilities

This role is accountable for:

Training

• Facilitation of training, including operational, leadership, soft skills training, among other interventions
• Track and analyze effectiveness of training programs and impact on the job
• Conducting training needs analysis and identifying employee’s training needs.
• Develop and update training materials to reflect needs at operational level and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist with planning and implementation of new training programs in line with best practice and business requirements.
• Conduct practical and theoretical training and ensure course content is relevant and meets the needs of learners. Ensure all planning is in line with production schedules.
• Delivers various learning interventions, including classroom, one-on-one coaching, on-the-job training, and one-on-one assessment.
• Coach and Mentor learners within the business.
• Contribute towards organizational legal compliance to relevant legislation e.g., Skills Development Act.

Auditing

• Conduct competency audits for departmental training.
• Conduct ad hoc audits on equipment operators to ensure that the operators’ skills are at the right level and highlight opportunities for improvement with respective managers.

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Ensure all safety procedures and practices are adhered to during the training process.
• Promote Good housekeeping practices and account for safety.
• Contribute towards a high performing culture and engaged workforce.
• Ensure a zero-harm work environment for all.

Customer Service and Relationships

• Maintain trusted partnerships between learning and development and internal/external customers.

Learning and Growth

• Participate and contribute towards in full cycle of talent management.
• Conduct assessments following training interventions and measure skills proficiency.
• Maintain accurate and current training records.
• Promote a culture of learning within the organization.
• Provide information and advice regarding skills development related issues.

Qualifications & Experience

• Grade 12 \ N3 Certificate (Mandatory)
• Diploma in Occupationally Directed Education Training and Development Practices OD ETDP (Mandatory)
• National Certificate in a relevant Technical Qualification (Mining / Engineering Trade) (Mandatory)
• BCom or BA degree with specialization in Human Resources would be a strong advantage Engineering degree or diploma would be a strong advantage
• Drivers’ License (Mandatory)
• Computer Literacy in Microsoft and related packages (Mandatory)
• Learning Management System experience (SAP/SuccessFactors or other system(s)
• 5-10 years’ Relevant experience within a heavy Industry/ Mining/ Production Environment (Mandatory)

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Position Overview

The role of a Resident Engineer (2.13.1 engineer) under the Mine Health and Safety Act involves significant responsibilities related to ensuring the safe operation and maintenance of machinery, buildings, structures, and tanks within a mining environment. This role is crucial for creating and maintaining a safe working environment and preventing accidents or hazards within mining operations.

Primary Responsibilities

This role is accountable for:

• Report to the Project Manager.
• Appointed as 2.13.1 Subordinate Engineer under the Mine Health and Safety Act, responsible for the following:
  • Safe installation, proper operation, running, and maintenance of all machinery
  • Safe erection and maintenance of all buildings, structures, and tanks.
  • Ensuring that safety appliances, mechanisms, and guards are maintained in good condition.
  • Compliance with regulations relating to machinery.
  • Stopping the work of any apparatus or machine that may pose a danger to individuals.
  • Additionally, the 2.13.1 engineer must work within the framework of the Mine Health and Safety Act to uphold safety standards and protect individuals working at Tronox sites.
• Ensuring Health and Safety standards are implemented, Continuously assess, always maintained and provide assistance / guidance as needed to the project team.
• Efficient Management of Safety Team
• Ensuring Health and Safety standards are incorporated into design and ensuring 2014 construction regulations for all on-site contractors.
• Site communications – internally and to client team.

Qualifications & Experience

• Applicable B Eng, BSc (Eng) or B Tech degree
• SAMTRAC qualification advantageous
• Computer literate – MS Office and MS Projects
• Government Certificate of Competency Mining
• 15 Years’ experience in the Construction / Heavy industry or Mining environment.
• At least 5 Years’ experience as an appointed 2.13.1 or 2.13.3.1 appointee in a mine, or a combination thereof.
• Driver’s license (Code B)

Knowledge & Skills

• Fluent in English and Afrikaans.
• Working knowledge of the Mine Health and Safety Act, Minerals Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
• Drive for results, strong interpersonal, leaderships and organizational skills.
• Good experience on large construction projects.
• Personal attributes required: Confident, tenacious, innovative, self-motivated, responsible, team worker, adaptable, analytically able, client oriented, pro-active, and strongly oriented towards excellence in project management.
• Drive for results, strong interpersonal, leadership and organizational skills.

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Position Overview

• This role will oversee the engineering and maintenance team function for Mineral Separation Plant in terms of SQLCST.

Responsibilities:

Mining Maintenance

• Provides leadership in line with Tronox values
• Delivering best practice maintenance to the Mine Site  
• Develops and maintains Maintenance business plan
• Ensures maintenance KPI’s are measured, reviewed and improved to agreed targets.
• Develops and implements maintenance budget and report cost performance relative to budget and forecasts.
• Accurate cost forecasting
• Manages the implementation of smaller projects
• Facilitates OE activities and improvements in line with reliability strategy
• Champions idea generation within team
• Ensures plant modifications are adequately risk assessed through management of change
• Ensures maintenance work management procedures are in line with safety values
• Develops personnel
• Ensures management and integrity of the computerized maintenance manage system (CMMS)

Projects, CI & Plant Optimisation

• Drives improvement projects toward enhancing business operations.
• Optimizes processes, investigates and conducts feasibility studies.
• Conducts simulation projects, production forecasting, maintenance planning optimization and support.

Project Management

• Manages projects with regard to processes, technology and equipment.
• Evaluates and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements.
• Provides input and focus on projects and project teams.
• Provides regular progress updates to stakeholders.

Project Execution

• Creates structures for project execution, monitor and track progress.
• Completes individual implementations timeously.
• Communicates project status to applicable stakeholders.
• Prioritizes initiative activities to optimize the application of resources and staff.
• Manages team performance of operational initiatives and stakeholders with regard to project initiatives.
• Manages and coordinate ad hoc and / or ongoing BI initiatives as required.

Effective Staff Supervision

• An optimized team structure is manned by staff that are motivated, empowered and led by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices.
• Promotes teamwork, provides support and manages performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates.
• Oversees all recruitment and HR related activities of reporting staff.
• Performs fair and reasonable tasks related to the job and working environment, at the discretion of the Manager (direct superior).

Compliance

• Ensures and maintains a healthy environment, safe operations and practices.
• Complies with SHEC and technical requirements, in line with Plant availability targets. Implements SHEC programs and ensures adherence to all relevant statutory requirements with regard to MHSA and other applicable laws and charters.  (EE, BEEE, ESD, Social and Labour plan)
• Monitors, identifies and responds to defects and / or sub-standard equipment performance and other improvement opportunities.

Customer and Client Relationship Management

• Supports core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing the corporate profile.
• Manages internal and external relations, including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that the business needs are met and employees are satisfied.
• Represents Tronox Namakwa Sands at applicable forums.
• Provides relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders.

Qualifications

• B Eng / B Tech in Mech / Electrical Engineering (Mandatory)
• GCC MHS Act (Mandatory)
• Minimum 8 years engineering and maintenance experience of mining equipment (Mandatory)
• 3 - 5 years Management and leadership experience (Advantage)

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Position Overview

The senior surveyor is responsible for the effective coordination and management of all survey team activities at the mine.
This position involves working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and effective legal compliance and maintaining MPRDA survey legal compliance. Key to this role will be ensuring survey data's accuracy, efficiency, and timeliness.
The successful candidate will be expected to:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Achieving legal compliance (Survey), Maintaining MPRDA survey legal compliance, and Issuing survey instructions and notifications.
• Maintaining DMR plans and monthly reporting according to standard.
• Preparing mine plans (Survey) and ensuring the availability of electronic production Survey plans.
• Provides the quantity and level of survey support required for operations to ensure timely, accurate survey reporting and advice is given for reconciliations and control (e.g., ore/overburden, stockpile movements, engineering, drilling, and tenements).
• Assists with engineering project design, supervision, and control.
• Contributes to the achievement of operational targets and strategic my plans. 
• Creates accurate and timely budgets and forecasts for the survey section with consideration of future risks.
• Actively participates in planning and review meetings, translating agreed strategies into survey implementation plans, directing the successful completion of group-related projects, and demonstrating leadership as a part of the departmental team.
• Oversees the management of all survey data including computer systems and drawings.
• Ensures adherence to legislative requirements (corporate governance reporting requirements, regulatory compliance, codes of practice).
• Implements best practices in survey technology to improve accuracy, timeliness, and cost.
• Broad understanding of all mining activities, capable of covering other portfolios.
• Supervises and provides day-to-day technical leadership to an assigned group.
• Participates in the recruitment, training, coaching, and performance management of designated employees.
• Ensures delivery of planned tasks and activities, making decisions on routine problems, methodology, and resourcing issues.
• Provides expertise in all aspects of surveying and acts as SME.
• Uses knowledge of surveying principles and practices to continually improve the group's efficiency and effectiveness.
• Plans, schedules, and coordinates people, equipment, and resources to ensure availability in line with planned activities.
• Participates in developing and modifying surveying methods, tools processes/standards, and ensures budget compliance.
• Provide technical advice to various parties to address problems in a timely way.
• Plays a lead role in research, acquisition, and implementation of technologies Compares and contrasts major technologies available in the marketplace.

Surveying Equipment

Knowledge of survey equipment and its use; ability to select and utilize the correct equipment in different technical situations to generate relevant and accurate information to support business decision-making.

Level Expertise:

• Leads the evaluation of all major types of surveying equipment used it the company's operations; identifies and recommends improvements to meet business needs and define policies, and practices more effectively, and guidelines for equipment installation, utilization, and support.
• Monitors industry/marketplace trends and directions in the survey equipment: cites relevant case studies in proposals to improve efficiency, costs, or outcomes for the business
• Manages, monitors, and continuously improves the organization’s survey equipment utilization, support, and performance effectiveness
• Defines competence standards and oversees the development of training and competence assurance of staff in the use and maintenance of survey equipment
• Raises awareness across the organization of the impact of effective equipment selection, utilization, and management of the bottom line.
• Ensure state-of-the-art techniques and software, XPAC, ArcGIS, MicroStation, Model maker, scanning, and aerial survey software were used.

Managing People

Knowledge of people development processes and ability to utilize these in the recruitment, training, coaching, and empowering of team members to maximize individual and team performance.

Level Mastery:

• Assembles teams with complementary skills and promotes the expectation that they will share knowledge and experience, coach, and learn from one another.
• Champions staff development and ensures all staff in their area of responsibility have development plans and regular development discussions in line with the organizations' process and timetable.
• Ensures that developmental resources (e.g., assignments, self-development tools, coaching and mentoring, training) and time are available to all staff in line with their development plans.
• Mentor employees to promote their learning and development, transferring accumulated knowledge and expertise.
• Identifies mission-critical competency areas needed to meet business unit or functional goals and takes active steps to review capability and address competency gaps.
• Identifies high-potential individuals and provides them with targeted opportunities for growth.

Managing Safety

Knowledge of the factors that support and drive strong Health and safety culture and performance; ability and desire to maintain and continuously improve SHE awareness and practice and inspire the same in others.

Level Expertise:

• Ensures SHE is given a high priority in business strategy and decision-making and the setting of business priorities and goals.
• Proactively shapes individual and group values, attitudes, and behaviors to support developing and maintaining a strong SHE culture.
• Promotes and enables a high level of employee involvement in and open communication regarding Health and Safety matters within the business.
• Communicates the path by which Tronox Safety goals can be accomplished and specifies the timeframe for those goals to be achieved.
• Ensures the provision of adequate resources to maintain and continuously improve SHE culture and performance across the business.
• Ensures regular and independent auditing of safety systems and performance, obtaining objective feedback to enable continuous improvement.

Mine Survey Support

• Continuous collaboration software knowledge is required.
• Ensure mine compliance with the MHSA.
• Support MRD and line with discipline-related technical inputs.
• Assist with the compilation of monthly tonnage reconciliations.
• Reconcile between short-term planning models vs. actual surveyed data section of the mine.
• Assist in generating short-term planning schedules and forecasts.

Qualifications & Requirements

• NH Dip: Mine Surveying (Essential/Minimum)
• BTech Mine Surveying (Recommended/Desirable)
• Mine Surveyors GCC Legal Knowledge (Essential/Minimum)
• MDP (Essential/Minimum)
• Minimum of 7 Years Experience in mine surveying
• Mine Surveyors GCC Part A (Recommended/Desirable)
• Valid Code 8 driver’s license
• Registered as a member with IMMSSA and/or SAGC (South African Geomatics Counsel/Society)