Available Jobs at Exxaro Resources

    
PURPOSE:

•  Develop and lead the application of data science modelling at an Integrated Operations Centre level to deliver insight-driven tactical and strategic value creation.
•  Provide statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, prescriptive analytics, simulation and optimisation to discover trends, opportunities and threats.
•  Design quantitative advanced analytics models that answer business questions and/or discover opportunities for improvement/optimisation at the business unit.
•  Use data to support and optimise decision making, including predictive decision-making across the business value chain from the pit right through to the port.
•  Ensure the availability of approved resources (skills, funding, technology, etc.) for modelling initiatives, driving change and influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
•  Communicate and present findings and recommendations to management and business.
•  May coach junior data scientists.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•     BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
•     B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant practical or commercial analytics with coding experience in mining or related environments. Technical expertise in ML languages, packages and techniques. A proven track record of successfully leading business integration projects in the fields of data science and machine learning. Sound people and relationship skills that foster collaboration, project management, communication and teamwork.  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•     Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•     Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

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 business improvement, data science and innovationx

Business Performance and Continuous Improvement    

•  Monitor Value Chain throughput and identify Improvement opportunities
•  Analyse data captured in the Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) to understand the dynamics and variability within the value chain and identify process bottlenecks
•  Collect, organise (clean and transform) and analyse data using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and present these to relevant stakeholders towards influencing improvement, optimisation and prediction across the Business Unit (BU) value chain
•  Create new insights from predictive statistical modelling activities that target and deliver value

Business Review Process    

•  Support the business review process by evaluating critical performance areas - 6 monthly, quarterly and monthly within operational function level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
•  Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness; auditing of current processes and identification of areas of opportunity

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

•  Execute responsibilities in accordance to relevant governance, policies and procedures
•  In preparing and building data science models: follow a structured and approved process and follow the Information Management (IM) governance in deploying and industrialising models
•  Responsible for safe keeping and tracking of all relevant documentation

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

•  Establish and maintain key relationships with stakeholders
•  Collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders
•  Provide relevant and specialised support to stakeholders
•  Key stakeholders for this role including IOC team members; Digital Value Chain Leads (DVCL), Lead Value Chain Integrator, Business Improvement, Centralised Data Scientists/Principal Industrial Engineer, Data owners and technicians, IM, BU Production Team
•  Maintain extensive internal and external professional networks

Data analytics and business insights    

•  Use analytic techniques to understand the dynamics and variability within the value chain and identify process bottlenecks
•  Collect, organise (clean and transform) and analyse data using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and present these to relevant stakeholders towards influencing improvement, optimisation and prediction across the Business Unit value chain
•  Create new insights from predictive statistical modelling activities that target and deliver value
•  Work closely with business stakeholders (IOC team, Business Improvement and DVCL) to identify value and business needs and translate them into concrete problem statements to deliver on
•  Where applicable delivery may require the inclusion/handover to project-based data scientists
•  In preparing and building data science models: follow a structured and approved process
•  Leverage the appropriate teams to clean and transform data when necessary
•  Follow the IM governance in deploying and industrialising models
•  Monitor and follow-up on built models when in production to ensure good performance & value creation and update as appropriate
•  Strive to align focus to Top 5 and P75 and inversely use analytic insights to influence direction setting in these processes
•  Play a role in guiding focus areas for digitalisation
•  Be competent in working with any type of data — both structured and unstructured
•  Understand when a problem is a data science problem
•  Document and maintain an understanding and representation of the BU data landscape
•  Establish data requirements around value chain problems and where data gaps exist, work with technicians and data owners to close gaps
•  Utilise appropriate indicator/value models for data science initiatives for the purposes of prioritisation and benefit tracking, in collaboration with Business Improvement and Value Chain Integrators
•  Create frameworks to measure success, partner with Value Chain Integrator’s to define success metrics, create approaches to track the data and troubleshoot errors, quantify and evaluate the data, then develop a common language and effective visualisation for all colleagues to understand these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
•  Operationalize data processes - provide the team with ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools so that everyone gets a good sense of the state of the business
•  Develop and disseminate models according to an agile (MVP) approach
•  Visually represent models in a compelling story
•  Identify and build the right user experience so that the output of data science/machine learning workflows is easily interpretable for and actionable by the business users
•  Actively participate in cross BU Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Forums to build skill, synergies and scaling

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

•  Establish and maintain a healthy environment and safe operations Practices throughout the Market to Resource value chain
•  Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
•  Encourage a culture that focuses on SHE in all operations
•  Set design standards in accordance with safe work principles
•  Promote adherence to all SHE practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
•  Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
•  Comply with SHE requirements at all times

Technical Support    

•  Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to focus areas
•  Identify and rank initiatives in line with business priorities and an appropriate data science feasibility framework
•  Approach problems in a systematic way
•  Apply a system thinking approach to all tasks
•  Interact with peers and/or management, with confidence and professionalism
•  Ensure user adoption of developed and industrialised models
•  Provide input in the evolution and continuous improvement of the IOC
•  Work with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple reporting lines
•  Foster a culture of high performance and collaboration across multiple teams

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

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PURPOSE:

•  To facilitate Business Unit level improvement teams to realise business goals aligned with Business Unit improvement targets.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

•  Translating business goals and challenges to functional and area targets for Business Unit.
•  Facilitating operational teams to improve performance.
•  Analysing of operational team's performance.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•     B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•     Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Recommended/Desirable and/or)
•     Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Recommended/Desirable)
•     Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years  Relevant Business improvement or business excellence, economical evaluations, improvement methodologies experience.  (Essential/Minimum) Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•     Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•     Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Best Practice and Knowledge Management    

•  Intellectual property management and protection
•  Create and manage professional networks
•  Participate in tertiary educational relationships and in professional external forums
•  Continuously monitor exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
•  Stay abreast with advances in the field of business improvement and innovation

Business Performance, Operations and Continuous Improvement    

•  Support management in the development and implementation of Business Improvement (BI) strategy
•  Translate business strategy and business unit targets into specific functional area targets
•  Design and direct improvement processes
•  Ensure implementation of BI strategy and strategic initiatives through facilitating decision-making, optimisation and improvement processes at Business Unit (BU)

Business Review Process    

•  Support business review process by evaluating critical performance areas 6 monthly, quarterly and monthly within business unit level
•  Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness
•  Audit current processes and identification of areas of opportunity

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

Functional Excellence    

•  Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
•  Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
•  Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge

Optimisation Support    

•  Support BI and operational excellence initiatives through business analysis, root cause analysis, idea generation facilitation and structured innovation
•  Identify, manage and execute breakthrough projects
•  Project planning and tracking against work plans including budget and cost control
•  Define project level issue management processes and procedures

Optimisation and Efficiency    

•  Execute BI and operational excellence framework and process on business unit level
•  Implement common operational/BI initiatives for a business unit
•  Manage multiple breakthrough projects at business unit level
•  Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to business optimisation function Community of Practice (COP)
•  Ensure continuous business process reviews in conjunction with business owners and users
•  Determine needs and facilitate business improvement initiatives, upgrades or enhancements
•  Ensure integration and alignment between BU’s in liaison with COP leaders
•  Conduct research regarding best practice and benchmark processes at regular intervals
•  Assure that new best practice processes are facilitated and established
•  Explore and analyse information toward achieving informed business decision-making
•  Keep abreast with BI and innovation practices, benchmark data and technology-based enablers which impact on BI

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

•  Adhere to all health and safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
•  Address all unsafe practices, potential hazardous situations and rectify and report to superior
•  Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) and 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

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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

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Job Advert Summary    

At the heart of Exxaro Resources, our success story is not just written in numbers but in the vibrant tapestry of our people. We are more than a company.  We are a winning team, a community of passionate individuals who find fulfilment in shared victories. Joining Exxaro isn't just about a job; it's about becoming part of a winning family, where each member plays a vital role in our collective success. If you are ready to be a part of this incredible journey, where your contributions matter, your aspirations are nurtured, and together we create a legacy of excellence check out the following opportunity that is available at Exxaro.

Are you passionate about unleashing the full potential of talent within an organization? Do you thrive on designing innovative strategies and solutions that drive business success? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Talent Enablement Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be the driving force behind the design and operationalization of our Talent assessment strategy, aligning it with our overarching People and Management Strategy.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications & Experience:

•  Masters Industrial Psychology (Essential/Minimum or)
•  Masters in Organisational Psychology (Essential/Minimum)
•  Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
•  Certificate in Coaching (Recommended/Desirable)

Requirements: 

•  Reg: Health Profession Council of SA (Essential/Minimum)
•  Registration: Industrial Psychologist (Essential/Minimum)
• 8-10 years Relevant Human Resources operations experience with relevant recruitment and selection experience. Registered Industrial Psychologist with experience in Psychometric assessments. Proven experience in talent, team and learning development, or related HR functions, preferably in a senior management role.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Ideal Candidate Profile (Includes but not limited to):
Ability to:

•  Design and operationalize the Talent assessment strategy in alignment with the overall People and Management Strategy.
•  Oversee the complete Talent assessment deliverable using the most innovative approaches to incorporate psychometrics in various functions of the business.
•  Drive the review and implementation of relevant policies and procedures.
•  Become a strategic business partner and design innovative ways psychometric assessment. data can be incorporated and applied effectively throughout the business. 
•  Design, implement, and evaluate programs and initiatives aimed at optimizing talent acquisition, development, and retention processes. 
•  Identify key areas for improvement and implementing targeted interventions.

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Job Advert Summary    
At the heart of Exxaro Resources, our success story is not just written in numbers but in the vibrant tapestry of our people. We are more than a company.  We are a winning team, a community of passionate individuals who find fulfilment in shared victories. Joining Exxaro isn't just about a job; it's about becoming part of a winning family, where each member plays a vital role in our collective success. If you are ready to be a part of this incredible journey, where your contributions matter, your aspirations are nurtured, and together we create a legacy of excellence check out the following opportunity that is available at Exxaro.

Join Our Team as a Senior Culture and Organizational Development Specialist! 

Are you passionate about fostering a vibrant and inclusive organizational culture? Do you have a knack for driving positive change and enhancing efficiency across all departments? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Culture and Organizational Development Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in the development, improvement, and implementation of Exxaro’s culture and organizational development strategies, frameworks, processes, and policies.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications & Experience:

•  B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•  B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)
• 5 years Extensive knowledge of Organisational Development / Effectiveness and culture approaches, methodologies, employee development and capacity building and strategy development within a complex organisation.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Ideal Candidate Profile (Includes but not limited to):

Ability to:

• Support in the planned development, improvement, and implementation of Exxaro’s culture and organisational development strategies, frameworks, processes and policies to ensure they are implemented appropriately across the group.
• Continuously make organizational improvements across all departments by evaluating and identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and effectiveness.