Available Jobs at Exxaro Resources

Position Overview:
As the Principal Exploration, you will:

• Lead and Strategize: Guide functional leaders in the execution of Exxaro’s Exploration Strategy within developed frameworks, ensuring technical, legal, and safety compliance.
• Technical Expert: Act as the functional exploration authority, conducting reviews, evaluations, and providing recommendations for asset opportunities aligned with strategic goals.
• Execute Scientifically: Employ advanced technologies, skills, and methodologies to deliver credible and precise exploration data.
• Evaluate and Optimize: Perform techno-economic evaluations of exploration assets and drive data-driven decisions that shape the organization’s growth.
• Collaborate and Innovate: Represent Exxaro in strategic technical relationships, applying expertise in diverse geoscience disciplines, including geophysics, geochemistry, geology, and more.
• Team Leadership: Direct integrated exploration teams to ensure seamless execution of drilling, sampling, and survey campaigns.

Minimum Requirements    

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• BSc (Hons) Geology (Essential/Minimum or)
• BSc (Hons) Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BSc (Hons) Metallurgy (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
• Master’s Degree (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 8-10 years Proven track record of leadership in exploration management roles in the mining / resource industry. Demonstrable track record of leading techno-economic evaluations, project management, due diligence exercises and business integration activities. Subject matter expert in exploration theory, geoscientific approaches and techniques, and project execution, preferably across diverse jurisdictions. Manage / Guide multi-functional technical teams. (Essential/Minimum) (Management)

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Geological Society of SA (GSSA) (Recommended/Desirable)
• SA Council for Natural Scientific Prof (Recommended/Desirable)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable)
• SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Recommended/Desirable)

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

Ability to:

• Be accountable for guiding functional leads in the execution of Exxaro’s Exploration strategy. 
• Execute exploration campaigns within developed frameworks aligned with set procedures and technical, legal and safety requirements. 
• Assist the Manager Exploration the technical scanning and evaluation of global mineral asset opportunities. 
• Act as functional exploration expert leading teams during technical reviews and evaluations to establish technical, commercial, and strategic fit. 
• Take active lead and advisory role in guiding exploration activities to best industry practices, ensuring compliance with applicable reporting codes. 
• Execute exploration activities scientifically through the application of the appropriate skills, technology, and methodologies to ensure accumulation of accurate credible information. Conduct techno-economic evaluations of exploration mineral assets. 
• Act as Exxaro technical lead in strategic relationships guiding towards best technical applications in geophysical, geochemical, geological, structural, estimation, hydrogeology, geo-metallurgical applications. 
• Direct integrated exploration team towards effective execution of drilling, sampling and survey campaigns.

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Position Overview:
As our Medium-Term Mine Planner, you will:

• Craft accurate and effective medium-term mine plans that drive operational success.
• Ensure timely delivery of mine schedules, meeting critical deadlines without compromise.
• Collaborate with a top-notch team of mining professionals to optimize resources and achieve strategic objectives.

Minimum Requirements    

QUALIFICATIONS:

• N Dip: Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• N Dip: Mine Surveying (Essential/Minimum or)
• N Dip: Geology (Essential/Minimum or)
• Diploma Metallurgy (Essential/Minimum or)
• N Dip: Chemical Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• BSc Geology (Recommended/Desirable or)
• BSc Metallurgy (Recommended/Desirable or)
• BEng Chemical Engineering (Recommended/Desirable or)
• BEng Mining Engineering (Recommended/Desirable or)
• BEng Industrial Engineering (Recommended/Desirable or)
• BEng Metallurgical Engineering (Recommended/Desirable)
• Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant experience in Mine planning in Surface or Underground Mines. A minimum of 3 years operational mining experience or exposure to mine operations (e.g. mine surveying, Geology or Mine planning), computer literate and be able to work with OCCS or other software used for Mine planning and design purposes. (Essential/Minimum) (Operational)

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Engineering Council of SA (Candidate) (Recommended/Desirable)
• Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

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

• To deliver medium term mine plans accurately and timeously.
• Apply today and take your career to the next level! Together, we’ll mine success—one plan at a time.

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Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• BCom (Hons) Business Management (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Project Management (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
• Master of Business Administration (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• Approx. 10 years’ experience in Social Development Management, monitoring and reporting. In depth knowledge of the following legislations: Mining Charter and BBBEE- gazetted in 2007.
• King Code of Governance for South Africa 2009. Strong operational results orientation, a verified track record of delivery, and proven ability to manage a variety of suppliers to deliver goals of the NPC. Strong business, financial and analytical acumen.
• Proven ability to navigate complex systems and transactions, including experience working with senior management and Board Members to secure financing for short-, medium- and long-term goals.
• Experience in managing people. Strong written and spoken communication skills, preferably multilingual. (Essential/Minimum) Management

REQUIREMENTS: 

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

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

Ability to:

• Reporting to Exxaro’s Chief Sustainable Impact Officer, this role will be accountable for the overall success of the Exxaro Aga Setshaba Not for Profit Company (NPC). 
• Together with the Board of Directors, the Operations Manager will be accountable for developing and implementing the NPC’s strategy, strategic collaborations, managing daily operations and policy imperatives. 
• The Operations Manager must ensure the relevance of the NPC for multiple stakeholders, including industry, donors, government, SMEs, civil society and most importantly, host communities. 
• Essentially, this role has overall accountability with the Board for the NPC’s sustainability, as a NPC. 
• The Operations Manager is required to interface closely with all key stakeholders, including directors, regulators, alumni, fund managers, funders, and potential funders, inter alia.
• The role will be expected to promote the NPC and its offerings, as well as policy and strategy formulation and implementation, and budgetary and financial oversight. 
• Ensure all projects are planned, implemented, reported and monitored according to Project Management Institute Governance. To ensure transformation strategy integration of the fund and delivery aligned to Exxaro to ensure delivery of ESG and Just Transitions objectives in order to protect and enhance the Company’s commercial and reputation interests

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Position Overview

• As the Senior Data Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that Exxaro’s data is managed in accordance with specified governance requirements while driving high-quality, accurate, and reliable data processes across the company. You will work closely with business stakeholders and the IM team to design and implement scalable solutions that empower data-driven decisions and enhance organizational performance.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Computer Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
• BSc Computer Science (Essential/Minimum or)
• BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  5-7 years Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining, production environment. Knowledge of development processes.
• With proven technical aptitude in one or more application programming domain. Ability to work in Agile and non-Agile environments. With a minimum of 5-8 years’ experience of which 3 years operational mining/plant exposure and 2+ years data exposure supporting production in using data to empower better decision making, through reporting, analyses and models. (Essential/Minimum) Management

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Certificate in SQL Database Coding (Recommended/Desirable) 
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    

• To ensure data is managed according to IM specified data governance requirements at all levels within Exxaro. 
• Utilize your expertise in all data platforms to ensure efficient data flow and transformation organisation wide. 
• Play a key role in driving scalability and performance improvements within our data infrastructure.
• Ensure highest data quality assurance, data accuracy and data completeness across the organisation. 
• Conduct data design, metadata and repository creation tasks as required by business stakeholder. 
• Translates business needs to be considered to influence long-term architecture solutions in collaboration with IM. 
• Define, design and build organisation dimensional databases with specific reference to functionally agreed formulas and ratios.
• Design the organisation extract, transfer and load (ETL) pipelines and enhance and maintain our existing Exxaro ETL frameworks.
• Implement the organisation ETL pipeline in a timely manner. 
• Collaborate with IM to build data quality metrics and conduct data validation testing.
• Conduct training and upskilling on new reports and or self-service analytics.

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Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• BCom Management Accounting (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  3-5 years Relevant Accounting, Finance or related.  (Essential/Minimum)   Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

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

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

Ability to:

• To execute the business partnering role for the Business Unit. 
• Responsible for the management accounting function including the planning, budgets and forecasts. 
• Interpret the financial results, monitor cash flow, capital expenditure programmes and management reporting systems development.