Career Opportunities at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary    
PURPOSE:

• To manage, coordinate and administer contracts with suppliers.
• To assist the Manager, Group Contracts and Procurement with improving contract coverage and achieving commercial savings.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Providing a contract management service to multiple Business Units, for multiple commodities.
• Continuous pressure exists on continuously improving in terms of cost effectiveness, innovation and productivity.
• Turnaround times of contract establishment and Statement of Work. Maintaining and effectively executing high volumes of users demands and active contracts.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  3-5 years Relevant supply chain or related; procurement, contract management experience. Adept in working with MS Office, various databases and contract management systems. Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. SAP MM, Coupa).      (Essential/Minimum )  

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Best Practice and Knowledge Management  

• Identify and support the implementation of process and system enhancements to continuously improve contract management process
• Study/research best practice processes and benchmark the Company processes at regular intervals
• Assist in mitigating risk in terms of contractual exposure to the Company

Business Partner Enablement  

• Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
• Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in- transaction guidance and support
• Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

•  Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Consolidate reports and provide feedback to the Manager, Group Contracts and Procurement on appropriate contract management reporting and governance requirements
• Collaborate and communicate with suppliers
• Implement portfolio targets in alignment with legislation and charters (e.g. Mining Charter, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), etc.)
• Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure adherence to all policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Consolidate reports and provide feedback to Contracts Manager on appropriate contract management reporting and governance requirements
• Provide effective advice to the wider organisation on contract/agreement entitlements, obligations, and purchasing methods and quantities

Contract Management    

• Compile and manage contracts with service providers
• In conjunction with internal stakeholders, ensure that all relevant category strategies and governance requirements are met
• Negotiate, conclude and administer contracts throughout the contract lifecycle
• Evaluate contractual terms and condition and provide recommendations
• Responsible for the proactive management of contract lifecycle milestones for a portfolio of contracts
• Evaluate contract stipulations and provide recommendations
• Communicate and ensure adherence to contractual rights and obligations
• Record and monitor contract compliance and renewal applications
• Investigate the need for contract extensions and terminate contractual relationship upon completion if required
• Obtain approval for relevant contracts and documentation in line with governance requirements and departmental budgetary stipulations
• Responsible for safekeeping and retention of contractual documentation in accordance with Group standards and policies
• Manage the end to end contract management process
• Develop and implement contracting portfolio project plans
• Develop, socialise and implement contracting strategies
• Ensure all contracting plans incorporate and address Social and Labour Plans (SLP’s), Mining Charter and BBBEE preferential procurement objectives

Compile tender documentation, issue Request for Quote (RFQ), adjudicate tenders in collaboration with technical and commercial specialists

• Ensure guidance and planning to contract modifications, price adjustments and contract close out
• Communicate and ensure adherence to contractual rights and obligations
• Contribute to supplier development including Local Economic Development
• Develop and maintain key supplier agreements with a continuing focus on efficiency gains
• Identify opportunities for cost savings through product substitution, market testing, or other means
• Actively participate in organisation planning as it relates to procurement activities

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

• Maintain a database of supplier information and continuously ensure that integrity and quality of data are relevant and of required standard
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and suppliers in the development of Service Level Agreements (SLA's) with suppliers
• Support on-boarding of new suppliers and manage supplier relationships
• Proactive engagement with suppliers and internal stakeholders related to contractual matters, i.e. disputes, claims, performance etc.
• Work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively with both internal/external customers and/or stakeholders
• Build sound relationships with Business Unit (BU) end-users, key suppliers and colleagues
• Build and nurture effective and influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, and partners

Financial Management  

•  Support and adhere to functional budget requirements and cost containment goals
• Prepare contracting project plans and strategies
• Manage allocated contract portfolio from a contract life cycle management and milestone perspective
• Conduct annual demand planning
• Act as a specialist expert in contract life cycle management process
• Represent Group to negotiate and secure approval on various commercial contracts for our client's Group (strategic sourcing and BU contracts)

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 and bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Internal Business Processes  

•  Provide weekly feedback on progress related to contract lifecycle management activities
• Actively contribute to achieving Supply Chain Management (SCM) balanced score card targets
• Comply and adhere to Group processes, procedures and standards in the execution of contract lifecycle management activities
• Conduct monthly reporting on contracting process
• Ensure procurement savings occur
• Compile tender documentation as per project
• Determine commercial and financial evaluation of tenders
• Obtain tenders from specific marketplace through marketing process

Performance Management

• Identify reporting needs and validate against framework
• Finalise competency requirements
• Confirm roles, responsibilities and expectations
• Determine capability and performance gaps in order to identify training needs
• Adhere to roles, responsibilities and expectations of the SCM process
• Comply with people performance and individual development processes and initiatives

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations Practices while ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

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

Closing Date: 16th, May 2022

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PURPOSE: 

• To identify and control health hazards in the workplace.
• To co-ordinate the Occupational Hygiene function within the Business Unit.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Tech Environmental Health (Essential/Minimum)
• Advanced Certificate: Mine Ventilation (Essential/Minimum)
• Int Cert in Mine Environmental Control (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant Occupational health experience in Mining or Industrial environment   (Essential/Minimum)  

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• SA Institute for Occupational Hygiene's (Essential/Minimum)
• MHSA Section 12(1)(Occ. Hygiene) ( Essential/Minimum )

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Business Performance and Operations

• Conduct workplace surveys and assessments and evaluate situations in the workplace
• Support superiors in assessing risks to health arising from many different factors and refer employees to medical facilities, if required, to ensure employee Hygiene problems are identified and addressed
• Execute occupation Health and Hygiene System implementation and received directives to ensure that all incident data relating to employee health is captured
• Participate in the implementation of training programs to for compliance with Occupational Health and Hygiene Regulations
• Coordinate the execution and reporting of internal and external audits and ensure the implementation of corrective action to minimise occupation and environmental hazards
• Assist with the implementation of Occupational Hygiene procedures
• Manage the impact of non-compliance with Occupational Health and Hygiene procedures on employee health and ultimately, business operations

Compliance, Governance and Assurance  

• Oversee the Occupational Hygiene for underground Mines department operations, inclusive of lamp room and change houses
• Ensure environment conditions are designed to be safe and a system for monitoring is in place (Act 50 of 1991 Regulation 2.16), including ventilation and occupational hygiene engineering systems
• Establish a system to understand and mitigate occupational hygiene and ergonomic hazards Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) Section 12
• Audit individual shafts to ensure compliance to Mine Health and Safety Act, Group guidelines and Mine standards

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

•  Provide support to the customer in the development of Hygiene services framework and processes for central repository management
• Assist in the evaluation of discipline-specific standards, principles and practice to enable planning, design and implementation of safe outcomes that support the business strategy

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Specialised Support

• Conduct continuous Hygiene inspections and propose improvements where applicable
• Assist in the development and implementation of a personal learning and growth plan to ensure continued development
• Monitor and provide regular feedback to employees responsible for Hygiene in the different divisions to ensure Hygiene objectives and targets are achieved
• Execute responsibilities in a manner that is in accordance to guidelines and standards associated with quality service delivery of Hygiene services
• Deliver responsibilities in a manner that is aligned to the services framework and consistent with customer agreements

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

Closing Date: 12th, May 2022

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PURPOSE:

• To direct and manage medium to large project development and execution plans and risk for duration of project phase whilst ensuring adherence to Project Management and business performance standards.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Project Management (Essential/Minimum)
• B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Gov Cert of Competence: Engineering (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years  Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining or production environment. Project Management experience as a Project Manager from feasibility to ramp-up or part of a large project.(Essential/Minimum)Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Project Management Professional (Recommended/Desirable)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended/Desirable)
• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Compliance, Governance and Assurance  

•  Ensure statutory compliance of new projects
• Assess and communicate impact of legal developments on project strategies
• Ensure legal compliance within project by implementing appropriate systems
• Participate in and implement governance systems for small to medium sized projects
• Conduct assurance reviews
• Ensure contract compliance, administration, finance, cost control and client and contractor project coordination
• Ensure services from Project support services and insourced providers adhere to Corporate Governance with regards to processes, systems, guidelines and templates
• Establish project management protocols in area of responsibility
• Implement Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) management and quality management systems to ensure delivery of high quality projects within budget

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

•  Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
• Manage internal and external relations within corporate, service providers, applicable Business Unit's (BU) and other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met
• Manage project interfaces within project environment and with clients
• Maintain internal and external professional networks

Functional Excellence  

• Develop project strategy and systems to efficiently implement, manage and coordinate BU projects
• Ensure proper prioritisation process in place at BU for all projects
• Ensure proper monitoring and control of all BU projects on site
• Manages projects with a broad impact across Business Units, which can lead to paradigm shifts in changes of strategic direction of Commodity
• Develop and implement risk management processes to mitigate high level risk, in alignment with corporate practices and requirements
• Coordinate optimal utilisation of resources for project
• Act as the "intelligent buyer" of outside competencies, skills and technology to fulfil required deliverables if and when required
• Identify and solve tactical and strategic problems across disciplines
• Support implementation of appropriate knowledge management for projects in line with business needs
• Benchmark best practice and ensure application of appropriate technology on projects
• Participate in best practice development with Corporate Project function and ensure selection and application of appropriate methodology, processes, technology for medium to large projects
• Provide expert advice and guidance

People Management  

• Culture/functional climate: Embody, translate and entrench culture and values in function, address behaviours that undermine values. Foster effective teamwork and unity. Manage functional climate in which diversity is appreciated, high performance thrives, people are involved, energised, committed, motivated and recognised. Demonstrate and encourage collaboration including cross-functionally and create culture of collaboration. Create an environment in which people are inspired to perform and a high-performance culture
• Talent development: Actively manage talent (including insourced) through regular assessment of employees’ strengths, development needs and development progress. Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching and development feedback to employees. Promote culture of continuous learning. Encourage and empower team to make decisions. Direct professional development, succession planning, staffing, outsourcing, Competent Person (CP) development, graduates and Professionals in Training (PIT's)
• Change leadership: Provide direction, guidance and support to people having to adapt to change, keep them committed throughout. Actively support, advocate for and embrace functional and organisational change and reinforce and role model the change. Address resistance, beliefs, mind-sets, behaviours and emotions to help people adapt to change
• Communication & engagement: Encourage open expression of ideas and opinions and foster dialogue. Seek out different opinions. Inform people of decisions, changes and other relevant information. Proactively address conflicts, initiate difficult conversations

Project Management  

• Develop, direct, coordinate and integrate implementation of medium to large projects across BU's
• Manage interdependency of deadlines on multiple projects and reserve integrity of deadlines and overall project progress
• Implement project management principles and practices for planning, design and implementation of project outcomes
• Conduct complex analysis of project systems and processes
• Select, design, integrate and commission new technology impacting on entire BU
• Take comprehensive approach to identifying problems, understanding implications and creating solutions that support overall project progress and success

Project Performance and Operations 

• Conduct audits and reviews of projects in various phases, with specialist input from Manager, Project Governance and Compliance and team where required
• Lead investigation of project management problems and develop solutions toward optimising and assuring project delivery
• Communicate project plans and outcomes with senior management, other disciplines and within project
• Provide project consulting regarding capital improvement and innovation projects including project review, planning, cost assessment, design, bid award process, scheduling and construction

Safe and Healthy Work Environment 

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices
• Ensure compliance with applicable SHE policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in operations

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

Closing Date: 9th, May 2022

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PURPOSE:

• To undertake geological activities in support of the Resident Geologist in regard to resource investigations, characterization and resource utilization (resource control and measurement).

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Conduct and manage geological data gathering, capture, analysis and sound interpretations as to ensure resource integrity.
• Conduct assessment/evaluations to fully optimise the value of the resource.
• Implement and conduct sound grade control and reconciliation practices.
• Facilitate and support the implementation of multi-disciplinary technologies (geophysical & geology) as to ensure maximum value.    

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc (Hons) Geology (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  3-5 years Relevant Commodity Geology – mining and exploration experience  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• SA Council for Natural Scientific Prof (Essential/Minimum)
• Registered with Professional Body (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
POSITION OUTPUTS:

The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Best Practice and Knowledge Management    

• Facilitate the process of knowledge sharing between the various team members in Grade Control as to ensure accurate and effective data/information flow and use
• Participate in investigations of improvement opportunities. Participate in the evaluation of discipline-specific principles and practice
• Participate in the implementation of appropriate quality management systems to ensure delivery of high quality solutions for the geology team

Budget Control  

• Support the Resident Geologist in financial control of activities as to stay within the approved budget
• Conduct assessments as to ensure that technology is effectively applied and utilized
• Report on anomalies which will influence the budget/expenditure to the Resident Geologist
• Ensure that contract management is correctly applied

Business Performance and Operations  

• Conduct data management and data assurance in regard to all grade control geology activities including the assurance of the laboratories, Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) programs and data and process validations
• Implementation, manage and maintain the grade control and reconciliation processes including geophysical measurements and geophysical program control
• Support the Resident Geologist performance excellence initiatives and high performance culture
• Ensure staff resources are efficiently deployed, trained and developed
• Ensure support, coaching and mentoring for all staff
• Support in the translation of discipline strategy into systems, structures/processes to support implementation
• Review, compile and implement with the Resident Geologist the grade control and reconciliation strategy
• Support the Resident Geologist in providing accurate and timely information of the resource and resource extraction (measurement) to the planning, mining and metallurgical teams in support of the short, medium- and long-term plans
• Support the Resident Geologist in assuring the integrity of the resource by effectively managing the production and grade control processes and providing insight into the utilization of the resource

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

• Adhere to International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 9001 (Quality) in regard to accurate/correct data capture and the management of grade control procedures
• Support the Resident Geologist in the implementation of the Group’s mineral policies, procedures and standards
• Adhere to ISO 14001 in regard to the management of geophysical equipment and reporting to the various legislative authorities.
• Implement Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) controls for all job activities
• Recognise and manage risk by conducting continuous assessments and implementing control measures

Consulting and Project Services  

• Conduct when requested technical evaluations/assessments of the resource
• Participate in multi-disciplinary project teams as part of optimizing the resource and reserve in the operation
• Provide accurate and timely information for the mining, metallurgical and planning disciplines

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable SHE policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

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