Current Jobs at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• A Locomotive Driver manoeuvres trains from the exchange yard to loading and offloading points at various business units

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Training Site orientation and training according to training schedule Theoretical training at training academy according to standards Practical training – Complete number of shifts under supervision of Locomotive drivers according to training standards Shunting and hauling Trains across inside Sasol Secunda boundaries. 
• Use of TFR/Sasol exchange yards. 
• Driving and operating of a train efficiently according to the train schedule and safety regulations to ensure that customer freight reach their destination in good condition and on time. 
• Performs various administration duties of moderate complexity requiring general knowledge of train services and other operational issues 
• Take responsibility for the safety of the train and ensuring that it is protected all the time according to the safety standards and train working rules and ensure a hazardous free environment. Give clear operational instructions to the Rail Operator and supervise all activities on footplate as per the train schedule. 
• Due to the Safety aspects attached to the work, the incumbent must be able to communicate well under extreme pressure to enable the company to meet its daily target.
• Clear understanding of instructions, notices, regulations, verbal communication and ability for good radio use during operational procedures. 
• To be able to co-operate with Rail Controller and other personnel in dealing with abnormal conditions. Move Loads up to minimum of 40 wagons (2000 T) to a maximum of 71 wagons (3600 T) Move all loads including containers and hazardous loads.

Formal Education

• Matric/ Grade 12

Min Experience

• 2 years experience

Certification

• Competency certificate for Loco drivers

Behavioural (BC) |Technical (TC) |Leadership (LC)

• BC_Communicates Effectively
• TC_Action Planning
• BC_Manages Complexity
• BC_Plans and Aligns
• TC_SHE Policies, Procedures and Standards
• BC_Decision Quality
• TC_Laws and Regulations
• TC_Planning and Organisation
• BC_Ensures Accountability
• TC_Multi-tasking

Closing Date

8 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• To provide direction and schedules to Mechanical artisans, plan the sequence of necessary actions for the completion of a job, and monitor and prioritize the workflow to meet deadlines and achieve desired results for STO.

Key Accountabilities

• Planning, control, and management of operations/maintenance activity. Ensure effective execution of operations/maintenance activities. Ensure maximum task quality and efficiency, and overall effective use of equipment. Manage and control costs.
• During emergency situations, evaluate the abnormalities and take corrective action as to avoid downtime, equipment damage and/or SHERQ incidents.
• Ensure own team adhere to operational/maintenance procedures and for people and plant.
• Ensure maintenance planning is scheduled optimally to maximize production output. T
• ake action on first occurrence performance problems, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases.
• Manage performance of own team. Ensure sensitization to diversity in the workplace.
• Get results through empowering others to act. Enable artisans to achieve competence for career progression.
• Coaching and technical training of own staff. Accountable for practical "declaration of competence" of employees to operate the plant. Ensures team motivation and team wellness.
• Lives company values and ensures compliance of team to the values.
• Facilitate effective Communication up and down from management and within own and other stakeholder teams.
• Participate in selection of staff by being an active member on recruitment panels.
• Ensure standard operating procedures are applied. Ensure compliance to Process Safety Management.
• Manage certain start-up and shutdown tasks. Participate in potential deviation analysis (PDA), root cause analysis (RCA) and risk assessments.
• Manage execution of work permit system. Conduct Task Risk Assessments and ensure that team conducts.
• Ensure compliance to relevant Sasol procedure, policies, legislation, and business processes.
• Manages Behaviour based safety program. Ensure adherence to SHERQ legal standards and implement SHERQ processes for own area of responsibility.
• Ensure that MOC process is followed, and that modified plant/maintenance procedures are implemented by artisans. Ensure resources are available on site. Understands customer requirement and ensures product/service meets customer requirements. Ensure smooth transition of work from own shift to next shift. Effective interaction with supporting activities.
• Identifies and supports inter-dependencies with own and other departments within the value chain. Give input into how to improve overall Equipment Effectiveness for the plant. Continuously applies new ideas/work methods to improve results. Deals with human resistance to change in own area.
• Provide information/assist with projects with technical/support functions.
• Avail staff for training and development required due to the change initiative. Ensure implementation of organisational change initiatives within own team.

Formal Education

• Grade 12 with maths and science
• NQF4 Mechanical trade qualification
• Red Seal (wish)

Min Experience

• 5 Years maintenance experience (preferable in the Petro-chemical environment)
• Exposure to acting or management (preferable)
• Code 08 Drivers License

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• TC_Operational and Safety Factors
• TC_Analyse Alternatives and Recommend Solutions
• TC_Performance Management
• LC_Commercial Agility
• LC_Drives Innovation
• LC_Customer Centricity
• TC_Review and Reporting
• LC_Collaborative
• LC_Inspirational
• LC_Builds Talent
• LC_Developing Self
• LC_Partnerships
• TC_Engineering Implementation
• LC_Delivery Excellence

Closing Date

8 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• A Process Controller operates process equipment and systems for a specific plant / unit within the Sasol environment to achieve production requirements in a safe manner

Key Accountabilities

• Participate in emergency preparedness exercise
• Perform routine inspection on safety equipment
• Conduct BBS Observations
• Perform effective shift handover
• Electrical isolation of equipment
• Performing gas test for vessel entries and Hot work
• Mixing process chemicals
• Handling of process chemicals
• Compilation of shift log
• Participate in INVOCOM
• Participate in IMS inspections
• Participate in incident / accident prevention
• Report all deviations
• Clean plant / ensure plant is cleaned
• Monitor and report on an emergency preparedness exercised
• Perform tasks on equipment as per signed off Career Guide
• Successfully complete permit training
• Perform level standby
• Participate in potential deviation analysis (PDA, root cause analysis)(RCA and risk assessments)
• Apply SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedure)
• Follow modified plant procedures after implementation
• Apply PSM standards (Process Safety Management)
• Participate in startup and shutdown
• Adhere to permit to work procedure
• Adherence to SHERQ standards (ISO, ASHAS and implemented)SHERQ processes
• Actively involved in behaviour based safety program on shift
• Support the alignment of work (e.g. maintenance, Technical department
• Participate in resolution of performance problems
• Utilize resources e.g. raw materials, people that are available on site
• Support diversity in the workplace
• Coaching and technical training of fellow workers
• Accountable for own competence on plant
• Plan own progression through the career path
• Manage own performance
• Get results through empowering others to act
• Live company values and ensures compliance of team to the values
• Contribute to team motivation and wellness
• Understand customer requirements and ensures product / services meets customer requirements
• Effective networking and liaison with P&SM, technical, engineering and financial departments
• Identifies and supports interdependencies (synergies with own and other departments)
• Ensure transition of work from own shift to next shift
• Support drive for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE of the plant)
• Apply new ideas / work methods to improve results
• Provide information / assist with projects with technical / support functions
• Assist with implementation of organisational change initiatives within own team

Formal Education

• Matric/ Grade 12 with Maths & Science
• NQF Level 2 Occupational Trade Qualification (Chemical)

Min Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• BC_Collaborates
• TC_Production Resource Management
• TC_Production Risk Management
• TC_P_Project Quality Management
• BC_Manages Complexity
• BC_Self-development
• TC_Equipment Utilisation
• BC_Action Oriented
• TC_Production and Procedure Management
• BC_Ensures Accountability

Closing Date

8 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• A Shunter organises trains in order to safely manoeuvre from the exchange yard to loading and off-loading points at various business units

Key Accountabilities

• Adhere to Principles of safe movement on rail
• Apply Basic Health and Safety knowledge
• Insure plant specific rules and procedures
• Know the Site lay-out
• Apply Shunting procedures
• Display of hand signals
• Utilize Rail way vehicles and Rail way lines
• Operates Hand points
• Assist with Air brake and vacuum test
• Do inspection of Loads
• Reading of special notices
• Operation of handbrakes
• Test 2-Way Radio communication (Testing of two way radios)
• Coupling and uncoupling of vehicles
• Identify rolling stock types by means of profile codes
• Identify commodity types by means of symbolic signs/data sheets/color coding
• Formulate train profile
• Execute movements in accordance with designated plan and within the required operational time

Formal Education

• High School / School Diploma or similar

Working Experience

• Experience: 2+ relevant years

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• BC_Communicates Effectively
• TC_Process Safety / Environmental
• BC_Interpersonal Savvy
• TC_Create SCM Strategic Direction and Plans
• BC_Plans and Aligns
• TC_Costing and Budgeting
• BC_Action Oriented
• TC_Logistics Interfaces
• BC_Ensures Accountability
• TC_Logistics Administration and Analysis

Closing Date

8 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• To manage mechanical engineering team with engineering processes and contributes to strategical decisions. To manage a day-to-day mechanical activities, development of specifications, and maintenance of mechanical systems and devices to meet business objectives.
• Pursues and drives a culture of zero harm on site through a meticulous focus on health, safety, and environmental. Ensures that all aspects of the site and work is completed in adherence to the project safety, health, and environmental standard.
• Direct and lead the implementation of systems policies, and procedures to ensure adherence to legal requirements as well as organizational, engineering, safety, and environmental standard.
• Develop and manage budget for mechanical department. Lead and manage the implementation of engineering deliverables on time, in budget and at the right quality. Monitor financial performance, identify areas of improvement, and implement corrective actions.
• Develops and maintains a culture of delivery and ensures an environment of excellence through all delivery channels. Build and sustain productive working relations with contractors designing and executing the work on site. Foster positive work environment and provide leadership to the team.
• Provide technical leadership and input on engineering matters to minimize engineering risks. Conduct team performance reviews address areas of improvement. Contribute to the development of maintenance philosophy, plans, goals and KPI’s. Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviors, and including managing consequences.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure equipment availability to meet the production plan. Establish and report on agreed performance criteria. Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates, and quality standards. Ensure financial discipline and governance in the department. Continuously optimize maintenance activities. Ensure equipment availability agreed upon supports the production plan. Manage operations risks by making sure that all hazards are identified, analyzed, and mitigated to acceptable levels.
• Manage, revise and improvement of Asset Management standards for maintenance. Manage asset life cycle and plans. Maintain assets within agreed operations envelope conditions and set standards. Input into 5 year rolling capital plan. Liaison with technology holder. Identification of technical problems/opportunities. Benchmarking for optimal solutions and practices. Participating in plant design for maintainability and operability and excepting equipment after installation. Effective Shut down management. Management of standards and procedures. Translate and cascade operational goals and long-term plans through effective two-way communication in the organization. Demonstrate One Sasol Behaviour ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain. Manage multi-level interfaces and integrate effectively. Interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Manage operations knowledge by transforming, packaging, transferring, and maintaining operations knowledge.
• Fulfil requirements as site GMR 2.7a (i.e. Accountabilities and responsibilities in terms of the SA OSHAct), providing leadership and ensuring compliance with the relevant legislation and factories regulations.
• Build sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that planned work is carried out efficiently. Together with the teams, achieve daily, weekly, monthly maintenance targets against business/operational goals and objectives by ensuring that tasks are prioritized and planned in a logical, systematic, and cost-effective way to optimize profitability.
• Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks, and minimum standards for all aspects of planned maintenance as guided by Sasol Operations Core Processes.

Formal Education

• BSc or B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering
• Advantages: Acting experience in a Maintenance/Operation Environment and Petrochemical experience.

Working Experience

• Experience: 10-years + in a maintenance environment.

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• TC_Operational and Safety Factors
• TC_Analyse Alternatives and Recommend Solutions
• TC_Review and Reporting
• TC_Understanding Customer Needs
• TC_Engineering Implementation
• LC_Commercial Agility
• LC_Business Ownership
• LC_Drives Innovation
• LC_Customer Centricity
• LC_Collaborative
• LC_Inspirational
• LC_Builds Talent
• LC_Developing Self
• LC_Partnerships
• LC_Delivery Excellence

Closing Date

8 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• To carry out examinations and enable the implementation of controls and recommend improvement of procedures to build a culture of safety in the workplace.

Key Accountabilities

• Planning and ExecutionTranslate and execute the business SHE gameplan in line with the SHE Excellence Approach.
• Facilitate the implementation of area-specific Safety Improvement initiatives and strategies and evaluate effectiveness thereof.
• Facilitate the identification of safety hazards, risks, key undesirable events and implement the associated Natref controls and business specific preventive and corrective controls in accordance with the SHE risk-based approach.
• Facilitate workplace risk-assessments.
• Facilitate the execution of risk-based workplace occupatonal safety improvement interventions.
• investigation, near misses, root-cause analysis and identification of corrective actions.
• Advise and enable the business to gain insight into the efficacy and adequacy of its SHE risk management.
• Implement relevant SHE systems and requirements to support effective controls for safe operation, aligned with the business asset management strategy.
• Manage the process of the continuous identification and correction of workplace hazards through inspection plans and verfication assessmentsTest, communicate and improve response plans and procedures to ensure effective mitigation of SHE undesirable events eg emergency response plans.
• Monitor, review and improve effectiveness of safety improvement.
• Monitor and respond pro-actively to hazards in the workplaceLead workplace safety inspections and coach employees.
• Identify incident and injury trends and recommend and monitor mitigating and control measures.
• Participate in the roll out of the Safety improvement plan and report updates as required.
• Analysis and reporting.
• Provide input into area-specific management reviews and execute identified Safety improvement actions for the area.
• Analyse incident and injury results, identify trends and implement improvement and control measures.
• Change management and communication.
• Maintain high performance and seek opportunities for personal growth monitored through structured performance contracts and development plans.
• Continuously develop extensive knowledge relating to the field of work and personal mastery in technical skills application.
• Share key business and organisational information.
• Optimise and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce cost.
• Facilitate sharing and learning of Occupational Safety matters.
• Provide coaching on hazard identification and the prevention of associated undesirable SHE events to ensure that employees are enabled to conduct their daily tasks with zero harm and to reduce the likelihood of recurrences of undesirable events.
• Build and sustain positive internal and external stakeholder relationships to accomplish Ops SHE execution plan.
• Engage and integrate across sub-functions, Functions and workplaces.
• Participate as member of Safety forums, natural working teams and other groups.
• Support Service Provider interventions to ensure SHE alignment.
• Influence Operations to implement the One Sasol SHE Excellence Approach.
• Identify and establish communication channels and mechanisms.

Formal Education

• Matric with 6 years experience or Diploma/B-Tech degree with 3-4 years experience.

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• BC_Business Insight
• TC_Process Optimisation
• TC_Process Management and Development
• BC_Manages Complexity
• BC_Plans and Aligns
• TC_Assessment
• TC_Safety Management Techniques
• TC_Safety Principles
• BC_Action Oriented
• BC_Ensures Accountability

Closing Date

7 April 2025

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Implementing people processes; improving HR processes, practices and systems to achieve enhanced effectiveness and efficiency; and proactively supporting and educating employees and line management on HR processes.
• Provides direct service and support to an assigned client base and ensures that standard HR processes and practices are implemented adequately in the client base, ensuring high levels of both efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Leads the implementation and execution of HR solutions in the assigned client portfolio with high levels of customer service and in compliance with set standards and policies.
• Acts as a clear single point of contact for HR related issues.
• Continuously contributes to increased HR process efficiencies in business, demonstrates an in-depth understanding of HR processes and highlights any inefficiency and recommends corrective actions to the relevant HR team members and management.
• Support the provision of HR data and analytics through accurate and reliable calculations and reports. This includes using HR technology and systems to analyse and interpret relevant HR data.
• Provide relevant analytics facilitating effective decision making based on empirical information and accurate data.
• Compiles and presents meaningful HR reports through interpretation, comparisons and trend analyses.
• Supports the recruitment and on-boarding of employees whilst ensuring a positive experience for new employees.
• Takes an active part in the people selection process, in collaboration with the more senior Business Partners or HR Managers and the relevant line managers, facilitating an efficient and compliant process.
• Manages the employment contracting, enrolment and on-boarding process for new employees.
• Supports the implementation of Talent management processes as required and ensures these are executed efficiently. This may include educating line managers and employees on such processes and the desired outcomes, and making sure deadlines are adhered to and processes completed on time and generating accurate data.
• Support Employee Relations objectives through compliance with procedural and substantive fairness requirements, providing assistance in providing a first line labour relations consulting service and ensuring accurate, relevant and complete documentation and system management.
• Provides employees and line managers with a sound understanding of Compensation and Benefits principles, policies and procedures and can explain these in a clear and customer appropriate ways.
• Executes accurate calculation of remuneration, rewards and benefits and assists with salary benchmarking and compilation of comparative ratios to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
• Manages the efficient and effective implementation of staff movement (e.g.employee transfers, promotions, redeployment and rotation) and separation processes and procedures (e.g. resignation, retirement, retrenchment, dismissal, ill health, death and incapacity).
• Implements clearly defined change management processes and facilitates the successful implementation of change projects, utilising necessary material to support line management and employees in adhering to change expectations. This includes coaching and educating line management and employees in respect of the practical application of the change processes.
• Demonstrates the Sasol values.
• Supports and articulates vision and values and goals aligned to business direction.
• Continuously seeks to improve personal mastery, professional and business growth (ensuring technical / professional development in specialist area).

Formal Education

• Relevant University Bachelor's Degree
• Honours degree will be to your advantage

Min Experience

• 4+ years in an HR operational environment
• Experience working with salary non exempt employees will be advantageous

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money.  Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.  Maintains a market-focused approach to business.  Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions.  The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work
• Leading change: Requires creating experiences for people that reveal new possibilities, while uniting them to drive strategies that harness the resources to win in the marketplace. It requires optimizing the culture of an organization while making investments to drive business growth – simultaneously
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking  feedback and self-correcting.

Closing Date
10 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• To implement health and safety programmes and facilitate health and safety inspections and risk assessments to sustain a healthy and safe environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Planning and Execution Develop and execute shutdown and other issue-based safety plans.
• Ensure that work acitivities are inline with the SHE gameplan focus areas.
• SHE Risk Assessment and Management Facilitate the identification of Occupational safety hazards, risks, key undesirable events and the associated preventive and corrective controls.
• Enable the implementation of controls within the Operations.
• Facilitate workplace risk-assessments (baseline, continuous and issue-based).
• Facilitate the execution of risk-based workplace occupational safety improvement interventions.
• Identify non-conformances (including incidents) and conduct investigations, root-cause analysis and the identification of personal, workplace and organisational factors.
• Conduct focused safety audits (e.g. Logbook audits, lock-out audits, legal appointment audits, insurance engineers audits etc.)
• Conduct risk-based assurance audits with focus on group and critical controls.
• Participate in the respective forum.
• Monitor, review and improve effectiveness of safety improvement.
• Monitor and respond proactively to hazards in the workplace.
• Lead workplace safety inspections and coach Operations people.
• Identify incident and injury trends and recommend and monitor mitigating and control measures.
• Participate in the roll out of the Safety Improvement Plan and report updates as required.
• Change management and communication.
• Develop and communicate safety awareness and enablement material.
• Facilitate safety discussions (toolbox talks, safety meetings or stand-downs).

Formal Education

• Grade 12/ Matric
• National Diploma / B-Tech in Safety management will be an advantage.

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• BC_Business Insight
• TC_Operational and Safety Factors
• BC_Manages Complexity
• BC_Plans and Aligns
• TC_Assessment
• TC_Safety Management Techniques
• TC_Safety Principles
• TC_SHE Policies, Procedures and Standards
• BC_Action Oriented
• BC_Ensures Accountability

Closing Date

2 April 2025

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Purpose of Job

• Responsible to provide necessary support to the management on various processes and portfolios (small, big, less or more complex), in compliance with group and regional minimum standards, leveraging HR expert services and transactional services in the region, in order to drive the business agenda, service the business requirements into integrated people solutions, value generation and reduce business risks.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide an integrated Employee Relations consulting service to the assigned portfolio to ensure sound employee relations; labour peace and stability and that staff related issues are dealt with constructively and appropriately, as well as within the regulations and legislation.
• Ensure labour relations process compliance (e.g. disciplinary hearings, grievances, redundancies, industrial action, unfair labour practice, transfer of a going concern and legal matters) for the assigned client portfolio.
• Monitor and oversee the ER climate and challenges within the assigned area and the potential impact on the business, and proactively addresses these.
• Drive relationship and engagement management with key stakeholders (trade unions, management, employees and external communities) to actively manage these relationships and ensure all stakeholders are aligned.
• Ascertain and communicate the impact of decisions and actions on wider Employee Relations, precedent setting, morale and reputational risk.
• Proactively educate line management on legislation and policy application to ensure these are applied appropriately in the client portfolio.
• Attend appeal hearings, senior level grievances and other Employee Relations meetings as advisor and to ensure procedural and substantive fairness.
• Ensures that disciplinary and incapacity procedures are adhered to.
• Ensures Employee Relations are conducted in accordance with legislation, codes of conduct and company policy.
• Ensure compliance with HR guidelines and regulations. Protection of the interests of both Sasol and the employee and ensures values driven employee relations is fostered.
• Drives the Employee Relations partnership forums for the business and engages with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures that rules are applied consistently; there is no selective discipline and unjustified preferential treatment in a workplace.
• Ensure managers are equipped to effectively deal with sensitive employee matters appropriately.

Formal Education

• 3-4-year Relevant University Degree (preferably LLB or equivalent)

Min Experience

• 6+ Years

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• BC_Optimizes Work Processes
• BC_Communicates Effectively
• BC_Manages Complexity
• TC_HR_Enable Change
• TC_HR_Inclusion, Diversity and Human Connections
• TC_HR_Organisational culture
• TC_HR_L&D Content Design and Development
• BC_Ensures Accountability
• TC_HR_L&D_Facilitate Virtual Learning
• TC_HR_Facilitate Face to Face learning
• TC_HR_People Advocacy
• TC_HR_Digital Integration
• TC_HR_Digital Literacy
• TC_HR_Business Acumen
• TC_HR_Coaching
• TC_HR_Employee Relations
• TC_HR_Labour Stability
• BC_Action Oriented

Closing Date

7 April 2025