Current Jobs at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• The Fresh Food Field Specialist is responsible for driving profitability, operational excellence, and food safety compliance across franchised convenience retail stores. The role is primarily field-based (approximately 90%) and focuses on supporting franchisees through operational guidance, training, merchandising, and adherence to food safety and Sasol standards
• Ascertain that the franchisee increases profitability and secure adherence to food safety requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Operations & Store Performance
• Optimize convenience store performance across approximately +/-300 sites.
• Conduct regular site visits and inspections focusing on food safety, quality, merchandising, and operational compliance.
• Ensure adherence to South African food safety regulations and Sasol safety standards.
• Identify operational gaps, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Roll out and maintain Bakery and Fresh Food planograms to improve efficiency and sales.
• Execute the Convenience Retail strategy at site level.
• Financial & Commercial Management Analyse store sales, turnover, margins, and sub-categories.
• Provide franchisees with pricing and cost guidance to achieve margin targets.
• Support initiatives to increase customer traffic, turnover growth, and profitability.
• Training & Development Organise, present, and oversee training programs for shop staff and management (food hygiene, bakery, customer service, supervisors). Train new franchisees and store managers.
• Maintain training records, competence certificates, and assessments. Identify skills gaps and provide coaching and mentoring at site level.
• Stakeholder & Franchisee Management Build and maintain strong working relationships with franchisees, suppliers, and internal stakeholders (RAMs, Training, Maintenance, IT).
• Act as a Sasol Ambassador, ensuring credibility and consistent standards across the retail network.
• Provide field intelligence and performance feedback to internal teams. Store Openings, Promotions & Projects Support new store openings, including supplier setup, equipment commissioning, and opening stock.
• Coordinate promotional activities with suppliers and ensure in-store compliance.
• Ensure POS systems, scanners, and barcodes function correctly before trading.
• Benchmark competitor stores, pricing, and merchandising practices.
• Handle and improve operation sites of fresh food.
• Roll out bakery and food planograms to stores.
• Enhance operating procedures on an on-going basis or improve operational efficiency at the site level if required.
• Follow call cycle procedures, capture activities, and email concerns to relevant parties.
• Execute programmes developed by other functions to secure that Sasol Group achieves its leadership target in the market.
• Act as Sasol Group ambassador to build credibility of the company.
• Create and enforce food safety processes as required by South African regulations and standards.
• Arrange food safety audits and corrective action process.
• Conduct quality control of products as required.
• Work closely with SHEQ to identify risks and set controls in place.
• Verify that reporting and control procedures at store level are in place and conform to company’s policies and procedures.
• Confirm that suppliers adhere to product specifications and food safety standards.

Key Accountabilities Continued

• Audit suppliers that meet minimum standards and requirements.
• Approve and register new suppliers.
• Inspect and resolve customer complaints.
• Guarantee effective roll-out of new projects and their consistency throughout the retail network as per segmentation.
• Keep teams informed and up to date on food safety procedures, new legislation, and other requirements.
• Organise and oversee training programmes for shop staff including food safety.
• Supervise training of bakery and customer service training.
• Train new franchisees and managers.
• Assess trainees as per company requirements.
• Determine training needs gaps.
• Prepare presentation of training programmes.
• Maintain training records, competence certificates, and schedules of personnel.
• Assist stores in opening accounts with suppliers and ordering opening stock.
• Assure that store equipment is delivered and commissioned by contractors.
• Coordinating store opening activities with suppliers e.g. promotions.
• Work with IT consultants to confirm that pay point systems and bar codes are working.
• Check accuracy of promotions at sites.
• Carry out bi-weekly performance meetings with QA and NPD Manager regarding sites and supplier visit reports, operational issues, results of food safety audit, and general presentations.
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations.
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders including operations, training, customer care, and maintenance departments as well as supplier management and franchisee management to resolve problems effectively.
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge.
• Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor’s Degree

Min Experience

• Minimum 3–5 years’ retail experience, with at least 2 years in retailing (or 6+ years relevant experience in food retail, franchise, bakery, or coffee industry)

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Fresh food operations and food safety compliance
• Convenience store and FMCG retail experience
• Planogram implementation and merchandising
• Sales, margin, and waste management analysis
• Point of Sale (POS) systems knowledge
• Strong reporting and administrative capability

Key Competencies

• Strong people and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent communication and facilitation abilities
• Assertive, decisive, and results-driven
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to work independently in a field-based role
• Business and partnership leadership mindset

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Purpose of Job

• Provide Technical support to maintenance managers and engineers by applying theoretical skills and making suggestions and independently implementing solutions to optimise systems

Key Accountabilities
Business Results:

• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality, quantity and due dates
• Achieving delivery targets (e.g. tons, products, services; BU and Discipline Specific, EIS KPI & WMP)
• Quality Results (Agreed standards/compliance)
• Conduct basic processing and reporting
• Perform all tasks cost consciously
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards
• Awareness, focus and control of cost / budget
• Independently gather information and data accumulation
• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality, quantity and due dates
• Manage complex schedules and communicate possible delays in meeting deadlines
• Optimizes and control resources effectively
• Independently implement solutions based on cost awareness
• Ensure optimal resource utilization
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards Achieve safety and risk objectives
• Apply safety in all practices, specifically project planning and execution
• Ensure safe project execution and implement safe work procedures

Leadership and Values:

• Company values and goals: supported/lived
• Understand the company vision and values
• Demonstrate the desired behaviours in agreement with the Sasol Values
• Improve own skills and knowledge
• Take ownership for personal improvement and skills development
• Apply the learning experience at the workplace
• Agree and review personal performance goals and the achievement thereof
• Ensure that personal development plan is completed, implemented and tracked
• Set and work towards own performance targets and goals as per personal performance agreement
• Update performance goals and performance agreement regularly
• Agree and review personal performance goals and the achievement thereof
• Plan, organize, control and report own work
• Ensure work is completed as planned
• Manage own work planning and delivery according to targets
• Review compliance and follow up against the standards and objectives
• Develop suitable technical proposals based on practical and theoretical knowledge
• Apply and comply with all legal and company standards, procedures and methods
• Resolve work obstacles and issues positively and quickly

Relationships, Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Good Working relationships with , Service Providers, Support Services, workshops, etc.
• Demonstrates good understanding of customer needs
• Build customer relationships to understand their needs
• Share key information and ideas or learning with customers and teams
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with managers and peers
• Project a positive image of the department
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with managers and peers
• Practice effective manager and peer working relationships
• Demonstrate effective listening and communication skills when dealing with colleagues
• Continuous improvement Improve present way of doing work by continuously asking questions
• Makes suggestions to optimise equipment, systems and processes
• Share and implement new ideas regarding work

Formal Education

• University of Technology National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

Min Experience

• 3+ relevant years (Including External Experience)

Certification

• Meridiam Certificate will be an added advantage

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Purpose of Job

• The Role will support the Sasol Mining Operations with advance decision making capabilities by applying industrial engineering (IE) skills, techniques and knowledge.
• This role executes, advise and facilitate improvement related solutions making use of technical tools and data driven decision making practises. In addition, this role conceptualize, develop and implement data related improvement solutions. The role supports technology advances from a data and process perspective, it fosters a data driven decision making culture and supports Business Improvement initiatives on a strategic, tactical and operational level.

Key Accountabilities
Simulation Modelling & Advanced Analytics

• Advance integrated complex decision making capabilities by enabling modelling tools and adopting advances in technology.
• Identifying opportunities via system analysis and translate modelling insights into practical recommendations with clear value cases, risks, and implementation requirements.
• Support and enable the Sasol Mining Operations by applying industrial engineering skills, techniques and knowledge to leverage company resources that optimise both production and non-production processes.
• Use simulation outcomes to quantify constraints, forecast performance, evaluate capital investment options, and recommend optimal operating strategies.

Process Optimisation, Operational Excellence & Industrial Engineering

• Provide system and process intelligence to operations to drive continuous improvement, assisting in identifying and addressing sources of inefficiency, variability, and cost drivers.
• Influence and assist operations in the roll-out & sustained application of improvement solutions developed.
• Support the rationalisation, simplification and optimisation of workflows, standards and operating practices.
• Benchmark processes internally and externally, updating standards and best practices to remain competitive.
• Contribute to the Industrial Engineering  practises through engineering analysis, modelling insights, and structured business improvement interventions.
• Identify and communicate SHE risks and ensure all solutions meet regulatory and company requirements.

People Development, Relationships & Capability Building

• Mentor and develop Engineers-in-Training in modelling, analytical methods, and industrial engineering principles.
• Support the development of modelling tools, templates, and practices to grow advanced decision making capability within the business.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Participate in communities of practice.

Performance, Personal Mastery & Values

• Drive own development through continuous learning in modelling tools, analytics, digital engineering, and operational excellence methodologies.
• Participate in performance discussions and build a strong technical career path.
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence, negotiation skills, and the ability to operate confidently in a diverse environment.
• Promote the One Sasol behaviour model and act with integrity, respect and professionalism.
• Adhere to Sasol values

Modelling / analytics knowledge

• Simio
• Arena
• AnyLogic
• Python
• SQL
• Power BI / Tableau
• Excel VBA

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years