Current Openings at Fraser Alexander (Pty) Ltd.

Description

• To assist the supervisor to lead and comply to all safety and production procedures

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Planning
• Take responsibility of all tools issued to the team
• Supervise and coordinate the team
• Liase with supervisor regarding the work plan
• Inspect the designated area of responsibility on a daily basis
• Understand and keep track of client needs
• Ensure and record timely and attendance
• Ensure discipline 
• Ensure that the team is issued with PPE and wears it correctly
• Make sure team meets production targets

Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS

• Grade 12 

EXPERIENCE

• 2 years' previous experience as a general worker 

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Good communication (verbal and written)
• Ability to operate without the supervisor
• Must be responsible and accountable
• Must be medically fit
• Driver's license will be an added advantage
• Must be able to manage the team

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Description
PURPOSE

• To lead the Divisional operations through translation and achievement of Strategic objectives, Commercial agreement/deliverables, Projects and Divisional Financial Goals, Contract management, Stakeholder management and Customer satisfaction. Needs to ensure high level operational performance excellence and to ensure compliance to standards and contractual deliverables within the division

Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business/ Functional management
• Participate in setting the strategy for the division, and implementation of the operational strategic actions as well as providing guidance at regional and project level in support of the corporate strategy.
• Overseeing all operating sites and projects to support sustainability of the business, meeting industry and maintain company reputation
• Financial, commercial & contracts manager
• Report to the Divisional General Manager on operational strategic goals and performance and overseeing regional performance of operations to achieve return on capital investment and profitability for the division.
• Ensure appropriate support function positioning to delivery operational excellence.
• Ensure compliance and adherence to standards, policies, procedures, practices and legislative requirements at all levels. Provide leadership for improvements of operational standards, procedures, practices and alignment with legislative requirements, ensuring a continuous improvement in culture and effective operating environment.
• Build longer-term commercial relationships with customers at the operational level to maintain and balance short, medium and long-term financial, commercial and contracting requirements in such a way that business development, profitability and growth is ensured, and market share maintained & increased
• Ensure appropriate contract management and operational controls are put in place across the division, to manage all financial, commercial and operational risks on time.
• Manage profitability for the individual projects/contracts, ensuring appropriate cost controls, as well as additional income generation by identifying new business opportunities with existing clients
• Improve the quality of earnings, through understanding the business levers that drive profitability through operational discipline
• Risk Management & Compliance, incl. ESG responsibility
• Provide risk management leadership in operation, ensuring that the Group risk management framework and tools are appropriately understood and applied across the regions and projects.
• Ensure that risks are managed appropriately to minimize/eliminate incidents in operations as well as risk to the customer throughout the division.
• Effectively manage all operational risks and contribute to the effective management of risks for the FAMP business.
• Align the regions and projects to all environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements from the Group and from the customers in the division and ensure full compliance across the business unit
• Stakeholder Management (internal/external)
• Balance operations’ organizational requirements, with internal and external stakeholder requirements, to support business development, growth and profitability while maintaining exceptional customer relationships.
• Provide leadership to ensure that all operations are optimally serviced through support functions, and that relationships with these functions are appropriately maintained in support of organizational excellence
• Ensure the culture and climate within the operating regions and projects support effective relationships across levels and with all internal stakeholder groups.
• Operating System Management & reporting
• Define operational reporting requirements and ensure appropriate management control systems are put in place to meet those requirements, including forecasts, plans, execution controls and monitoring, reports, meetings and forums, and corrective actions.
• Set and agree performance standards for the regions and projects in the division and drive performance achievement for all operating projects in the division
• Ensure that dashboards and trend analysis for projects and regions is implemented, understood and appropriately used for improved decision-making across the division.
• Drive regional performance with the BU and Maintenance Managers, based on effective and valid data, reporting and trend analysis, to ensure each region performs across the spectrum of performance parameters, in support of holistic business unit performance, profitability and growth.
• Ensure appropriate customer reporting systems, reports and forums are implemented, in support of customer relationship building and customer satisfaction.
• SHEQ Management
• Ensure that a Zero harm safety culture is well entrenched across all operations.
• Ensure appropriate implementation of and compliance to all SHEQ Group, legislative and divisional requirements across all operations
• Ensure that all regions and projects appropriately identify, manage and mitigate risks, ensuring that all operational risks within the division are appropriately and timeously addressed and reported on
• Understand Client SHEQ requirements and always ensure full compliance
•  Team Management
• Select and appoint competent and passionate people.
• Provide leadership to subordinates, monitor and measure their performance and ensure discipline on all sites.
• Motivate staff to achieve their own as well as the company’s full potential
• Plan and drive capacity and capability building for operations, to ensure balanced delivery through people

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc Engineering or BTech Engineering (Mining / Metallurgical or equivalent)
• Postgraduate qualification will be advantageous

EXPERIENCE

• >15 years’ experience in mineral processing operations at management level
• With relevant experience in managing complex projects with emphasis on contract, financial, risk, commercial and legal management; operational planning, safety and implementation

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Excellent commercial and contract management astuteness
• Solid understanding of the mineral processing business across all technical and commercial offerings
• Knowledge and understanding of all legislation relating to the FAMP business
• Excellent management and leadership skills.
• Negotiations skills - especially business, commercial and contract negotiations
• Good Emotional Intelligence
• Good verbal and written communication skills including commercial & business reporting
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, including root cause analysis
• Risk management across all functions
• Operational optimization, effectiveness and efficiency
• Assertiveness & Resilience

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Description

• This position exists to ensure that products or services consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. By setting clear quality goals, defining criteria, and implementing control measures, organisations can ensure that their offerings are of high quality, reliable, and efficient

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business/Functional Management
• Inspecting output samples using industry appropriate methods, such as comparing to standards, measuring dimensions and examining functionality
• Checking that the assembly or production line adheres to standards and procedures and complying with legal requirements
• Reviewing blueprints and specifications to compare to produced goods
• Recording inspection results by completing reports, summarising re-works and wastes and inputting data into quality database
• Training the production team on quality control measures to improve product excellence
• Responsible for the overall quality of all products in the company
• Complete independent implementation of all quality assurance and quality control activities (procedures, records risk assessments, training, oversee auditing, hygiene, verification activities, pest control, equipment calibrations)
• Proposing improvements to the production process
• Monitoring the use of equipment to ensure it is safe and discard any that do not meet requirements
• Keeping measurement equipment operating accurately by following calibration requirements and calling for repairs
• Report trends and overall quality of business monthly to top management
• Using gauges such as callipers and micrometres to measure products
• Collecting and compiling statistical quality data
• Assisting in the development of test methods and inspection plans
• Determining the causes of products defects and reworks
• Management of quality interim
• Financial and Commercial
• Prepare monthly valuations with snr superintendent/superintendent, resident engineer and/or the client
• Read blueprints and specifications
• Recommend adjustments to the assembly or production process
• Inspect, test, or measure materials
• Operate electronic inspection equipment and software
• Risk Management & Compliance, Incl ESG responsibility
• Identify, analyse and develop responses to commercial risks
• Perform risk, value management and cost control
• Ensure all project risks and opportunities relating to their area of responsibility are identified, and mitigating actions implemented and monitored; as well as aligning all stakeholders as is relevant, for their area of responsibility; elevate risks as appropriate
• Be fully aware of the content and impact of new contracts i.e. general conditions of contract, special conditions, specifications, and drawings; be aware of relevant legislation relating to the contract – as related to project cost and quantity measurement and reporting
• Stakeholder Management (internal/external)
• Ensure professional interaction with client and all stakeholders, at middle to senior management level
• Maintain working relationship with head office structures with regards to their function, in support of compliant and profitable project delivery and governance
• Responsible for subcontract and supplier administration, and building relationship with subcontractor and supplier representatives, give input to disputes and change management with relevant parties 
• Engage with internal management structure, to ensure business alignment through line reporting structures
• Management Operating System and Reporting
• Analyse outcomes and write detailed progress reports relating to costs, quantities and production
• Measure all work done on site daily and compile a month end certificate for submission to the client for payment
• Quantify work done by abstracting measurements from drawings
• Quantify work done, but not shown on the contract drawings, by physical measurements on site
• Recognise all claims and contract deviations, informing the consultants, compiling and quantifying the claim/deviations and including in the measurement
• Take stock of the materials (including fuel) on site at month end for inclusion in the monthly certificate
• Calculate the escalation due on the work done in the month for inclusion in the certificate
• Combine all measurement, materials on site and escalation to formulate all gross claims (certificate) at month end, processed in the required format, agreed with the consultant and submitted to the client for payment
• Set up, control and update the site filling system, filing all relevant site correspondence in correct files and sequence on a daily basis, checking through all files on a regular basis for information that may lead to a contractual claim
• Technical management
• Collect information for the individual tasks, checking and adapt it to the computer system
• Be aware all the time of any new and up to date computer systems and acquiring any relevant systems for site use
• Set up and maintain a quality and process control system as relating to their area of responsibility
• SHEQ Management
• Understand the implications of health and safety regulations, and ensure risks are managed as per their area of responsibility
• Ensure subordinates are compliant to all SHEQ requirements and take corrective action to correct non-conformance
• Staff Management
• Guide, lead, and direct subordinate staff so that they are able to achieve the objectives set for them as well as understand and align with the strategic direction and goals of the parent company
• Monitor and manage performance of subordinate staff in compliance with the performance management policy and processes
• Coach, mentor and develop staff as appropriate to improve performance

Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS

• B Tech or equivalent in Technology/Quality Assurance
• Certification as quality engineer, quality auditor, Six Sigma or quality improvement associate is preferred

EXPERIENCE

• 3 years' experience in related field 

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings and radiographs
• Position is based on site, and travel may be required
• Medically competent to work on mining/project sites