Current Openings at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• A principal Driller must ensure that work standards are met according to clients’ requirements, must be able to comply to the mine health and safety act. Acting as a Rig manager from time to time when required ensuring the smooth operations of the rig. Manage all employees and service providers on site.

Key Accountabilities

• Previous experience in a Directional Drilling environment would be advantageous.
• Be able to read and interpret a geology plans.
• Control of drilling and directional drilling systems.
• Taking important independent decisions regarding drilling activities.
• Interpret path-tracker information and plot it on site plan and Excels spreadsheets
• Keeping of records and generating shift reports.
• Do regular risk assessment or SLAM.
• Be able to calculate borehole position relative to Rig collar elevation.
• Inspection and basic maintenance of equipment.
• Empower team members to achieve results through task ownership.
• Responsible for personnel training and development.
• Must be able to achieve all QCDSM KPI’s agreed upon in the business unit.
• Be able operate all drill rig equipment.
• Be able to coordinates all rig moves and turns effectively.

Formal Education

• National Senior Certificate / N3 Mathematics and Science 
• Formal tertiary qualification in engineering, drilling, geology and Colin Rice training or mining would be advantageous. 
• Valid Red Ticket and First Aid Certificate 

Experience:

• Experience in organizing activities in a drilling environment
• Experience in a production environment.

Working Experience

• Experience: 4+ relevant years

Deadline:30th July,2025

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Purpose of Job

• To coordinate and direct maintenance and repair services for a specific process within a production line, through control panel management and more complex troubleshooting.

Key Accountabilities

• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress.
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety.
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures.
• Work Independently.
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs.
• Apply and maintain safety in a working environment.
• Participates in shift handover meetings.
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval.
• Conduct on the job coaching of learners SME.
• Presentation on specific plant equipment .
• Conducts IMS inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability.
• Work effectively in a team.
• Play an appropriate main role during emergency situations to get the plant back on line.
• Give and receive feedback to other disciplines (partners on daily issues).
• Gives input at toolbox talks to improve plant safety.

Formal Education

• Occupational Trade Qualification/Certificate

Working Experience

• Experience: 4+ relevant years

Deadline:1st August,2025

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Purpose of Job

• Apply inputs from own field of environmental expertise for appointed portfolio and collaborate with other portfolios within environment and SHE. To ensure that aspects of environmental performance objectives and targets are achieved by development and implementation of plans, programmes, schedules and procedures. Assess compliance with best practices and legal requirements, where applicable identify which need to be communicated through the SHE communication process and assist with implementation and tracking.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide input to obtain and retain relevant environmental licenses/authorizations.
• Deliver cost-effective solutions.
• Promote and achieve targets and improve productivity
• Support business and function with implementation of strategies.
• Simplify processes inside and outside the unit and communicate, execute change and improvement
• Execute plans safely and develop annual work and project plans.
• Ensure results and compliance.
• Translate environmental legislation into business language and identify compliance challenges or risks.
• Enable compliance/disclosure and engage stakeholders on environmental compliance and performance.
• Assess legal compliance status of permits, licenses and authorizations and facilitate implementation of corrective actions.
• Evaluate and improve system to monitor and measure.
• Facilitate legal compliance and risk management.
• Manage the incident and communication processes
• Facilitate environmental risk assessments

Formal Education

• Relevant B-Tech or B-Degree in (Environmental Management or equivalent) with 3 years relevant work experience.
• PowerBI will be to your advantage

Deadline:4th August,2025

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Purpose of Job

• To coordinate all aspects of shifts operations, including process optimisation, the execution of maintenance and resource controlling to ensure a productive and motivated workforce.

Key Accountabilities

• Do reports on deviations .
• Arrange that subs are send from underground to the stores.
• Arrange/order requests as required and send to the correct section.
• Manage the call-out procedure.
• Ensure product quality.
• Production tonnage figures from sections must be put onto the computer.
• Generation of OE Reports SCADA system Analysis/Operations.
• Transport Management.
• Occasional work overtime.
• Work standby duties.
• Management of Control room + Functions

Formal Education

• High School / School Diploma or similar

Certificates

• Millwright Trade Certificate or Blasting Certificate (Must)

Experience

• Master Artisan/Foreman/Shift Coordinator experience (2 years Advantageous)

Working Experience

• Experience: 6+ relevant years

Deadline:31st July,2025

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Purpose of Job

• The purpose of this role is to lead and manage all activities within the Condition monitoring team to maintain and execute a Predictive and Proactive maintenance program in line with the Engineering strategy for the Mine or Plant to determine the health status of machinery/equipment and to identify deviations and implement corrective actions.
• Provide technical expertise and competency supporting the Engineering strategy to ensure best practices, continuous improvement, integrity, reliability of Machinery equipment at the lowest life cycle cost.

Key Accountabilities

• Establish a Predictive Maintenance Program to assess machinery/equipment's condition and identify deviations. Consolidate programmes of the various sites and ensure compliance.
• Manage all the applicable Sasol Mining Condition Monitoring technique programmes (Vibration Analysis, Oil Analysis, Thermography, Ultrasound), across the complex in terms of adherence and standards setting. Instrumental in driving the Total Fluid Management (TFM) process.
• Manage condition monitoring projects to ensure effectiveness of the Condition monitoring department. Positively influence the Condition Monitoring Workgroup and drive Standardisation committee engagement sessions to ensure standardisation across the complex in terms of processes, techniques applied, instruments utilised, database set-ups and reporting.
• Involvement in the sub-assembly management process. Assist relevant role-players with root cause failure information and analysis to determine failure modes and t prevent future failures.
• Manage Condition Monitoring Specialists and Operators. Facilitate training on all Condition Monitoring techniques for maintenance personnel. Manage the standardisation of a data-based setup and equipment standards by ensuring a uniform quality control system.
• Engage with Engineering personnel to discuss deviations and ensure implementation of corrective actions and best practices, involvement in the Defect elimination process. Ensure proper governance, compliance and risk management through defined discipline specific standards and best practices.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with Engineers to enable full visibility on improvement opportunities. Coach and guide Engineers, setting competence criteria for Condition Monitoring, aligned with Central governance.
• Implement solutions based on cost effective principles.
• Ensure safe working practices to prevent injury or incidents by following SOP's. Apply evidence based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations.
• Enable continuous improvement and knowledge transfer through strategically influencing direction and keeping up to date with technical developments in area. Assess technical work of peers and consultants, conduct frequent audits, and ensure loop closure on deviations. Use expert knowledge, attention to detail and team dynamics to solve complex technical problems.
• Establish a network of internal and external experts to engage, discuss to provide input and make decisions pertaining to the Condition Monitoring strategies. Provide consultation to individuals and project teams on matters in his/her area of expertise and sharing expert knowledge in own team and at all other levels.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and contracts by building effective working relationships with Managers, Peers, Team members, Customers and Suppliers.

Formal Education

• National Diploma / B-Tech degree / Bachelor’s degree

Or

• National Senior Certificate / N3 with Mathematics, Science and English;
• Qualified Artisan Trade Test (Electronic Mechanic)

Minimum Experience

• 2 + years’ experience in Underground Coal environment

Other Experience

• Technical knowledge on Hydraulic, Electrical and Mechanical equipment
• Sound knowledge of Maintenance principles, Defect Elimination (DE) and the Work Management Process (WMP)

Certification & Professional Membership               

• Vibration Analysis certificate
• Oil Analysis certificate
• Thermography / Ultrasound / Motor Circuit Analysis – MCA certification (Wish)

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.
• 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.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis, and persistence. Trouble shoot, analyse alternatives, and recommend Solutions.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.
• Effective communication: Development verbal and written communication skills to enable effective management and internal control business interaction.
• Sharing information: Actively seeks information and shares to coordinate and integrate action, knowledge, and requirements of planning to improve performance in own function standards and practices.
• Time management: Plans and coordinate own daily work schedule and accurate reporting. 
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well-defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Total Quality Management: The strategy for continuously improving the quality of process output, based on five fundamental principles of Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Measurement, Total Involvement and Systematic Support.

Deadline:31st July,2025

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Purpose of Job

• To operate and maintain basic electrical equipment and machines and carry out routine tasks following strict, detailed instructions to meet performance targets.

Key Accountabilities

• Participates in shift handover meetings.
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress.
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams.
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety.
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures.
• Work Independently.
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs.
• Apply and maintain safety in a working environment.
• Participates in shift handover meetings.
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress.
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams.
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety.
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures.
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs.
• Contribute to the development of training modules.
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval.
• Lead by example (walks the talk).
• Conduct on the job coaching of learners.
• SME Presentation on specific plant equipment.
• Conducts IMS inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability.
• Work effectively in a team.
• Attends and interacts in PDAs and RCAs to improve plant safety and stability.
• Play an appropriate main role during emergency situations to get the plant back on line.
• Give and receive feedback to other disciplines (partners on daily issues).
• Stakeholder relationship management.
• Gives input at toolbox talks to improve plant safety.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities in own work area.
• Improve practices and/or equipment.

Formal Education

• Matric/N3 with Maths, English & Physical Science
• Occupational Trade certificate (Electrical Red seal)

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

Deadline:1st August,2025

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Purpose of Job

• To cost effectively ensure the availability and integrity of safe and reliable assets to production.
• Effective maintenance of the plant to ensure availability and reliability of the plant equipment and facilities.
• Maintenance responsibilities will be coordinated through preventative and corrective maintenance through systems.

Key Accountabilities

• Proven competence in pre-identified areas per discipline of the plant/mine/equipment/systems.
• Understand and use the plant maintenance documentation system.
• Understand planning work management system.
• Relevant plant/mine specific/basic process knowledge (defined per discipline).
• Compliance of Safety Management Systems e.g. IMS, MBO, etc.
• Able to apply emergency procedures.
• Read, interpret, and implement task risk assessment.
• Hazard identification/task risk assessments.
• Participates in daily morning meetings to discuss work assignments.
• Support the goals and vision of the business by meeting deadlines.
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress.
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams.
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety.
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures.
• Share knowledge with junior artisans in known environment/context.
• Participates in quarterly performance appraisal with group leader to improve personal development.
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval.
• Lead by example (walks the talk).
• Assists with the development of works instructions to develop a higher level of staff competency.
• Take the lead in team efforts/tasks.
• Able to act as group leader (if appropriate to career path).
• Contribute to overall maintenance strategy and direction.
• Mentor learners/artisans informally.
• Conducts My IMS (physical inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability).
• Work effectively in a team.
• Attends and interacts in PDAs and RCAs to improve plant safety and stability.
• Provides adequate feedback to group leader or planning officer on work progress.
• Ensures the correct history feedback is captured to improve renewals/ upgrades and critical spares are replaced.
• Gives input at toolbox talks to improve plant safety.

Formal Education

• Matric/N3 with Maths, English & Physical Science
• Occupational Trade Test Qualification (Instrumentation Red Seal)

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

Deadline:1st August,2025