Fresh Positions at Sasol

Purpose of the job

• Calling on unemployed Graduates! Are you ready to make your mark in the professional world?
• Sasol is looking for individuals who recently graduated with Bachelor's degrees in the fields of Accounting, Branding and Communication, Computer Science, Data Science, Education, Engineering & Science, Finance, Information Technology, Marketing, Project Management, Social Sciences.
• Recognised as an Employer of Choice in the Chemicals and Energy sector by the Graduate Star Student’s Choice Awards, Sasol is offering an exceptional 2-year Graduate Internship to unemployed graduates.
• This is your chance to gain invaluable work experience, develop industry-specific skills, and enhance your professional growth. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to launch your career with a leader in the industry!
• Graduates must reside in Sasol’s fenceline communities, including Secunda, Sasolburg, and Ekandustria or be beneficiaries of Sasol Khanyisa Shareholders.
• Get ready to make your mark and build your future with us! Apply now 

Min Experience

• Experience: 0 - 2+ relevant years

Formal Education

• Bachelor's degrees in the fields of Accounting, Branding and Communication, Computer Science, Data Science, Education, Engineering & Science, Finance, Information Technology, Marketing, Project Management, Social Sciences.

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Purpose of Job

• To enable, support, and facilitate safe and responsible operations to achieve zero harm and sustainability targets.

Key Accountabilities

• Delivery targets (e.g. tons, products, service Monitor and respond proactively to hazards in the workplace).
• Conduct hazard identification in the workplace.
• Facilitate safety related risk assessments.
• Lead incident investigations.
• Facilitate RCA's.
• Participate in the development of shutdown planning and campaigns.
• Participate in ad hoc Service Provider audits on site to check compliance to SHE file requirements.
• Participate in safety system audits, e.g. Logbook audits, lockout audits, legal appointment audits, insurance engineers audits etc.
• Provide input during risk assessments to ensure safety issues are identified.
• Provide advice on the selection and use of specific PPE.
• Participate in the respective forums.
• Participate in the roll out of the Safety Improvement Plan and report updates as required.
• Portray the enterprise values and goals at all times.
• Execute own and team competency development.
• Coach team and others on safety.
• Develop extensive knowledge relating to the field of work and personal mastery in technical skills application.
• Ensure that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Plan and execute according to performance contract.
• Manage adhoc requests and tasks.
• Review policies, standards and procedures.
• Establish and maintain relevant networks.
• Team and colleague communication.
• Ensure the availability of all relevant information.
• Identify, evaluate and recommend improvement opportunities.
• Input into the compilation of new and the revision of existing safety procedures and instructions.
• Share information and knowledge.

Formal Education

• Grade 12 
• Mine Environmental Control/ Occupational Hygiene Certificate 

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To oversee the engineering maintenance processes within the appointed area of responsibility to enable various mining teams to reach production targets within the principles of QCDSM

Key Accountabilities

• Manage and carry out engineering and maintenance strategies and overhaul plans on a day to day basis that ensure that departments KPI's are met deliver maintenance, if and when to replace / repair equipment
• Manage maintenance cost vs R/t in appointed area Maintenance budget
• Ensure availability of equipment by effectively managing downtime / shift / MTTF / MTTR (infrastructure and inspection equipment)
• Ensure adherence to maintenance programme
• Implements operational projects, ensures engineering compliance, develops and implements engineering Standard Operating Procedures (SOP in appointed area of responsibility.
• Ensures adherence to Engineering principles and legislation.
• Compliance to engineering governance bodies (standardisation committees) SOP / COP implementation and adherence
• Assess economics / engineering viability of no major engineering business cases and provides specific, inspection expertise and coaching
• Manage delivery against OE initiatives
• Carry out condition monitoring programs in appointed area of responsibility. Compliance to Condition monitoring program schedules.
• Conduct failure trend analysis and root cause elimination
• Execution of Predictive Maintenance recommendations (backlog)
• Support departments to achieve set targets by coordinating planning within appointed area of responsibility.
• Control costs to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget.
• Ensure best in class safety performance and continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain required RCR.
• Ensure SHE compliance rates vs. targets (especially major findings, % outstanding actions on findings) Zero harm, Zero fatalities, LWDCR
• Ensure the effective recruitment, training, coaching and career development
• Manage vacancy rates against staff establishment (vacancies incl. Absence due to TSD / PSD, AWOP, Successors for critical positions)
• Manage team bearing in mind key role turnover rate vs. industry average, absenteeism, employee engagement and enablement score (%, Tons/man/year, Monthly bonus targets) training days for department Planned Task observations

Formal Education

• Grade 12 or N3 with Mathematics, Physical Science and English 
• Trade Test certificate (Millwright/ Electro Mechanic)

Working Experience

• Experience: 8+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To provide a day-to-day operational personal assistance and secretarial/administration function to the SVP/VP and acts as the manager's first point of contact with people from both inside and outside the organisation. To co-ordinate business functions of the unit that include personnel administration, office co-ordination and budget monitoring and management. To ensure effective e-mail, diary and admin management, for SVP/VP

Key Accountabilities

• Plan, coordination of meetings and manage daily operations.
• Effectively manage diary/calendar. Ensure availability of key stakeholders and to coordinate critical meetings within the required timelines. Proactively anticipate and respond to diary clashes and resolves conflicts. Book meeting rooms and organise access and parking for visitors. Arrange catering and refreshments for agreed meetings. Receive visitors and telephone calls, take messages, schedule appointments for management staff and provide information to callers.
• Perform a full range of secretarial assignments, such as composing, typing routine letters/agenda, memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings.
• Project a professional company image through in-person and phone interaction. Prioritise/negotiate organizational needs regarding meetings, timeframes and deadlines.
• Attend meetings, takes minutes and meeting notes. Work independently to manage and plan projects and executes deliverables within timelines. Proofread prepared materials for correct grammar, format, completeness.
• Assist and manage time and ensures a high level of service is maintained. Plan and organise workload to resolve issues quickly and professionally, managing within changing set of priorities, needs to be flexible and adaptable.
• Prepare and maintain office records, reports and correspondence. Utilise, reconcile and manipulate data for management reports from different internal/ external sources. Apply an understanding of the information in order to extrapolate key data.
• Stores and file documents for easy future access, maintains hard copy and electronic filing system. Keep abreast of technological changes and masters new technology. Photocopy and prints documents as and when requested. Identify and schedules appropriate venue, travel and accommodation arrangements, locally and internationally. Manage logistics of all venue, travel and accommodation requirements. .Make arrangements for passports, international visas, international drivers licenses, car hire, international roaming facilities, foreign currency allowances, if and when required. Monitor budget/expenses, provide report and analyse trends.
• Control, order and maintain stationery, office supplies and equipment timeously. Provide recommendations/improvement opportunities in the administrative functions. Obtaining and oversee the appropriate use of office equipment, facilities, and materials needed. Adhere to all safety standards and procedures. Develop, maintain effective relationships with internal/ external customers through oral and written communications. Keep informed on industry developments. Adapt the content, style and medium of communication to ensure appropriateness and to maximize understanding and impact among a wide range of audiences. Assist other PAs on systems or processes. Effectively respond to internal stakeholder queries in a timely manner.

Formal Education

• Grade 12
• Higher Certificate or Diploma or Similar qualification in administration

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To test or modify developmental or operational electrical machinery or electrical control equipment and circuitry in business/operational cluster plants or laboratories to maintain them in the best possible condition.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality, quantity and due dates.
• Company values and goals supported and lived.
• Achieving delivery targets e.g. tons, products, services; BU and Discipline Specific.
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Responsible to ensure that the MOC procedure is adhered to for all changes.
• Support Asset Management philosophy.
• The co-ordination of the execution of maintenance strategies.
• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality standards & compliance.
• Assist with RBI studies and the Maintenance strategy process to enhance equipment reliability.
• Optimizes and control resources effectively.
• Perform all tasks cost consciously.
• Independently gather information and data accumulation.
• Awareness, focus and control of cost / budget.
• Independently gather information and data accumulation.
• Achieve safety and risk objectives.
• Apply safety in all practices, specifically project planning and execution.
• 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.
• Ensure that personal development plan is completed, implemented and tracked.
• Apply the learning experience at the workplace management and values.
• Agree and review personal performance goals and the achievement thereof.
• Set and work towards own performance targets and goals as per personal performance agreement.
• Update performance goals and performance agreement regularly.
• 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.
• Adheres to standard procedures and practices with guidance.
• Resolve work obstacles and issues positively and quickly.
• Develop suitable technical proposals based on practical and theoretical knowledge.
• Build customer relationships in order to understand their needs.
• Demonstrates good understanding of customer needs.
• Project a positive image of the department.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with managers and peers.
• Build effective partnerships with team to ensure high performance.
• Provide technical input or advice to multidisciplinary project teams.
• Demonstrate effective listening and communication skills when dealing with colleagues.
• Improve present way of doing work by continuously asking questions.
• Identify optimization opportunities.
• Share and implement new ideas regarding work.

Formal Education

• Grade 12/ N3 with Mathematics, Physical Science and English 
• Relevant Diploma or N6 in Electrical/ Electronics 

Working Experience

• Experience: 4+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• The IM Analyst Data Engineering is responsible for ingestion of data from multiple sources by applying data extraction, transforming and load techniques. The responsibilities also include analysis, modeling and orchestration. The role i aimed at enabling the organizations with data to derive valuable business insights to improve decision-making and enables reporting and analysis. The individual will collaborate with data analysts and data platform team to design and build data engineering solutions for business enablement. Identify, source and make available key data required in the Analytics Ecosystem platform. Develop and implement an automated data orchestration through DeveOps processes to ensure reliable and readily available data. Create and publish data objects to enable development or data products and business views required for business intelligence and analytics. participate in embedding best practices within the organisation in terms of integration of a decision support database and the related software programs used to collect, cleanse, transform, and store data from a variety of operational and external sources.

Key Accountabilities

Data modelling, integration and products

• Maintain and adapt Enterprise Data Schema Analyse Metadata and develop database structures Analyse and develop data solutions using standard development toolsDevelop new procedures and standards Appraise current Data Problems and devise solutions to resolve Lead various value adding architectural projects to improve the business value of Data through Data Analysis

Data Acquisition

• Utilise techniques such as classification, regression, market basket, clustering to build and examine complex data models Review the model and algorithm used for anomaly detection Examine the deployment options and deploy the data models and test results Build and examine complex data models Coach others on data acquisition tools and techniques

Data Orchestration

• Conduct continuous ETL impact analysis and to provide guidance in tuning and optimization of ETL jobs Ensure Data Conformance and Data Lineage Coach others on data orchestration Support teams when they have challenges with extracting, transforming or loading data

Data Security Standards

• Explain the fundamentals of data security. Describe the organization’s expectations for data security, data privacy, and confidentiality.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree

Min Experience

• Typically, 3 Years Relevant Experience

Certification

• Microsoft data engineering on Microsoft Azure

Tools and Technology Skillsets

• Azure Data Engineering - ETL and automation of testing (Azure Data Factory,
• Theobald SSIS and Logic Apps)
• Data Architecture
• Data Modelling and Design (eg. SAP PowerDesigner)
• Data Warehousing (eg. Synapse SQL)
• Azure Power Platform Engineering (Power BI)
• Integration with PowerApps or K2 or SharePoint Online or SQL
• DevOps
• Agile

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Purpose of Job

• To coordinate health and safety activities to facilitate inspections, data gathering, and data maintenance and integrate health and safety initiatives into SASOL operations to maintain a safe and healthy environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure effective delivery of targets through monitoring and responding proactively to hazards in the workplace. Conduct hazard identification in the workplace, facilitate safety related risk assessments, lead incident investigations and facilitate RCAs
• Participate in the development of shutdown planning and campaigns and ad hoc Service Provider audits on site to check compliance to SHE file requirements
• Participate in safety system audits, e.g. Logbook audits, lock-out audits, legal appointment audits, insurance engineers audits etc.
• Provide input during risk assessments to ensure safety issues are identified
• Provide advice on the selection and use of specific PPE and participate in the respective forums
• Participate in the roll out of the Safety Improvement Plan and report updates as required
• Ensure personal and team development while coaching the team and others with regards to Safety
• Ensure results through the management of personal and team meet targets (e.g. due dates and quality standards) in alignment to performance contracts
• Manage ad-hoc requests and tasks in relation to Safety
• Review and contribute to policies, standards and procedures
• Identify, evaluate and recommend improvement opportunities
• Input into the compilation of new and the revision of existing safety procedures and instructions.

Formal Education

• Grade 12 
• National Diploma/ B Tech in Safety Management 

Working Experience

• Experience: 4+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To create and compile economical short, medium and long-term production, stonework and infrastructure deployment plans and schedules for the colliery with the accompanying reports to support an integrated business view for strategic, budget planning and future execution as well as to monitor that execution is according to the plan.

Key Accountabilities

• Perform the annual strategic and budget optimal production, stonework and infrastructure planning and scheduling within dedicated mine planning software based on agreed guidelines by applying geological information, mining restrictions, mine planning principles and demonstrated performance targets.
• Perform and maintain a monthly 24 months rolling production and stonework forecasting plan within the dedicated mine planning software.
• Plan the production related activities within work block schedules, while predicting future tons and qualities that will be delivered based on ground conditions and capacity assurance in support of coal blending and stock level management.
• Perform annual asset management (mineable reserve) for the life of the colliery.
• Annually update/maintain and monthly manage the water model for the colliery to ensure safe storage of dirty water underground.
• Comply to all license to operate requirements that are in place (Mining Rights, Environmental, Water, Survey etc).
• Support the colliery to achieve set targets by supporting production, stonework and infrastructure planning and scheduling.
• Monthly and annually support the compilation of all mine planning presentations, reports and attend relevant meeting.

Formal Education

• Grade 12
• Mining related Diploma or B Tech 
• Mine Overseer Certificate (wish)

Working Experience

• Experience: 6+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To perform more complex chemical and physical analysis of samples to pre-defined standards in support of operational processes.

Key Accountabilities

• Analyse samples in a chemical/physical laboratory applying basic analytical methods and equipment
• Prepare analytical samples
• Prepare chemical reagents
• Prepare calibrations and analytical standards
• Run calibrations and analytical standards
• Set up and prepare testing equipment
• Apply principles and concepts of Good Laboratory Practice
• Apply concepts of gravimetric methods (including Filtration, Evaporation, Ignition)
• Apply concepts of titration methods (including Acid base, Redox, Potentiometric, titrations)
• Apply concepts of pH, ion selective and conductivity measurements
• Apply concepts of physical analytical methods (Physical properties of solids, liquids and gases)
• Apply workplace primary sample preparation practices
• Analyse samples in a chemical/physical laboratory applying advanced analytical processes and using complex equipment
• Set up and prepare testing equipment
• Apply concepts and principles of spectrophotometric processes visible, Infrared and Near infra red, Raman, NMR, etc.
• Apply concepts and principles of separation processes
• Apply concepts and principles of spectroscopic processes absorption
• Apply concepts and principles of combustion processes
• Apply concepts and principles of physical testing processes (Microscopy, Particle size by instruments, Tensile strength test)
• Apply concepts and principles of thermal analysis processes (Thermos gravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, Thermomechanical, Calorimetry)
• Capture and handle data
• Capture data and report
• Identify, report and redo samples when deviations occur
• Conduct analytical problem solving
• Set up and calibrate testing equipment (as per applicable analytical technique)
• Conduct first line maintenance on testing equipment (as per applicable analytical technique)
• Apply good laboratory practices
• Keep track of consumables and report shortages
• Conform to all legal requirements, e.g. OSH Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act
• Conform to relevant Sasol procedures
• Conform to all applicable ISO standards
• Identify and report unsafe products, e.g. chlorine identification
• Participate in incident investigations
• Conduct safety inspections
• Act as floor controller
• Adhere to safety rules, e.g. PPE regulations
• Work independently
• Effectively plan own work activities
• innovation and Improvement results
• Identify and propose improvements to procedures
• Identify and propose improvement in effectiveness and service delivery
• Make suggestions and contributions to safety improvements
• Team development
• Coaching of junior colleagues/knowledge sharing
• Conduct on-the-job training
• own performance
• Participate in KPI and PDP discussions
• Ensure performance against PDP
• Ensure own delivery on PDP actions
• Proper and effective relationship building with relevant stakeholders
• Ensure the establishment of good relationships with various stakeholders (line management, direct reports, team members, customers, service providers) in order to ensure effective service delivery
• Customer contact and service delivery
• Liaise with customers in reporting deviations
• Report on delays of service
• Comply with SLA with customers

Formal Education

• Matric/N3 with Maths, English & Physical Science
• Relevant Analytical Qualification

Working Experience

• Experience: 0 - 5+ relevant years