Job Opening at Sasol

ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Efficient operation of the plant.
• Adhere to all safety regulations and work standards
• Comply with legal requirements and be prepared to do physical work as stipulated in the job description,
• Process controller reporting to dayshift Foreman and adhere to Foreman reasonable and safe instructions
• Adhere to all safety regulations and work standards
• Practice good housekeeping, plant cleaning
• Comply with legal requirements
• Report incidents and near misses
• The successful candidate must be willing to work shifts.
• He / she will be required to do shift cover duties and work overtime (in accordance with legislation).
• Active participation in Behaviour Based Safety, IMS inspections and SHE representative roles.
• Physically monitor production processes
• Completion of checklists (safety, start up, shutdown, etc)
• Work in a dust environment and within legislation
• Conduct physical work

FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS

• Physically support the Artisan to monitor production processes on plant and DCS
• Support Artisan with issuing of permit (including safe making) and pre-task risk assessments.
• Conduct visual inspections on the process equipment and load defects on SAP.

Complete all required log sheets and logbooks on the plant.

• Conduct safety management system inspections e.g. OSHA, ISO 14000/18000/9001.
• Report process deviations to the Foreman.
• Compile relevant area shift report during and before end of shift.
• Report incidents and near misses

Report all risk behaviours and unsafe conditions to Foreman/Line Manager.

• Adhere and apply standard operating procedures and work instructions
• Conduct basic fault finding and possible solutions.
• Assist service provider with cleaning activities on the plant.
• Attend shift SHE safety meetings.
• Active participation in Behaviour Based Safety, IMS inspections and SHE representative roles
• Must be able to work under pressure.
• Work together with other departments to ensure plant is operational.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Experience in a production environment (Must)
• Related exposure and experience in the Steam Stations environment (Must)
• Experience within a petro-chemical / chemical industry will be an advantage
• Be able to work in a dusty/ash slurry environment (get dirty).
• Must be physically fit
• Valid driver’s licences (Must).

Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12 or N3 with English, Maths and Science (Must)
• NQF level 2 Chemical Operations Occupational (Must)
• Related Steam Stations value chain plant operational experience required (Must)
• Experience in a production environment (Must).

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• Good communication skills
• Problem solving skills
• Be able to work independently
• Good interpersonal skills
• Team Player
• Ability to work under lot of pressure
• Accountability

Closing Date: 11th, May 2022

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Short Description / 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.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Achieving targets as agreed upon (e.g., safety, tons, products, services), BU and Discipline Specific
• Agree and review personal performance goals and the achievement thereof
• Stays aware, focuses on and partakes in the control of cost / budget
• Build customer relationships in order to understand their needs
• Understand and live the company values, vision and goals.
• Conduct data processing and reporting
• Develop suitable technical proposals based on practical and theoretical knowledge
• Actively participate in setting and achieving, team targets, due dates and quality standards
• Independently gather information and data accumulation
• Optimizes and control resources effectively
• Manage own work. plan, organize, control and report own work
• Review compliance against Policies, practices, standards, procedures and methods: application and compliance
• Resolve work obstacles and issues positively and quickly
• Improve own skills and knowledge by take ownership of personal improvement and skills development. Apply the learning experience at the workplace.
• Build and maintain effective relationships / partnerships with team and peers to ensure high performance
• Provide technical input or advice to multidisciplinary project teams
• Demonstrate effective listening and communication skills when dealing with colleagues
• Continuous improvement Improve present way of doing work by continuously asking questions
• Identify optimization opportunities
• Share and implement new ideas regarding work

Formal Education

• Post School Tertiary Diploma (South Africa / Eurasia)/BEng Tech/BTech

Min Experience

• 4+ relevant years Tech II & 7+ senior technician

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.
• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• 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.
• Project Coordination: Knowledge and experience with Project Coordination is planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a objective this include an administrative, liaison and support role that supports one or more projects. Usually used during smaller non capital projects.
• Relationship Management: The conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success.  At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management such as CEO [Chief Executive Officer], CIO [Chief Information Officer], and CFO [Chief Financial Officer].
• Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.
• 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.

Closing Date: 10th, May 2022

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PURPOSE OF THE JOB

This position will be in support of Full Calendar Operation . An Artisan/Senior Artisan is responsible for the management of the maintenance process in the area of responsibility, to enable mining teams to reach production targets within the principles of the QCDSM. 

FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS

• Manage control and maintain equipment in area of responsibility
• Safety management and risk assessment
• Ensure that COPs and SOPs are understood and adhered to
• Identify ISO standards
• Accurate and realistic maintenance and overall plan and budget
• Ensure maximum availability and reliability of equipment
• Conformance to all legal statutory and Sasol requirements
• Provide specific expertise and in-section coaching and training and complex repairs
• Evaluate personnel training needs schedule for training
• Coach sub-ordinates towards requirements for next highest level

REQUIREMENTS: 

Qualifications and expertise required (Must)

• Grade 12/N3 (or equivalent) both with Maths, Science and English/Business English
• NQF 4 Trade Test (Valid EM Trade Test Certificate – Qualified EM/Millright)  
• Flame proofing and gas testing where applicable
• Fault finding experience
• Knowledge of the work management process and implementation thereof (wish)  
• Understand and use the plant/mine maintenance documentation system, etc job cards, task list notification
• Understand failure modes of discipline specific equipment
• Computer literate (wish)
• Coal Mining Underground experience (Fiery mine experience) is an added advantage
• Experience of trunks and Telemetric’ s will be at your advantage.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES: 

Competencies (skills, knowledge and characteristics)

• Team building and coaching skills
• Ability to plan, co-ordinate and control all activities
• Ability to drive QCDSM
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Computer literate
• Conceptual ability
• Problem solving and decision making
• Strategic planning
• Innovation
• Risk Assessment

Closing Date: 11th, May 2022

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

With safety and profitability in mind, a base layer process control engineer seeks to optimise and improve efficiency of the production process by analysing existing control strategies for performance and  functionality as and when these controls flag on a control loop performance monitor, or when operations raise a question, or as is found from investigations relating to incidents where root cause analyses were done.  Remediating actions to address issues found are many, from the system design to the hardware to the control strategies involved. These remediating actions are the crux of the matter for processes to perform according to requirement. Capacity in developing and implementing changes within control engineering by different means is required. This includes the ability to write a control narrative from a control map and to show that the control is achieving what is required by the process narrative.  Expertise in controller configuration, process modelling, statistical data analysis, inferential development, advanced regulatory control is required as well as some background in information technology.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Understand and analyse designated process areas by studying and monitoring production performance and identify improvement opportunities on the process.
• Consult with process engineering, Instrumentation maintenance department and production colleagues as well as colleagues from other disciplines to get alignment, identify requirements and/or priotitise opportunities
• Apply analytical skills to support root cause analyses
• Support production on daily problem solving related to process automation and regulatory and advanced regulatory control in co-operation with plant maintenance
• Ensure applied control strategies achieve the process intent. Recognise when they do not and collaborate with more senior engineers to design more appropriate controls if required, else ensure the issues hampering the current control are remedied. Develop key inferentials using statistical or first principle modelling techniques if required. Implement, configure and implement using control system configuration/programming skills to support improvement goals
• Use sound engineering to ensure high integrity signals are used for control purposes
• Prioritise and plan all control related projects to address business requirements according to established engineering principles. Fulfil the control engineering discipline lead function from a control engineering governance perspective.
• Ensure good working relationship with all stake holders escpecially with the instrumentation and control fraternity as well as planr production and maintenance personnel to ensure sustained benefit of solutions.
• Participate in interpersonal skills required for productive working relationships and to work with, or through, others inside and/or outside (including suppliers) the organisation to get work accomplished.
• Ensure compliance with legal, safety, operational reliability and MOC requirements. Ensure that safety objectives and required end user training requirements are met for each MOC implementation
• Adhere to work standards and ensure they are met according to quality, quantity and due dates. Follow governance for plant modifications and manage discipline specific project risks
• Ensure quality of design, EOJ documentation etc.
• Demonstrate One Sasol way behaviour – ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain.
• Maintain discipline specific systems, tools, policies and procedures for the execution of projects.
• Provide high quality reporting to stakeholders (i.e. Month end controller and instrumentation performance integrity reports, engineering design documentation, incident investigation reports etc)
• Contribute in the translation and execution of the technical support strategy.
• Translate and cascade goals and long-term plans through effective two-way communication in the organisation.
• Take responsibility to drive initiatives which improves delivery and competitiveness.
• Ensure correct resource allocation and indicate resourcing needs timeously towards the execution of projects and support of operations.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and innovation.
• Continuously update own knowledge and skills in order to maintain up-to-date knowledge of changing technologies and to ensure critical competencies are developed.
• Develop technical and engineering skills of EITs through coaching.
• Show influencing and negotiation skills, maturity and emotional intelligence.
• Drive high performance culture and innovative thinking.
• Operate successfully in a diverse work environment and adhere to Sasol culture and values.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree in Chemical or Electronic engineering

Min Experience

• 3+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies:

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Compliance: Understanding the enabling aspect of control solutions: field equipment, system regulatory control schemes, human machine interfacing, system integration, operator behaviour, human change dynamics, operational reliability.
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• 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.
• 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.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting

Closing Date: 10th, May 2022

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Provide Technical support to managers and engineers with respect to information gathering, data accumulation, basic processing and reporting.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Prepare to perform standby duties and work overtime when needed.
• Delivery targets e.g. tons, products, service.
• 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.
• Perform all tasks cost consciously.
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Cost awareness and control 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.
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• SHER targets Achieve safety and risk objectives.
• Apply safety in all practices, specifically project planning and execution.
• Ensure safe project execution and implement safe work procedures.
• Company values and goals: supported/lived Understand the company vision and values.
• Resource utilization and efficiency.
• Independently implement solutions based on cost awareness.
• Demonstrate the desired behaviours in agreement with the Sasol Values.
• Personal development and effectiveness 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.
• Ensure optimal resource utilization.
• Plan, organize, control and report own work.
• Ensure work is completed as planned.
• Manage own work planning and delivery according to targets.
• Policies, practices, standards, procedures and methods: application and compliance.
• 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.
• Problem solving and decision making.
• Resolve work obstacles and issues positively and quickly.
• Demonstrates good understanding of customer needs.
• Agree and review personal performance goals and the achievement thereof.
• Build customer relationships in order 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.
• Team and colleague communication.
• Demonstrate effective listening and communication skills when dealing with colleagues.
• 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

• National Diploma/BTech in Instrumentation
• The position will be filled in line with the relevant approved career guidelines.

Min Experience

• 1+ years of relevant Instrumentation maintenance experience

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Closing Date: 10th, May 2022

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FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS

• Maintenance of compressors (and equipment) accordance to approved Quality Control Plans (QCP) and General Overhaul Procedure (GOP)
• Required to (work) on the plant with mechanical equipment in accordance to business needs
• Comply with all relevant safety standards / codes
• Identify all unsafe conditions and bring under attention of management

JOB REQUIREMENTS

In addition to a pre-employment medical examination, some positions may require a physical fitness assessment as part of the normal selection criteria.

Qualifications:

• National Senior Certificate with mathematics and science, English
• Qualified Artisan Fitter (NQF4 Trade test) recognize by Sasol with a minimum of 18 months Rotating equipment experience
• Valid South African driver’s license
• SAP plant maintenance.
• In addition to a pre-employment medical examination, some positions may require a physical fitness assessment as part of the normal selection criteria

Experience:

• 18 months plant experience as an artisan grade 2

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Leadership

Self-mastery

• Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.

Functional / Technical

• Good physical health
• Good interpersonal relations and leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Planning and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Willing to do standby duty
• Must have a valid driver’s license
• Computer literate
• Technical Knowledge of trade

Closing Date: 10th, May 2022

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Purpose of the job 

• Provide expert services to execute on temporary employment services (TES) contracts and ensure compliance on TES transactions.  Manage client, supplier and internal relationships.
• Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.

Minimum Qualification and Experience required

• Grade 12 / equivalent.
• 5+ relevant years
• SAP MM and PtP process execution
• SAP HR (wish)

Key Accountabilities

Business results

• Facilitation:  Particular focus is on customer support as well as engaging with Suppliers to effectively use SAP and other systems to, to ensure delivery of TES resources to site on time in full, complying with minimum standards and labour legislative guidelines.
• Integration: Using various systems and process for the successful recruitment, engagement, tenure of resources, invoicing and demobilisation.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Operates within a process and transactional driven environment with a customer and service delivery focus.
• Fully integrated Supply chain- and labour management processes from on boarding to de-mobilisation of TES resources.
• Supplier Management
• Daily interaction with Suppliers on sourcing, mobilisation, time-and -pay queries, demobilisation of TES resources.
• Apply a collaborative and consultative approach which consistently meet business needs.
• Participate in regular meetings with Suppliers, site agents, Medical, Induction and Permit Offices.
• Customer Support
• Provide training and guidance to line clients on the use of the TES process and systems
• Scope clarification on TES requirements and job cost estimations.
• Collaborate and support on resolving pay- and other related queries.

Sourcing

• Receive requests for TES from line clients.
• Manage sourcing through TES outline agreements.
• Facilitate selection of resource, clarification of scope and job cost estimate and creation of PR/PO.
• Administer action against notification (Engagement, Termination, Replacement etc…).

TES On-boarding

• Liaise with permit office, medical and training centres where required to facilitate the mobilisation of resources.
• Verify that TES resources have undergone medicals, inductions and training and badging.
• Correct engagement of resources on PS3 and activation on PTMW.

Compliance

• First line assurance on executing on the TES contracts, complying with Sasol standards and requirements, following the PtP process, and labour legislative requirements e.g. notice periods.
• Query non-standard customer expectations.

Shutdown execution

• Participate in shutdown recruitment initiatives as and when required.
• Create shutdown notifications, co-ordinate and expedite on TES resource requirements
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to facilitate the seamless mobilisation of resources to site during shutdowns.

Reporting

• Compile and distribute reports on volumes, cost and potential risk to customers.

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.
• 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.
• Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging technology, best practices, competition, regulations, and legislation.
• 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.

Closing Date: 10th, May 2022

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

The purpose of this position is to take ownership and accountability for the PSM (Process Safety Management) role in NATREF SHE, participate in the Regional Operational Hubs in SHE Process Safety strategy, interpret and implement process safety based on the PSM Elements and the SHE Excellence Approach. The evaluation of process operations and design through risk assessments to ensure minimization of accidents, incidents, and events that harm people, property, or the environment. Accountable for driving the process hazard analysis/studies, auditing, process safety information sharing and operational knowledge support to line management. Owns implementation and enablement of process safety strategy to meet SHE performance goals. Owns root cause methodology and investigations, defining process safety specifications and procedures, providing training input and assurance with regards to PSM aspects at Natref.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Integrate the technical expertise of TOTAL into Natref with regards to systems, processes and procedures.
• Take full ownership and accountably and drive the PHA process ad hoc risk assessments using methodologies such as HAZOP, PHR, LOPA, SIL, LOC, FEI, CEI, Fault/Event Tree, Human Factors, Inherent Safer Design, Explosion modelling, Risk Ranking, communicate findings, obtain managements' formal response to PHA recommendations.
• Lead and participate in PSSRs, incident investigations, drive the compiling of reports, lessons learned, next steps and follow to conclusion.
• Identify potential or actual changes, assess their effects, and improve risk management using hierarchy of controls.
• Assist operations regarding the technical aspects of PSM and clarify PSM standards and elements when required.
• Advise on Safety Case technique info to support regulatory permitting and authorisations where applicable.
• Own the PHA process and provide assurance that the PHA info is used in operation of the other PSM elements e.g. Standard Operating Procedures, Emergency Procedures.
• Develop and maintain plant specific PSM procedures, checklists where applicable, by interpreting Sasol standards, processes, specifications, and guidelines.
• Be accountable for and drive Natref PSM initiatives, plant rollout, embedding of the PSM system.
• Conduct MHI studies where applicable, analyse MHI regulations and follows the actions to conclusion.
• Advise on land use for operational areas based on the relevant studies.
• Carry out SHE stand-by duties and own the process of external risk assessments if required.
• Drive and implement lessons learnt to advise management to avoid repeat events.
• Be accountable for the quality assurance of risk studies.
• Utilize a FER-SI tool to derive fire, explosion and toxic index and learn the TOTAL methodology of API classification of incidents.
• Conduct audits, plant inspections to assure the effectiveness of actions taken in incident investigations, PHA, KUEs.
• Be accountable for driving the requirements in preparation for 3rd party audits, insurance engineers’ visits by collecting information, organising, planning, tracking and follow up.
• Gather, analyse data on PHA, MHI reports, observations, audits, incidents, and advise management on high risks.

Formal Education

• Bachelor of Engineering

Min Experience

• 7 - 10 relevant year’s including 4 years operations experience