Job Openings at Tharisa

Role Context

Operational Tasks

• Implement instrumentation operational and tactical strategies across the plant by executing set operational plans in alignment with standard operating procedures. This includes overseeing daily instrumentation activities, ensuring optimal equipment functionality, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives to optimise plant performance and ensure cost efficiency.
• Perform maintenance, fault-finding, calibration, installation, and commissioning of field instrumentation, PLCs, and control systems.
• Execute planned and unplanned maintenance tasks to ensure reliability and optimal plant performance. This includes timely fault-finding, repairs, calibration, and replacement of instrumentation equipment to minimise downtime and support continuous production operations.
• Ensure compliance with OEM standards, plant procedures, and technical specifications.
• Participate in standby and breakdown support duties as required.
• Keep accurate reporting on job card and 5 why system.
• Execute critical daily maintenance tasks, including the planning and execution of shutdown activities, to ensure equipment remains in optimal condition and safe to operate, enhancing overall instrumentation performance.
• Keep abreast of changes in relevant guidelines and legislation to ensure compliance and adherence to all applicable laws and regulations.
• Comply with preventive maintenance programs to minimize equipment downtime and optimize performance, ensuring adherence to health, safety, and environmental regulations in instrumentation operations and Tharisa Mines’ standards.
• Perform troubleshooting and diagnostics for complex instrumentation issues, developing and implementing action plans to minimize operational disruptions.
• Inspect plant equipment components and systems to identify hazards, defects, or required adjustments and repairs, ensuring compliance with relevant standards.

Supervisory Oversight

• Support a positive and productive work environment by following and respecting Human Resources policies and procedures, promoting teamwork, accountability, and effective communication to help the department achieve its goals.
• Provide guidance and support to trainees and junior team members in line with Tharisa Minerals’ values and standards, contributing to their development and encouraging a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Proactively seek guidance, coaching, and mentorship from senior team members and supervisors to enhance technical knowledge, improve work practices, and contribute to the overall success and development of the team.
• Set clear personal development goals and objectives, regularly monitor progress, and actively seek feedback and guidance from supervisors to ensure growth in line with TM’s standards and operational expectations.

Financial Monitoring and Control

• Assist in identifying cost effective maintenance strategies and recommend spares required for instrumentation work.
• Minimize equipment downtime and reduce unnecessary overtime and call-outs through effective maintenance practices.
• Ensure proper use of tools, equipment, and materials to avoid wastage.
• Manage own expenditure against budget allocations by preventing premature equipment failure and requesting only the necessary spares to control unnecessary spending.
• Comply with all financial, Supply Chain Management (SCM), and other Tharisa Minerals (TM) regulations and policies by maintaining the right actions to reduce financial risk in the area of accountability.

Stakeholder Relations

• Maintain effective communication and working relationships with both internal teams and external service providers to ensure relevant information, updates, and feedback are shared timeously, helping to manage expectations and support smooth maintenance operations.
• Maintain professional working relationships with production, electrical, mechanical, and control system teams.
• Collaborate with OEM representatives and contractors during fault-finding and major repair activities to ensure accurate diagnosis and that repairs are carried out in line with OEM standards and site requirements.
• Utilise opportunities presented to enhance the relationships and implement processes to maximise a collaborative working relationship.
• Work closely with operations, engineering, and maintenance teams to support asset care activities and contribute to improved equipment performance, ensuring plant reliability and meeting operational requirements.
• Effectively communicate job progress, identified risks, and critical maintenance findings to Supervisors and relevant departments to ensure alignment, timely decision-making, and continued safe operation.

Risk, Safety and Compliance

• Stay informed about relevant industry regulations and legislative updates, including the Mine Health and Safety Act 29 of 1996, and apply this knowledge in daily tasks to support compliance with Tharisa’s governance, risk, and safety standards.
• Support the identification and reporting of risks within the instrumentation function to help the department build an accurate risk profile and ensure that critical risks are addressed through proper feedback and corrective actions.
• Demonstrate and promote a strong safety work ethic by following safety procedures, reporting unsafe conditions, and supporting a culture focused on health, safety, and wellbeing within the team to help reduce incidents and maintain a safe working environment.
• Accurately gather and record all maintenance, calibration activities, equipment performance data, and repairs in line with company procedures and regulatory requirements to ensure traceability and compliance with operational and safety standards.
• Maintain valid certificates (e.g. medicals, working at heights, confined space) as per legal requirements.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/National Senior Certificate (NQF4)

Certifications:

• Trade Certificate in Measurement, Control and Instrumentation

Job-specific experience:

• 3 – 5 years’ experience in the plant environment
• Experience/Exposure on MS Dynamics F&O, Reporting tools: MS Power BI

Closing Date: 02 March 2026

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Role Context

• Plan and execute shutdown activities according to scheduled time. 
• Ensure continuous improvement of asset care management
• Management of contractors at the area of responsibility 
• Support asset care and optimisation for ensuring customer needs are met. 
• Assist the engineering team to ensure the health and safety of employees it is taken care of through safety focused maintenance plans
• Maintain good housekeeping standards
• Stop and report any contraventions of the OHSA, regulations, codes of practice, standards and 
  instructions promptly to the engineering line manager
• Diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem
• Derive schedules to inspect plant equipment components and systems to identify hazards, defects, and the need for adjustment or repair, and to ensure compliance with the relevant standards 
• Advise management and the team on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous
• Ensure safe execution of the task and audit completed work orders and give feedback. 
• Conduct regular plant inspections, identify, and rectify inefficiencies 
• Coordinate planned maintenance activities
• Maintain engineering documentation
• Develop scope of works and manage projects
• Plan layout and installation of equipment and fixtures, based on job specifications and relevant standards. 
• Management of R&D projects, continuous improvement projects and capital projects 
• Liaise with other sections and department. 
• investigate the latest maintenance and technology developments for internal implementation
• Implementation and improvement of technology. 
• Improvement and optimization of existing equipment
• Uphold continuous improvement through operational excellence
• Identify and assess the level of issue-based risk exposures by considering risk exposures to the business, people, equipment, material, environment, processes, etc
• Apply risk mitigation measures and implement control measures for residual risk 
• Develop, maintain, and monitor adherence to maintenance standards and specifications
• Review maintenance plans and maintenance task lists 
• Preform maintenance data analysis using pareto analyses, correlation analyses etc and report  top 3 losses
• Apply fault-finding technique and root cause failure analysis
• Perform problem-solving and fault-finding.
• Champion the RCFA investigation and problem-solving session
• Analyse possible solutions and recommend the best solution
• Record actions arising from RCFA’s and monitor recurring failures related to the RCFA  implemented solutions 
• Champion condition monitoring 
• Analyse equipment failure history and log equipment problems identified for further action 
• Analyse callouts in an effort to minimise callouts resulting from equipment downtime
• Manage the engineering department and activities 
• Performing standby duties., and work beyond normal operating hours when required
• Act in a higher level as and when required
• Work independently and in teams
• Flexibility
• Budget control 
• Business understanding 

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/NQF Level 4
• B-Tech, BEng, BSC or national Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (Requirement) 
• Leadership training (advantageous) 
• GCC Factories (Advantageous) 

Job-specific Experience: 

• Minimum of 5 years’ solid experience in heavy industry 
• Minimum of 3 years’ solid experience in project management 
• Problem solving (RCFA) 
• Reliability engineering 
• Maintenance engineering 
• Projects management 
• Computer literacy 
• Valid driving license (code 08) and own transport 

Closing Date: 26 February 2026

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Role Context

Planned and Unplanned Work Orders

• Create, open, track and close planned work orders for maintenance of equipment and machinery within the allocated functions of the mine, by engaging with the relevant stakeholders adhering to the legal and compliance requirements of the mine and industry.
• Capture machines current usages (SMR and KM) when capturing work orders to ensure all information is kept current and up to date as required.
• Capture all data relating to both the planned and unplanned maintenance per shift by inputting all relevant data into the respective systems to provide input into the shift summary report, detailing the status of all machines and equipment.
• Maintain the PTO, SOP, and legal dashboards by engaging with Maintenance Planner, to understand any changes in relation to the above ensuring all changes are approved before final updates are implemented.
• Create and maintain data filing systems by identifying the current process and recommending and implementing changes to enhance the efficiency of the data retrieval and storage process.
• Maintain comprehensive records and reports as it relates to material requisitions, material and supplies, the quantity ordered and used and how this relates to the overall utilisation of stock.
• Capture, print and disseminate all booked (up and down) equipment by logging all information on the respective system to keep all stakeholders informed of the equipment’s progress.

Resource Management

• Provide input into required changes in resources to enable the achievement of own objectives.
• Contribute toward the collection of and capturing of data from across the respective areas of the mine by acting as the first point of contact between the functions on the mine and the support functions on the mine.

Stakeholder Relations

• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Foster swift and effective communication between all relevant stakeholders and their subordinates across the organisation by developing the relationships across the respective areas and ensuring optimal delivery from the control room.
• Direct elements of the mining operations by coordinating the maintenance and repairs of equipment as needed and as planned on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis ensuring any breakdowns are attended to by the relevant department as efficiently as possible.
• Communicate breakdowns to the various and relevant superintendent as per the required procedure and update the system accordingly ensuring there is a live view of the available equipment and the estimated downtime for the repairs.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ Matric (NQF4)

Job specific experience:

• Minimum of 2 years’ clerical experience in mining engineering maintenance.
• Ability to work with the full Microsoft suite (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Experience/Exposure on MS Dynamics F&O, Reporting tools: MS Power BI

Inherent requirements

• Must be medically fit

Closing date: 19 February 2026

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Role Context

• Reports to the Production Supervisor Load & Haul Foreman.
• Ensure that the truck factor is achieved.
• Any damages are reported and attend to urgently.
• Reach daily production targets.
• Executive daily approved plan.
• Load to the required elevation using grade box.
• Continuous feeding of reef to the crushers and waste to TSF.
• Scale the highwall.
• Do not load big rocks on the trucks.
• Do not load un-blasted hard surface.
• Assist load & haul supervisors to execute their work safely and cost-effectively.
• Create and maintain good and healthy relationship with other employees and all managers.

Requirements

Job specific experience:

• Minimum of 1 year experience as an excavator operator.
• Open cast mining experience will be an advantage.
• Code 10 driver license for multi-skilling purpose.
• Must pass both medical and dover tests.

Inherent requirements

• Must be medically fit

Closing date: 25 February 2026

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Role Context

Data Collection and Reporting

• Verify legal training compliance on Hsec Online, and other safety data in the appropriate database so as to centralise and improve for informed decision-making.
• Capture and collate all gathered all Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) related data and information through the use of a comprehensive and well-organised data collection and collation process, to provide a solid foundation for informed decision-making.
• Maintain and update all SHE related data and information within the database (X-time, SAGE And Hsec online), to ensure the accuracy and reliability of safety, health, and environment information.
• Medical booking – Initial booking, check SLP forms and load new employees.
• Provide support in the collection and signing off of contractor’s route forms and submission to L&D department.
• Manage and analyse data by utilising SHE systems for data management, leading to streamlined processes and improved data analysis.
• Recommend improvements to the SHE data management systems (Hsec online, X-Time and SAGE) for enhanced data management, to enhance the data management capabilities and deliver more effective safety and environmental practices and/or services.
• Monitor contractor’s due dates on outstanding actions and audit findings to ensure timely resolution of outstanding actions and audit findings, contributing to improved safety and compliance.
• Receive, schedule, and prioritise operational requests related to SHE data and reporting, to ensure the timely responses to all SHE-related issues and the provision of required data/documentation.

Document Management

• Maintain documents to ensure their accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Organise, maintain and file all SHE-related documents, including safety procedures, health records, and environmental reports, to ensure that they are kept safe and available for contractors when needed.
• Monitor all documents related to the contractor’s management for compliance.
• Administer documentation processes, including but not limited to filing, indexing and organising, to ensure easy access and retrieval of essential information.

Clerk Support

• Secure necessary approvals for contractor management.
• Provide support in the planning, development, implementation, and monitoring of company-wide total SHE initiatives, to contribute towards a safer and more compliant work environment.
• Provide administrative support to contractor management by coordinating with other internal departments.
• Provide support in the preparation of contractor’s management communication materials and presentations, by managing all the related administrative tasks, to ensure the material is ready for distribution to the contractors/business partners.

Stakeholder Relations

• Engage with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of specialisation, as directed by the Manager.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders (contractors/business partners), where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Liaise with key business stakeholders to gather all the needed SHE data and information, for reporting and string purposes.

Resource Management

• Determine resource needs within own area of responsibility to achieve individual role outcomes.
• Request required assets and resources for the fulfilment of work duties to attain quality work outputs.
• Use assets and resources optimally within own area of responsibility.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Grade 12(NQF 4)
• Safety related certificates
• Advantageous: Studying towards a Safety/Environmental Management qualification or any other SHE related courses.

Job-specific experience:

• 1 to 2 years’ experience in contractor management with a strong focus on health and safety, within the mining or similar industry
• Basic Computer Literacy
• Experience/Exposure on Safety file, HSEC Online, SAGE and X-Time.

Closing date: 19 February 2026