Job Opportunities at Sasol

ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Responsible for providing administrative and clerical services in order to ensure effective and efficient administration at Sasol Mining SHE Department

• Responsible for general area / department and is the team’s expert in methods and tasks efficiencies

• To assist in ensuring effective office administration, document control and Environmental Management reporting within the established governance framework

 

FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS

Deliver on time and within required standards.  Deal with immediate and relatively short-term issues with procedural routine thinking challenges.

• Report on issues and challenges identified

• Action tasks with attentiveness, assertiveness and persistence

• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality standards & compliance

• Submit data, documents, information and presentations as per schedule

• Awareness of cost / budget

• Verify and correct raw data by highlighting inconsistencies with the data capturer (owner), seeking explanations for inconsistencies and / or correct the data where relevant.

• PPE management for the Department

• Other relevant SAP transactions

 

Operate within relatively standardised guidelines from superior/s regarding what is required and how it is to be done.  Constantly interact with people in dealing with day-to-day effectiveness of delivery.

• Accuracy and timelines of feedback provided

• Exceptions identified, monitored and reported to manager

• General office admin

• Document management and filing

 

Duties performed may include preparation of documents and reports, the use of office technology compiling records, organizing and maintaining files, posting information, greeting/referring/assisting visitors/clients/staff/others, mail distribution, and photocopying.

• Produced high quality reports and presentations

• Professionalism

• Timeous delivery and deliver on agreed dates

 

Accountable for the effective utilisation and deployment of senior executives/manager/s time and schedule – diary management to reduce management role complexity and facilitate optimum productivity of individuals supported.

• Effective diary management

• Organise meetings and schedule attendees (book visitors, etc.)

 

Acts as the manager’s first point of contact with people from both inside and outside the organisation.

• Demonstrate appropriate protocol

• Be assertive

 

Perform clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings, in addition to providing effective technical support in Board-type preparation and presentations.

• Clerical effectiveness

• Professional quality presentation

• Taking of minutes and distribution and follow-up

 

Policies, practices, standards, procedures and methods: application and compliance

• Review compliance and follow up against the standards and objectives. BU customer satisfaction surveys

• Comply with relevant service level agreements. Ensure adherence to Sasol reporting guidelines

• Liaise with BU data owners on expectations and requirements for standardisation

 

Governance and Compliance

• Develop data owner network for all relevant required data and information for reporting and submission purposes

• Comply with reporting schedules

• Develop and maintain reporting schedules for all relevant data. Raw data available and ready as per schedule

• Analyse raw data by checking for inconsistencies in the available data (e.g. significant differences in the previous and current values reported)

 

Problem solving and decision making

• Ensure availability of updated and accurate data and information to enable informed strategic business decision

 

Customer Relationships

• Build customer relationships in order to understand their needs

• Foster effective relationships with strategic partners, i.e. Environmental Practitioners to ensure trouble free data and audit management

• Liaise with Business Unit Environmental Practitioners on expectations and requirements for standardisation

 

 Continuous Improvement

• Improve present way of doing work by continuously asking questions

• Share and implement new ideas regarding work

• Continually improved data management and reporting processes

• Identify on-going data management and reporting improvement opportunities

• Identify Business Unit internal best practice opportunities

 

Please note:

In line with Sasol’s commitment to Employment Equity, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups.

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

 

Minimum Qualifications and Experience required

• Grade 12

• Profecient in MS Office packages

• Relevant Diploma will be to your advantage

• Coal Mining Experience will be to your advantage

• 2 years total work experience

• Drivers license and own transport

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Short Description / Purpose of Job
A Process Artisan operates process equipment, systems and processes for a specific plant / unit within the Sasol environment to achieve production requirements in a safe manner

 

Recruitment Description / 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
• Apply and maintain safety in a working environment
• Participates in shift handover meetings
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Work Independently
• Understand and know the business, drivers and KPIs
• Contribute to the coaching and mentoring of learners
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval
• Lead by example (walks the talk)
• Presentation on specific plant equipment
• Conducts IMS and plant 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
• Exhibits operational discipline and conducts themselves in a disciplined manner
• Exhibits good attendance and understands and follows company rules and procedures

 

Formal Education

High school Diploma and Occupational Trade Certificate

 

Min Experience

• 2 - 5 Years

Certification & Professional Membership

• NQF Level 2 - 4

Competencies

Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something

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.

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.

Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting

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Purpose of Job / Role Intent

To manage, lead, organise and control Main Conveyors and to provide the leadership required to create a high performance team capable of reaching all of its set targets.  Execute the statutory duties according to Regulation 2.15.1 in his / her area of responsibility.

 

Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required

Grade 12 
Red Ticket
Fiery Mines Blasting Certificate, Gas Testing, Competent A, First Aid
Code 8 drivers license
Minimum 5 years total relevant experience as a Miner
OR
Diploma with Certificate in Blasting, Gas Testing, Competent A, First Aid
Code 8 drivers lincese and 2 years experience as a Miner

 

Specific experienc required

-  Experience in organising activities with regards to conveyors is essential

-  Risk Management experience

-  Knowledge of SHE, COPs and SOPs

-  Relevant legal knowledge

 

Core elements of Job

1. Safe Production –Carries out on a day to day basis - planning, organising, control and leadership that ensure that departments KPI's are met –to produce safe coal by ensuring

2. Implements operational projects, ensures operating compliance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in appointed area of responsibility

3. Ensures availability of spares, equiptment and resources required to ensure optimal procutions, , including governance of Electronic time keeping,

4. Provides first line solutions to employees reporting to him / her on any technical related problem

5. Safe Production – Support departments to achieve set targets by coordinating planning within appointed area of responsibility.

6. Finance – Control costs to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget.

7. SHE – Ensure best in class safety performance and continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain required RCR.

8. Provide on the job training, coaching and career development

 

GENERAL

- Share  and implement best practices on Conveyors

- Show commitment to and ownership of safety initiatives

- Coach and develop subordinates, Drive PDPs

- Maintain time management on SAP

- Conduct stock check and order mining material for delivery on time

- Attend meetings and communicate information to team

- Comply with legal and Sasol Mining requirements

- Maintain discipline in area of responsibility

 

Major Challenges / Problem Solving

• Supporting the mine in delivering on safe production within the budgeted allowances for engineering maintenance , balancing production targets with maintenance practices.

• Managing relationships between the mining and engineering departments.

• Ensuring that the various sets of legal requirements and engineering principles are met in the operational environment.

• Influx of new technology that requires highly skilled workforce to manage the complexity.

• The management of service providers operating in the area of responsibility, providing sufficient supervision.

• The management of the procurement and supply side of the operational environment

 

Operating Environment

• This position has a 2.15.1 legal appointment and is accountable for managing the operational  solutions and governance within the area of appointment at a mine within a highly regulated industry.

• Remote locations, Equiment and infrastructure are underground and may be located over a wide area, the availability must be managed to ensure production targets are met.

• Complex interfaces with contractors and suppliers also exits.

• Information from various sources needs to be analyzed, interpreted and integrated to make trade-off decisions in the best interest of the area of responsibility

 

Leadership Behavioural Competencies

• One-Sasol mindset

• Shapes business strategy

• Business acumen

• Drives accountability and high performance

• Fosters teamwork and  collaboration

• Role models customer focus

• Leverages diversity and inclusion

• Nurtures and coaches

• Builds partnerships

• Develops self

 

Functional Competencies

• Solving engineering problems

• Mine Process knowledge

• Mine Planning

• Safety Management

• Maintenance Planning

• Financial Management

• People and Talent / Career Management

• Predictive Maintenance knowledge

• Reliability engineering

• Contracted services management

• Fostering discipline and managing employee relationships

• Presenting, communicating and facilitating

• Technical knowledge of machines and equipment

• Knowledge and application of sound engineering standards and practices

• Knowledge and using Work Management Process (WMP)

• Computer Literacy

 

Please note the following clauses:

1. The Sasol Group / Sasol Mining will never request you to make any cash deposits/payments as part of the recruitment process.

2. In line with Sasol’s commitment to Employment Equity, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups.

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

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Implement identified initiatives / partnerships and support various internal functions within the mobility environment.
• Perform support functions as required by line manager to support property related functions and activities in the retail environment.

 

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with internal and external business streams / partners to evaluate potential initiatives.
• Consult, implement, and manage internal processes and policies to adjudicate and consider partnerships in the retail landscape.
• Draft and present commercial construct of proposed partnership transaction.
• Instil and foster collaboration between Sasol Group and identified external initiative partners.
• Engage and onboard stakeholders of Sasol Group franchisees and property owners to enable the successful implementation of initiatives.
• Establish and facilitate processes related to legal requirements and agreements associated with initiatives.
• Drive approval processes for all responsible initiatives at the agreed decision-making platform.
• Manage and implement the roll-out of initiatives within recognised parameters and establishing collaboration between relevant and affected business streams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal business streams to verify ongoing alignment between planning, implementation, operation, and management of initiatives.
• Support the network development team with network site retention and associated responsibilities. Provide ongoing support to internal mobility business streams within existing network and new network environments and developments.
• Prepare and submit timely reports on post implementation performance of respective partnerships.
• Manage quality control and quantity assurance on partnership conversion.
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations.
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders to enable the achievement of initiatives.
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.

 

Formal Education

• University Bachelor’s Degree (Building Science, Town Planning, Quantity Surveying or Architecture)

 

Min Experience

• 6+ relevant years of experience

 

Certification & Professional Membership

None

Competencies

Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something

Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work

Integration: The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.

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.

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Short Description / Purpose of Job
The purpose of this job is to provide effective legal compliance-, governance- and enablement- administrative support to Sasol Energy and Chemicals SA OMEs.

 

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

Legal compliance support
•    Manage and execute all requests submitted to the legal appointment inbox for SHE legal appointments according to structural changes in the relevant Hub.
•    Ensure that legal appointment templates are up to date and available for use in collaboration with Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement.
•    Establish relevant Hub SHE legal appointment register with compliance detail in collaboration with Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement.
•    Coordinate the administration of legal appointments, typing of appointment letters, quality checks, and obtain all signatures to ensure loop closure for legal appointments.
•    Coordinate reporting and record keeping of SHE legal appointment reporting to authorities (e.g. GMR 2(1) proformas to DEL).
•    Assist the Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement to establish, update and maintain the Hub SHE Compliance risk management plans and controls.
•    Administer the inclusion of legal update information to business SHE Compliance risk management plans in terms of Compliance risk management plans business processes in collaboration with Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement.
•    Capture SHE legal non-compliance findings in relevant business SHE non-conformance system and follow-up on status of corrective and preventive actions determined by the business SHE departments and other business partners.
•    Provide support for the participation in and inputs into relevant site governance committees to the Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement as required to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the legal appointments and associated site plot plans in place.

Governance support
•    Collect information from relevant stakeholders to enable the Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement to track progress on the business SHE game plan and focus areas.
•    Assist with the administration to review and update SHE policies, procedures and work instructions, plot plans to ensure that accurate information is available.
•    Understand the balanced view of SHE scorecards, track and update the departments SHE scorecard on a monthly basis.
•    Initiate and coordinate departmental initiatives such as competitions, team building etc.
•    Ensure that work and project plans meet the technical and professional objectives.
•    Provide input for SHE communication such as toolbox talks, SHE training, monthly SHE themes and safety moments etc.
•    Develop and maintain work practices that integrate the planning, organising, controlling and reporting functions and meet set goals.
•    Provide administrative support to Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement for the governance of legal accountability transfers, including the review of underpinning agreements such as OHSA section 37(2) agreements and associated ring-fence agreements.
•    Provide administrative support to Snr Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement to enable SHE legal compliance in Energy through facilitating and enabling aligned understanding and implementation of applicable legal requirements.

Enablement support
•    Participate in user acceptance testing of new or improved enabling technology developments in collaboration with relevant role players.
•    Assist in the uploading of business-specific data during implementation of SHE enabling technology such as SharePoint, legal registers.
•    Manage SHE requests via the SHE RES inbox or request tool.
•    Provide systems administration support relating to IMS, Risk, Non-conformance system and legal appoint tool as per authorisations.
•    Provide administrative support during 2nd and 3rd party audits (Legal compliance audits and Management systems audits).
•    Provide administrative support to maintain the legal register, SHE authority Matrix, all SHE related records to ensure that these remain comprehensive and up to date.
•    Enable sound stakeholder relations with end users, clients and government stakeholder on SHE legal compliance matters.
•    Assist with the administration and enablement support to the Site SHE legal forum, weekly/monthly/quarterly SHE RES/legal meetings, inspections, audits, monitoring, site visits by government stakeholders, reporting, executing next steps, etc.

Reporting
•    Report on the status of legal appointments for the Hub.
•    Report on status of close out of SHE requests related to the SHE inbox and request tool.
•    Stakeholder SHE legal compliance reporting: monthly/quarterly.
 

Formal Education

High School / School Diploma or similar

 

Min Experience

• 3+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies

Compliance:  Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.

Facilitation:  The means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently.  Particular focus is on meetings, but can include other processes such as the delivery of products and services where others are involved and their participation is critical to success.

Integration:  The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.

Partnership Leadership:  Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes.  Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

Assistant to Artisan on rotating equipment (pumps, fans, gearboxes).

 

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• 0-2 Years’ experience in a maintenance environment.
• Familiar with rotating equipment, e.g. pumps, bearings etc.
• Basic hand tools knowledge.
• Basic knowledge on oils and grease.
• Basic knowledge on gaskets and gasket cutting.
• Assist Artisans on all types of pumps, fans and blowers.
• Housekeeping.
• Topping up oil and greasing of pump / blower / fan bearing housing.
• To support Sasol values and goals.
• Share knowledge with colleagues.
• Live safety.
• Comply to safety standards / procedures.
• Identify all unsafe conditions and bring under the attention of management.
• Perform basic job execution planning wrt tools, consumables.
• Feedback to customer (plant maintenance / production).
• Communicate with customer concerning machine condition, defects as/when required.
• Suggest and implement innovative ideas to make work faster, simpler, better.
• Must be able to do standby and work overtime.
• Must have a valid code 8 or code B drivers license.

 

Formal Education

Grade 12 with maths and science

 

Min Experience

0 - 2 years

 

Competencies (Skills, knowledge and characteristics)

• Good physical health.
• Good interpersonal relations and leadership skills.
• Customer Focus.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.