Job Vacancies at Fraser Alexander (Pty) Ltd.

PURPOSE

• The position exists to ensure that resources are utilised to maintain the plant as planned on Yellow Machines, Mobile Cranes, LDV, MDV, Diesel Pumps/Generators and HDV Fleet.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Health and Safety

• Maintain FAMP safety policy and procedure requirements
• Promote safety performance
• Conduct risk assessments
• Do planned task observations
• Conduct safety meetings
• Ensure team members wear PPE
• Report & investigate all incidents/accidents
• Mine Health and Safety Act compliance

Co-ordinating

• Liaises with Engineering & Production Staff
• Evaluates condition monitoring status
• Issuing of work schedules and job cards on all machines
• Ensures maintenance planning for all machines
• Issues requisitions for spares as required for planned and adhoc work on the sites fleet

Administration

• Keeps filing system for job cards
• Prepares standby lists
• Compiles weekly artisan utilisation reports
• Prepares month end reports
• Generates cost reports

Managing the team

• Select and appoint competent & passionate people
• Assign work
• Monitor performance
• Train and develop team members
• Maintain discipline in the team

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• Grade 12
• Minimum N3 – Mechanical/Electrical or Diesel engineering subjects
• Diesel Mechanic Trade test-Artisan - MQA/MERSETA preferred

EXPERIENCE

• Preferably previous exposure to the environment in Mining/Mineral Processing
• 2 years Learnership/Apprentice
• 3 – 5 years Artisan experience
• Valid Driver’s License
• Computer Literate (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Knowledge of audits
• Conducting of risk assessments
• How to do planned task observations
• Understand PPE requirements
• Knowledge on how to investigate incidents/accidents
• Excellent teamwork
• Excellent diagnostic skills
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work unsupervised, take ownership and accountability
• Good planning and organising skills.
• Good Interpersonal skills
• Good communications skills

CLOSING DATE: 03/09/2026

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Description

• An exciting opportunity exists to ensure that several tasks are carried out on site to safety, environment and productivity, and to assist management with the efficient and effective running of the site.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business / Functional Management

• Execute operational and technical duties in line with organisational directives, as provided.
• Support implementation of business initiatives as directed.

Financial, Commercial & Contracts Management

• Work with materials and equipment in cost-effective way, as per standard. operating procedures and practice notes as directed.
• Ensure full compliance to material usage requirements in executing duties.

Risk Management and Compliance, Including Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) Responsibility

• Execute all duties in strict compliance to Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) policies, procedures and legislation, to ensure the company's responsibility is met.
• Comply with all reporting and information requirements.

Stakeholder Management (internal/ external)

• Ensure professional interaction with stakeholders.
• Maintain working relationships with support functions on site and at a head office, as required to deliver in their section against standards.
• Engage with peers and seniors on the project to ensure project objectives are achieved as per instruction.

Operations & Project Management

• Contribute to plan/schedule generation for daily/shift work, in line with project goals.
• Responsible for operational execution of work, through delivery of own tasks and duties, as well as supervision of the work for team on shift.

Management Operating System & Reporting

• Ensure all paperwork and posters are displayed on the site office wall and kept up to date.
• Ensure all reported near misses are recorded following procedure and submitted weekly.

Technical Management

• Responsible for adherence to technical standards and work methods, for section, in accordance with organisational and client requirements, policies, procedures and legislation.

SHEQ Management

• Checking sums are right on plan to drawings and quantities and that all materials and work are to the specifications.
• Record the condition of plant arriving on site on a form with photographs.

People Management

• Lead and manage team.
• Support, guide and coach team.

Culture and climate

• Contribute to a culture of safety and continuous improvement for the duration of the project.
• Align with client culture requirements as directed by management

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• B Tech or Degree in Civil Engineering.

EXPERIENCE

• At least one to two years’ experience working in a mining/tailings’ environment.

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Communication (both written and verbal).
• Technical and operations.
• People management.
• Problem solving and decision making.

Closing date: 03 September 2026

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Description

• This position exists to perform a technical and supervisory role on a tailings project. The role includes setting out the site, applying the relevant designs and plans, managing resources, monitoring and reporting on progress against the project plan, and liaising with subcontractors.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business/Functional Management

• Ensure operational execution in their section aligns to organisational directives, as provided by senior superintendent.
• Ensure compliance and adherence to policies, procedures, practices and legislative requirements for their section, identify gaps, propose improvements and implement approved changes as required.

Financial and Commercial & Contract Management

• Monitor and control the cost of materials and equipment, recommend and implement cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project.
• Order materials and actively follow up on deliveries to prevent project delays.
• Monitor daily costs and feed budget vs. actual cost variances to the Site Administrator and Senior Superintendent.

Risk Management & Compliance, Incl Environmental Social Governance (ESG) responsibility

• Ensure all financial, technical, and operational risks and opportunities within your area of responsibility are identified, with appropriate mitigation actions implemented and monitored. Align relevant stakeholders and escalate risks as necessary.
• Ensure that items manufactured off-site meet all specifications and that the supplier’s quality assurance processes are properly tracked.

Stakeholder Management (internal/external)

• Ensure professional interaction with clients and stakeholders at junior to middle management levels.
• Ensure subcontractor operational performance meets requirements, identifying and escalating operational, productivity, labour, and cost risks related to subcontractor management.

Management Operating System & Reporting

• Put appropriate controls in place at point execution to inform management information and enable immediate corrective action when there are deviations from the plan.
• Ensure all relevant data is collected accurately and on time at the point of execution, and shared with stakeholders in the required format, including cost, productivity, quality, safety, and health data, ensuring full compliance.

Operations & project Management

• Ensure work is executed on time, in full, to standard, and first-time-right, supporting operational goals and targets for your section; maintain records of production outputs and generate reports, charts, and graphs.
• Ensure the selection, requisition, scheduling, and preparation of materials and plant for tailings work; verify that materials used align with specifications and assist with material usage control.

Technical management

• Responsible for setting and ensuring adherence to technical standards and work methods for your section, in accordance with organisational and client requirements, policies, procedures, and legislation.

SHEQ Management

• Responsible for setting and ensuring adherence to technical standards and work methods for their section, in accordance with organisational and client requirements, policies, procedures, and legislation.

Staff Management

• Ensure that labourers on site are kept informed of any issues that may concern them, such as retrenchments, paid or unpaid public holidays, and transport, by attending regular meetings with labour representatives.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• BTech or BSc Degree in Civil, Mining, Metallurgical, or Industrial Engineering.

EXPERIENCE

• 2 to 3 years’ experience in a Tailings environment.
• Exposure to supervising, monitoring, and controlling production activities will be advantageous.

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings and radiographs
• Good understanding of the mining industry, with specific focus on tailings operations.
• Knowledge of the technical and operational aspects of the tailings industry.
• Understanding of tailings deposition, remining, water management, and load and haul methods.
• Basic financial and budgeting control skills.

CLOSING DATE: 07 SEPTEMBER 2026

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Description

• This role exists to execute multiple large and small-scale projects.  Oversee safety, risk, technical and commercial management. Overall systems, processes and people management. Interact vertically with operations teams, clients and senior operations management and horizontally with broad business operations in the Division.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business/Functional Management

• Execute project deliverables in line with commercial goals.
• Execute efficient production processes for profitable project outcomes.
• Lead various teams of knowledge workers.

Financial and Commercial & Contract Management

• Manage contract commercial terms including terminations, dispute resolution, force majeure, escalations and profitability.
• Manage costs and production within budget.

Risk Management & Compliance, Incl Environmental Social Governance (ESG) responsibility

• Implement and monitor company’s ESG mandate and social responsibility and legislative compliance.

Stakeholder Management (internal/external)

• Promote ongoing communication with client representatives including Resident Engineer and other key internal mine stakeholders to foster good relations, through appropriate forums and interfaces.
• Manage key interfaces with client contractors, operations and local communities.

Operations & project Management

• Manage tailings operations in line with company procedures.
• Project execution and risk management on one or multiple sites within budget, scope, timelines.

People Management

• Lead and manage project execution teams.
• Support, guide and coach teams.

SHEQ Management

• Oversee the implementation of the Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality plans and compliance.
• Execute zero harm mandate.

Culture and Climate

• Build a culture of continuous improvement for the duration of the project.
• Align with client culture requirements as agreed with project management team, to enhance the client relationship.
• Drive Division’s employee value proposition and decent work principles.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc Degree / BTech qualification in Mining / Metallurgy / Chemical / Civil or similar.
• Project and a general management qualification would be advantageous.
• Remining qualification would be advantageous.
• Mineral Processing course.
• Mineral Residue Disposal course (MRD101).

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum five years relevant experience in respect of managing tailings and/or remining sites.
• Proven production management exposure as a Superintendent (re-mining).
• General mining production experience would be an advantage.
• Proven practical and hands-on experience in the management of leaders, labour and plant resources.
• Planning and commissioning of projects, preferably on tailings or re-mining operations.
• Minimum five years' experience in a management role, preferably in a re-mining environment.

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Solid knowledge of mining, production and tailings industry.
• Knowledge of national legislation, standards and bylaws applicable to tailings environment.
• Technical and operational skills.
• Contracts management and legislation.
• Excellent commercial astuteness.
• Analytical skills.
• Customer relations skills.
• Project management.

 CLOSING DATE: 07 SEPTEMBER 2026

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PURPOSE

• Determine standards, policies for installation, modification, quality control, testing, inspection and maintenance. Directing the maintenance of plant, buildings and equipment, scheduling and planning production activities.
• Appointed in terms of the MHSA and take responsibility for managing and controlling all engineering activities on the mineral processing plant. This includes ensuring legal compliance, improving equipment reliability, and maintaining the overall mechanical and electrical integrity of the plant.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Optimal Plant and Equipment Performance

• Co-ordinate the inspection lists and delegate daily duties to the Engineering Foreman.
• Fulfil duties as per MHSA Section 2.13.3.1 and applicable regulations.
• Maintain legal engineering records, logbooks, appointments, and inspection schedules.
• Conduct audits and inspections to identify non-compliance and implement corrective action.
• Participate in incident investigations and report writing.

Plant Administration Function

• Ensure data integrity on the engineering systems
• Asset lifecycle tracking, planned maintenance scheduling, and breakdown reporting.
• Generation and use of MTTR, MTBF, and other reliability metrics

Ensure Compliance to SHEQ policies, procedures, standards and applicable legislation

• Comply with all SHEQ standards.
• Ensure that all staff is trained and informed of and adhere to safety, health, environment and quality standards and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with all PPE requirements.
• Constantly inspect the work done to ensure that jobs are completed in line with client requirements.

Engineering HR Function

• Drive a Fraser Alexander (to be culture)
• Lead, manage and drive team performance
• Chair all relevant disciplinary and grievance actions.
• Ensure skills training and development of employees.
• Motivate employees and create pride with regards to their work.
• Conduct performance management of subordinates and sub-contractors.
• Ensure career development of subordinates to their full potential.
• Control staff and quality of work at all times.

Total Quality of the Maintenance Function

• Liaise with plant foreman and on a daily basis.
• Liaise on a daily basis with the Process Manager to discuss breakdowns, availability, budget and authorization
• Conduct daily and weekly meetings with staff to discuss and review maintenance procedures, planned maintenance, repairs and review costs against the budget.
• Attend to any client complaints
• Follow up on breakdowns

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• Diploma, BSc/B-Tech Engineering Electrical or Mechanical
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) in Mining

EXPERIENCE

• 4 years in a Section Engineer position, carrying a legal appointment in a Plant or Mine Environment

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES

• Technical Knowledge of Coal Processing plant and equipment
• Relationship building
• Ability to drive innovation
• Planning and organising for achievement of business goals
• Ability to coach all levels of personnel for sustainable high performance
• Plant / Engineering financial and accounting skills
• Computer Literate

CLOSING DATE: 08/09/2026