Jobs at Exxaro Resources

EXPERIENCE:

• 5 years Business improvement- or business excellence, economical evaluations, improvement methodologies.
• Importance: Essential/Minimum
• Involvement: Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

•  Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•  Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)Duties & Responsibilities

The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

• Best Practice and Knowledge Management
•  Intellectual property management and protection
•  Create and manage professional networks
•  Participate in tertiary educational relationships
•  Participate in professional external forums
•  Continuously monitors exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
•  Stay abreast with advances in field of business improvement and innovation
• Business Performance, Operations and Continuous Improvement
•  Ensure Business Improvement (BI) initiatives target the current focus areas in order to achieve Business Unit (BU) and functional area targets
•  Track performance against targets

Business Review Process

•  Support the business review process by evaluating critical performance areas - 6 monthly, quarterly and monthly within operational function level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
•  Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness; auditing of current processes and identification of areas of opportunity

Customer and Client Relationship Management

•  Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
•  Manage internal and external relations, including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and employees are satisfied

Optimisation and Efficiency

•  Execute Business Improvement (BI)/Operational Excellence (OE) framework and process on operational function level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
•  Implement common operational/BI initiatives for an operational level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
•  Facilitate breakthrough projects at operational level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
•  Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to business optimisation function Communities of Practice (COP)
•  Coordinate technical skills supporting the BU/functional unit BI Process
•  Support BI/OE initiatives through business analysis, root cause analysis, idea generation facilitation and structured innovation

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

•  Adhere to all health and safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
•  Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations and rectify and report to superior
•  Comply with Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) and technical requirements
•  Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times

Behavioural Alignment

Demonstrates the following:

•  Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
•  Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
•  Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
•  Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
•  Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

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PURPOSE:  To provide technical support with regards to development and execution of commodity strategy and formulate and execute portfolio specific commodity strategies aimed at reducing total cost of ownership of commodities, products and services.  Engage and support business unit technical management in respect of initiatives driving throughput and plant or equipment reliability.  Act as supply chain management technical expert representative to business unit.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:  Providing commodity management service to multiple business unit.  Improve in terms of cost-effectiveness, innovation and productivity.  Challenge end-users on specifications and application issues and facilitate improvement projects (money teams) with cross- functional resources.Minimum RequirementsQUALIFICATIONS:

 B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)

 Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE:

• 6-8 years Relevant supply chain or engineering related experience in mining processes and mining equipment with a minimum of 3 years project portfolio management experience
• Importance: Essential/Minimum
• Involvement: Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

•  Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•  Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•  Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Essential/Minimum)Duties & ResponsibilitiesThe incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Best Practice and Knowledge Management

•  Identify and facilitate improvement initiatives leading to cost saving opportunities whilst keeping abreast of new developments within commodity portfolio
•  Liaise with other departments toward evaluating new technologies to improve process capabilities, product quality and throughput requirements
•  Review effectiveness of strategies and identify improvement opportunities

Commodity Management

•  Provide technical inputs to end users and commercial team members to ensure fit for purpose contracts
•  Assist with resolving technical contractual matters and ensure contracts support Commodity strategy
•  Conduct Negotiate and manage commodity portfolio specific agreements for designated commodities
•  Conduct supplier analysis
•  Execute Portfolio Target Setting
•  Review commodity and lifecycle trends
•  Identify Potential Technical Opportunities for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction and throughput improvement

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

•  Assist in the implementation of portfolio targets in alignment with legislation and charters (e.g. Mining Charter, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), etc)
•  Ensure suppliers comply with relevant Group policies

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

•  Implement SRM initiatives with key suppliers
•  Conduct technical assessments of supplier abilities
•  Provide strategic input into managing key commodity contracts
•  Act as an interface between suppliers and end-users
•  Manage internal and external relations incl. interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure business needs are met
•  Obtain sign-off for commodity strategies within area of responsibility
•  Provide relevant and specialised support to applicable stakeholders

Functional Excellence

•  Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
•  Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy
•  Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge
•  Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Functional Management

•  Financial management: Assist in managing and reducing costs of the sub functions
•  Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead functional improvement and change. Create culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function
•  Engagement/communication: Engage with managers, operations and cross- functionally with peers
•  Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

Internal Business Processes

•  Establish, facilitate and lead cross functional money teams to focus on value creation initiatives and to identify and implement improvement initiatives aimed at overall sustainable TCO reduction
•  Ensure reliable market intelligence to identify and develop supply strategies and budget inputs to ensure secured supply of critical/ strategic commodities within portfolio
•  Comply with preferential procurement targets
•  Develop and implement measures and actions to ensure sustainability of supplier performance
•  Provide support to Commercial and Contract Specialist teams for on time completion and sign-off of technical scope of work