Jobs at Mintek

Job description

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

Leadership

• Live the Mintek values, foster a culture of collaboration within Mintek.
• Create an environment for the Section to succeed and manage outputs.
• Maintain consistently visible leadership.
• Lead HR transactional services and HRIS.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and process optimisation to improve service quality and turnaround times.

Strategy

• Support and drive the planning, development, and implementation of divisional strategy.
• Drive the execution of the Section strategy and operations.
• Support Mintek transformation agenda and sustainability.

Resource management

• Manage the dally activities of the HR Shared Service team.
• Develop, implement operational plan.
• Set, monitor and measure performance goals and objectives; provide feedback and guidance to staff.
• Instill a strong customer focused mind-set within the team to ensure adherence to SLAs.
• Address service delivery challenges, escalations, and complaints in a timely and professional manner.
• Prepare, monitor and maintain budgets, forecasts, analyse variances.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure product and services are working effectively.
• Identify, implement special projects to improve operations.

HR transactional services

• Ensure that all HR transactional services are delivered optimally, meeting all policy and compliance requirements including workflows, automation, streamlined HR processes that enable collaboration between HR and business.
• Provide copies of up-to-date legislation to employees.
• Develop and maintain a close working relationship with Payroll to ensure efficient and effective interfaces and timely and accurate data processing.
• Partner with Head HRBP to ensure consistent delivery and alignment of processes and procedures.
• Develop and maintain SLA and KPIs; accountable for on-time and quality delivery of services.
• Identify opportunities to centralise HR administrative work; ensure changes are communicated and documented.
• Monitor and take action to ensure all requirements and agreements are met across Divisions.
• Align with Head: HRBPs on the implementation of various employee service initiatives and improvements.

Governance and Risk Management

• Accountable for adherence to all Mintek’s policies and ethics within agreed thresholds.
• Govern the implementation of internal control mechanisms.
• Implement divisional and Mintek policies.
• Accountable for effective risk management within the Section including SHEQ.
• Ensure divisional compliance with applicable legislation.

HR Information Systems (HRIS)

• Ensure technology is optimised to best meet HR and customer requirements.
• Ensure all employee records are accurate, up-to-date, filed and that confidentiality is maintained.
• Drive process standardisation, efficiency, improvement; continuously seek ways of improving systems, processes and delivery of HR transactional services.
• Test all system changes and enhancements in QA; ensure accurate functionality before moving to Production.

Data analytics

• Develop, maintain, provide appropriate HR metrics to support business decision-making.
• Measure, track, analyse dashboard metrics, monitor results and trends.
• Provide regular reports on HR metrics.

Governance and compliance

• Establish, manage and maintain relationships with all Mintek stakeholders concerning ongoing divisional support delivery.
• Establish and develop relations with the internal and external service providers and relevant stakeholders.
• Balance the conflicting pressures and needs, including short and long-term trade-offs for Division and Mintek.
• Ensure client (internal and external) satisfaction as per agreed targets.

Reporting

• Ensure the right data is available for accurate and useful reporting, making crucial data available “at the fingertips”.
• Timely providing consolidated monthly and quarterly reports.
• Monitor and report on Section performance, including financials.
• Reporting value, ensuring critical issues and key results areas are addressed.
• Reporting on all Section activities.
• Monitor and report divisional risk exposures in all aspects, including SHEQ.
• Minimum requirements

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master's degree level Human Resources Management or relevant (NQF – level 9).
• 8 - 10 years’ experience on the relevant field.
• 1 - 3 years Supervisory experience.
• Experience in delivering changes in technology.
• Rewards & recognition experience.
• Employment legislation.
• Project management experience.
• Report writing skills.
• Policy and procedure writing.

COMPETENCIES

• Have an analytical and critical mindset for evaluating existing data and making effective business decisions.
• Ability to display deep technical knowledge of the Section’s activities and relevant areas of expertise.
• Thorough knowledge of the sector in which the Section operates.
• Strategy and business plan development and implementation.
• Ability to lead diverse teams to ensure delivery and efficiency.
• Business and financial management.
• The leadership of people and operations management.

Apply by: 23 January 2026

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Job description

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

• Build and maintain the data ecosystem within Mintek.
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines and automate data workflows.
• Maintain storage systems and data catalogs.
• Execute data operations, orchestration and monitoring.
• Engage and collaborate with scientists, engineers and operators to facilitate integration with the various upstream
  and downstream layers.
• Ensure that projects are executed on time and within budget.
• Participate in team debates and technical decisions.
• Produce professional reports and product documentation.
• Conceptualise, design, execute, analyse and troubleshoot independently.
• Ensure that SHEQ procedures are strictly adhered to and that project work is executed with maximum overall technical efficiency.
• Identify opportunities for technology development and commercialisation.
• Keep up-to-date with technology and business developments relevant to the division’s interests.

Minimum requirements

Qualification:

• Suitable candidates must possess at least a B.Sc Hons or 4-year B.Eng degree.
• An M.Sc or M.Eng in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics or a related field is preferred.

Experience:

• 2 years of vocational experience in Data Engineering or a related role following first graduation (BSc Hon/BEng).
• Familiarity with cloud environments, e.g. Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Git.
• SQL, Python, project management software (e.g. Microsoft Project, Trello, Microsoft Planner, etc.).
• C , C#, VB.NET or Java experience a bonus.

Apply by: 23 January 2026

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

     Perform SAP Financial Project Administration

• Registration, revision, and closure of projects according to approved Project Establishment Forms. (Check PEC’s are correctly completed, check figures on proposal or order).
• Analyse and produce weekly SAP/IFS and Excel Financial reports of project expenditure vs. budget and circulate to the Heads.
• When requested, to the relevant CIs for planning and budgeting purposes.
• Through analysis, ensure that all revenue and expenditure is processed to the correct GL accounts. Where incorrect postings are identified, investigate and correct through journalisation.
• Monitor expenditure vs. budget and adviseManagement and Chief Investigators of projects nearing/exceeded budget.
• Establish root cause of incorrect postings and take corrective action to avoid in future incidents.
• Perform monthly period-end procedures, and related analytical functions to check any timesheet errors.
• Liaise with SBU accountant regarding journals and project queries.
• Synchronise project administration across productive SBUs through communication with other Admin Officers.
• Liaise with Buyers and assist CI’s regarding quotes for purchasing on projects and load requisitions on SAP once approved.
• Follow up with Buyers and Suppliers on Purchase Orders and delivery of goods ordered.
• Provide SAP project reports to CI’s and staff when required. Assist with detailed expense queries from SAP reports.
• Liaise and co-ordinate with auditors and SBU managers.

Perform SAP Financial Project Billing Process

• Enter proposals and sales orders on SAP/IFS ensuring client details & billing plan is correct.
• Monitor billing plan and adjust as required based on CI feedback.
• Issue invoices after confirmation from CI’s.
• Administer & maintain debtors tracking issue list.
• Monitor Debtors days.
• Remind technical staff to follow up with technical contacts.
• Follow up with client financial departments.
• Interact with Mintek Finance to obtain pre-payment advise and ensure invoices are cleared timeously.

Prepare & Control of SBU Cost Elements and Budgets

• Assist Executive Managers and Heads with budget planning.
• Provide financial input to divisions with annual budgeting and regular forecasting for divisional running costs.
• Control and monitor the actual expenditure relating to CAPEX against budgeted CAPEX targets as well as handling issues arising from the CAPEX process related to management accounting and project issues.
• Assist with business improvement and cost reduction initiatives within the division.

Administer Project Labour Booking Process

• Ensure staff enter timesheets on a weekly basis.
• Check & approve weekly billable time.
• Produce weekly Excel reports of time booked to projects for Management and CI checking.
• Facilitate reversal and correction of incorrectly booked time.
• Monitor and resolve time booking errors in COFC and CN30 accounts.
• Execute and ensure Science Vote invoicing is done on time.
• Check time booked to the project budgets before time is approved

Minimum requirements

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• B Tech Finance or Accounting or B degree in Finance or Accounting.
• 5 years’ Projects Administrative experience or in a similar role.
• SAP/IFS Project Systems.

COMPETENCIES

• Strong organisation skills
• Resourcefulness
• Adaptability
• Interpersonal skills
• Multitasking
• An Excellent Communicator, written and verbal communication
• Time Management
• Professionalism and work ethic
• Attention to detail
• Confidentiality
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Independence

Apply by: 27 January 2026