Jobs Available at Tharisa

Role Context

Operational Delivery

• Assemble, install, test and maintain structural mechanical equipment in the plant using the relevant power tools, and gas cutting equipment to ensure safe and operable condition of equipment. 
• Change liners, repair shoots, screens, conveyor belts, jaw crusher and cone crushers in line with set standards and best practice.
• Inspect and diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus and components using test equipment and hand tools to identify defects, hazards and breakdown cause then determine relevant corrective actions such as need for repair or adjustment in line with safety standards.
• Obtain job card and permit to work and conduct all relevant pre-work risk assessments and record any potential risks to ensure all tasks are executed in a safe manner.
• Collaborate with the engineering foreman to maintain health and safety standards for employees through the safe maintenance of equipment and stop and report any contraventions to MHSA, code of practices and mine standards to engineering foreman.
• Fabricate drawings and determine requirements and specification to put in place pipe system layout, installation, or repair according to specifications.
• Evaluate and analyse through root cause analysis to determine breakdown causes or malfunctioning equipment and structure to identify areas for modifications or repairs and execute corrective actions.
• Execute shutdown activities according to the established plan in line with standard operating procedures and codes of practice.

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.
• Contribute to the optimisation of asset care principles and management by safely applying and ensuring adherence to safety protocols and utilisation of assets.
• Determine the need for critical spares and general spares and escalate to relevant stakeholder for sourcing, repairs and replacement as per set COPs.

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, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Advise management regarding continued utilisation of equipment by highlighting potential hazards and risks to ensure safety and minimise rise. 

Compliance, Risk and Safety

• Contribute to the development of an appropriate plant specific Risk Management Policy and appropriate Procedures and Standards (Codes of Practice) by reporting any incident / near miss / injury or health hazards.
• Oversee the implementation of a proactive approach to all safety protocols by creating awareness of hazards and behaviour in order to enforce compliance to minimise risk of accidents and injuries within the plant.
• Conduct regular safety inspections, provide relevant and necessary training to ensure all employees adhere to safety guidelines all the time.
• Participate in the coordination efforts to execute drills and escape procedures in case of emergencies and operational requirements i.e. blasting to mitigate risks and fatalities.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 NQF 4
• N2 in Mechanical Engineering .
• National Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (advantageous).
• Relevant Boiler-making Technical Qualifications: Red sealed Engineering Trade certificate or SAQA Verified Trade Certificate)

Job specific experience:

• Minimum of three to five (3-5) years relevant experience.

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Role Context

Compliance, Risk and Safety

• Conduct daily safety meetings with subordinates and risk assessments prior to any survey work being conducted, to identify and report any substandard conditions.
• Identify and report on unauthorised usage of surface areas, to ensure adherence to all mine standards procedures and legal requirements.

Operational Efficiencies

• Import and export electronic information from other systems to resolve internal data requests in the required format.
• Stay abreast with latest technological developments to identify and recommend any new technology to optimise mine surveying operations.

Resource Management

• Provide input into required changes in resources (financial or non-financial) to enable the achievement of team and/or own objectives.
• Determine resource needs of the team and/or own area of work to achieve business outcomes.
• Request and allocate required assets and/or resources for the fulfilment of work objectives to guarantee quality outputs.
• Monitor the use of assets and resources within the team and own area of responsibility, to ensure assets and resources are consistently and appropriately utilised and managed.
• Provide staff with day-to-day direction and tasks aligned with Departmental procedures, to enable the usage of less resources more efficiently.
• Track the usage and recording of survey assets by relevant personnel, ensuring the effective maintenance of the Survey Asset Register.
• Inspect and maintain surveying instruments and technology, outsourcing expert maintenance support where required, to maintain quality surveying equipment. 

Stakeholder Relations

• Communicate with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of speciality. Liaise across the relevant Departments by engaging with the appropriate stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders remain abreast of Departmental objectives, any potential derailers are appropriately managed and duplication of work is avoided.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.

Surveying

• Use survey data collected by the UAS Surveyor as input into the design of drill patterns.
• Perform exploration surveys on all exploration boreholes, rehabilitation work, surface accidents in the pit to check the representation of these match actual plans.
• Provide subject matter expertise during Land Management Programs to address any survey issues identified according to the survey designs.
• Update the water volumes in the pit, calculating the volume of pools of water, to support production planning.
• Monitor the construction of new surface structures to ensure no sterilisation of mineral reserves occurs, in an effort to prevent risk to other mining operations.
• Perform surveys at the Run of mine (ROM) pad and Concentrator processing plant, using Total Station equipment, to determine the volume of the stockpile quantity.
• Perform in-pit surveys to establish whether surface activities are accurately represented on mining plans.
• Review and sign-off project milestones and deliverables, providing subject matter expert inputs where applicable, to ensure surface prescribed plans are accurately updated as per regulations.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Matric Certificate /Grade 12 (NQF4)
• Chamber of Mines Advanced Certificate in Surveying (NQF6) or National Diploma (NQF6) in Surveying

Licences

• Driving Licence

Job specific experience:

• Minimum of three to five (3-5) years relevant experience .
• Experience using survey instruments, including GPS and Total Station.
• Experience using CAD/Model Maker/Deswik related software will be advantageous