Exxaro is one of the largest South African-based diversified resources groups. It is listed on the JSE Limited where it is a constituent of the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) index. The group’s current business interests span South Africa, Botswana, Republic of the Congo and Australia. At present, Exxaro produces over 39 million tonnes of coal per a...
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PURPOSE:
- Develop, maintain and improve safe operational and engineering standards.
- Improve equipment reliability through Physical Asset Management processes (such as routine work management, shutdown management, maintenance tactics, Reliability Centred Maintenance evaluation, CMMS (SAP PM operational processes) and equipment specific root cause analyses and improvement.
- Full realisation of value from interfaces with other departments (e.g.Supply Chain Management).
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- BSc Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
- B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
- B Tech (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Gov Cert of Competence: Engineering (Recommended/Desirable)
- Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
- 6-8 years Relevant job specific experience (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Essential/Minimum or)
- Professional Engineering Technologist (Essential/Minimum)
Duties & Responsibilities
Asset Performance Improvement
- Track and implement initiatives regarding physical asset performance
- Assume responsibility for effectiveness of preventative maintenance management of all plant and infrastructure machines, systems and practices
- Limit failures and optimise processes under area of responsibility
- Facilitate root cause analyses
- Identify and initiate projects or initiatives to improve physical asset performance
- Initiate continuous improvement initiatives leading to reliability improvement and cost savings whilst keeping abreast of new developments within specialist fields
- Liaise with other departments toward evaluating new technologies to improve process capabilities, physical asset performance, product quality and throughput requirements
- Support the meeting of production demands by providing the highest possible uptime at the lowest possible equipment/asset lifecycle cost
Compliance, Governance and Assurance
- Develop, maintain and improve safe operational- and engineering standards and continuously review specifications and schedules
- Ensure equipment integrity is maintained according to safety standards
- Maintain related systems, aligned with Company safety standards, occupational health, safety, Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) and environment registers, International Organisation of Standards (ISO) 14000; 9000 and 18001 systems
- Manage and control the quality of maintenance consumable and equipment
- Conduct timeous investigation of incidents and failures and ensure that adequate corrective and preventive remedial actions are implemented
Equipment Efficiency and Maintenance Services
- Provide a professional/specialist advisory support service with regard to production, product quality across different levels within the organisation
- Attend to breakdowns whilst maintaining set production targets
- Ensure the optimal use of available resources (people and equipment)
- Manage physical assets, contracts, plant shutdowns and conduct trouble-shooting in order to identify root cause for substandard operating conditions
- Develop and implement change initiatives to drive performance excellence for maintenance activities
- Complete, process and update all records and related documentation
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
Project Management
- Evaluate and complete maintenance projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements
- Manage projects with regard to equipment
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices
- Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
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
The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
- If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
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Job Advert Summary
PURPOSE:
- Establish and manage all aspects of internal and external ecosystem partnerships. Identify and form strategic partnerships externally with startups, tech companies, industry forums, research institutions that are at the forefront of disruptive innovation in mining & renewable energy.
- Identify and form strategic partnerships internally with cross functional stakeholders across the entire organisation to understand how disruptive innovation can be leveraged in every area of the business.
- Develop, implementation, and maintain Exxaro’s Group Open Innovation strategy and translate into development of open innovation framework. Promote the principles of Open Innovation across all facets of the business, ensuring that every area is informed about and has access to both the external and internal the Open Innovation ecosystem. Have a deep understanding of the business, corporate level as well as operations, to identify opportunities and leverage integration points to derive innovative solutions.
- Manage and provide guidance to all contractors/consultants who offer services related to the digital support of the business, such as but not limited to data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, power platform specialists etc., working closely with Group IM.
- Manage and provide guidance for all initiatives that leverage the open innovation ecosystem in terms of business case development, strategic fit, cross functional collaboration, value monitoring and integration into current systems. .
MAJOR CHALLENGES:
- Cost and budget Constraints.
- Measuring and tracking the effectiveness and impact of group-wide open innovation initiatives.
- Integration with cross-functional teams across all business units, new minerals and energy businesses, and corporate functions. Interdepartmental coordination of open innovation initiatives.
- Working with and managing multi-disciplinary teams across multiple reporting lines.
- Fostering a culture of high performance and collaboration across multiple teams.
- Delivering value through digital and innovation initiatives.
- Providing strategic linkages to legal and IP expertise in the company.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- BSc Information Technology (Essential/Minimum or)
- B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
- Diploma in Business Analysis (Recommended/Desirable)
- Master of Management in Innovation Studi (Recommended/Desirable or)
- Masters in Technology & Innovation Mngmt (Recommended/Desirable)
- Master of Business Administration (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
- 8-10 years Ecosystem Partnerships: Identifying and partnering with the best startups, tech companies, research institutions Innovation Experimentation: Identify and implement experimentation projects that can offer value to business Experience in leading innovation programs and managing successful innovation projects. Demonstrable track record of impactful innovative solutions aligned with business and operational objectives. Strong background in technology assessment, research, and incubation. Ability to work independently and in a team environment. Highly effective engagement and communication skills with an emphasis on translating technical concepts to variety of project stakeholders. (Essential/Minimum) Management
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Project Management Professional (Recommended/Desirable)
Duties & Responsibilities
Best Practice and Knowledge Management
- Create and manage professional networks.
- Establish and maintain strong innovation ecosystem, e.g. partnerships with research institutions, technical forums, industry associations, etc.
- Continuously monitor, exchange, and preserve information to facilitate effective knowledge management.
- Stay abreast of advances in people, process, and technology domains.
- Participate in Communities of Practice (COP's) in the Business Optimisation (Business Improvement (BI)), Information Management (IM) and Centre of Excellence (COE) environment.
- Encourage knowledge sharing and duplication of best practices.
- Management of IP rights, contractual agreements, and trust-building mechanisms to ensure the appropriate protection of valuable assets and data.
Effective People Management
- Performance management: Clarify roles/responsibilities and expectations. Define individual performance standards, monitor, and measure performance, reward and recognise high performance.
- Talent development: Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching and development feedback to employees. Promote culture of continuous learning.
- Culture/functional climate: Embody, translate, and entrench the Company culture and values in function, address behaviours that undermine values. Foster effective teamwork and unity. Manage functional climate in which diversity is appreciated, high performance thrives, people are involved, energised, committed, motivated, and recognised. Demonstrate and encourage collaboration including cross-functionally and create culture of collaboration.
- Change leadership: Provide direction, guidance and support to people having to adapt to change, keep them committed throughout. Actively support, advocate for, and embrace functional/organisational change and reinforce/role model the change. Address resistance, beliefs, mind-sets, behaviours, and emotions to help people adapt to change.
- Communication/engagement: Encourage open expression of ideas/opinions and foster dialogue. Seek out different opinions. Inform people of decisions, changes, and other relevant information. Proactively address conflicts and initiate difficult conversations.
- Attract, develop, and retain top talent within the innovation team. Provide mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to empower team members to unleash their full potential and drive innovation excellence.
- Embrace ambiguity and navigate complexity with confidence. Demonstrate resilience and adaptability in the face of challenges, inspiring others to embrace change and drive innovation across the organization. Keep record of all investigated initiatives and learnings in order to gain insights from data generated.
Governance & Processes
- Implement governance systems and processes to support disruption.
- Ensure all innovation initiatives adhere to industry regulations, ethical standards, and corporate social responsibility principles.
- Align with governance frameworks to monitor and guide innovation initiatives effectively.
Innovation Culture
- Implement continuous learning processes to nurture a culture that embraces innovation.
- Constantly seek opportunities for exposure to new industry agnostic thinking/ideas.
- Foster and embrace the Group’s culture while imbedding an innovation- driven culture and a continuous learning approach into the companies DNA.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration that encourages employees to generate ideas and explore innovative solutions.
- Emphasise the value of adaptability and continuous learning considering disruptive innovations.
- Recognise and celebrate innovative achievements to reinforce a culture of innovation.
- Foster a collaborative environment internally, encouraging cross- functional teams to work together towards common innovation goals.
New Technologies Scouting Leveraging, and Impact on Strategy
- When technologies/solutions are identified – ensure strategic fit, reach out to relevant cross functional stakeholders to trail/implement
- If any innovation is identified which may influence strategic direction, discuss with relevant strategy team member to investigate
- Business case development and strategic fit of initiatives
- Understand the business to such an extent that can see connections and leverage opportunities stemming from integrated view of the business
- Stay updated on all advancements across people, processes, and technology domains within the open innovation ecosystem to introduce to the business.
- Lead strategic open innovation initiatives that improve and drive transformation on a group-wide level.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, market dynamics, and emerging technologies relevant to the organization's innovation agenda. Leverage market insights to identify growth opportunities, anticipate disruptions, and make informed strategic decisions.
- Evaluate risks associated with innovation initiatives and make data- driven decisions to mitigate potential challenges. Balance strategic risk-taking with prudent decision-making to ensure the organization's long-term success and sustainability.
- Conduct research hypotheses on disruptive innovations use case identified.
- Responsible for the end to end execution deliverables on all disruptive innovation initiatives and experimentations identified by developing commercial models and plans across the entire organization.
- Management of IP rights, contractual agreements, and trust-building mechanisms to ensure the appropriate protection of valuable assets and data.
Open Innovation Strategy and Operating Model Development and Execution
- Ecosystem Partnerships: Identifying and partnering with the best startups, tech companies, research institutions that are at the forefront of disruptive innovation in the mining & renewable energy space
- Innovation Experimentation: Identify and implement experimentation projects that can offer value to BUs and the Group as a whole. Experimentation projects will be sourced by/working with the Ecosystem Partnership Specialist and BU leads
- Develop a comprehensive open innovation strategy and framework to deliver on the broader strategy
- Build and maintain a strong innovation ecosystem, including non- conventional partnerships that lead to exposure and access to innovations.
- Investigate use cases for the use of open innovation which can be leveraged to add value.
- Establish a process by which to identify which initiatives are ideal for the innovation ecosystem to solve and which can be delivered on by internal service providers.
- Collaborate with technical & IM functions to provide necessary infrastructure for strategy execution.
- Develop a business case-based framework via which to consistently assess technologies/initiatives over time according to financial and strategic metrics.
- Develop, implementation, and maintain Exxaro’s Group Open Innovation strategy and translate into development of innovation framework.
- Promote the principles of Open Innovation across all facets of the business, ensuring that every department is informed about and has access to the Open Innovation ecosystem.
- Identify open innovation initiatives ready for investment and build an investment case for these initiatives.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for disruptive innovation, establish partnerships with external stakeholders, and oversee the development and execution of innovation projects from ideation to implementation.
- This role requires exceptional leadership skills, a deep understanding of market trends, and the ability to navigate complex business landscapes.
- Translate strategic goals into actionable plans and drive execution with precision and agility.
- Develop and communicate a clear vision for open innovation that aligns with the organisation's strategic objectives.
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Ensure legislative compliance as a minimum standard
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
- Ensure compliance towards internal targets & the drive towards Zero- Harm
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PURPOSE:
- To be responsible for operational management and support provision to receiving warehouse section.
- To take responsibility for receiving of ordered goods at the business premises.
- To take responsibility as the Business Unit driver for safe collection and delivery of goods or people, whilst adhering to all road regulations/rules.
- To manually capture data regarding Goods Received Vouchers and service entries onto SAP accurately and timeously.
- Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Grade 12/Standard 10 (Essential/Minimum)
EXPERIENCE:
2-3 years Experience in warehouse, operational environment and SAP MM Module (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Pub Driv Lic:Code B (Essential/Minimum)
- Forklift (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Essential/Minimum)
Duties & Responsibilities
Administration and Document Control
- Ensure queries and complaints resolved and progress reported
- Assist with item issuing, delivery, binning and dispatching
- Capture and process receiving documents data manually into SAP
- Ensure processed data is available to authorised staff
- File processing documents and maintain confidentiality
- Note incorrect deliveries accordingly on supplier’s delivery documentation
Business Performance and Operations
- Conduct accurate and timeous receiving of materials, signing delivery documentation correctly on behalf of the organisation, materials management, reporting and capturing
- Participate and provide support in the audit process and improvement of the warehouse function
- Report incorrect and damaged items immediately to coordinator, warehouse and receiving/buyer
- Execute standardised processes and investigate improvement of warehouse processes.
Compliance, Governance and Assurance
- Provide guidance to direct reports and customers to ensure compliance
- Create awareness, address unsafe or non-conforming practices
- Utilisation of the SAP module to ensure data integrity
- Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
Functional Excellence
- Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
- Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up of functional processes and eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
- Apply functional best practices and promote sharing of best practices/knowledge
- Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives
Operational Support
- Execute of material management reporting
- Oversee truck loading/offloading by external parties and ensure compliance with Company policies and procedures
- Record received items, compare with original order and ensure availability for binning
- Ensure specified items are sealed to prevent dust/corrosion
- Ensure stacked items are bound during handling from trucks and during warehousing in accordance with policies and procedures to prevent damage or injury
People Management
- Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures
- Culture/functional climate: Uphold the Company culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity
Receiving Process
- Support the implementation of Information Management (IM) technology and infrastructure that supports Supply Chain Management (SCM) receiving processes
- Provide support in audit process and improvement of site receiving function
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices. Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
- Ensure good housekeeping in area of responsibility
Skills Management
- Instruct new artisans in plant specific critical equipment ensuring familiarity with requirements/SOP's
- Quality Assure (QA) work throughout section and address deviations through training/instruction
- Report all deficiencies in skills and training to foreman
- Coach Auto Electricians/Aides
- Ensure Apprentice training and development plans on schedule
Systems Infrastructure and Enablement
- Participate in and support the implementation of IM technology and infrastructure that supports SCM processes in receiving unit
- Utilise relevant Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) module in a manner that ensures data integrity
- Provide support in audit process
Talent Management and Culture
- Drive own training and development plan as stipulated in Individual Development Plan (IDP)
- Embrace and live Company values
Technical Support
- Perform timeous diagnostics and installations
- Perform all tasks in accordance with SHEC procedures and regulations
- Forward Job cards to foreman on completion of work
- Instrumentation for process control
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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Job Advert Summary
PURPOSE:
- Maintain independency in the warrant of strategic geological and mine models and exploration plans to ensure compliance and robustness.
- Conduct assessments on specific tactical aspects within the resource and or reserve value chain as to test validity, robustness as to provide solutions.
- Conduct strategic-tactical assessments of mineral assets, internal as well as those with minority/majority stakes agreements and identify and quantify risks and opportunities that could impact Exxaro as a business
- Facilitate and manage independent external Tier 1 R&R audits in support of the principal.
- Warrant estimates to identify business risks and monitor compliance to JSE listing 13 requirements
- Compile and track reconciliation as to warrant compliance and outline risks / challenges.
- Provide high level expert technical support/direction to integrated project teams/individuals.
- Establish pass/fail criteria in terms of all aspects of resources and reserves from primary exploration data gathering to long-term geological and mine modelling.
MAJOR CHALLENGES:
- Maintain independency to warrant data, information, and models
- Drive corrective measures to conclusion
- Seamless view across business resources and reserves estimation and reporting processes
- Independent view on processes and value.
- Independent view on quarterly and annual reconciliation.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- BSc Mining Geology (Essential/Minimum or)
- BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- MSc Geology (Recommended/Desirable or)
- MSc Mining Engineering (Recommended/Desirable or)
- MSc Mineral Resource Management (Recommended/Desirable or)
- Masters Degree (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)
- Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
- 10-12 years Knowledge and experience on operational and project regarding mining, metallurgy, geology, and reporting. Experience as an estimator to facilitate basic evaluations. Experience in conceptualising, managing, and executing problem solving initiatives. (Essential/Minimum) Management
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- SA Geomatics Council: Prof Mine Surveyor (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- Engineering Council of SA (Candidate) (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- Geological Society of SA (GSSA) (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- Institute of Mine Surveyors of SA (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- SA Council for Natural Scientific Prof (Essential/Minimum and/or)
- Registered with Professional Body (Essential/Minimum)
Duties & Responsibilities
Develop technical assessment procedure
- Outline clear and achievable operating design, with objectives, processes, and deliverables.
- Outline key management, functional and operational stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment with best industry practise and local and international reporting codes.
- Outline clear accountabilities during planning and execution.
- Focus on efficiency and easy accessibility and exclude unnecessary red tape requirements.
Direct deliverables
- Warrant integrity and conduct interventions for resources and reserves.
- Warrant technical techniques and deliverables on a stand-off basis.
- Conduct reviews of internal, JV and/or acquisitions resources and reserves.
- Facilitate external and internal tier 1 audits and reviews under the auspices of the chief audit officer.
- Conduct tier 2 and 3 internal reviews and interventions.
- Conduct ad hoc technical assessment / evaluations.
- Develop an integrate risk register and track to ensure that all corrective measures are concluded within time.
- Test implementation of corrective measure against original objectives to ensure benefits are reached.
- Establish reconciliation practise and measure and report.
- In conjunction with MAM principals ensure peer reviews when required.
Effective people alignment and influence
- In conjunction with MAM and commodity principals align and influence on critical skills development and talent in order to achieve objectives.
- Ensure clear communication of individual, divisional and business objectives and drive performance towards their fulfilment.
- Embody, translate, and entrench Exxaro's cultural themes (i.e., responsibility, adaptability, openness and connectivity, diversity, and ownership).
- Promote and participate in cross-functional collaboration and relationship-building activities among reporting team members and functional groupings, internal and external.
- Foster effective teamwork and unity.
Functional Excellence
- Articulate the strategy and objectives clearly with stakeholders, identify areas of measure and identify value unlocking and breakthrough improvements for the group and JV’s.
- Establish best in industry validation techniques for exploration, resources and reserves integrity and utilization thereof.
- Establish best in industry reconciliation, measure, and reporting.
Governance & Processes
- Build an internal and external ecosystem to source and implement new innovative ideas to improve accessibility, information utilization and strategic business support.
- Align with group competent persons and MAM principals for the planning and execution of required warrants.
- Establish the design format for quarterly and annually reconciliation measures and reporting.
- Remove obstacles that interfere with reaching objectives and handle performance problems.
Growing culture
- Implement a process of continuous learning to ensure a learning culture focussed on breakthrough improvement.
- Constantly seek opportunities to enhance the validation and warrant process.
- Foster and embrace the Group’s innovation-driven culture.
- Support the GM MAM to create a best in class reporting culture.
Implement and execute procedure
- Develop, articulate, and lead the execution of the design parameters,
- Plan, coordinate the quarterly and annual warrants in conjunction with the group competent persons.
- Plan, coordinate ad hoc interventions in conjunction with the group competent persons.
- Create industry, and professional body networks.
- Timely and efficient risk reporting and tracking of measures.
Metrics of Success
- Successful execution of corrective measures
- Resources and reserves are validated and complaint
- Reconciliation is correctly measured, tracked, and reported.
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Ensure legislative compliance as a minimum standard
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
- Ensure compliance towards internal targets & the drive towards Zero- Harm
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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Job Advert Summary
PURPOSE:
- To effectively coordinate processes across the mining value chain with an aim of increasing overall system throughput.
- To make facts based decisions to optimise value throughout the business value chain from the pit right through to the port.
- To drive technical and process improvements through increasing system wide availability and utilisation and reducing variability in order to maximize installed system capacity.
- To ensure that the business is aligned and works towards one single integrated production schedule.
- To monitor and track operational performance and the execution of the integrated production schedule.
MAJOR CHALLENGES:
- Working with and managing multi-disciplinary teams across multiple reporting lines.
- Managing what may superficially appear to be conflicting needs from multiple teams within the value chain.
- Fostering a culture of high performance and collaboration across multiple teams.
- Striving for daily incremental operational improvement.
- Managing product flow, buffers and constraints.
- Assessing operational, financial and safety related risks and preparing adequate contingencies.
- Contractor management.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- BEng Industrial Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
- BSc Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
- BSc Metallurgical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
- BEng Mining Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
- BEng Metallurgical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
- BSc Industrial Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)
EXPERIENCE:
- 5 years Relevant operation planning and execution experience in mining environment or similar industry. (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
Duties & Responsibilities
Compliance, Governance, Assurance & SHEC
- Develop effective methodologies for business operations, communications and control whereby statutory compliance and appropriate mitigation of risk is achieved
- Develop operating procedures to align with business objectives
- Ensure adherence to Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS)/Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA)/South African National Standards (SANS) and compliance with company specific Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) policies and procedures
- Manage risk and monitor standards in line with the Company’s policies and regulations
- Create awareness for Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) practices
- Assess all relevant risks
Customer and Client Relationship Management
- Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
- Manage internal and external relations, including interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and employees are satisfied
- Provide relevant support and legislative service to applicable stakeholders
- Manage relationships with contractors providing services to Mining, Beneficiation and Logistics
- Establish sound relationships with service departments ensuring flawless integration and support into the Integrated Operations (Ops) Value Chain
Effective People Management
- Ensure optimised teamwork through motivation/empowerment and leading by sound transformational leadership
- Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans for subordinates
- Enforce discipline throughout the Business Unit Value Chain
- Ensure all employees in the Business Unit Value Chain are effectively trained and competent to perform required duties in a disciplined manner
Financial Management, Planning and Cost Control
- Assist in preparation of annual budget by providing input to all departments based on usage and expenditure monitored in the Integrated Ops Hub
- Ensure documentation is in line with departmental budgetary stipulations
- Ensure that costs allocated for projects, planning and associated tasks are within specified projections and are controlled within the prescribed budget
Project Management and Continuous Improvement
- Monitor Value Chain throughput and identify Continuous Improvement (CI) opportunities
- Analyse data captured in the Integrated Ops Hub and identify potential bottle necks in the value chain
- Identify and rank initiatives based on priorities
- Assist the Project Engineer with the capital approval process
- Assist with capital and cost management of specified projects
- Assist the Project Engineer with the Execution of Projects
- Identify and implement Digital Improvement Initiatives
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Establish and maintain a healthy environment and safe operations Practices throughout the Market to Resource value chain
- Ensure compliance with all applicable SHE policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Encourage a culture that focuses on SHE in all operations
- Set design standards in accordance with safe work principles
- Promote adherence to all SHE practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
- Comply with SHE requirements at all times
Technical Support
- Provide expert technical and operational support to the production teams, departments and individuals
- Responsible for the technical and operational integrity and quality of work delivered through participation in short term interval control review meetings, operations review meetings and any other team integration platforms
- Manage integration of operational activities across multiple disciplines
- Apply Systems Thinking Methodology to improve volume throughput across the value chains
- Gather and evaluate information throughout the value chain in order to make informed decisions that supports the execution of short, medium and long-term plans
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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Job Advert Summary
PURPOSE:
- To execute administration of all training activities, registering, capturing, updating, controlling and maintaining data and other related systems required to enhance departmental operations.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Grade 12/Standard 10 Technical (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Competence: Assessor (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate in ETDP level 4 (Essential/Minimum)
EXPERIENCE:
- 2-3 years Experience in a Human Resources administrative or services environment. (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
Duties & Responsibilities
Administration and Support Services
- Coordinate office administration and control documentation
- Distribute manual information, control and document changes
- Conduct functional audits and quality checks
- Standardise data input
- Prepare and complete reports and minutes and analysis
- Coordinate meetings and travel arrangements and book accommodation
- Book training and events
- Prepare invoices for payment of facilities, training, manuals, and e- learning assessments
Audit Management
- Conduct systems data integrity audits on learner information and address deviations
- Conduct audits on planned training detail and departmental details and correct immediately
Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management
- Maintain trusted partnerships between learning department, line management, contractors, supervisors and other services departments
- Adhere to learning principles to ensure customer satisfaction
Database Management
- Register, capture, update, control and maintain data and other related systems
- Ensure that all training information available, and do quality assurance to ensure accuracy of correspondence
Internal Business Processes
- Assist with learning processes and e-learning systems
- Supervise system based self-learning and computer-based learning
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Adhere to all health and safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices, potential hazardous situations and rectify/report to superior
- Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) 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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Job Advert Summary
PURPOSE:
- Drive business transformation across the operational value chain at the business unit through application of innovative data-driven insights covering the entire operations end-to-end value chain.
- Enables value to be created and to improve operations business performance.
- Identifies, develops, and drives innovations and efficiencies to create business value.
- Continually synthesize the latest research and trends for insights and external benchmarking and make recommendations on what to leverage within the business.
Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
- B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
- 6-8 yearsRelevant job-specific experience with successful management of Business Improvement preferably in a mining or resources environment. (Essential/Minimum) Operational
REQUIREMENTS:
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
Duties & Responsibilities
Best Practice and Knowledge Management
- Create and manage professional networks
- 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
Change Management
- Driving change management needed across the organisation for transforming the core of coal operations digitally from market to resource whilst developing a systematic way to ensure mining operations disruption takes place
- Define and drive pilots to implement change that will transform the current practices in mining
- Ensure all relevant employees are effectively trained and competent to perform required duties in a disciplined manner in support of the digital initiative that impact their role
Continuous Improvement
- Develops, executes and implements complex projects and process improvements to drive continuous improvement to current excellence standards across the organization
- Provides subject matter knowledge and advanced expertise to integrate multiple areas/functions in the operations value chain
- Utilizing a substantial understanding of best practices and procedures, monitors processes and ensures knowledge and learnings are shared between business units (BU’s)
- Using continuous improvement tools, analytical insights, and influencing skills, identify, propose, defend, and implement value chain improvements and optimization opportunities
- Create new opportunities and drive new development projects that will lead to profitable growth
Digital Strategy
- Develop a digital strategy to transform the operational value chain
- Manage and operationalise the digital strategy to ensure alignment to the 2023 Business Strategy
- Develop in-house capabilities and ability to identify and prioritise mining challenges
- Develop a mining innovation magnet to attract innovative companies globally through partnerships with Start-ups, innovative companies, universities, Research and Development (R&D) centres, technology incubators etc. to come up with new unknown solutions to solve unique mining problems
- Participate in selecting, evaluating and developing innovative solutions for digital applications
- Define, run pilots and operationalise learnings from pilots in a
- ‘start-up way’
- Investigate opportunity to launch "Digital@Exxaro” leveraging digital core competencies in the Industry, whilst identifying opportunities to monetise internal capabilities and managing Digital IP (the process from mining problem identification to solution implementation)
Project Management
- Develop and maintain a digital Business Unit (BU) project plan in accordance with established governance process
- Establish and maintain digital projects frameworks and processes to be followed for project reviews and approvals through dedicated forums by determining frequency for project reviews and approvals, and the agreed quorum for the forums to take place
- Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements
- Ensure that the business case for the digital initiative contributes to overall success of the business unit
- Ensure that benefits tracking for all digital initiatives are in place and the BU benefits from process efficiency and effectiveness through the implementation of digital initiatives
- Convene standing digital steering committees at the BU and ensure collaboration and participation by all relevant stakeholders
- Scope initiatives to develop a charter with approximate timeline, resource requirement, cost estimate and value for the initiative as defined by the governance process
- Ensure agile and flexible initiative delivery with rapid prototyping, test and learn capabilities
- Collaborate with BU management to prepare for and participate in corporate digital feedback sessions
- Ensure BU governance is adhered to and reporting for visibility and management of risks
- Identification of opportunities for value creation and track delivery of expected value
- Integration with other BUs for learnings realised and for lift and shift opportunities
- Stay up-to-date with advances in field of technology and innovation.
- Work together with the various heads of department to identify applicable use cases for the BU
- Support BU improvement initiatives through business 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 Environment and Community (SHEC)/technical requirements
- Wear applicable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at all times.
Stakeholder Relationships
- Utilizing an extensive understanding of business operations including practices and procedures, develops a strong understanding of business needs through building and maintaining internal and external relationships to provide optimal service to and help the business meet strategic and financial goals
- Build relationships with internal and external parties such some subject matter experts
- Using strong influencing skills, drive other teams in the business to participate and improve value chain processes and customer experience
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams at all levels in an organization to deliver results
- Directs and creates strategic relationships with both key internal and external stakeholders
- Deriving leadership support and sponsorship and securing buy-in across organisation identify unique disruptive value chain problems and evaluate the best solutions
- Develop and manage partnerships with solution providers/facilitators to ensure the mining or value chain problems are well understood and develop an ideas pipeline
Value Creation/Data Analytics
- Leverage the combined impact deep data insights and industry leading subject matter experts to create impactful business transformation solutions using data-driven insights, industry leading thinking and high-impact consulting execution
- Responsible for delivering operation value chain services, procedures, and processes that are considered value added, measurable, and directly tied to operational interactions with business units
- Accountable for improving business results and increasing team efficiency by creating predictive analytics and new systems capabilities through the inquiry to order process, cost out solutions, and delivery process
- Interpret, analyse and synthesize data to drive continuous improvement
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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