As a global and diversified mining business, we use the latest technologies to find new resources, plan and build our mines and mine, process, move and market our products to customers around the world.
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Job Description:
As our Section Engineering Manageryour responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Safety, Health, and Environment
- Select and allocate resources for safe work.
- Consider environmental factors and minimise adverse impacts.
- Oversee safety management system elements and comply as appropriate.
- Ensure critical controls are functioning.
- Implement and maintain safety standards.
- Promptly investigate all incidents.
- Ensure subordinates are competent for safe task facilitation.
- Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
Authority:
- Stop unsafe work in any area – not just in your area. We are safety leaders.
- Issue safety-related instructions to any employees or contractors at the workplace.
- Initiate action, including training, against subordinates and contractors for their role in unsafe behaviour.
- Budget and Cost Control Management:
- Ensure compliance with the budget for the area of responsibility.
- Evaluate and approve cost impacts in the area of responsibility and revise the budget accordingly.
- Identify, communicate, and execute potential cost-reduction initiatives.
Technical Directive:
- Align equipment maintenance strategy with production profile.
- Improve engineering discipline by providing quality work and feedback to the maintenance management system.
- Proactively manage production risks.
- Ensure quality control/assurance is in place for all engineering work.
- Manage contractors in your area.
- Review progress against the plan and make changes and adjustments accordingly.
- Assign tasks to subordinates in line with achieving the agreed production plan.
- Monitor and optimise work schedules.
- Assign tasks to supervisors to meet required tasks and reporting.
- Stop or redirect work that is not being executed according to quality standards or is not being solved by the shift supervisor if needed.
Engineering and Maintenance:
- Implement preventive maintenance programs, including regular inspections of lubricating machinery and replacement of worn-out parts before they fail, to prevent unexpected breakdowns and reduce downtime.
- Conduct diagnoses when a breakdown occurs, organise repairs, and coordinate with maintenance teams to ensure a swift and effective resolution.
- Utilise condition monitoring techniques to track the performance of critical equipment to identify early signs of wear or potential failures.
- Evaluate and recommend equipment upgrades or modifications to improve efficiency and reliability.
- Maintain detailed records of maintenance activities, equipment history, and repairs conducted to analyse trends and make informed decisions.
- Work closely with RRT to manage the response and get the equipment back into operation as quickly as possible safely.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and data-driven decision-making across HME/Plant.
- Stay abreast of related industry best practices and emerging trends in asset health monitoring to improve the team's quality and relevance continuously.
People and Teams:
- Communicate effectively with team members, provide information, listen actively, and respond to feedback.
- Establish clear expectations and goals, ensure everyone works towards the same objectives, and track progress over time.
- Handle changes to the plan effectively, minimise disruption, and keep everyone focused on the end goal.
- Monitor performance and promptly address any issues or roadblocks, identify areas for improvement, and make necessary changes.
- Enforce rules and standards of behaviour and address performance or conduct issues.
- Provide training to team members and offer on-the-job training, mentorship, and other forms of development.
- Identify staffing needs and ensure the right people are in the right roles to support team objectives.
- Manage the talent pool, identify high-performing employees, develop retention plans, and recruit or develop employees with the necessary skills and experience.
This role is in Engineering & Maintenance Plant department on a band 6 (D4/D5) level reporting to the Manager, Engineering & Maintenance Plant
Qualifications:
- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Relevant Bachelor of Technology on an NQF7-level
- Government Certificate of Competence (GCC) for Mines & Works
- SA Drivers Licence Code B
Technical Knowledge
- 6-8 years of relevant experience in plant engineering, maintenance, and planning in a mining environment, including 3 years in a section engineer position.
- Minimum of 3years experience in crushing (Cone & Gyratory) plant maintenance.
- Advanced knowledge of system implementation in engineering and planned maintenance.
- Working knowledge of SQL databases and their interfaces.
- Knowledge of applicable legislation and statutory requirements.
- Understanding system configuration, debugging, and root cause analysis best practices.
- Knowledge of business process mapping, functional design specification document development, test cases, scenario testing, and document/change control.
- Familiarity with various stage gates before system release and roll-outs.
- In-depth knowledge of ERP modules applicable to the work area, particularly SAP PM (Advanced).
- Proficiency in MS Office and other 3rd party interface software.
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Job Description:
Purpose of the role:
- The Vice President Technical Risk and Governance leads a team of experts that apply best practice knowledge and thought leadership, empowering the business to independently and actively deliver risk confidence and safeguard enterprise value in defined catastrophic and fatality risk areas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape and be the custodian of the Technical risk and Control of Work frameworks: Lead the design and business integration of simple and effective Technical Risk Management and Control of Work frameworks.
- Define Technical Standards: Work with relevant Technical disciplines (e.g., mining, processing, engineering and maintenance, SHE) and the broader business to establish and maintain Technical Standards that are fit for purpose, easy to interpret, address key risks and empower assets to deliver compliance.
- Drive Best Practice: lead Functional Risk Authorities (FRA) in the areas of Learning, Investigation and Human Factors, Safety Excellence and Fire Risk.
- Shape Technical Assurance Programs: Design a technical assurance programme that can be delivered by the business, is aligned with the broader Enterprise Integrated Risk Management Framework, ensuring no gaps / no overlaps and results in focused and actionable insights that demonstrably drive risk reduction.
- Build Health of Discipline: Provide thought leadership and coaching to the business to enable effective implementation of Technical Risk, Technical Standards, Technical Assurance Programs and effective learning and investigation techniques across the business.
- Collaborate and Integrate: Work closely with other Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, Group Functions (especially Group Risk and Audit, Group Sustainability and Executive Head Technical), site GMs, Country CEO’s and Country SHE Heads
Experience:
- Minimum 10 years relevant experience.
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to communicate in English (advanced verbal and written).
- Desirable: Ability to speak Spanish or Portuguese is highly desirable.
- Regular international travel
- Working at high altitude may be required.
- Working on operational mine sites (both open pit and underground)
Technical Skills
- Experience working in and successfully managing dynamic risk operating environments.
- Strong influencing abilities at Senior levels to drive organisational change and shape accountability and learning cultures.
- Demonstrates adaptability to work within a strategic oversight enterprise model.
- Understands complex systems thinking and the necessary interactions between people, process, technology, equipment and high-energy activities.
- Demonstrates expertise in how to deeply learn lessons that enables a workplace free of fatalities and catastrophic events.
Qualifications:
- An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline.
- A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in Risk Management or a relevant technical discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in an operational role and context of similar complexity
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Job Description:
As Warehouse Assistantyou will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Support a safe and healthy work environment where workers, external service providers, and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
- Adhere to Housekeeping principles to ensure compliance with environmental requirements.
- Support compliance with MHSA in the workspace.
- Active participation in SLAMs, HPHs, relevant Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
Performance and Delivery
- Provide help and support in resolving GRV systems queries.
- Execute the schedule to facilitate inventory movement, including RECOs and scrap, by receiving, binning, picking, delivering, and moving as per the requirements.
- Adhere to the applicable SHE Policies, Procedures, and guidelines; perform duties accordingly.
- Report any discrepancies, errors, or damages to inventory and equipment to the line supervisor.
- Organise floor space according to storage design principles, inventory segmentation, engineering specifications, and guidelines to maintain the storage area.
- Use 5S principles to initiate and maintain housekeeping.
- Collate and maintain security (access control); ensure proper operational materials handling equipment processes are applied.
- Use FIFO warehousing principles to perform stock rotation and picking.
- Assist in maintaining accurate stock status by performing cycle counting, bin verification, bin labelling, and moving redundant stock to designated areas.
- Compile necessary reports identifying variances and improvement opportunities; assist and support in the process.
- Provide and submit required documents for approval/record, such as reports, logs, and forms.
- Oversee the delivery of materials reserved for the plant area.
- Help maintain an improved OTIF receiving and issuing process.
This role is in the Commercial (CML) NC at a Band A4 (C1/C2) level reporting to the Supervisor Warehouse.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12/N3 Technical
- Preferably a certificate in Supply Chain or Logistics (NQF4)
- Advantageous Licences: Forklift, O/H Crane, LDV, Truck, and Reach Truck.
- SA Drivers Licence Code B
Experience
- 2 - 3 years of relevant warehouse knowledge/experience.
- Computer literacy skills (Word / Excel /PowerPoint / SAP).
- Applies a systematic, knowledge-based problem-solving approach and structured methodologies to investigate risks and opportunities and create compelling, value-added technical solutions.
- Project and active resource management.
- Knowledge of discipline-related standards and recommended practices.
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Job Description:
As our Section Manager Ore Control of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
- Manage a safe and healthy work environment for employees and contractors, ensuring all activities are conducted within a controlled risk framework.
- Ensure environmental impacts remain within statutory limits to maintain full compliance.
- Actively participate in Visible Felt Leadership (VFL), conduct and review Risk Assessments, and ensure timely close-out of Safety Actions.
Performance and Delivery
Ore Classification and Block Prediction
- Deliver accurate material classifications for blast blocks, ensuring precision in grade and tonnage estimations.
- Produce clear and legible graphical representations of predicted blocks to support operational decision-making.
- Integrate Production Geology with material classification to ensure consistency and accuracy.
Selective Mining and Value Optimisation
- Provide strategic insights into selective mining to enhance ore value extraction.
- Apply value-based ore control parameters to guide loading dimensions and orientations for optimal resource utilisation.
Geological Reconciliation
- Reconcile resource models with grade control data to ensure consistency and accuracy.
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies between predicted and actual ore grades.
Drilling Coordination
- Plan and coordinate grade control infill drilling aligned with monthly and annual mine plans.
- Monitor drilling activities to ensure compliance with budgetary constraints and timeline commitments.
Process Integration
- Ensure alignment between long-, medium-, and short-term planning horizons and mining execution.
- Align Production Geology and Grade Control processes.
- Ensure integration between Mining operations and Plant processes.
- Investigate and explain VCR discrepancies between modified grade control and survey ex-pit nodes.
Marketing Alignment
- Attend weekly and quarterly marketing alignment meetings to provide feedback and contribute to establishing quarterly typical product values.
- Lead investigations into client queries related to product specifications and quality.
- Provide technical input into marketing negotiations with clients.
Project Management
- Lead Mineral Resource Management (MRM) projects aimed at improving mining practices and operational efficiency.
- Track project progress, proactively manage deviations, and ensure delivery within scope, time, and budget.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with short-term planning, logistics, and marketing teams to optimise ore reserve utilisation.
- Develop and align feed strategies with market requirements to ensure delivery of on-specification iron ore products.
- Integrate production processes to enhance efficiency and maintain high standards of quality control.
- Align marketing efforts with the delivery plan to meet market requirements.
Budget and Cost Control
- Manage the section's expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
- Monitor project expenditure to ensure sound financial practices are applied and upheld.
People Management
- Optimise human resource deployment to maximise section output and performance.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement and strong work ethics among team members.
This role is in Geology (GEO) department on a band 6.12 (D4/D5) level reporting to the Manager Geology
Qualifications:
- B–Geology or BEng Mining or BEng Metallurgy or BEng Industrial (NQF7)
- BSc Hons – Geology or BEng Mining or BEng Metallurgy (NQF8)
- Registered member (full) of SACNASP/ECSA
- SA Drivers Licence
Technical Knowledge
- Possesses 6–8 years of relevant experience in ore control, demonstrating deep domain understanding.
- Familiar with geoscientific principles, ore body behaviour, and the impact of geological factors on mining operations.
- Knowledgeable about the mining lifecycle, the value chain, and how mining activities influence business and operational performance.
- Understand safety standards, hazard identification methods, and risk management principles applicable to mining environments.
- Familiar with the health implications of mining designs and operational activities, and how they relate to organisational risk levels.
- Knowledgeable in managing finances, labour, and projects, with the ability to analyse critical performance data and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Understand proactive risk identification, reporting, and management, including the testing and implementation of safety and health solutions to maintain a secure mining environment.
- Aware of the implications of safety and health risks on Group objectives and risk levels, and knowledgeable in engineering solutions, embedding standards, and promoting local ownership of risk mitigation strategies.
- Understand safe operational practices and their significance in maintaining safety, productivity, and compliance within the mining industry.
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Job Description:
As Training Officer Mining you will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Safety, Health, and Environment
Consistently apply Safety and Health principles in all learner interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and learners to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
- Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site are paramount.
- Provide an environment for learners to challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without repercussions.
Collect and summarise the specific risks within the working area and implement plans/systems to avoid these risks.
- Review and assess the impact of critical risks and monitor the effectiveness of critical controls relevant to the work area.
- Identify PUEs and monitor critical control performance for learners.
- Embed critical controls into the daily work practices of learners.
Manage Safety and Health systems within the work area.
- Assess the safety leadership capabilities of learners.
- Assess learners 'fitness for duty' and take any subsequent necessary action.
- Engage in physical safety checks, interventions, and coaching.
- Create safety reports and manage analysis of KPIs based on available data.
- Report deficiencies and implement plans to address deficiencies.
- Facilitate continual safety audits to ensure all safety requirements are met.
- Support site visits by internal and external visitors to ensure adherence to site safety systems (including induction).
Performance and Delivery
- Provide legal authorisation training activities during scheduled weekly training shifts related to authorisation to work procedures, SOPs, and simulation (where available) and any required learning intervention as per plan and schedule.
- Provide a Learning Supervisor and Learning Delivery Coordinator attendance report after each Training Shift.
- Provide and continuously maintain a GAP analysis of training requirements in the area of responsibility
- Design, develop, and maintain training matrixes, materials, programs, and assessments to deliver practical training.
- Conduct practical and theoretical training sessions to equip learners with the necessary skills and knowledge.
- Assess learners against Legal Authorisation standards and processes to evaluate competency levels.
- Monitor and evaluate learners' progress according to NQF standards and draft progress reports to track their development where applicable
- Prepare learners for assessments, ensuring they meet the required unit standard/s or learning outcome/s.
- Maintain learners' portfolios as the MQA requires Kumba to accurately record their training progress and achievements.
- Control and maintain the administration of training documents to ensure that all records are up-to-date and easily accessible.
- Conduct need/skills assessments to determine learners' training needs and address gaps in their knowledge or skills.
- Monitor learners' performance and application of procedures to ensure they adhere to safety rules and apply the correct procedures.
- Assist in ensuring compliance with the company's SHE objectives by requiring learners to adhere to and apply safety rules while completing their training.
- Stay updated with the latest developments in your expertise and maintain close contact with the mine's relevant discipline managers/supervisors.
- Continuously engage with operational engineering leaders, understanding and responding to needs at the departmental and individual levels.
This role is in the People & Organisation (P&O) NC at a Band 7 level reporting to the Learning Delivery (LD) Supervisor HME.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Relevant ETDP Qualification/Certificate on NQF5
- A2 Safety Training & Legal Liability
- Assessor & Moderator Certificate
- SA Driver’s License
Experience
- 3-5 years of relevant experience.
- Understand adult learning principles and methodologies.
- Knowledge of training needs analysis, curriculum development, and instructional design.
- Knowledge of emergency response procedures and incident investigation techniques.
- Familiarity with project and resource management tools and techniques.
- Familiarity with South African mining laws, including the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA), relevant regulations, safety standards and best practices in the mining industry.
- In-depth understanding of engineering maintenance tasks related to HME machines in opencast mines
- Familiarity in dealing with and coordinating training provider activities to ensure the continuous development of own and contractor employees.
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Job Description:
Purpose:
- Plant and equipment Shutdowns or Turnarounds are a critical success factor in the delivery of safe production to plan, and an important continuous improvement opportunity. Our planned Shutdowns account for a significant percentage of planned downtime and if not managed optimally will lead to value leakage and safety incidents.
- Similarly Operational Readiness is critical in ensuring safe production to plan through effective handover of Shutdowns and Projects to operations, and the inclusion of all Asset Management requirements.
- This role will establish and develop a Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Authority to ensure strategies, standards, best practices, and the latest technology are developed and implemented to optimise shutdown durations and to minimize ramp-up and return-to-operations durations, while ensuring zero harm (safety), and quality in delivery at optimal cost.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
- Define the E&M Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Strategy
- Assess global and cross-industry Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness Best Practice and trends applicable to the AA environment.
- Develop, review, revise, rollout, implement and entrench new and existing Best Practice frameworks, guidelines and standards across AA
- Support AA Business Units in the rollout, implementation and entrenchment of Best Practice frameworks, guidelines and standards, and procedural application to local environments
The Shutdown and Operational Readiness Authority shall:
- Ensure awareness of Shutdowns taking place in the organisation and be part of the shutdown oversight committee.
- Support and provide oversight of Shutdown Management teams in implementation of Best Practice
- Take a longer-term view of Shutdown strategy at an AA and Business Unit level, and ensure requirements are adequately accounted for in the annual 5-year plans
- Convene a Shutdown Community of Practice and share best practices, benchmarking and cross-operational learnings as appropriate.
- Be party to Post Shutdown Reviews and ensure that the Shutdown Community of Practice adopts lessons learned
- Ensure awareness of Major Projects taking place in the organisation and be part of the Operational Readiness oversight committee.
- Support and provide oversight of Project Operational Readiness teams in implementation of the Best Practice
- Convene an Operational Readiness Community of Practice and share best practices, benchmarking and cross-operational learnings as appropriate
- Be party to Post Project Reviews and ensure that the Operational Readiness Community of Practice adopts lessons learned
- Develop and facilitate a process by which critical stakeholders are aware of Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness activities, status, opportunities and risks
- Set goals (HoShin) for the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness teams
- Establish a culture of shutdown and ramp-up readiness to ensure safety, quality, cost and schedule outcomes
- Broad Scanning: Understand new developments and trends in the field of Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness and devise appropriate strategies to implement in Anglo American.
- Alignment with the AAOM: Ensure that the work in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness (in particular the Work Management and A&I) areas are aligned with the AAOM.
Qualifications:
- An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
Experience
- 10 – 15Year’s experience in Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness
Knowledge
- A demonstrated thought leader and highly knowledgeable in Shutdown, and Turnaround Management, and Operational Readiness
- The understanding and application of Asset Management key value drivers for processes across full mine-to-market value chain, safety, sustainability, and interdependence of key levers
- Comprehensive understanding of business drivers & levers linked to the extractive industry or other adjacent heavy industry context.
- Provides a consistent outstanding role model in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety
- Spanish and Portuguese skills is advantageous
Technical Skills
- Extensive experience as a site Shutdown Manager
- Mining, Oil and Gas, Aviation or similar heavy industry management
- Major Project experience with work in the Shutdown Management and Operational Readiness field.
- Project Management
- Asset Management
- Strong coaching and mentoring abilities
- Ability to influence at al levels of a complex international orgainisation
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Job Description:
As our Section Manager Projects of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Implement plans and systems to avoid specific risks within the working area, review and assess the impact of critical risks, monitor critical control performance within teams, and embed critical controls into teams' daily work practices.
- Ensure safety by managing systems, assessing capabilities, conducting safety checks, creating reports, analysing KPIs, reporting deficiencies and facilitating safety audits.
- Performance and Delivery
- Project Planning: Create a comprehensive project plan that includes objectives, scope, timelines, resource allocation, budgeting, and risk assessment.
- Stakeholder Management: Identify and engage with project stakeholders, including clients, team members, sponsors, and other relevant parties, to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
- Scope Management: Define and control the project's scope, ensuring it stays within the defined boundaries and any changes are appropriately documented and approved.
- Schedule Management: Develop and maintain project schedules, monitor progress, and adjust timelines to meet project milestones and deadlines.
- Resource Management: Allocate and manage project resources, including human resources, materials, and equipment, to ensure efficient execution.
- Budget Management: Estimate project costs, create budgets, track expenditures, and manage financial aspects to stay within budgetary constraints.
- Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to minimise their impact on the project's success.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and conform to project requirements.
- Communication: Establish effective communication channels among project team members and stakeholders, providing regular updates and addressing issues or concerns promptly
- Issue Resolution: Identify and resolve project issues and conflicts hindering progress or impacting project outcomes.
- Change Management: Manage and document changes to project scope, schedule, or other aspects and ensure proper change control processes are followed.
- Documentation: Maintain accurate project documentation, including plans, reports, meeting minutes, and project records
- Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously monitor project performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and report regularly to stakeholders.
- Closure: Oversee the successful completion and closure of the project, including finalising all documentation, conducting post-project reviews, and ensuring a smooth transition to operational status, if applicable
- Customer Satisfaction: Ensure that the client or end-users are satisfied with the project's outcomes and that their requirements have been met.
- Compliance: Ensure that the project adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards
- Team Leadership: Lead and motivate the project team, fostering collaboration and managing team dynamics.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify lessons learned from the project and use them to improve processes and future projects.
- Sustainability and Social:
- Implement and coordinate sustainability activities, manage environmental and social requirements, identify risks and opportunities, and participate in stakeholder engagements to improve sustainability performance over time within own team.
- People and Teams:
- Lead and support the development of a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the team by implementing effective team processes, setting clear and consistent expectations, and reinforcing desired culture and values.
- Establish efficient management processes that allocate resources properly, define role authority and accountability structures, and hold individuals accountable for their performance and responsibilities.
- Develop team members by ensuring their knowledge and skills are sufficient, identifying and addressing gaps through coaching, managing the talent pipeline, recruiting proactively, and providing performance insights.
- Compliance:
- Manage and monitor teams' compliance with external and internal regulations, conduct site inspections, participate in audits, investigate incidents, and share learnings.
This role is in Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) department on a band 6 (D4/D5) level reporting to the Manager Engineering & Maintenance Plant
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Relevant Bachelor's degree in Project Management/ Business Administration/Engineering/ Information Technology on NQF7
- SA Drivers Licence
Advantageous
- Project Management Professional (PMP): Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI), or
- Prince2: Project Management certification, or
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or
- Certified Associate in Project
- Management (CAPM), or
- South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) accreditation level 5
Technical Knowledge
- Operational project management knowledge gained through 6-8 years of experience in contractor safety management, including 3 years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
- Relevant Mining / Process / Engineering/ knowledge, including developing, implementing, managing, and auditing safety and risk control initiatives and programs in a mining environment.
- Knowledge of the Mine Health and Safety Act (Act 29 of 1996) and other related legislation.
- Advanced knowledge of Project Management.
- Computer Literacy: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Demonstrate proficiency in investigating and authoring reports.
- Understand Integrated Risk Management
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