New Vacancies at Tshipi E Ntle Manganese Mining

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Financial Perspective

Contributes to cost efficiencies.

• Demonstrates budget and cost awareness and proactively identifies and implements cost saving initiative within the receiving function.
• Identifies and escalates potential risks that could result in increased costs.
• Follows receiving standard operating procedures and processes to mitigate risk of financial loss.
• Cost saving initiatives
• % reduction on directly managed cost of production from previous year.

Internal Business Process Perspective

Receives and Stores Stock and Diesel

• Receives goods and stock according to established receiving procedures.
• Checks and manages all relevant financial and delivery documentation including:
• Goods received register.
• Delivery and order information.
• Ensures the quality of received goods and supplies by checking for defects and damages.
• Analyses and reports on received stock variances.
• Ensures that stores and equipment are safely received and stored in line with company processes and relevant legislative and regulatory requirements.
• IT system utilisation
• Independent annual review of consistent use of all functionalities of all IT systems under control of the function.
• Warehouse reports
• % stock variances.
• Legislative compliance
• Number of non-compliance incidents.
• Document Management
• % compliance to document management control system procedures.
• People Perspective
• Personal Development
• Manages own performance in terms of agreed KPA/KPI’s.
• Identifies gaps in own development and creates and reviews development plans to increase performance and ensure personal development.
• Works to master skills and competencies within own role to ensure personal development and performance.

Personal Development Plan:

• % achieved actual v planned

Contributes to team.

• Contributes to the attainment of team and organisational goals by demonstrating team commitment and collaboration.
• Values and respects team members and others within the organisation.
• Demonstrates inclusivity and values diversity.
• Shares knowledge and best practice that will benefit the team.
• Peer / team review:
• TBC

Customer Perspective

Customer Relations Management

• Management of customer expectations, adherence to defined performance standards, customer requirements and the effective delivery of warehouse services to the business.
• Meeting the logistics functions performance in terms of agreed KPA/KPI’s.
• Driving customer satisfaction throughout the provision of warehouse services.
• Building relationship across the organisation by sharing business information, knowledge, and expertise.
• Internal Customer metric
• TBC.

Stakeholder engagement and management

• Negotiates with internal and external stakeholders to promote the business and service objectives of the company.
• Ensures that the needs of organisational stakeholders are prioritised and managed including:
• Suppliers.
• Colleagues and employees.
• Works with management, organization officials and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities or resolve problems.
• Stakeholder Metric
• TBC

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Matric.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Certificate in Purchasing Management (NQF Level 4)

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• Minimum 2 years’ experience as receiving clerk within a mining environment.

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Stakeholder engagement and management

• Manage relations with internal and external stakeholders to promote objectives of the company.
• Ensure that the needs of organisational stakeholders are prioritised and managed including:
• Management and the executive team
• Colleagues and employees.
• Shareholders and investors.
• Community and external stakeholders.
• Work with colleagues, organization officials and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.
• 360-degree feedback from relevant stakeholders.

Internal Business Process Perspective

• Operational effectiveness
• Overall responsibility for all projects within the business. Providing guidance regarding project approach, methodologies, and best practices.

Lead projects in respect of:

• Review of quotes, scope of work and other documentation for projects.
• Run large projects independently of management.
• Delivery of projects within scope, budget, and time.
• Manage client expectations throughout the project and communicate plans and project status transparently and regularly to client.
• Manage and motivate various discipline teams and third-party resources.
• Prepare and update project plans.
• Plan, track, control and report on projects.
• Manage risk and scope throughout the project.
• Design, develop and implement project management systems and processes in a manner that will ensure:
• Accurate reporting information on a regular basis as required.
• Highlighting of sub-standard performance, processes and systems.
• Employees understanding their roles and being managed in a manner as to perform to the requirements of their roles.
• Project Management (including Capital project) - % adherence to project plan (within time and specification)
• Internal Business Process Management - IBP Mapping - % progress against plan (number of processes identified vs mapped)
• Document management - % compliance to document management control system procedure.
• IT system utilisation - Independent annual review of consistent use of all functionalities of all IT systems under control of the function

Customer Perspective

Customer Relations Management

• Develop and maintain relationships with external role players (government, business etc.) to influence decision making/interpretation in favour of business objectives.
• Builds relationships across the organization by sharing business information and knowledge.
• Manage the project management functions performance in terms of agreed "Service Level Agreements" and agreed KPA/KPI's and effectiveness areas.
• Driving customer satisfaction throughout the provision of quality of output.
• Internal Customer metric - 360 degree assessment/ % deviation from Service Level Agreement

Stakeholder engagement and management

• Negotiate with internal and external stakeholders to promote the business and service objectives of the company.
• Ensure that the needs of organisational stakeholders are prioritized and managed including but not limited to:
• Management and the executive team.
• Work colleagues and employees.
• Shareholders and investors.
• Community and external stakeholders
• Monitor and report on projects as well as other SLP commitments such as skills training, employment equity, bursaries, learnerships and internships etc.
• Liaise with community organizations, municipality and the DMR regarding SLP reporting and commitments.
• Internal Customer metric - 360-degree assessment/ % deviation from Service Level Agreement

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Undergraduate Degree in Engineering 
• Appropriate project management qualification and certification (i.e. Project and/or Program Management Professional – PMP/PgMP or internationally recognised equivalent).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Relevant tertiary qualification in business management and or business leadership.
• Project risk management (i.e. PMP-RMP or equivalent) beneficial.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• 5-10 years’ experience overseeing multiple, related projects and their resources to achieve strategic business goals.
• 3 years mining industry experience
• 3 years’ experience in a managerial role.
• Deep understanding of project management methodologies including agile methodologies.
• Experience in relevant project management software and technologies (i.e. MS Projects).

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Financial Perspective

Financial and budgetary effectiveness

• Deliver and manage an annual budget that represents best estimate of costs and supports the attainment of the organisation and business unit’s financial objectives.
• Allocate and monitor the utilisation of allocated funds to enable the attainment of objectives.
• Regularly review and proactively monitor and appropriately respond to spend against budget.
• Manage and report expenditure according to financial procedure.
• Budget variance
• % variance (actual vs planned).
• Cost saving initiatives
• % reduction on directly managed cost of production from previous year.

Internal Business Process Perspective

Designs and maintains stores processes and systems.

• Designs, maintains and updates stores management systems including implementing appropriate controls to eliminate losses.
• Ensures that established procedures for tracking purchase orders, requisitions, receipts and issues are maintained and reports deviations.
• Manages and implements re-order processes and controls to ensure that stock is always available.
• Document Management
• % compliance to document management control system procedure

Stores Management

• Monitors, reconciles, and validates financial documentation to payments and purchase orders.
• Plans, manages and reports on cycle counts to ensure that stocks levels are correct.
• Analyses and reports on stock variances.
• Ensures that stores and equipment are safely stored, cleaned and maintained in line with company processes and relevant legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Monitors and controls minimum and maximum stock levels and re-orders stock in line with established processes.

Compiles and submits relevant reports including:

• Obsolete stock report;
• Damaged stock report;
• Stocktake reports.

Ensuring the efficient and effective management of diesel processes by:

• Monitoring diesel dips are on a regular basis.
• Creating diesel orders timeously.
• Co-ordinating the diesel truck scheduling to the mine.
• Preparing and completing Chevron and Crossroads packs and sending to Finance timeously.
• Preparing diesel reconciliations on a monthly basis and investigating and reporting on variances.
• Enforcement of procurement policies
• % ZAR procurement in terms of policy/total ZAR procurement.
• IT system utilisation
• Independent annual review of consistent use of all functionalities of all IT systems under control of the function.
• Warehouse reports
• % stock variances.
• Out of stock incidents.
• Re-order reports.
• Legislative compliance
• Number of non-compliance incidents.

Diesel management:

• Tanks always have about 2 days’ worth of diesel.
• Diesel orders to be created within 24 hours after delivery.
• Diesel recon variance to be within 5%.

People management and leadership

• Manage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals, measuring performance against agreed goals and dealing with non-performance accordingly.
• Talent management of direct reports, including career developments and paths for all staff and succession planning for key positions.
• Ensure that the working environment contributes to improving staff morale and increased productivity.
• Coaching and mentoring of direct reports.
• Ensuring a healthy and safe work environment for employees.
• Leadership / performance indicator
• 360-degree feedback rating.
• Transformation - Achievement of plan (EE, BBBEE, SLP)
• % achievement of plan (actual vs planned).
• Performance Management
• Number of performance contracts in place.
• Number of performance talent conversations held.
• Number of IDPs in place.
• Employee engagement rating
• TBC.
• Adherence to Departmental/ functional training plan (input into WSP and ATR)
• % adherence to training plan.
• ZERO harm
• LTIFR.

Customer Perspective

Customer Relations Management

• Management of customer expectations; adherence to defined performance standards, customer requirements and the effective delivery of warehouse services to the business.
• Meeting the logistics functions performance in terms of agreed KPA/KPI’s.
• Driving customer satisfaction throughout the provision of warehouse services

Stakeholder engagement and management

• Negotiate with internal and external stakeholders to promote the business and service objectives of the company.
• Ensure that the needs of organisational stakeholders are prioritised and managed including:
• HOD’s.
• Colleagues and employees.
• Suppliers and contractors.
• Work with management, organization officials and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.
• Stakeholder Metric
• TBC

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Matric.
• Certificate in Purchasing Management (NQF Level 4).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Diploma in Purchasing Management (NQF Level 5)

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a store’s supervisor or specialist.
• Mining experience essential.
• Valid driver’s license.

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KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

•  Assists in performing both planned and unscheduled mechanical maintenance on machinery and equipment to minimize.
• breakdowns and downtime.
• Performs housekeeping tasks during and after completion of assigned work.
• Fits, inspects, tests and repairs equipment, and carries out all mechanical maintenance work in collaboration with the artisan.
• Assists with installation and commission of machinery and equipment.
• Aligns and calibrates machinery and equipment parts as required for efficient and safe operation.
• Assists in achieving all maintenance, housekeeping and safety objectives and principles.
• Adheres to all safety and operational requirements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4,
• Higher Certificate / NQF level 5,
• Valid driver's licence

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• Semi-skilled and discretionary
• decision making

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KEY  AREAS

Strategic Perspective

Strategic plan development and Implementation

• Developing and implementing the strategic mine plan to maximise value from mineral resource exploitation.
• Strategic alignment of MRM planning with overall business plan and objectives. Ongoing evaluation and alignment of MRM plan to the operational strategy and direction and objectives of the mine.
• Ensuring mining processes, policies and practices are compliant with relevant statutory requirements.
• Mining strategy aligned to operational objectives of the mine.
• Effective, regular communication of strategy to relevant, defined, stakeholders.
• Quarterly reporting on performance against strategic objectives and any deviations from strategy.

Financial and budgetary effectiveness

• Interpret the strategic and operational requirements of the MRM function and integrate financial needs to ensure the availability of financial resources.
• Deliver and manage an annual budget that represents best estimate of costs and supports the attainment of the organization and business unit’s financial objectives.
• Develop and Benchmark ‘should cost models’ to cost the mine plan.
• Allocate and monitor the utilization of allocated funds to enable the attainment of objectives.
• Regularly review and proactively monitor and appropriately respond to spend against budget.
• Manage and report expenditure:

Budget variance

• % variance (actual vs planned).

Cost saving initiatives

• % reduction on directly managed cost of production from previous year.

Internal Business Process Perspective

MRM process excellence

• Manage the MRM activities and processes of the mine, including:
• Exploration and ore identification.
• Surveying
• Feasibility studies.
• The development of an optimal ore extraction plan.
• Highly skilled with Whittle pit optimization and scheduling
• Long- and medium-term planning.
• Reporting, reconciliation, and controls including mass and metal balance.
• Ore testing and grade control.
• Ore evaluation.
• Quality assurance of ore extracted according to the mining plan and customer requirements.
• Development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the MRM function in line with MRM best practice.
•  Assessment, development and implementation of people practices, processes, technology, and systems to aid the operationalization of the MRM plan.

Geological losses:

• % variance of actual vs planned graded ore extracted
• Stockpile grade management.
• % compliance to grade requirements
• Internal Business Process Management - IBP Mapping
• % progress against plan (number of processes identified vs mapped).
• Accuracy of mine/load port/discharge port assay results
• % variance between mine/load port/discharge port assay results.
• Document management.
• % compliance to document management control system procedure
• IT system utilization
•  Independent annual review of consistent use of all functionalities of all IT systems under control of the function

Governance

• Ensure and monitor adherence to EMP and water use license requirements, safety and security programs and objectives.
• Ensures adherence to the groups environmental management programme and policies
• Develop, review, and maintain company policies to ensure the implementation with appropriate departmental procedures, operating procedures, and systems according to organisational objectives.
• Manage and coordinate the audit/review process to ensure adherence to organisational policies, procedures, and standards.
• Continually reviews mining and mineral policies and procedures to ensure that they are effective and support the broader objectives of the business unit/organisation.
• Legally compliant in all areas
• Risk management strategy in place.
• All governance requirements are met against approved frameworks.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Relevant bachelor’s degree in mining, geology, or related disciplines (i.e. MRM management, mining engineering, surveying etc. – NQF 7).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Post graduate degree in mining, geology, or related field disciplines. Project management is beneficial.
• Completed management development program (MDP) beneficial.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• 10 years’ experience in MRM or technical services roles
• 5 years managerial experience.
• Experience with using geological, geophysical, and engineering data.
• Experienced in using geological and planning software, geo- modelling tools and databases.