Open Positions at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To operate and maintain basic electrical equipment and machines and carry out routine tasks following strict, detailed instructions to meet performance targets.

Key Accountabilities

• Participates in shift handover meetings
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures
• Work Independently
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs
• Apply and maintain safety in a working environment
• Participates in shift handover meetings
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures
• Work Independently
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs
• Contribute to the development of training modules
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval
• Lead by example (walks the talk)
• Conduct on the job coaching of learners
• SME Presentation on specific plant equipment
• Conducts IMS inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability
• Work effectively in a team
• Attends and interacts in PDAs and RCAs to improve plant safety and stability
• Play an appropriate main role during emergency situations to get the plant back on line
• Give and receive feedback to other disciplines (partners on daily issues)
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Gives input at toolbox talks to improve plant safety
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities in own work area
• Improve practices and/or equipment

Formal Education

• Grade 12 / N3 with Mathematics, Physical Science and English
• Trade Certificate (Electrical)

Working Experience

• Experience: 4+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To develop effective analyser equipment strategies and implementation of optimised solutions. Responsibilities include successful execution of analyser projects and provide expert assistance to the maintenance team, as well as co-ordination between analyser department and service providers.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality, quantity and due dates.
• Achieving delivery targets (e.g. OPEX KPI's, products, services; BU and Discipline Specific).
• Ensure that self and team meets targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Provide technical support to the Analyser maintenance teams.
• Write measuring instruments calibration programmes.
• Fault finding and repair of online analysers.
• Awareness, focus and control of cost / budget.
• Liaise with Procurement, Suppliers and Contractors.
• Independently gather information and data accumulation.
• Ensure that critical spares are ordered and available.
• Ensure that online analysers comply to ISO standards.
• Ensure that work standards are met according to quality standards and compliance.
• Conduct basic processing and reporting.
• Manage complex schedules and communicate possible delays in meeting deadlines
• Optimises and control resources effectively.
• Independently implement analyzer application solutions.
• Ensure optimal resource utilisation and contractor management
• Achieve safety and risk objectives.
• Apply safety in all practices, specifically project planning and execution.
• Ensure safe project execution and implement safe work procedures.
• Manage own work planning and delivery according to targets.
• Policies, practices, standards, procedures and methods.
• Review compliance and follow up against the standards and objectives.
• Develop suitable technical proposals based on practical and theoretical knowledge.
• Apply and comply with all legal and company standards, procedures and methods.
• Problem solving and decision making.
• Resolve work obstacles and issues positively and quickly.
• Demonstrates good understanding of customer needs.
• Build customer relationships in order to understand their needs.

Formal Education

• National diploma in Instrumentation/Electrical light current. BTech will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience as technician.

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Purpose of Job

• To create technical drawings of designs for major or complex sections of the project or the overall design and convert existing drawings into intelligent database technology to create 3-D design models.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that work standards are met according to quantity and due dates 
• Achieving delivery targets (e.g. tons, products, services; BU and Discipline Specific) 
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards 
• Implement and adhere to Draughting strategies. 
• To generate engineering drawings according to Sasol specifications and standards. 
• Effective resource utilization and ensure compliance to draughting standards for Sasol 
• Optimizes and control resources effectively 
• Perform all tasks cost consciously 
• Independently gather information and data accumulation 
• Achieve safety and risk objectives 
• Apply safety in all practices, specifically project planning and execution 
• Demonstrate safety consciousness at all times 
• Awareness, focus and control of cost / budget 
• Understand the company vision and values 
• Demonstrate the desired behaviours in agreement with the Sasol Values 
• Improve own skills and knowledge 
• Take ownership for personal improvement and skills development 
• Ensure that personal development plan is completed, implemented and tracked 
• Apply the learning experience at the workplace 
• Agree and review personal performance goals and the achievement thereof 
• Set and work towards own performance targets and goals as per personal performance agreement 
• Update performance goals and performance agreement regularly 
• Ensure work is completed as planned 
• Manage own work planning and delivery according to targets 
• Review compliance and follow up against the standards and objectives 
• Adheres to standard procedures and practices with guidance 
• Resolve work obstacles and issues positively and quickly 
• Develop suitable technical proposals based on practical and theoretical knowledge 
• Build customer relationships in order to understand their needs 
• Demonstrates good understanding of customer needs 
• Project a positive image of the department 
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with managers and peers 
• Build effective partnerships with team to ensure high performance 
• Provide technical input or advice to multi-disciplinary project teams 
• Demonstrate effective listening and communication skills when dealing with colleagues 
• Improve present way of doing work by continuously asking questions 
• Share and implement new ideas regarding work

Formal Education

• Grade 12 / N3 with English or Business English 
• Tertiary Diploma is advantageous 

Working Experience

• Experience: 5+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To contribute to providing administrative support to an allocated team, to promote administrative efficiency in day-to-day operations.

Key Accountabilities

• Handles inquiries, schedules appointments, develops presentations, and fills other office support functions.
• Organises and attends meetings, taking minutes and keeping notes.
• Booking rooms and conference facilities.
• Maintains scheduling and event calendars.
• Coordinates travel arrangements.
• Arranging both in-house and external conference functions and events.
• Ordering and maintaining stationery and equipment.
• Manages appointments. Office Administration and support.
• Mails documents and newsletters and other information as and when required.
• Prepares and types documents, letters and reports.
• Co-ordination and implementation of office procedures.
• Organising and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information.
• Photocopying and printing various documents, sometimes on behalf of other colleagues.
• Complete forms in accordance with company procedures.
• Types and distributes meeting notes, routine correspondence, and reports.
• Receives and responds to correspondence.
• Performs sorting, filing, and cross referencing of materials and documents.
• Utilises, reconciles and manipulates data for management reports from different internal and external sources.
• Captures data in standardised format.
• Maintains hard copy and electronic filing system.
• Manages, maintains, and updates a wide variety of records , reports and files.
• May distribute mail, retrieve and deliver files, and copy documents.
• Locate and attach appropriate files to incoming correspondence requiring replies.
• Adheres to agreed serve level agreements.
• Liaising with colleagues and external contacts to book travel and accommodation.
• Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals.
• Liaising with staff in other departments and with external contacts.
• Greets refers and assists visitors, clients, callers, staff and others and handle their inquiries, and direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs.
• Communicates with internal and external clients.
• Monitors the use of expenditures and keeps record thereof within the department, for the manager.
• Complies records, organises, maintains files and posts records. Completes invoicing as and when required.
• Control stock of stationery and office supplies.

Formal Education

• National Senior Certificate or N3

Working Experience

• Experience: 1+ relevant years

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Objective/ Purpose

• BBEE monitoring (Skills Development)
• B-BBEE quarterly audits
• Skills Development spend audits.
• Contract Management
• Vendor Management
• Administration
• Monitor service provider performance.
• Monthly engagements with internal stakeholders

Non- Technical learnerships

• Develop strategic plans.
• Develop and implement goals and objectives for the team /department.
• Ensuring learner registration and compliance with different SETAs
• Monitoring employee performance and providing feedback.
• Ensures that employees meet their goals and maintain a healthy work culture.
• Monthly meetings with learnership service providers to monitor their performance.
• Provide performance report per service provider.
• Assist managing the programmes.

Min Experience

• 2-3 years experience in B=BBEE Skills Management, Vendor Management, Contract Management and Supply Chain Management.

Formal Education

• Honours degree in Economics or relevant

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Purpose of Job

• To manage the land and biodiversity challenges and to support business to improve environmental practices.

Key Accountabilities

• Obtaining and retaining relevant environmental licenses / authorizations
• Identifying environmental risk specific to the portfolio
• Environmental assessments; manage specialist study activities
• Report and advise on portfolio specific risks
• Provide portfolio specific services as agreed with other stakeholders
• Implement relevant SHE systems and requirements to support effective controls for safe operation, aligned with the business asset management strategy.
• implement relevant system to manage consultants
• Develop, test, communicate and improve response plans and procedures to ensure effective mitigation of SHE undesirable events. Eg. emergency response plans
• Facilitate the process to establish and implement controls for compliance with applicable SHE legal requirements
• Actively participate in legal compliance audits or authority inspections to verify SHE legal compliance
• Be able to conduct biodiversity assessments especially related to alien invasive species (AIS)
• Be able to conduct contaminated land assessments
• Be able to review biodiversity and soil reports over various focus areas
• Be able to collaborate on global platforms
• Be willing to conduct assessments over a wide geographical range
• Be able to establish the process to manage consultants and the appropriate budgets and schedules

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Relevant B-Tech or B-Degree in (Environmental Management, Soil science or Ecology) with 6 years relevant work experience.

OR

• Relevant B.Degree (Hons in Environmental Management, Soil science or Ecology), with 6 years relevant work experience.
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office applications – Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) and other applications like Google Earth will be an advantage.
• Attendance of water sampling or environmental management courses and a 4x4 driving course would be beneficial. (Added advantage)
• In addition to a pre-employment medical examination, the positions may require a physical fitness assessment as part of the normal
• selection criteria. Driver’s license

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
Required inputs include but not limited to:

• Leadership
• Support the one Sasol SHE Excellence Approach and provide specialist input into portfolio specific environmental plans.
• Sustain own high performance and seek opportunities for personal growth monitored through structured performance contract and development plan
• Ensure that vision, values and business direction are embraced
• Communicate and execute change and improvement effectively
• Stakeholder Management
• Sustain effective relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders (local; provincial and national levels)
• Maintain transparent relationships with the community
• Participate as member of Environmental forums, natural working teams and other groups
• Governance / Charter / Legal Compliance
• Assess portfolio specific legal compliance status of all permits, licenses and authorizations
• Consult on the prevention and addressing of environmental contamination e.g. land and biodiversity due to Sasol operations and associated activities.
• Ensure that environmental protection is considered during plant design relating to biodiversity.
• Assist with studies in the areas Sasol operates to understand and mitigate the environmental risks.
• Assist with implementation of documented procedures that are aligned with legal and good practice guidelines to prevent environmental impacts.
• Input and support into emergency response procedures for environmental contamination are defined and tested regularly during emergency exercises.
• Continuous Improvement; Knowledge Transfer Strategically influencing direction and keep up to date with technical developments in area.
• Using knowledge, attention to detail and team dynamics to assist in solving complex technical problems.

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Objective/ Purpose

• A highly motivated and detail-oriented individual seeking to leverage expertise in data analysis, advanced Excel, research, and reporting to contribute to data-driven decision-making processes and enhance organizational efficiency

Key Performance Areas

Data Analysis:

• Proficient in analyzing large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
• Skilled in using statistical tools and software for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with data visualization tools like Power BI to present findings clearly and effectively.

Advanced Excel:

• Expertise in using advanced Excel functions, such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, and pivot tables.
• Proficient in creating complex formulas, macros, and automated workflows to streamline data processing.
• Ability to design and maintain dynamic dashboards for real-time data monitoring.

Research:

• Strong research skills with the ability to gather, evaluate, and synthesize information from various sources.
• Experience in conducting market research, competitor analysis, and industry trend analysis.
• Proficient in using online databases, academic journals, and other research tools.

Reporting:

• Skilled in preparing comprehensive reports and presentations for stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Experience in creating visually appealing and informative reports using tools like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Google Docs.

Formal Education

• Bachelors Degree
• Relevant coursework: Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Advanced Excel`

Min Experience

• 0-3 years experience

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Purpose of Job

• To manage the engineering maintenance processes within the appointed area of responsibility to enable various mining teams to reach production targets within the principles of QCDSM

Key Accountabilities

• Manage and carry out engineering and maintenance strategies and overhaul plans on a day to day basis that ensure that departments KPI's are met deliver maintenance, if and when to replace / repair equipment.
• Manage maintenance cost vs R/t in appointed area Maintenance budget
• Ensure availability of equipment by effectively managing downtime / shift / MTTF / MTTR (infrastructure and inspection equipment).
• Ensure adherence to maintenance programme.
• Implements operational projects, ensures engineering compliance, develops and implements engineering Standard Operating Procedures (SOP in appointed area of responsibility.
• Ensures adherence to Engineering principles and legislation.
• Compliance to engineering governance bodies (standardisation committees) SOP / COP implementation and adherence.
• Assess economics / engineering viability of no major engineering business cases and provides specific, inspection expertise and coaching.
• Manage delivery against OE initiatives.
• Carry out condition monitoring programs in appointed area of responsibility.
• Compliance to Condition monitoring program schedules.
• Conduct failure trend analysis and root cause elimination.
• Execution of Predictive Maintenance recommendations (backlog).
• Support departments to achieve set targets by coordinating planning within appointed area of responsibility.
• Control costs to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget.
• Ensure best in class safety performance and continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain required RCR.
• Ensure SHE compliance rates vs. targets (especially major findings, % outstanding actions on findings) Zero harm, Zero fatalities, LWDCR.
• Ensure the effective recruitment, training, coaching and career development.
• Manage vacancy rates against staff establishment (vacancies incl. Absence due to TSD / PSD, AWOP, Successors for critical positions).
• Manage team bearing in mind key role turnover rate vs. industry average, absenteeism, employee engagement and enablement score (%, Tons/man/year, Monthly bonus targets) training days for department.
• Planned Task observations.

Formal Education

• Post School Tertiary Diploma
• B-Tech or B Eng
• Trade Test Certificate (Boilermaker)

Working Experience

• Experience: 10+ relevant years
•  3 years as Foreman

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ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• This Maintenance Operator will be supporting the Maintenance Team by providing effective equipment maintenance assistance and reliability while adhering to procedures/codes, to increase stability and maintain sustainability of equipment.

FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS

• Complete job specific task/checklist accurately.
• Visual inspection of working environment ensuring safety standards are adhered to and reporting any unsafe
• conditions to superior.
• Application of job specific SOP's and COP's to ensure housekeeping standards are upheld.
• Function efficiently and effectively as part of a team to work towards achieving team goals.
• Sensitive on how your actions affect the cost of your team, identify and act on cost saving initiatives.
• Report all task activities.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/N3/NCV Level 4 with English/ Business English
• Code 14 Drivers' license with PDP

Working Experience

• 7 years heavy duty driving experience with PDP
• Required Personal and Professional Skills