Open Roles at South32

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role is a permanent full-time position.

• As a superintendent ventilation, you will be responsible for managing staff, Mine ventilation planning, conducting workplace over-inspections, and investigations to identifying root causes within business processes and developing systemic solutions to eliminate reoccurrence.

Other key responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to:

• Develop, implement and verify operational controls that would ensure compliance to Fatal Risk Control Standards and other South32 HSE requirements;
• Develop, implement and maintain an up to date risk register of catastrophic risks, preventative and mitigating controls and conduct inspections and audits to ensure execution of control measures to reduce and eliminate risks;
• Implement systems to review external incidents and conduct investigations into incidents on site to determine root causes;
• Conduct workplace inspections to monitor compliance to legal/statutory requirements and identify gap closing action plans with the intent of ensuring that risks are identified and appropriately addressed to retain license to operate;
• Provide in-depth analysis on HSE data and in conjunction with other business indicators to continuously improve HMM’s HSE standards to achieve a zero harm organization.

ABOUT YOU:

You will have experience and demonstrate capability in the following:

• Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing an Occupational Health and Hygiene Program and Ventilation network of an underground mine;
• At least 2 years experience in a supervisory capacity and 12.1 legal appointee;
• Extensive experience in an Underground Trackless Mining;
• Experience in ventilation simulation programmes (VUMA and/or VENTSIM)

Qualifications for this role are:

• Advanced Mine Environmental Control certificate;
• Btech/ National Diploma in Environmental Health;
• Relevant registration with Ventilation and Occupational hygiene professional body.

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ABOUT THE ROLE:

• This role is a permanent full-time position.  As a specialist mine planning, you will be responsible for producing an optimized and actionable Mine plan for the operation that ensures resources, equipment and infrastructure are exploited to their maximum potential. This is achieved by methodically evaluating a range of alternative mine designs and schedules.

Other key responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to:

• Produce physical schedules using relevant software for the areas to be mined on the 2 Year Plan and set up meetings to discuss those areas and implications with operational teams;
• Develop medium to short term production plans, designs, models, schedules and forecasts in conjunctions with internal customers;
• Generate production targets, drill and blast plans and monthly production forecast
• Perform quarterly forecast to accommodate any major changes to the plan;
• Monitor performance against plans and execution of Short Term Mine Plans;
• Reconciliation of production volumes on a weekly, monthly and quarterly frequency and uploads into 1SAP.
• In liaison with the Senior Surveyor, perform monthly critical checklist on the plan to ensure that it adheres to all basic mine design principles and revise accordingly if there is non-compliance;
• Develop, implement, modify and maintain models to facilitate ore planning and forecast ore grades product volumes on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis;
• Ensure that plans are efficiently designed to optimize economic value;
• Lead daily, weekly and monthly planning meetings to review performance, identify gaps and ensure action plans are developed to support planned outcome.
• Perform any other duties as may be requested by our superior from time to time

ABOUT YOU:

You will have experience and demonstrate capability in the following:

• Must have a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in mining environment of which 2 years should be in Mine Planning environment.
• Knowledge in Deswik, CAD, MicroStation or any other planning software experience 

Qualifications for this role are:

• Degree/BTECH/National Diploma in Mining Engineering;
• Valid Code 08/EB driver’s license