Openings at Tharisa

Description

Risk Assessment and Management

• Provide support in creating, and maintain a safe working environment, by minimising health risks for employees within assigned area of responsibility, to reduce workplace accidents, injuries and associated costs.
• Identify potential hazards and assess associated risks by developing strategies for risk mitigation, in collaboration with the Chief Safety Officers, to minimise workplace hazards and contribute to a safer work environment.
• Report any instances of non-compliance or safety contraventions to the Chief Safety Officers and/or relevant authorities, to ensure resolution of safety all contraventions, and promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Provide support in coordinating internal and external safety audits, to ensure compliance with standards and regulations, leading to positive audit outcomes and improved safety practices.

 Safety Insights and Document Management

• Manage and control daily documents, including scanning, storage and organisation in accordance with the Tharisa Minerals (TM's) document control Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), to ensure the accessibility and efficient retrieval of critical information and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Provide support in implementing and maintaining the Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) Management System, by ensuring alignment with best practices and regulatory requirements, to enhance overall safety performance.
• Provide SHE-related information and data to support management reviews of safety and health practices, informing management decisions to create a safer workplace and improve compliance with safety and health standards.
• Safeguard and maintain records related to safety and health, making them readily available for inspections and audits, to ensure all records are secured and easily accessible, demonstrating compliance and readiness for inspections, audits and reporting.
• Provide support in the revision, update, approval, consultation and distribution of standard instructions, task procedures, Codes of Practice, rules, managerial instructions, risk assessments, exemptions, approvals and permissions, to ensure efficient and compliant document management, monitoring employees access to the up-to-date safety instructions and procedures.
• Observe and monitor the adherence to codes of practices, instructions, procedures, directives, permissions and exemptions by the mine, by taking the appropriate enforcement actions, to enhance compliance with safety regulations and industry standards, while reducing the risk of non-compliance penalties and incidents.

Incident Investigation and Response Management

• Conduct inspections of working areas and machinery according to regulatory intervals and guidelines, to identify and rectify potential safety issues, reducing the likelihood of accidents and improving overall safety.
• Report any actual or potential threats to the safety and/or health of employees to the Chief Safety Officer or responsible individuals overseeing the relevant work area or machinery, to ensure that swift action is taken to address threats, preventing harm to employees and fostering a culture of safety reporting.
• Facilitate thorough investigations into any incidents or accidents, by gathering and preserving relevant evidence, to prevent any recurring incidents and improve safety practices.
• Monitor the implementation of corrective measures following incidents and verify their effectiveness, to reduce the recurrence of incidents and accidents, improving safety standards.

Compliance Management

• Keep abreast of and ensure compliance with any changes in mining safety regulations in South Africa, to ensure that TM maintains compliant with al new legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor compliance by employees to the Mines Health and Safety Act and Minerals Act, as well as Health & Safety policies, procedures and standards, and legislation regarding Health, Safety Environment issues, to support Tharisa Minerals (TM) in maintaining overall compliance.
• Participate in departmental risk assessments, including the evaluation of business activities (e.g., investments), to assess compliance risk.
• Monitor the implementation of controls and measurement against institute compliance regulations and standards, to ensure they adhere to industry regulations and standards.
• Report on all actions resulting from different departments' non-conformance to the Chief Safety Officer, by facilitating collaboration between departments, to address non-conformance issues and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate actions resulting from proactive action of non-conformance findings, to prevent potential safety issues and maintain compliance.

Stakeholder Relations

• Engage with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of specialisation, as directed by the Manager.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Promote a culture of Zero harm and emphasize compliance to TM policies, values and ethics, so as to cultivate a workplace culture focused on safety and adherence to company policies, values, and ethical standards.

Resource Management

• Determine resource needs within own area of responsibility to achieve individual role outcomes.
• Request required assets and resources for the fulfilment of work duties to attain quality work outputs.
• Use assets and resources optimally within own area of responsibility.

 Safety Technology and Equipment

• Stay updated on safety technology and equipment by making recommendations for improvements or upgrades, to ensure all safety equipment is maintained and in working order.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 (NQF4)
• NQF5 Mining Qualification is advantageous

Certifications:

• COMSOC 1 and 2
• Blasting Ticket/Trade Test Certificate
• SAMTRAC/SHEMTRAC or equivalent Certificate
• Incident/Accident Investigation Training
• Legal Liability Training

 Job-specific experience:

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience within the mining or similar industry
• Basic Computer Literacy
• Medically Fit
• Valid Driver’s License (Code 10)

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Role Context

Compliance, Risk and Safety

• Conduct geological plan task observation (PTO), to enable the identification and correction of substandard conditions.
• Liaise with mining personnel, including contractors, to agree on the implementation and adherence of all Geological-mining instructions and procedures.

Continuous Improvement

• Conduct weekly reconciliation of estimated plant feed against actual plant feed and suggest improvement actions plan to support the achievement of budget.
• Provide geology inputs to mining practices and optimise/implement ore quality and grade control from the pit, to contribute to ongoing geological improvement.

Database Management

• Capture relevant geological data into the Grade Control Database, including drill logs lithology, to support the identification and exploration of minerals.
• Conduct quality audits on samples collected, to ensure accurate sampling, mapping and data capturing into the database.

Material Destination Management

• Use developed ore destination tracking systems to ensure waste and ore are delivered to the correct place to prevent cross contamination.

Pit Geology

• Update Grade Control Model periodically, using all structural and mapping data, to flag any risk and/or opportunity areas.
• Monitor blasting and post block demarcation activities to ensure that all mining blocks have approved grade control dig plans.
• Daily progressive digplan updates.
• Audit drilled mining blocks with respect to drill coverage to maintain compliance with Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC).
• Schedule Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling programmes to meet grade control and mine planning requirements.
• Interpret mining geology data, considering the physical measurement of mining dilution and mining ore-loss, reporting thereafter to support mining operations decisions.
• Conduct interburden waste (IBW) Loading according to the geological digging plans and establish loading procedures/work instructions to ensure trench digging and other relevant activities are completed according to geological requirements. 
• Conduct geological logging, by inspecting the contents of the washed rock chips using a hand lens and identify and record major lithological changes and lithological/formation boundaries.
• Dispatch daily geological samples to laboratory for assaying according to the sample analysis request sheet in a timely manner.
• Validate material types and drill hole information by conducting in-pit inspections as well as spatial validations within the models.
• Implement the pit face sampling strategy to support effective and efficient pit geology activities.
• Conduct ore-type pit contact marking, and collect, record, interpret and communicate pit geological data to the mining team to form part of any technical mining decisions.
• Monitor geological drill-hole test holes implementation to enable interpretation and understanding of the orebody geometry.

Reconciliation

• Reconcile the ore digging operation of blast blocks and ore mining excavation for tonnage and grade control to ensure reliable and timely pit delineation of ore and waste pit mining.
• Reconcile grade control models and ore-types to understand the impact of decisions taken during grade control estimation enabling the immediate implementation of corrective actions to achieve planned grade.
• Reconcile plant feed plan grade with the actual mining feed grade to understand potential opportunities and losses in the mining value chain.

Reporting

• Provide input into the drafting of mining geology reports daily, weekly, and monthly as required, including the Weekly Crusher Plant Feed report, to provide decisionmakers with an up-to-date view of geology-related mining activities in the pits.

Resource Management

• Provide input into required changes in resources (financial or non-financial) to enable the achievement of team and/or own objectives.
• Determine resource needs of the team and/or own area of work to achieve business outcomes.
• Request and allocate required assets and/or resources for the fulfilment of work objectives to guarantee quality outputs.
• Monitor the use of assets and resources within the team and own area of responsibility, to ensure assets and resources are consistently and appropriately utilised and managed.
• Provide staff with day-to-day direction and tasks aligned with Departmental procedures, to enable the usage of less resources more efficiently.
• Monitor ore stockpiles inventory levels to support the effective management of ore demand and supply.

Stakeholder Relations

• Communicate with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of speciality. Liaise across the relevant Departments by engaging with the appropriate stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders remain abreast of Departmental objectives, any potential derailers are appropriately managed and duplication of work is avoided.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Liaise with mining personnel, including contractors, to agree on the implementation of geological-mining instructions and direct management of pit production team.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade12
• Bachelor of Science Honours Degree (NQF8) in Geology
• Member of professional body (SACNASP)

Job specific experience:

• A minimum of between five to eight (5-8) years of mining experience, of which at least four (4) years must be in the open pit production mining environment
• Three to five (3-5) years of experience using geological software (Sable, Datamine Strat3D, Studio EM/RM, Sirovision and Deswik)
• Driving Licence
• Bushveld Complex Geology experience is advantageous
• Experience/Exposure on MS Dynamics F&O, Reporting tools: MS Power BI