Vacancies Available at Tharisa

Role Context

Training Facilitation

• Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, emerging technologies and advancements in mining technology and safety practices, to enhance learning and development strategies and training programs.
• Coordinate, deliver and monitor training and assessment requirements, by ensuring adherence to assessment principles, to maintain fairness, transparency, and validity in all training programs, displaying high standards of quality and effectiveness.
• Evaluate learning programs and assessments, by monitoring learners participating in training programs, to make fair and transparent judgments regarding participant performance.
• Make use of relevant systems and demonstrate problem-solving abilities to address any system-related issues.
• Review, coordinate and implement the training schedule to ensure that all upcoming events, workshops, classes, assessments and other learning activities adhere to, and are aligned to, the training scheduled.
• Adhere to training schedules and timelines to ensure timely delivery of training programs.
• Conduct training facilitation sessions, by ensuring engaging and effective delivery of learning material, to obtain training objectives.
• Conduct assessments that are valid, transparent and current, in line with organisational objectives, to ensure all participants receive and equal and fair opportunity to complete the training program.
• Participate in the development of new training material, by understanding latest industry developments, so as to ensure relevance and alignment with learning objectives.
• Review and update, in collaboration with the Learning and Development (L&D) Specialist, all learning materials, to ensure is validity and ability to support the development of required competencies.

Compliance Management

• Review, evaluate and monitor all training programs to ensure that they adhere to all Tharisa Minerals (TM) policies, legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Collect feedback from participants and line management, by assessing the effectiveness of training programs, to identify shortcoming and recommend improvements.
• Participate in L&D audits by preparing all relevant information and documentation needed and cooperating during on-site inspections, to ensure that the training programs and material used remain compliance with legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Adress and report all non-compliance with TM policies, legislation and regulatory requirements to the L&D Specialist to ensure the needed rectifications are implemented.
• Drive and monitor safety when conducting walkabouts in the plant/mine, so as to ensure full compliance with the TM policy and regulatory requirements, using no compliance as upskill opportunities.
• Manage record-keeping and compliance with International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards, to uphold quality and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor the implementation and maintenance of internal quality management systems to ensure continuous improvement and adherence to regulatory requirements and 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.
• Manage, monitor and coordinate all training logistics so as to ensure the availability of all the required resources (i.e., venue, tables, chairs, stationary, etc.).
• Review and evaluate the learning material and supporting documents, by sending outdated material back to external providers and requesting the latest stock, to ensure that all learning material is valid and aligned to the latest requirements.
• Identify and recommend the latest and most efficient tools to use in the moderation of all training programs, to ensure that assessment of the outcomes described in the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) standards and qualifications is fair, reliable and valid. 

Stakeholder Relations

• Engage with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of specialisation, as directed by the L&D Specialist.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Participate in weekly and/or monthly meeting, with the L&D Specialist, to provide expert insights and feedback regarding upcoming training, challenges identified, possible solutions, and innovative opportunities.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 (NQF 4).
• ODETDP(NQF5) or equivalent as an occupationally directed education, training and development practitioner (ODETDP).
• Assessor and Moderator Qualification. 

Certifications

• Mineral Processing Level 2 (US:59305) (Advantageous).
• Mineral Processing Level 3 (US:62769) (Advantageous).
• Skills programme Trackless Mobile Machine Operations (TMM) - Underground Hardrock (Advantageous).
• Skills programme Skills Programme Occupational Health and Safety activities for: Part Time/Workplace Representatives and Shop Stewards in the Mining and Minerals (OHS). 

Job-specific experience:

• Minimum of 2-3 years Learning and Development, Operation experience, of which at least one (1) year should focus on conducting assessments and moderations within the Mining Industry.
• Proficient in Microsoft suite (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).

go to method of application »

Role Context

Weekly Operational Planning

• Build, complete, own and present the responsible section of the weekly operational plan, ensuring alignment between the schedules and the WOP, STP and the practical execution thereof.
• Collate the relevant operational and Mineral Resources Management (MRM) inputs and verify the validity, accuracy and applicability of the information.
• Conduct detailed block and access designs and scheduling for the week - and short-term plan, for optimal pit deployment.
• Provide input into the reconciliation process, by collaborating and interfacing with the short-term planning team to achieve optimal alignment between the WOP and STP.
• Translate planning into practical pit operations and influence WOP practicality, ensuring the WOP is of a high quality and practically executable in such a way that interfaces are managed and that it fully supports operational requirements.
• Include the scheduling of RC drilling planning and the design of accesses and stockpile levels management into the weekly operational plan, to support the pit operations team in executing their activities according to plan.
• Draft and submit balanced ore-path and floor stock periodic plans, supporting the delivery of pit ore-flow and run of mine stockpile build-up that will meet and exceed both volume and grade plant feed ratio expectations and budget. 
• Conduct frequent pit visits to ensure the plan is relevant, practical and considers the physical pit-conditions and challenges in the field.
• Liaise with the mine operations team to establish and maintain detailed in-pit WOP information, ensuring planning activities are aligned with the status in the pit.
• Establish and maintain detailed WOP information and track Mine to Plan compliance, to ensure WOP mine plans meet and exceed the 85% compliance requirement.
• Reconcile actual production performance against planned targets to measure compliance, to support the achievement of actual performance to the 85% compliance requirement.

Compliance, Risk and Safety

• Take guidance from the Short-Term Plan (STP), Medium-Term Plan (MTP) and the approved geotechnical parameters to ensure adherence to pit boundaries/limits.
• Monitor and maintain compliance of plans to the safety, geotechnical and legal requirements of the planning process to mitigate safety risks.

Continuous Improvement

• Use enhanced mine planning and execution techniques to improve company profitability.

Reporting

• Use daily production figures from the drilling, load and haul, bench preparation and blasting to compile daily reports.
• Draft and deliver mine planning reports and minutes to provide a view of all mine-planning activities, meetings and pit visits.

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.

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.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 (NQF4)
• Diploma (NQF6) in Mining Engineering or Mine Surveying is advantageous

Certifications:

• Rock Breakers Certificate/Blasting Certificate is advantageous

Job specific experience:

• A minimum of between five to seven (5-7) years of experience in the mining industry, of which a minimum of three (3) years is on an opencast mine
• Proven mine design and planning track record and/or proof of mine planning software competency
• Software knowledge of mine planning and scheduling software such as Deswik or similar
• Operational experience in either the open pit and or underground environment up to foreman level is advantageous
• Experience with PC based mine planning packages and Microsoft Office suite including MS Projects and Deswik
• Strong 3D analytical thinking and spatial perception ability