About the position
Our client, a leading mining concern, is looking for a General Engineering Supervisor to join their team in Kathu for a 3 year contract.
The purpose of the tole is to implement the asset management strategy for major projects, oversee safety procedure implementation, and assisting with breakdown management during commissioning.
Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Safe and healthy work environment:
- Ensure a safe and healthy work environment in which workers and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
- Keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
- Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.
Performance and Delivery:
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Build, manage, and maintain healthy relations with stakeholders to assist in achieving sectional goals.
- Liaise with stakeholders to provide relevant and specialised technical support and input for operations and projects.
- Ensure that all relevant information is communicated to the supervisor accurately and in a timely manner.
- People Management
- Lead and develop the team's performance according to company policies and systems.
- Demonstrate behaviour that aligns with the company values, standards, and a professional workplace.
- Optimise human resources to achieve maximum output for the section.
- Celebrate the team's successes.
- Drive the delivery of objectives and hold team members accountable for their work.
- Ensure the achievement of development goals per IDP and communicate all management instructions.
- Communicate daily with subordinates regarding scheduled tasks and resource availability.
- Enforce discipline and high performance of teams through relevant ER/HR procedures and interventions.
- Manage HME/Plant and union relations.
- Manage time and attendance and plan for leave with the immediate team.
- Arrange necessary and compulsory training to help subordinates deliver their outputs and assist in implementing their IDPs.
- Advise and assist the team with complex tasks.
- Partner with HR to manage employee incapacity cases effectively.
- Engineering and Maintenance Management
- Drive asset management, maintenance tactics and spares availability for new project
- Plan, implement, and manage maintenance schedules while considering production targets to ensure minimal interruption.
- Identify improvement opportunities, implement them where feasible, and maintain the new performance standards.
- Ensure that all system and administrative requirements are met.
- Hand over work orders to Artisan/Operators according to the Operating Model procedure.
- Ensure that the Operating Model procedures are followed.
- Implementing the Operating Model Daily Tasks during Commissioning
- Ensure that all outstanding safety and plant deviations have been addressed.
- Generate and sign off on any Routine Operating Schedule changes when required.
- Approve or cancel all SAP notifications within 24 hours.
- Monitor daily schedule compliance and address deviations promptly.
- Communicate daily with subordinates about scheduled tasks and resource availability.
- Ensure that completed work orders are returned to the Work Management Planner for closure or rescheduling/cancellation of operations.
- Escalate and Address Risks to the Schedule per the Operating Model procedure.
- Hold personnel accountable for following the Operating Model procedures.
- Give feedback on execution performance and provide coaching and development to personnel.
- Weekly Tasks
- Address compliance, reconciliation, and deviations in the weekly schedule.
- Sign off on work orders and return them to planners for closure.
- Hand over work orders to the supervisor using the operating model procedure.
- Review the draft weekly schedule.
- Attend the formal weekly schedule review meeting to finalise the execution schedule.
- Forward all risks and deviations to the risk owner and sign off on them.
- Monitor work order cost control in task status reports.
- Review work order planning and input.
- Ensure the section's safety strategy is attached to all work orders.
- Monthly Tasks
- Ensure Pre-Planning is completed within the Operating Model Procedure.
- Ensure all safety, health-related incidents, and outstanding actions are addressed in pre-planning.
- Ensure all services, quality, environment, and safety instructions are documented in the preplanning.
- Ensure all managerial instructions are documented in the pre-planning.
- Contractors Meeting (FLM to have a meeting with contractors working in his section),
- Support standards committee procedures and standards revision.
- Review
- Review previous KPI (Safety Inc. & Acc, output compliance, services compliance, schedule compliance).
- Review Routine Operating Schedule compliance.
- Review the month-end cost expenditures.
- Review high-risk tasks and actions.
- Review Maintenance Strategy.
- Compare monthly measured and scheduled compliance and pinpoint necessary actions to enhance the quality.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Grade 12 / N3 Technical
- National Engineering Diploma (NQF 6)
- Valid driver's license and own reliable vehicle
- Knowledge of SAP
- 5-10 years of relevant operational experience in engineering and maintenance.
- Technical expertise Plant or Processing within the mining industry.
- Experience in a supervisory or managerial role overseeing engineering/plant/maintenance operations.
- Knowledge of engineering processes and best practices.
- Proficient in identifying innovative methods to ensure a productive and safe work environment while achieving strategic plans.
- Skilled in monitoring benchmarks and analysing performance gaps to enhance efficiency.
- Capable of managing diverse work packages throughout a portfolio of project activities.
- Experienced in leading and effectively managing teams during crises, transformations, and organisational changes.
- Competent in overseeing supplier contracts within the specific discipline.
- Adept at data analysis and management to inform and support decision-making processes.
- Committed to establishing and fostering a culture where safety and health are prioritised, achieving a goal of zero fatalities.
Desired Skills:
- general engineering supervisor
- contract
- mining
- operational
- engineering
- maintenance
- asset management
- projects
- safety procedures
