Minimum Qualifications / Experience

• Grade 12
• Competent A certificate
• Minimum of 3 years’ demonstrated experience with responsibility for managing duties at an Opencast Mining on a site >300 k BCM/month
• Legal Liability certificate
• Valid driver’s license
• Must have ability to do planning, lead, organize, control, and follow up
• Must be able to work under pressure
• Ability to respond and solve operational challenges
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Flexibility to work outside of normal hours, during emergencies and planned overtime
• Candidates must be medically fit to perform duties (Determined by Occupational Medical Practitioner)

Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to):

• Ensure compliance with relevant HSE policies, procedures, objectives and regulations and the commitment to achieving Zero Harm through safe behaviours
• Ensure compliance with relevant HR policies, procedures, objectives, and regulations through appropriate behaviours
• Supervise and direct the work of production shift
• Ensure safe working conditions and compliance with health and safety regulations
• Conduct a risk assessment prior to start of shift with all the relevant employees
• Conduct a proper Safe declaration of the pit
• Ensure timeous start up and end of shift shut down
• Ensure the daily Safety meeting is conducted prior to each start of shift
• Monitor production processes and quality control
• Maintain production records and prepare shift reports
• Respond to emergencies, perform root cause failure analysis, troubleshoot, and applies effective, quality and safety resolutions of defects
• Immediately reporting to the Production Foreman/Control Room all incidents and accident, breakdowns, potential failures of equipment
• Communicate with other shift supervisors and plant management to coordinate production activities
• Train and develop production staff on the job
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and work with management to implement changes
• Must be prepared to work shifts
• Any other relevant Adhoc work as instructed by Superior