PURPOSE:

• To ensure efficient and effective production planning and reporting and fulfil financial management support.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• N4: Engineering Relevant (Essential/Minimum or)
• N4: Production (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)
• N Dip: (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining, production environment of which 2 years specific plant exposure and project management as production foreman/shift leader  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
• Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Administration and Document Control    

• Execute daily/weekly/monthly plant production reporting
• Execute monthly production reconciliation with finance and survey departments
• Capture relevant sales transaction into SAP and Pit-to-Port
• Execute all ad-hoc tracking and monitoring graphs supporting production management and client relationship management
• Manage SAP CO, SD, PP and MM support functions
• Coordinate monthly cost and consumption reporting.

Budget and Cost Control    

• Assist in the analysis of expenses in preparation of annual budget and monthly forecast
• Enter sectional budget into SAP.

Effective People Management    

• Ensure an optimised team structure is manned by staff that is motivated, empowered and lead by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices
• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
• Assume responsibility for managing manpower, efficient resource allocation, and declaration of competence and reduction of operating cost.

Maintenance Control    

• Ensure effective and preventative maintenance management of all plant and infrastructure machines, systems and equipment to limit failure and optimise production processes
• Coordinate plant shutdowns.

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement    

• Drive research and development initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and enhanced performance
• Keep abreast of new developments and ensure potential threats within designated area is identified and addressed timeously
• Benchmark plant/mining activities and track performance to indicate improvement opportunities.

Production Efficiency    

• Achieve production targets through optimum output
• Ensure operational efficiency and quality
• Assume responsibility for coordinating first line maintenance to limit plant/equipment downtime
• Ensure targets and client requirements are met
• Ensure limited production downtime
• Daily communication with plant control room and relevant departments
• Ensure the correct quality product (monitored stacking, reclaiming process and stockpile management).

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations.

Behavioural Alignment    

Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective