4 weeks ago
Job title : Discipline Civil Engineer – Postmasburg
Job Location : Northern Cape,
Deadline : October 20, 2024
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Job Description:
Purpose:
- Implement and optimise civil engineering technical services professionally and effectively, adhering to all safety and legislative requirements
Your duties will include:
- Select and allocate resources for safe work.
- Consider environmental factors and minimise adverse impacts.
- Oversee safety management system elements and comply as appropriate.
- Ensure critical controls are functioning.
- Implement and maintain safety standards.
- Promptly investigate all incidents.
- Stop unsafe work in any area – not just in your area. We are safety leaders.
- Issue safety-related instructions to any employees or contractors at the workplace.
- Initiate action, including training, against subordinates and contractors for their role in unsafe behaviour.
- Align civil engineering strategy with production profile.
- Improve engineering discipline by providing quality work and feedback to the civil management system.
- Proactively manage civil engineering risks.
- Ensure quality control/assurance in routine testing and contractor management.
- Review progress against the plan and make changes and adjustments accordingly.
- Assign tasks to contractors in line with achieving the agreed production plan.
- Monitor and optimise contractors’ work schedules.
- Stop or redirect work not being executed according to quality standards or not being solved if needed.
- Manage and govern all civil engineering processes safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively to meet short-term and long-term production objectives.
- Implement and contribute to continuous improvement and asset optimisation initiatives and projects to ensure best practice civil engineering processes are in place.
- Prepare, review, coordinate, check and approve calculations, drawings, and specifications to achieve and maintain Kumba’s operational and project objectives.
- Ensuring adherence to civil design standards and specifications throughout project assignments.
- Provide compliance assurance, auditing, and inspection services to the operations.
- Provide technical input into structural design issues and liaise with the Mechanical Department on plant designs.
- Ensure all design standards are adhered to and maintained on all projects.
- Ensure that customer relations are maintained and enhanced to contribute to overall project success.
- Ensure all contracts are in place to monitor contractor performance and compare to agreed-upon requirements.
- Creating automated reports where appropriate to track and monitor results and quantify benefits associated with specific strategic Initiatives.
- Develop and test new growth ideas, including technology, for viability in preparation for and to be taken through the various project phases to ensure project success.
- Ensure compliance with the budget for the area of responsibility.
- Evaluate and approve cost impacts in the area of responsibility and revise the budget accordingly.
- Identify, communicate, and execute potential cost-reduction initiatives.
- Generate authorisation for expenditures.
- Revise budget after receiving appropriate authorisations.
- Take necessary action to correct misallocations.
Qualifications:
- Civil Engineering B-degree / National Diploma in Civil Engineering
- Registration with ECSA as a Professional Engineer or Technologist
- SA Drivers License
Technical Knowledge
- Understanding of value drivers in civil engineering and their interdependence.
- Advanced computer skills (MS Office, Projects, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of civil engineering in the mining industry and relevant legislation (Mine Health and Safety Act).
- Experienced in identifying and implementing business and strategic improvement opportunities and projects in mines.
- Proficient in project management fundamentals
- Good knowledge of change management methodologies.
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