MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• BEng Degree / BTech /BSc Mining Engineering / B-Tech Mining Engineering / BCom Degree.
• Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competence
• Code 08 (B) Driver’s Licence.
• AMMSA and ECSA membership.

Advantageous:

• MBA.

EXPERIENCE (including but not limited to):

• 10-15 Years extensive experience at senior levels in mine production environment of which 2 years in management role.
• 5 years’ experience in mining production environment at senior management level.

DUTIES (including but not limited to):

• To ensure a profitable, safe and sustainable mining operation by participatively crafting and driving a high-performance organisational culture and supporting strategy for the enterprise through a multi-disciplinary team of core production and support professionals.
• Responsible for annual mine budget planning by compiling operational, capex and labour budgets for the mine and submit to executive for approval.
• Review and authorise payments in line with approved budget and policy and submit for final processing
• Identify strategic customers, partners and stakeholders to advance the interests of the business/mine and its community context/s, and forge constructive relationships by working within accepted codes of ethics and good business practice.
• Craft participatively a mine strategy through appropriate environmental scanning and SWOT analysis, and review effectiveness of strategy by assessing relevant quantitative and qualitative performance data and indices across structure, people, work and culture, and initiate appropriate strategic refinement/change
• Identify core executive-level competencies to align with organisational competency requirements to meet strategic and operational requirements by the development of meaningful KPAs and KPIs.
• Ensure through executive-level systems of oversight, governance and direction of SHERQ activities and goals are appropriately derived from business plans, and broadly programmed for implementation within the specific core and support functions
• Ensure executive-level systems of oversight, governance and direction high-profile change projects, initiatives, activities and goals for long -term organisational sustainability and profitability are broadly programmed for implementation within the specific core and support functions.
• Ensure executive-level systems of oversight, governance and direction of statutory-driven initiatives (e.g. Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and Mining Charter) and associated requirements, activities and goals appropriately support and/or are derived from business plans, and are broadly programmed for implementation within the specific core and support functions
• Ensure executive-level communication and dissemination of changing statutory regulations as and when required through appropriate Company communication structures and forums.