Purpose of Job

• This role provides Industrial Engineering to the Regional Operations & Asset Services (RO&AS) environment, in order to enable the RO&AS business targets and strategy.
• Deliver services and intelligence in line with industrial engineering, in the assigned operations hub.
• Enable the Sasol Operations Standards framework by continues improvement and evaluating the strategic asset lifecycle value optimization for all assets impacted by the company’s long term strategy.
• Actively identifying opportunities via system analysis and develop and implementing lean, practical and focused business solutions.
• The application of Industrial Engineering to enable continuous improvement is high on the agenda.

Key Accountabilities

Business Results

• Supporting and enabling the RO&AS strategy by applying industrial engineering skills, techniques and knowledge to leverage company resources to rationalize, optimize and improve both production and nonproduction processes
• Identify improvement opportunities
• Investigate opportunities, design practical solutions and sustainably implementation
• Delivery of intelligence and services in line with industrial engineering
• Establish, and ensure a standardised approach to strategic asset lifecycle
• Provide inputs into improvement plans

Governance and Compliance

• Assure operating performance and drive improvements within RO&AS.
• Provide practical implementation solutions.
• Support the establishment and ensure an integrated improvement system (IIS), containing both enabling and operational practices and required performance standards in the operations hub.
• Delivering and informing (including optimization on operations improvement opportunities as per agreed targets & schedules.)

Leadership and Strategic Direction

• Identify improvement opportunities in ROAS
• Investigate opportunities, design practical solutions and sustainably implement
• Coach of other Industrial engineers EIT’s in the team
• Evaluation of analysis to direct business to ensure optimal and lean solutions that are sustainable in the business
• Build effective working relationships with operations management
• Guide & direct operations hub in the rollout of sustained application and improvement solutions developed

People Management

• To apply operations excellence and asset management principles & practices, execute business improvement plans via industrial engineering support
• Support to coach Engineers in Training (EITs) pipeline through bursaries and GDP
• Share and transfer knowledge and experience with colleagues.
• Complete training activities according to training matrix and PDP.
• Support candidate IE’s and vacation work students for development.

SHE Performance

• Responsible for own safety through compliance
• Execute SHE strategy to achieve zero harm.
• Notify management of SHE risks identified.
• Zero injuries.

Continuous Improvement

• Represent the interests and requirements of ROAS through continuous improvements.
• Participate in communities of practice in the Operations Hub relating to operations standards, practices performance measurement, improvement and energy efficiency
• Provide system and process intelligence to the hub’s operations to drive continuous improvement and operational optimization.
• Demonstrate Continuous improvement of implemented opportunities.

Formal Education

• B.Eng. Industrial a Must

Working Experience

• Typically 3 years relevant experience in IE projects environment