Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Assists the General Manager with designing and governance of VOHE standard risk management and monitoring requirements.
• Ensure short, medium, and long-term (Life of Mine) planning of ventilation and occupational hygiene management.
• Plays on oversight role to ensure that VOHE legal requirements, Seriti standards and policies are adhered to, Codes of Practices implemented at the operation.
• Ensure correct aggregation of VOHE consultant inputs and technical expertise.
• Ensure the development of goals for the VOHE service consistent with the goals of the organization.
• Undertakes quality control and auditing of the site VOHE function.
• Collates, interprets, and verifies VOHE reports and statistics for validity/integrity before submission to group.
• Undertakes ICAM investigations of VOHE related incidents.
• Ensure VOHE stakeholder engagement and compliance with corporate and local legislation.
• Undertakes relevant operational hygiene research aimed at improving hygiene systems and services.
• Undertakes Exposure reduction projects.
• Liaise with external service providers regarding the monitoring of Occupational Hygiene hazards.
• Develop monitoring schedules.
• Ensure that Overexposure Investigations and Occupational Illness investigations are conducted.
• Develop exposure control plans.
• Ensure that Health and Hygiene assessments are conducted.
• Ensure the monitoring and investigation of exposure levels.
• Provides the Occupational Medical Practitioner with relevant hygiene data to enable development of a relevant and appropriate medical surveillance program.
• Ensures compliance to medical surveillance program.
• Promotes fatigue management program.
• Serves as the link between the site clinic and the operation.
• Contribute to safety improvement plan implementations and VFL.
• Manages or supports ventilation engineering process for the operations.

Requirements:

• Grade 12 with Math (Not Literacy) or N3 Math and Science
• Mine Environmental Control (MEC) Certificate
• 5 Years’ experience in the mining/engineering field with a minimum of 2 years as Senior VOHE Officer /Occupational Hygiene Specialist at an underground operation
• Computer literacy (MS Office, SAP, other specialised technical programmes)
• A valid driver’s license
• In possession or able to obtain a valid Certificate of Fitness

Advantageous:

• B Tech, BSc, B Eng., National Mechanical/Engineering Diploma
• Coaching and Mentoring
• S3 ORMP
• Competency in Ventsim Ventilation Simulation Skills
• Supervisory Development, MDP, LFI