ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Short Description / Purpose of Job
Ensures the success of the project by being responsible for all mining related design coordination and interfacing with all other engineering disciplines providing accurate and timeous information to other stakeholders, enabling optimal decisions in all facets of the project.
The mining engineer will support the Business Manager in managing Sasol’s investment in the Alexander opencast mine as well as developing and implementing the operating model (e.g. contracting mining).
Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities
- Basic Development project phase (including Mining Study):
- Act as a technical lead in managing the mining design consultant and related studies in the development of an optimal open cast strip mine solution.
- Compile the engineering scope of work, and ensure it translates into cost estimates for various phases of the project.
- Define, technically justify, motivate and drive optimal mining improvement initiatives through technical investigations.
- Specify the requirements for mining engineering drawings.
- Ensure due diligence, throughout various stages/phases of the project lifecycle preliminary layout and up to the final engineering design.
- Ensure timely signoff of mining design solution from relevant Sasol functions and stakeholders.
- Develop organization structure for project execution and mine operation.
- Compliance to project objectives project schedule, quality, budget and cash flow.
- Collaborate to compile capital and operating cost-estimation.
- Ensure that all safety and regulatory issues have been addressed and resolved.
- Adhere to the best practices, standards and procedures of the company.
- Supervise and peer reviewing the work of other engineers.
- Identify mining engineering deviation, threats, risks and opportunities through monitoring.
- Analyse deviations, understand the cause of the deviation and eliminate/manage/control re-occurrence.
- Ensure quality of technical proposals and ensure applicable technical governance has been applied through formal peer review process.
- Review mining engineering design drawings for completeness, accuracy and to ensure that it satisfies the intended scope of work.
- Develop mining engineering design specifications.
- Interpret and translate business requirements into an engineering strategy to enable OME to safely meet production targets.
- Translate OME project team strategy into team working model.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and innovation.
- Notify/inform of changes in resourcing needs.
- Report on budget utilisation, forecasting and changes.
- Provide efficient and high-quality services to stakeholders.
- Identifying, evaluation and selection of Mining Contractor:
- Assist with negotiating with a mining contractor to realize the lowest capital and operating cost per ton.
- Oversee the management of external service providers.
- Execution phase
- Manage the integration and battery limits between boxcut development and mining contractor operations.
- Maintain healthy and stable relationships with contractors and consultants.
- Oversee the safety of external service providers.
- Active practicing of interpersonal skills to ensure productive working relationships and to work with, or through, other internal and/or external resources in the organisation is applied to get work accomplished.
- Display influencing, negotiating, maturity and emotional intelligence.
- Operate successfully in a diverse work environment.
- Innovation:
- Compliance to and corrective mitigation of all regulatory permit requirements, such as EMP, WUL and Waste License.
- Update of Financial Provision as required for the Rehabilitation Plan.
Formal Education
University Bachelor’s Degree
Min Experience
10+ relevant years’ experience in opencast coal mining.
Certification & Professional Membership
None
Competencies
Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
Financial Management: Demonstrated knowledge and application of Financial Management, the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way the company’s finances are directed, administered, and controlled.
Leading change: Requires creating experiences for people that reveal new possibilities, while uniting them to drive strategies that harness the resources to win in the marketplace. It requires optimizing the culture of an organization while making investments to drive business growth – simultaneously
People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
Relationship Management: The conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success.