Manager: Engineering

SUMMARY:
Manager: Engineering Position Available

POSITION INFO:

Purpose:

• Perform the functions of the employer with regards to the Mine Health Safety Act in the engineering department;
• Implement and maintain a compliant, safe and productive working environment whilst working within budget constraints and legislation;
• Ensure optimal performance of physical assets throughout their life cycles;

Major Challenges:

• Ensuring effective teamwork across all disciplines within Business Unit;
• Managing production and maintaining safety outputs within a strict legislative and highly regulated environment;
• Ensure and maintain competency of subordinates;

Qualifications:

• BEng Mechanical Engineering (Essential / Minimum);
• BEng Electrical Engineering (Essential / Minimum);
• Gov Cert of Commerce: Engineering (Essential / Minimum);
• Management Development Programme (Essential / Minimum);
• Certificate Project Management (Recommended / Desirable);

Experience:

• Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining or production environment in compliance with mine act / legislation and related with a minimum of 5 years operational experience -  10 years – Essential / Minimum – Management level;

Requirements:

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential / Minimum) – to be conducted by the organisation;
• MHS Act: Reg. 2.13.1. Engineer (essential / Minimum);
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential / Minimum) – to be conducted by the organisation;
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Recommended / Desirable);

Position Outputs:

Asset Management:

• Ensure availability, reliability and cost optimisation of assets;
• Manage life cycle management of assets effectively;
• Implement Physical Asset Management (PAM) principles;
• Align asset management to business strategies;
• Develop and implement value adding initiatives through asset management;
• Comply with sound engineering standards and quality;

Compliance, Governance and Assurance:

• Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) and technical requirements, in line with Plant / Mine targets;
• Monitor / identify and respond to defects / sub-standard equip performance and other improvement opportunities;
• Ensure compliance to sound engineering principles, standards and quality;
• Risk management in line with Group standards;

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management:

• Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationship towards enhancing corporate profile;
• Manage internal / external relations, including interface with external providers / other functions to ensure that business needs are met, and employees satisfied;
• Provide relevant support and legislative service to applicable stakeholders;

Effective People Management:

• Ensure optimised teamwork through motivation / empowerment and leading by sound transformational leadership;
• Promotes an inclusive environment which maximises contributions of all individuals;
• Ensure Talent Management pipeline supports achievement of employment equity, diversity and competency targets;
• Articulate, adopt, embrace and live the Company Values;
• Motivate and implement successful change initiatives in Engineering discipline;
• Coaching and mentoring of engineers;

Financial Management:

• Prepare and control departments annual budget by forecasting Operating Expenditure (OPEX) and monitor expenditure / cash flow regularly;
• Approve relevant contracts and documentation in line with departmental budgetary stipulations;
• Ensure continuous improvement exists in cost and production areas;

Functional Excellence:

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates, etc;
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication / bureaucracy;
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices / knowledge;

Project Management:

• Evaluate and complete projects with minimum risk, within allocated timeframes and according to specified budgetary requirements;
• Create and maintain a positive business climate and a high-performance culture, by implementing high performance-culture principles and practices;

Safe and Healthy Work Environment:

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards;
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations;

Strategy Management:

• Ensure that business plan contributes to overall success of the organisation;
• Optimal utilisation of mining and mineral resources through reliable physical assets;

Behavioural Alignment:

• Demonstrates the following:
  • Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem;
  • Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical;
  • Ability to respond quickly to business needs / agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions;
  • Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures,  accepts different approaches and be human-centric / empathetic;
  • Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective.

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