Area Manager Mechanical - (Sasol Tankfarm Operations)

Job Req ID

8248

Closing Date

8 April 2025

OME

Location

Secunda 

Purpose of Job

To manage mechanical engineering team with engineering processes and contributes to strategical decisions. To manage a day-to-day mechanical activities, development of specifications, and maintenance of mechanical systems and devices to meet business objectives.

Pursues and drives a culture of zero harm on site through a meticulous focus on health, safety, and environmental. Ensures that all aspects of the site and work is completed in adherence to the project safety, health, and environmental standard.

Direct and lead the implementation of systems policies, and procedures to ensure adherence to legal requirements as well as organizational, engineering, safety, and environmental standard.

Develop and manage budget for mechanical department. Lead and manage the implementation of engineering deliverables on time, in budget and at the right quality. Monitor financial performance, identify areas of improvement, and implement corrective actions.

Develops and maintains a culture of delivery and ensures an environment of excellence through all delivery channels. Build and sustain productive working relations with contractors designing and executing the work on site. Foster positive work environment and provide leadership to the team.

Provide technical leadership and input on engineering matters to minimize engineering risks. Conduct team performance reviews address areas of improvement. Contribute to the development of maintenance philosophy, plans, goals and KPI’s. Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviors, and including managing consequences.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure equipment availability to meet the production plan. Establish and report on agreed performance criteria. Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates, and quality standards. Ensure financial discipline and governance in the department. Continuously optimize maintenance activities. Ensure equipment availability agreed upon supports the production plan. Manage operations risks by making sure that all hazards are identified, analyzed, and mitigated to acceptable levels.

• Manage, revise and improvement of Asset Management standards for maintenance. Manage asset life cycle and plans. Maintain assets within agreed operations envelope conditions and set standards. Input into 5 year rolling capital plan. Liaison with technology holder. Identification of technical problems/opportunities. Benchmarking for optimal solutions and practices. Participating in plant design for maintainability and operability and excepting equipment after installation. Effective Shut down management. Management of standards and procedures. Translate and cascade operational goals and long-term plans through effective two-way communication in the organization. Demonstrate One Sasol Behaviour ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain. Manage multi-level interfaces and integrate effectively. Interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Manage operations knowledge by transforming, packaging, transferring, and maintaining operations knowledge.

• Fulfil requirements as site GMR 2.7a (i.e. Accountabilities and responsibilities in terms of the SA OSHAct), providing leadership and ensuring compliance with the relevant legislation and factories regulations.

• Build sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that planned work is carried out efficiently. Together with the teams, achieve daily, weekly, monthly maintenance targets against business/operational goals and objectives by ensuring that tasks are prioritized and planned in a logical, systematic, and cost-effective way to optimize profitability.

• Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks, and minimum standards for all aspects of planned maintenance as guided by Sasol Operations Core Processes.

Formal Education

BSc or B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Advantages: Acting experience in a Maintenance/Operation Environment and Petrochemical experience.

Working Experience

Experience: 10-years + in a maintenance environment.

Required Personal and Professional Skills