Job Req ID

7508

Closing Date

24 February 2025

OME

MRS: Mining 

Location

Secunda, Mpumalanga

Purpose of Job

Responsible for engineering delivery and driving the translation of the business need into the development and realization of the technical solution. Manage and coordinate all engineering activities and deliverables and ensuring the quality of engineering. Integrate engineering work with the business requirements and for delivering engineering solutions that meets the requirements and targets as set by the business owner and by taking full cognizance of the project constraints namely cost, schedule and agreed technical quality of the facility/product. Manage all technical interfaces. Ensures the delivery on Business Improvement and Transformation in Sasol Mining and liaises with Group on any related matters

Key Accountabilities

• Provides a maintenance strategy, in support of Sasol Mining’s long term strategy, to ensure effective and efficient operations with optimal machine and equipment availability and reliability to achieve cost and volume targets.

• Develops, refines and integrates systems, processes and structures to execute and deliver on the maintenance strategy.

• Provides centralized, professional engineering and technical services, designs, research and development and improvement thought leadership and expertise to Sasol Mining.

• Develops and integrates a “cradle to grave” asset management strategy for Sasol Mining to ensure asset health is managed and assets are deployed optimally.

• Provides maintenance and engineering thought leadership, compliance to safety and related legislation and standardization across the Sasol Mining complex, including the Secunda and Sasolburg mines, Sasol Mining plants and workshops, including technical and functional support to the Senior Managers Engineering of all plants and mines across the complex

• Provides technical and leadership support to Snr Managers / discipline specific leads as well as to the Senior Managers Engineering from the operations

• Liaises with Group colleagues on any Business Improvement and Transformation related issues and ensures delivery on this strategic agenda in Sasol Mining

• Measure performance of team against key metrics to ensure engineering services are meeting project quality, cost and schedule metrics.

• Assess service providers engineering competency, capacity and delivery and address any shortcomings pro-actively.

• Ensure alignment of engineering effort with business need for the PSA project by translating the business need into an engineered solution.

• Compile and execute the Engineering Execution Plan ensuring integration with the Project Execution plan.

• Set engineering business and systems requirements and ensure compliance through scheduled assurance processes.

• Compile and manage the technical scope for the Project by ensuring proper compilation and management of the Scope of Facilities and Scope of Technical Services.

• Ensure Bill of Quantities are approved for the cost estimate and facilitate technical portion of Cost Estimate review.

• Ensure proper scope control and manage scope changes.

• Manage the technical quality and continuous improvement on the project. Ensures proper compilation and management of the technical portion of the Projects Quality Plan (PQP) and Combined Assurance Model (CAM).

• Ensure compliance to agreed quality plan and manage deviations accordingly.

• Manage the technical risk on the project.

Key Accountabilities Continued

• Ensure the appropriate definition of the technical baseline for the project.

• Oversee the management of all engineering documentation by ensuring the appropriate distribution of engineering documents, that engineering documents are version controlled and up to date and that accurate and complete End-of-Job documentation is uploaded and available on the end-user's Document Management system.

• Support procurement activities on the project by ensuring proper compilation of the technical part of Works Information and Scope. Provides input to contracting strategy, vendor selection and bid evaluation criteria.

• Ensure procurement specifications are specified when equipment needs to be purchased.

• Practice visible safety leadership by entrenching inherent safe design principles, taking account of construction safety during design activities and by setting an example in personal and team safety approach.

• Review engineering plans and designs and monitor their effectiveness and compliance with standards and requirements.

• Review cost assessments and estimates on the production capabilities and economic value, to evaluate the economic viability of potential drilling sites.

• Review and validate design standards and specifications for capital projects.

• Promote technology standardisation across projects, and encourage technical drawings to support equipment standardisation.

• Follow-up on the achievement of set targets and provide state of the art eng best practices and solutions to enable optimum production.

• Confer with scientific, engineering, technical personnel to resolve design, research, and test problems.

• Oversee regular maintenance and testing of machinery and equipment to safeguard its safety and conformity with performance specifications.

• Guide the design or modification of mining and oil field machinery and tools, applying engineering principles.

• Lead the establishment and monitoring of audit schedule to enhance the sound PSA project engineering governance.

• Drive supplier auditing activities against suppliers’ engineering models and designs with quality and technical standards.

• Evaluate major engineering inspection findings and recommend reliable measures to address them.

• Oversee adherence of engineering activities with company SHE, technical, and quality standards, as well as country-specific safety requirements.

• Encourage the continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain operations licenses (COP’s and SOP’s) and drive technology improvements to support safety.

Formal Education

3-4-year Relevant University Degree / B Tech Degree  

Government Certificate of Competence (Mines)

A post grad Engineering or Management qualification will be a strong recommendation

Min Experience

14+ Relevant Years

2.13.1 Legal Appointment (current or previous appointment)

Required Personal and Professional Skills