Master Artisan Electro Mechanic

Job Requisition ID

11710

Closing Date

26 March 2026

OME

MRS: Mining (Impumelelo and Shondoni)

Location

Secunda, Mpumalanga

Purpose of Job

To support production by leading the provision of effective electro-mechanical equipment maintenance and reliability while overseeing and ensuring the adherence to procedures/codes, and utilising all available support resources to increase stability and maintain sustainability of the plant, mine and/or equipment.

Key Accountabilities

• Planning, control and management of operations/maintenance activity and ensuring effective execution of operations/maintenance activities.
• Ensure maximum task quality and efficiency, and overall effective use of equipment.
• Manage and control costs (where allocated budget responsibility is assigned).
• During emergency situations, evaluate the abnormalities and take corrective action as to avoid downtime, equipment damage and/or SHE incidents.
• Ensure own team adhere to operational/maintenance procedures and for people and plant.
• Ensure maintenance planning is scheduled optimally to maximise production output.
• Take action on first occurrence performance problems, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases.
• Manage performance of own team and ensure sensitisation to diversity in the workplace.
• Enable artisans to achieve competence for career progression.
• Coaching and technical training of own staff and accountable for practical "declaration of competence" of employees to operate the plant.
• Ensures team motivation and team wellness and lives company values and ensures compliance of team to the values.
• Facilitate effective Communication up and down from management and also within own and other stakeholder teams.
• Participate in selection of staff (for own team) by being an active member on recruitment panels.
• Ensure standard operating procedures are applied.
• Ensure compliance to PSM (Process Safety Management).
• Manage certain start-up and shutdown tasks.
• Participate (or conduct on own team) in potential deviation analysis (PDA), root cause analysis (RCA) and risk assessments.
• Manage execution of work permit system
• Conduct Task Risk Assessments and ensure that team conducts Task Risk Assessments (where applicable).
• Ensure compliancen to relevant Sasol procedure, policies, legislation and business processes.
• Manages behaviour based safety program.
• Ensure adherence to SHERQ legal standards (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001) and implement SHERQ processes for own area of responsibility.
• Ensure that MOC process is followed, and that modified plant/maintenance procedures are implemented by artisans.
• Ensure resources (e.g. raw materials, people) are available on site.
• Ensures understanding of customer requirements and ensures product/service meets customer requirements.
• Ensure smooth transition of work from own shift to next shift.
• Effective interaction with supporting activities e.g. P&SM, technical, engineering.
• Identifies and supports inter-dependencies (synergies) with own and other departments within the value chain.
• Give input into how to improve overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for the plant.
• Continuously applies new ideas/work methods to improve results.
• Deals with human resistance to change in own area.
• Provide information/assist with projects with technical/support functions.
• Avail staff for training and development required due to the change initiative.
• Ensure implementation of organisational change initiatives within own team.

Formal Education

• National Senior Certificate/ Full N3, /NCV Level 4 with Maths, Science, and Business English 
• Occupational Trade Certificate (Electro Mechanic)
• Flameproof Certificate
• Gas Testing Certificate

Working Experience

Required Personal and Professional Skills