Job Description:

As General Engineering Supervisor Drills & Support Equipmentyou will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Safe and healthy work environment

• Ensure a safe and healthy work environment in which workers and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
• Keep environmental impact within statutory requirements to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
• Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Build, manage, and maintain healthy relations with stakeholders to assist in achieving sectional goals.
• Liaise with stakeholders to provide relevant and specialised technical support and input for operations and projects.
• Ensure that all relevant information is communicated to the supervisor accurately and in a timely manner.

People Management

• Lead and develop the team’s performance according to company policies and systems.
• Demonstrate behaviour that aligns with the company values, standards, and a professional workplace.
• Optimise human resources to achieve maximum output for the section.
• Celebrate the team’s successes.
• Drive the delivery of objectives and hold team members accountable for their work.
• Ensure the achievement of development goals per IDP and communicate all management instructions.
• Communicate daily with subordinates regarding scheduled tasks and resource availability.
• Enforce discipline and high performance of teams through relevant ER/HR procedures and interventions.

Manage HME/Plant and union relations.

• Manage time and attendance and plan for leave with the immediate team.
• Arrange necessary and compulsory training to help subordinates deliver their outputs and assist in implementing their IDPs.
• Advise and assist the team with complex tasks.
• Partner with HR to manage employee incapacity cases effectively.

Engineering & Maintenance Management

• Maintain equipment, machines, processes, and tools to ensure maximum availability and quality standards.
• Plan, implement, and manage maintenance schedules while considering production targets to ensure minimal interruption.
• Identify improvement opportunities, implement them where feasible, and maintain the new performance standards.
• Ensure that all system and administrative requirements are met.
• Hand over work orders to Artisan/Operators according to the Operating Model procedure.
• Ensure that the Operating Model procedures are followed.
• Implementing the Operating Model Daily Tasks:
• Provide a report on daily schedule progress.
• Report on outstanding risks and urgent work from previous days and performance.
• Review daily output, schedule, and task compliance.
• Communicate all management instructions to the team.
• Ensure that all outstanding safety and plant deviations have been addressed.
• Generate and sign off on any Routine Operating Schedule changes when required.
• Approve or cancel all SAP notifications within 24 hours.
• Monitor daily schedule compliance and address deviations promptly.
• Communicate daily with subordinates about scheduled tasks and resource availability.
• Ensure that completed work orders are returned to the Work Management Planner for closure or rescheduling/cancellation of operations.
• Escalate and Address Risks to the Schedule per the Operating Model procedure.
• Hold personnel accountable for following the Operating Model procedures.
• Give feedback on execution performance and provide coaching and development to personnel.

Weekly Tasks:

• Address compliance, reconciliation, and deviations in the weekly schedule.
• Sign off on work orders and return them to planners for closure.
• Hand over work orders to the supervisor using the operating model procedure.
• Review the draft weekly schedule.
• Attend the formal weekly schedule review meeting to finalise the execution schedule.
• Forward all risks and deviations to the risk owner and sign off on them.
• Monitor work order cost control in task status reports.
• Review work order planning and input.
• Ensure that the section safety strategy is attached to all work orders.

Monthly Tasks:

• Ensure Pre-Planning is completed within the Operating Model Procedure.
• Ensure all safety, health-related incidents, and outstanding actions are addressed in pre-planning.
• Ensure all services, quality, environment, and safety instructions are documented in the preplanning.
• Ensure all managerial instructions are documented in the pre-planning.
• Contractors Meeting (FLM to have a meeting with contractors working in his section),
• Support standards committee procedures and standards revision.

Review:

• Review previous KPI (Safety Inc. & Acc, output compliance, services compliance, schedule compliance).
• Review Routine Operating Schedule compliance.
• Review the month-end cost expenditure.
• Review high-risk tasks and actions.
• Review Maintenance Strategy.
• Compare monthly measured and scheduled compliance and pinpoint necessary actions to enhance the quality.

Budget Management and Cost Control

• Compile own budget and manage the section’s expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
• Manage overtime within required limits and achieve savings in this regard.
• This role is in the Engineering – ENG at a Band 6 level reporting to the Section Engineer Drills & Support and Contractor Equipment.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 / N3 Technical
• National Engineering Diploma
• SA Drivers License

Experience

• 5 years of relevant operational experience in engineering maintenance.
• Technical expertise in HME/Opencast/Plant or Processing within the mining industry.
• Experience in a supervisory or managerial role overseeing engineering/plant/maintenance operations.
• Knowledge of engineering processes and best practices