Production Superintendent Hotazel

Job Responsibilities

• Promote and assure adherence to safety, health, and environmental procedures.
• Identify unsafe and hazardous situations.
• Diagnose incidents and accidents by completing root cause analyses and take corrective action.
• Stop work in unsafe areas.
• Implement compliance requirements.
• Communicate compliance changes.

Planning, Leading and Controlling

• Support and participate in sub-functional change management to drive transformation and optimisation.
• Identify and recommend initiatives aimed at eliminating waste, improving productivity, and reducing operating costs within scope.
• Manage operations and activities of the engineering function within area of control.
• Obtain, check and refine information. Collate and submit reports.
• Run data exception reports and take corrective action.

Asset Care & Maintenance

• Monitor maintenance and repairs.
• Provide support and assistance to the department.
• Monitor maintenance, installations, and repair of electrical equipment and power supply units and lines on planned maintenance and breakdown work orders.
• Identify recurring problems and derive creative solutions involving team members or using own vocational knowledge and experience.
• Initiate and conduct root cause analysis in line with procedure to extend mean time between failures.
• Produce procedures and processes as remedial action/outcome and implement in own area and recommend changes to the planned maintenance system.

Cost Planning and Management

• Assist with compilation of maintenance budget and submit for approval.
• Identify and develop cost-effective processes to increase efficiency and reduce cost drivers.
• Continuously review cost vs. benefit and report recommendations.
• Conduct root cause analysis of machinery failures and regular high-cost replacements to address asset performance problems and/or reduce costs.
• Identify cost savings initiatives and implement where possible while still meeting department objectives.

People Management

• Supervise and plan subordinate activities to ensure effective task execution and departmental operations.
• Supervise subordinates' key performance areas by setting and monitoring performance standards and taking actions to correct deviations to achieve the section's objectives.
• Manage training of subordinates against development plans and performance contracts.
• Perform fair and reasonable tasks related to the job and working environment, at the discretion of the Manager or direct supervisor.
• Monitor the execution of asset care activities.
• Ensure operational plan is implemented.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Minimum Qualifications:

• Grade 12 certificate or relevant national NQF level qualification.

Experience:

• 5 Years’ Experience in a Maintenance Environment in Mining.
• 2 Years Supervisory experience in a Maintenance Environment in Mining.

Technical Experience:

• Supervising maintenance employees in a mining environment.
• Planning and Evaluation Skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.

Please ensure you meet the Minimum Requirements & Key Skills listed above before submitting your CV, as applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.

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