Rail Maintenance Project Specialist at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Maximise availability of Sasol Rail Assets including leased rolling stock from Service Providers. Ensure compliance for all Rail Tank Cars (RTC) used by Sasol. 
• Develop, evaluate, and optimise strategies, processes, and policies to enable the achievement of the Business Unit objectives. 
• Identify optimisation projects, design, and execute rail projects successfully and on time. Oversee and lead projects by engaging internal and external stakeholders

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Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Implement and oversee the execution of maintenance related projects by working closely with service providers. Projects will include but not limited to, design and building new Rail Tanker Cars (RTCs).
• Development, and implementation of new and existing projects by applying project management principles and Management of Change process (MOC). 
• Review and evaluate existing maintenance strategies, methodologies, and practices. 
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and practices and continuously provide recommendations to improve rail maintenance for all Sasol products. 
• Enable the achievement of SC strategies (e.g., organisational and stakeholder) and maximise the utilisation of rail haulage by influencing maintenance activity turnaround. 
• Develop and implement strategies, processes, and policies for maintenance best practices. 
• Manage and adhere to maintenance schedules aligned with capacity of the service provider. 
• Lead and train the team to address their areas of development and enable the provision of world class service in line with the Business Unit’s objectives. 
• Guarantee proper enablement, governance, and risk management to continuously optimise and improve the rail maintenance Supply Chain processes. 
• Provide RTCs to enable rail flow functions to access the agreed percentage of the RTC fleet to fulfil the BUs rail haulage demand. 
• Investigate non-conformances (e.g., Equipment failures, Process Deviations) using Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tools. 
• Control activities to achieve cost effectiveness and improve accuracy, customer service, quality, and safety. Secure alignment with set budget and report on deviations. 
• Adopt and update SLAs and secure consistently conformance. Report to management on non-conformity and take corrective actions. 
• Liaise with key stakeholders (e.g., service providers and supply chain partners) and maintain positive relationships to achieve the BU desired performance levels. 
• Address customer complaints promptly and adopt corrective measures to improve strategies when and as necessary. Enable customers to participate in customer surveys to enhance the overall experience. 
• Utilise internal and external benchmarking to guarantee the provision of high-quality services. 
• Verify that RTCs are legally compliant, safe, and fit for purpose through proper governance and control measures. 
• Apply evidence based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations. 
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework. 
• Build and maintain positive relationships with the team, managers, and other relevant stakeholders to enable the provision of safe and maintained Rail Tank Cars (RTC). 
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals. 
• Identify and activate learning as required based on individual and collective needs. 
• Nurture a team spirit and openness towards feedback, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation.
   

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree
   

Min Experience

• 6+ relevant years

Competencies

• Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation, and sustainability.
• Total Quality Management: The strategy for continuously improving the quality of process output, based on five fundamental principles of Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Measurement, Total Involvement and Systematic Support.
• Verbal Communications: Any exchange of words, either written or spoken, used to transmit information.
• Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible.