Regional Engineer / Operations Manager at AECI Limited

Job Description    

• Appointed in terms of the Occupational Safety and Health Act for SHE responsibility for the Northern Cape, and therefore, responsible for carrying out safety audits, and planned job observations to ensure adherence to World Class Standards.
• Assists the Regional Manager in the management of existing supply contracts, the compiling of tenders for new business and has input into the preparation for annual price negotiations. For customers within the region.
• Responsible for the preparation and delivery of the defined areas of sales, profit, operating and fixed costs budgets and meet set targets as stipulated.
• Responsible for accurately forecasting the customer requirements for the area and planning the manning and resources for sites to meet variable customer demand and ensure that sufficient stocks of raw materials are on hand.
• Required to identify customer needs and recognize opportunities whereby creative and innovative solutions can be formulated to mining and blast engineering problems which includes the management of key account strategies ensuring the customer needs are supplied on time and in the quantities required to meet blasting schedules.
• To structure and manage all project work, trials and conversions so that bottom line benefit is delivered to the customer and deliver reports within the agreed timetable indicating the Rand value to the customer of identified opportunities.
• Required to implement and manage the World Class system at all sites, as well as SABS ISO 9000 / ISO 14001.
• Administers Company industrial relations procedures to all subordinates (staff and payroll) and encourages healthy interpersonal relations and teamwork by ensuring the subordinates are trained to their maximum potential and motivated to provide the required service, both technically and commercially.
• Required to conduct regular quality audits and planned job observations to verify the quality of the final product and pumping techniques, to check the quality of raw materials, as well as the calibration of equipment and efficiency statistics.

Qualifications & Experience    

• Bachelors Degree in Mining Engineering.
• Explosives Engineers certificate and knowledge of all AECI Mining products and services.
• A minimum of 5 years’ opencast mining experience, of which a minimum of two years has been in a supervisory position.
• Surface blasting ticket.
• The incumbent must be able to relate to customers at all operational and management levels.
• Computer Literacy

Closing Date    
2023/06/06