Senior Blasting Technician - Witbank at Omnia (Pty) LTD

Overview    
Role impacts:

• Customer satisfaction
• Save environment.
• Operations
• Blast Designs

Key Relationships:

• Senior Management/Management
• Customers
• Support Teams
• Operations
• Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time.

Qualifications    

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Academy of Explosives Technology (AET1)
• Academy of Explosives Technology (AET Advance)
• Competency B 
• Blasting Engineering Certificate 
• Bachelor's degree in Mining 

Experience    

• 3 years demonstrated experience in Mining/ Explosives Enviroment 
• 2 years demonstrated experience in AXXIS mining technology
• 2 years demonstrated experience in people management 

Duties    
Technical Support:

• To provide technical support and advice to the operations and clients about the implementation of training on blasts
• Build and maintain good internal and external customer relationships
• Monitoring of equipment and analysing the performance thereof

Prevented/mitigated company risks:

• To assist with all the relevant training and risk management documentation
• Ensuring compliance with Mine Health and Safety Act and adherence to stipulated disciplines for continuous improvement of 
• Occupational Safety, Health, Environment, Risk and Quality that impact on the organisation
• Promoting a safety conscious culture and ensuring adherence to all legislation

Blast Quality Reviews:

• Conduct and evaluate blast results using databases, instrumentation, blasting software’s (e.g BME BlastMap software)
• Write blast writing as per requirements

Job Competencies    

• Business Acumen 
• Customer Focus 
• Timely Decision Making 
• Functional Technical Skills 
• Integrity and Trust 
• Problem Solving 
• Drive for Results 

Job Related Skills

• Intermediate skills in Ms Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Technical skills in blast designs
• Research capability and skill
• Ability to analyse scientific data

Closing Date    
2023/06/20