Career Opportunities at Tharisa

Purpose of Role

The role is responsible for planning, housekeeping and management of inventory for the warehouse. Managing and enforcing relevant systems and processes relating to the role. Formulating daily operational reports. To ensure materials supply effectiveness by managing the stores department

Role Context

• Develop and maintain professional, constructive working relationships with customers and suppliers
• Receives documents, investigates and responds to customer queries
• Adhere to performance standard
• Adhere to all safety related issues
• Good Housekeeping and accurate bin locations
• Handle breakdown requests as per normal and after hour’s breakdown policy
• Evaluate vendor delivery performance and report consistent non-conformance against contract stipulations
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity
• Ensures accurate data input into the X3 system
• Attention to detail and accurate reporting
• Effective administration of systems
• Effective supply and materials management
• Managing of Inbound & Outbound operations
• Care and maintenance of all assets and equipment
• Required to work flexi hours, shifts and attend to breakdown call outs as per operational requirements

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ NQF Level 4
• Materials Management Certificate (Advantageous)

Job specific experience:

• At least 3-year experience within a materials management environment
• Valid driver’s license code 10
• Computer Literate

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Purpose of Role

The Chief Safety Officer is responsible to for the management of the Safety and Risk Department at a Mine and the optimization of the safety and risk control through design, implementation, evaluation, coordination and management of the safety and risk control systems, as well as for ensuring legal compliance

Role Context

• Area of responsibility meets legal requirements
• Inspections and audits are properly planned and implemented
• Programmes for Safety and Risk Control are effectively monitored
• Valid statistics for Safety and Risk Control are available
• Incident investigations and reports meet specification
• Risk assessments and reports meet specification
• Expenditure meets budget
• Effective management of the Safety and Risk Control function at the Mine
• Legal compliance of Mine
• Safety programme audit
• Project results
• Safety and risk statistics
• Budget Compliance
• Climate Survey
• Achievement of objectives

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• National Diploma in Safety Management
• SAMTRAC Certificate
• COMSOC 1 & 2
• Trade test /Blasting certificate
• Train the Trainer (Facilitator training)

Job specific experience:

• OSHAS 18001/ISO 9001/ISO 14001(Advantage)
• Risk assessment techniques
• Accident investigation
• Behaviour Based Safety
• First Aid
• Firefighting training
• Basic Principles of Occupational Hygiene
• Basic Principles of Environmental Management
• 5-10 years relevant experience 

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Purpose of Role

The Process Supervisor carries out the accountability and responsibility for the safe achievement of metallurgical targets in his/her section.  The incumbent will lead and control all activities of staff in his/her section.  The position often takes on the role of coach and instructor to explain how the work should be performed

Role Context

• Adherence to the shift production plan
• Coordinates services to operate the equipment in the plant
• Execution of process maintenance
• Process control within defined recipe
• Problem solving
• Ensure adherence to all safety (i.e. create awareness of hazards and behaviour)
• Coach and instruct to explain how the work should be performed, focusing on improving, changing and optimizing practices
• Implement corrective action in cases of non-compliance to objectives and safety standards
• Liaise with the Weighbridge and/or Stock Controller in order to ensure the dispatch of products timeously
• Record and analyse production stoppages and equipment breakdowns in order to take corrective action to improve section availabili

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ NQF Level 4
• Computer Literacy 

Job specific experience:

• Two years’ experience as Process Operator in a metallurgical Process Operation
• Two years’ experience as PGM Operator / Chrome Specialist in a metallurgical Process Operation
• One year’ experience as a Control Room Operator in a metallurgical Process Operation
• Computer Literate
• Supervisory Skills
• Recording/writing of section performance parameters
• Valid driver’s license

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Purpose of Role

The Mine Planning Engineer will be responsible to oversee and produce mining plans for the Week and short-term planning window. Collaborate with the operational team and gather inputs information from other MRM disciplines to produce the short-term planning.

Role Context

• Deliver mine planning reports and minutes of all mine-planning activities
• Minutes of all mine planning functions, meetings and pit visits
• Delivery of quality plans report within time and with cost effectiveness
• Delivery of pit balanced ore-mix-flow and run-of-mine stockpiles build up to meet and exceed both volume and grades plant feed expectations/budget
• Reconciliations of actual performance versus planning horizon (target) with minimum 85% compliance achievement; Enhance the use of planning software use
• Pits visit to ensure the plan is practical and considerate of physical pit-conditions
• Deliver balanced ore-path and floor stock periodic plans
• Reconciliation information and inputs into the reconciliation process. Reconcile actual performance against planning targets and exceed 85% compliance
• Compliance to the safety, Rock engineering and legal requirements of the planning process
• Oversee and produce elements of the WOP & STP containing the following:
  • Required grade per ore type and the optimum ore mix mined and delivered to ROM
  • A bench-prep-, drilling-, blasting- and load & haul schedule once a week for the WOP and Monthly for the STP and 3-month STP purposes
  • Alignment between the schedules and between the WOP, STP and the practical execution is expected to receive enormous focus
• The schedule will also include RC drilling planning and design of accesses and stockpile levels management
• Conduct frequent pit visit and daily liaison with the mine operations team to ensure the planning activities aligned with the status in the pit
• Identify system, process improvements within the WOP and STP planning horizons, and implement the approved initiatives
• Alignment of the MTP and STP
• Mining access planning designs
• Deliver plans within time and with cost effectiveness
• SR achievement deployment
• Drive the alignment and continuity of the MTP to the STP and to the WOP
• Delivery of pit balanced ore-mix-flow and run-of-mine stockpiles build-up to meet and exceed both volume and grades plant feed expectations or budget
• Destination dump plan; Sell the mine plan to the production and get collaboration.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• A BSc/BEng degree or a diploma in Mining Engineering will be considered essential
• A Rock Breakers Certificate / Blasting Certificate / Mine overseer’s certificate of competency or another mining qualification will be advantageous

Job specific experience:

• 12 years in the mining industry of which a minimum of 8 years in the mine planning/technical environment and 4 years on an open mine is essential
• Specialist software knowledge and application skill (both mine design and scheduling) with packages specializing in the short-term space (between 3 months and one-week periods) will be considered essential
• Operational experience in the capacity of a pit superintendent or similar roles will be considered advantageous
• Experience of supervising teams in both a technical and / or operational capacity will be considered an advantage
• Strong 3D Analytical thinking and spatial perception ability.