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Position Purpose

• Contribute to the conceptualisation, formulation and development of Transnet Freight Rail transformation and change management strategy, plans and initiatives that enable the strategic direction of the business, with emphasis on ensuring a coherent, consistent and values-driven organisation culture.
• Facilitate positive employee engagement, inclusivity and diversity in a way that will ensure that TFR is experienced as an equitable, diverse, inclusive and transformed employer of choice.
• Drive the people side of change linked to the digitisation agenda of the business, with integration to the broader change agenda of the business.
• Provide consultation, coaching and advice in all areas of Organisational Effectiveness to support team effectiveness.

Position Outputs

• Organisation transformation strategy and plan development: Actively involved in the development of TFR’s Organisation Change Strategy and Plan, including researching best practice tools, models, processes and programmes. Work with the Corridor’s People Management teams in ensuring a coherent roll-out of appropriate programmes and initiatives that will ensure a harmonised TFR change management that supports a high performance organisation.
• Organisation change readiness and capability diagnostics: Develops and coordinates facilitation of change readiness workshops to support the organisation’s change capability based on needs identified within the business towards achieving the mission, vision and strategy. Also advise Corridors on change initiatives and interventions e.g. effectiveness reviews, focus groups, team building, etc.
• Develop appropriate metrics, conduct analytics and insights relating to organisation transformation and change readiness/capability to inform appropriate decision making across TFR. Identifies and uses instruments and surveys to analyse individual and group behaviour and recommends strategies for making needed changes.
• Monitoring and evaluation of the implementation and TFR-wide compliance with the Transformation and Change Strategies and Plans. Monitor and advise on Transnet-wide efforts to embed and sustain organisational changes and practices and their effectiveness. Compile periodic reports to the various stakeholder and governance bodies on the organisational climate and change dynamics.
• Performs a range of organisational effectiveness functions, including project coordination relating to strategic transformation plans, work studies, business process re-engineering and structure reviews.
• Coordinate Transnet Freight Rail’s Employment Equity (EE) initiatives, to ensure compliance with regulatory prescripts/milestones and Transnet’s corporate strategic objectives and targets.
• Contribute to the development of the Division’s Employment Equity and Diversity Strategy and Plans, including researching best practice tools, models, processes, and programmes. Work with the Operating Division’s Diversity and Inclusion Leads and teams in ensuring a coherent roll-out of appropriate programmes and initiatives that will ensure a harmonised employment equity, diversity and inclusion roadmap that supports a high-performance organisation.
• Champion Diversity and Inclusion Programmes: Research and develop tactical plans and programmes that are aimed at embedding the coherent diversity and inclusion roadmap, pathways, and tactical implementation. Build trusted and valuable partnerships at all levels across the business to translate the diversity and inclusion strategy, roadmap and plans into practical and pragmatic solutions.
• Support the Head: Change Management in the development of an integrated transformation and change strategy and implementation plans to realise organisation-wide equity, diversity, inclusiveness and transformation. Assist in the development and implementation of change tools, techniques and governance processes across various operating divisions to ensure alignment and standardisation.
• Provide specialist support to People Management Leadership in managing implementation of key strategic change initiatives and organisation programmes that supports transformation strategy across the organisation, including business process re-engineering, organisation design and culture programmes.
• Stakeholder relations management: Engage all key stakeholders on an ongoing basis, establish sound relationships, and ensure that obligations are honoured. Collaborate with and build solid relationships with key stakeholders and other functional areas to enable insight, understanding and effective functioning.
• Coordination the activities of the TFR Change Activation Network in order to ensure common approaches and standardisation of tools and techniques that support organisation change programmes and interventions.

Perform people management functions including but not limited to:

• Workforce, recruitment and demand planning
• Talent management and succession planning
• Mentoring and coaching
• Management of discipline and grievances
• Performance development
• Reward and recognition management
• Training and development 
• Collate and analyse the management information for all strategic programmes and projects for presentation to the appropriate stakeholders in the appropriate style and in a timely fashion to allow informed decision making.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications, Experience & Inherent Job Requirements:

• Minimum of a bachelors degree in Human Resources or Industrial Psychology.
• Minimum of 8-10 years’ practical experience in developing and implementing transformational change programmes and initiatives in a medium to large organisation.
• At least 3 years must have been in a consulting or at management level.
• Demonstrable experience in driving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programmes.
• Change management certificate advantageous.

Standard Job Requirements:

• Driver’s license code 08
• Regular local, regional and international travel as required

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Position Purpose

• To prepare, prime, auto coat and paint locomotive carbodies according to client specification.
• To conduct various paint repairs according to customer and paint supply technical requirements.

Position Outputs

• Masking of all locomotives, preparing for final paint.
• Ensure all holes and cracks are closed and smoothened down
• Auto coat all underframe and interior of locomotives
• General painting using roller and hand brush
• Spray painting on the interior and exterior of the locomotive.
• General housekeeping

Qualifications and Experience

Qualified Artisan (RED SEAL) (SPRAY PAINTER)

• Minimum of 1-year artisan spraypainting experience

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Position Purpose

• To place and clear wagons and locomotives; compile, receive and dispatch train- to pass the information on in order to deliver wagons/trains at their required destination according to a prescribed set of rules safely

Position Outputs

• Control point register  
• Coupled trucks
• Yard operations
• Dispatched train
• Uncoupled trucks
• Vehicle list/train composition certificate
• Protect Crossings
• Control Derailers

Responsible for the control and monitoring of the Safety, Health, Environment and Quality practices in marshalling yards and sidings under his I her control, to ensure adherence to accepted company safety standards and statutory requirements Shunting of locos (23E class,18Eclass,7E,19E,diesel locos,Wagons and coaches

• Operating Travesor.
• Operating Hunslet.
• Operating Whiting.
• Operating zepher.
• Changing of points.
• Operating Dezy Hauler.
• Coupling of the loads.
• Coupling of safety links.
• Coupling of air/ vacuum brakes

Qualifications and Experience

• Grade 10
• Yard Official Certificate.
• 2 Years Yard official experience.

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Position Purpose

• To manage and provide a cost-effective service by managing all resources to ensure business achieves the set goals in accordance with customer requirements and supervise the team and also applying the OHS Act continuously. To increase the productivity and efficiency of the floor and team by implementing effective controls to ensure smooth operation of the business

Position Outputs

The following are key functions and responsibilities of the post:

• To meet Daily Production Outputs to achieve timely customer deliveries
• Ascertain Quality workmanship
• Enforce disciplinary processes and procedures where necessary
• Sound knowledge of Welding Principles
• Full utilisation of manpower
• Proper utilisation of material
• Management of staff
• Contribute towards lean savings and work with lean initiatives
• Identify material and read drawings
• Administrative work/statistics
• Develop personnel
• Ensure and encourage safety and quality standards
• Exercise effective supervision over staff as well as the support staff provided to assist artisans.
• Ensure that SHE, Quality, Procurement and other relevant standards are complied with

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified Artisan (Mechanical / Electrical), Red Seal
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Master Artisan or 8 Years experience as a 100% OBML Artisan. Supervisory experience (Advantageous)

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Position Purpose

• To ensure that customer and Business requirements are met and in line with ISO 9001:2015 standard requirements and will be responsible for handling the Quality Controls function in the business.

Position Outputs

• Compile and maintain quality plans and associated checklists as well as work instructions.
• Verified that executed schedule and unscheduled maintenance complies to quality requirements. Incoming inspection of material and components.
• Conduct audits and assist with closing out of audit findings.
• Conduct final inspections.
• Control and manage none conformances in the business (NCR’s).
• Provide technical support.
• Evaluate client specifications.
• Liaise with technical specialists.
• Maintain ISO Listing.

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified Artisan (Electrical or Mechanical) Should complete all OBML modules100%
•  Minimum of 5 Years experience as an artisan

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Position Purpose

• To take accountability for ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of all Engineering & Design elements within a project(s) / programme(s) and takes accountability for the scope, cost, schedule and quality of Engineering and Design deliverables on all the phases of the projects(s) / programme(s) from Conceptualization, Pre-feasibility, Feasibility, to Execution.
• To investigate and solve engineering problems, design the technical engineering solutions, and develop technical documentation, to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of engineering projects within the specific technical segment of Engineering.
• To assume the professional responsibility of complex/ broadly-defined engineering activities and problem solving for the scope, cost and schedule on all phases of the various projects assigned to the individual.
• To accept the engineering responsibility regarding quality assurance in terms of the relevant Acts, for those projects assigned to the individual, to ensure compliance of final product to the design.
• To take technical control of certain specified technical sections of the relevant segment to ensure that Engineering Technical solutions are sustainable, fit for purpose and have adopted value engineering principles.

Position Outputs

• The position holder will be the engineering lead on segment-only projects, as well as can be engineering manager on single-disciplinary projects, for the various projects assigned to the individual, in accordance with individual’s qualification as Pr. Eng. or Pr. Tech. Eng., as included in the Engineering Professions Act of 2000, Published by the Engineering council of South Africa.
• Adhering to Transnet National Ports Authority’s engineering suite of Procedures, Directives and Guidelines.
• Providing the engineering inputs into feasibility type projects.
• Identifying and planning the work efforts, assigning responsibilities, establishing goals and monitoring the progress of the engineering and design effort assigned to specific projects such that the project objectives are achieved on schedule and within budget.
• Collaborating with the various project managers regarding the specification of design deliverables (e.g. drawings, specifications, design-criteria, technical reports, and technical adjudication of contracts) and the concomitant estimation of man-hours to provide same.
• Creating and maintaining effective communication channels between team members and with the project managers and ensuring coordination and cooperation between all stakeholders occurs.
• Conducting surveys to ensure that projects can be carried out successful.
• Ensuring that the engineering designs and applications comply with all statutory, regulatory, safety, health and quality requirements whilst ensuring environmental and business sustainability.
• Doing in-depth drawing reviews of all design documents including constructability and HAZOP reviews.
• Preparing engineering technical documentation and drawings and arranging squad-checks for in-depth review of such documentation.
• Identify any scope creep and discuss problems with the Project Managers and Segment Manager.
• Proactively recommending and implementing corrective strategies where needed to best meet Transnet’s overall project objectives.
• Compile budget and cost estimations of the work.
• Compile EPCM cost estimates for the engineering inputs into projects and ensure proper management of such budgets.
• Reviewing project deliverables.
• Monitor and report to the project manager of the engineering progress.
• Developing a project plan that is in line with the drawings and the outline of the work so that projects are done within the required quality standards, budget and time frames.
• Liaise with clients and contractors regarding engineering aspects of the projects as and when necessary.
• Ensuring that the system for “Quality Management during the Construction phase” is effectively implemented and managed on all relevant projects, to ensure the segment’s compliance with the relevant Acts.
• Carrying out the required testing and commissioning of relevant projects to certify such projects as “Safe for Operations”, within his authorised level.
• Perform engineering management and project management functions as and when required.

Qualifications and Experience

•  A 4-year Engineering Bachelor’s degree: BSc Eng or B Eng degree, or a BTech Eng or BEng Tech or Adv. Dip Eng (in civil engineering).
• Professionally registered as a Pr. Eng. or Pr. Tech Eng. with ECSA.
• At least 8 years’ experience of applicable engineering and project management experience with infrastructure projects.
• A proven track record of developing value engineered technical infrastructure engineering solutions in the planning, designs and construction supervision for Civil and Perway, and the general Port and Civil Engineering infrastructure. Working Conditions/Inherent Requirements of the Job:
• Drivers licence code 8
• Work is normally performed in a typical project environment and engineering office
• Regular travel
• Need to have a good level of fitness and be willing to work extended hours under extreme pressure regularly

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Position Purpose

• To take accountability for ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of all Engineering & Design elements within a project(s) / programme(s) and takes accountability for the scope, cost, schedule and quality of Engineering and Design deliverables on all the phases of the projects(s) / programme(s) from Conceptualisation, Pre-feasibility, Feasibility, to Execution.
• To investigate and solve engineering problems, design the technical engineering solutions, and develop technical documentation, to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of engineering projects within the specific technical segment of Engineering.
• To assume the professional responsibility of complex/ broadly-defined engineering activities and problem solving for the scope, cost and schedule on all phases of the various projects assigned to the individual.
• To accept the engineering responsibility regarding quality assurance in terms of the relevant Acts, for those projects assigned to the individual, to ensure compliance of final product to the design.
• To take technical control of certain specified technical sections of the relevant segment to ensure that Engineering Technical solutions are sustainable, fit for purpose and have adopted value engineering principles.

Position Outputs

• The position holder will be the engineering lead on segment-only projects, as well as can be engineering manager on single-disciplinary projects, for the various projects assigned to the individual, in accordance with individual’s qualification as Pr. Eng. or Pr. Tech. Eng., as included in the Engineering Professions Act of 2000, Published by the Engineering council of South Africa.
• Adhering to Transnet National Ports Authority’s engineering suite of Procedures, Directives and Guidelines.
• Providing the engineering inputs into feasibility type projects.
• Identifying and planning the work efforts, assigning responsibilities, establishing goals and monitoring the progress of the engineering and design effort assigned to specific projects such that the project objectives are achieved on schedule and within budget.
• Collaborating with the various project managers regarding the specification of design deliverables (e.g. drawings, specifications, design-criteria, technical reports, and technical adjudication of contracts) and the concomitant estimation of man-hours to provide same.
• Creating and maintaining effective communication channels between team members and with the project managers and ensuring coordination and cooperation between all stakeholders occurs.
• Conducting surveys to ensure that projects can be carried out successful.
• Ensuring that the engineering designs and applications comply with all statutory, regulatory, safety, health and quality requirements whilst ensuring environmental and business sustainability.
• Doing in-depth drawing reviews of all design documents including constructability and HAZOP reviews.
• Preparing engineering technical documentation and drawings and arranging squad-checks for in-depth review of such documentation.
• Identify any scope creep and discuss problems with the Project Managers and Segment Manager.
• Proactively recommending and implementing corrective strategies where needed to best meet Transnet’s overall project objectives.
• Compile budget and cost estimations of the work.
• Compile EPCM cost estimates for the engineering inputs into projects and ensure proper management of such budgets.
• Reviewing project deliverables.
• Monitor and report to the project manager of the engineering progress.
• Developing a project plan that is in line with the drawings and the outline of the work so that projects are done within the required quality standards, budget and time frames.
• Liaise with clients and contractors regarding engineering aspects of the projects as and when necessary.
• Ensuring that the system for “Quality Management during the Construction phase” is effectively implemented and managed on all relevant projects, to ensure the segment’s compliance with the relevant Acts.
• Carrying out the required testing and commissioning of relevant projects to certify such projects as “Safe for Operations”, within his authorised level.
• Perform engineering management and project management functions as and when required.

Qualifications and Experience

•  A 4-year Engineering Bachelor’s degree: BSc Eng or B Eng degree, or a BTech Eng or BEng Tech or Adv. Dip Eng (in civil engineering).  
• Professionally registered as a Pr. Eng. or Pr. Tech Eng. with ECSA.  
• At least 8 years’ experience of applicable engineering and project management experience with infrastructure projects.  
• A proven track record of developing value engineered technical infrastructure engineering solutions in the planning, designs and construction supervision for Pavement and Materials Engineering, and the general Port and Civil Engineering infrastructure.

Working Conditions/Inherent Requirements of the Job:  

• Drivers licence code 8  Work is normally performed in a typical project environment and engineering office  
• Regular travel  Need to have a good level of fitness and be willing to work extended hours under extreme pressure regularly

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Position Purpose

• The incumbent will lead, manage, direct and improve the operational systems, processes and policies in support of TNPA excellence and efficiency objectives. They will be responsible for executing the ICT Strategy, Methodology and Framework for all operational systems (e.g SAP, Integrated Port Management Systems (IPMS) etc.) The incumbent will be responsible for owning and directing improvement projects related to the operational systems. They will be responsible for managing the operational support, maintenance, and development activities for TNPA business applications and, researching latest trends on business systems and optimize value to TNPA.

Position Outputs

• Improve the operational systems (e,g,SAP, IPMS, and own inhouse systems ) to support of TNPAs strategic objectives.
• Support better utilisation of all systems by providing a resilient backbone on which to run critical systems
• Lead and manage execution of strategies for the service delivery of SAP ERP and non-ERP applications across TNPA application portfolio.
• Manage Service Delivery using an informed approach to improve outcomes for ICT customers utilising business applications.
• Ensure quality of practice meets contractual operational level agreements (OLAs), legal obligations and Transnet/TNPA policies and procedures.
• Coordinate and participate in monitoring, review and audit processes related to Service Delivery Business Applications
• Identify and evaluate issues impacting on achievement of Business Application objectives and to continue to improve services.
• Manage ITIL based incident, problem, configuration management, and ensure release and version control standards are implemented across all business application systems.
• Takes a leadership role in setting service direction, ensures standards and security policies are maintained and systems and solutions are compatible with TNPA standard information systems architecture, tools, policies, and procedures.
• Develops support plans and implementation strategies to meet the ICT needs of all end users
• To manage application budgets effectively
• To manage change due to change in applications across the business
• To manage all contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) with suppliers and partners in providing efficient service for the Applications supported.
• To manage availability, reliability and efficiency of business applications
• To develop application roadmaps in line with TNPA applications standards.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science/ Information Systems/ Financial Information Systems/ Business Information or Post Graduate Diploma in IT. ITIL Certification 8 years' experience in at least two ICT disciplines in a multi-tier environment, with which 3 years' experience at management or specialist role.
• At least 2 years’ experience in systems development role.
• Experience guiding delivering large scale technology initiatives and implementing current technology trends and techniques, with strong emphasis on digital services and cloud technologies. R.O.C With relevant certificates or no formal qualification, at least 10 years' experience in at least two ICT disciplines in a multi-tier environment, with which 5 years' experience at management or specialist role.