Job Opportunities at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary

PURPOSE:

• To supply technical support to engineering discipline in projects.
• Ensures optimum plant and equipment availability in accordance with short and long-term project plans and priorities.
• Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

•    BEng Mechanical Engineering (Essential/Minimum or)
•    B Tech Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•    Diploma Project Management (Recommended/Desirable)
•    Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 5 years Experience in Mechanical Engineering of which at least 2 years Project management experience   (Essential/Minimum)   Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•    Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted at Exxaro)
•    Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted at Exxaro)
•    Engineering Council of SA (Candidate) (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Business Performance and Operations  
•  Provide expert technical support to project teams
• Support Line with regards to discipline related technical issues
• Support Principal Engineer in execution of engineering contracts in multi-disciplinary projects
• Contribute in individual skill area including active involvement in peer review process
• Support senior engineer to create project work execution plans for discipline
• Deliver quality work with technical integrity through participation in contract review meetings, operations meetings and contract review stage of projects
• Support Senior Engineer with regards to related technical issues
• Provide inputs and technical leadership in Engineering discipline meetings
• Supervise day-to-day discipline related operational aspects of a project and scope as necessary
• Assist Principal Engineer to execute functional strategy
• Compliance, Governance and Assurance    
• Support Principal Engineer to conduct discipline related assurance reviews of engineering solutions, and to implement controls to ensure legal compliance within designated area
• Support Principal Engineer in implementation of effective Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) management systems for own job or for section, and in providing and participating in governance systems for best practice
• Recognise, understand and take/recommend action to manage risks that can impact on outputs of own job and section
• Adhere to requirements of quality management systems
• Customer and Client Relationship Management    
• Provide technical input to appropriate quantitative analyses conducted to evaluate financial viability of a project
• Act as project engineer in small projects and apply required leadership and knowledge to ensure implementation of engineering solutions which support business expectations
• Recognise, understand and take action to mitigate and manage risks that can impact on implementation of engineering solutions
• Ensure adequate discipline related change management
• Financial Support Services    
• Manage budget and/or capital budget agreed upon in project charter
• Manage cost recovery aligned to departmental targets
• Safe and Healthy Work Environment  
•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable SHE policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
• Behavioural Alignment    

Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective
• The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
• If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

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Job Advert Summary

PURPOSE:

To coordinate Business Unit buying activities for execution and support of group purchasing strategy and address/resolve operational buying challenges/queries and non-conformances of specific allocated team purchasing group.

Be a Business Unit one stop communication point for all purchasing queries.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• N Dip: Procurement (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)
• B Tech (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 5 years  Relevant supply chain management, procurement and finance experience with SAP MM module experience. Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. Coupa).    (Essential/Minimum)    Operational
• REQUIREMENTS: 
•  Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Administration and Support Services
• Conduct accurate and timeous materials management reporting
• Participate and provide support in audit process and improvement of Business Unit (BU) procurement function

Business Partner Enablement  

•  Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
• Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in transaction guidance and support
• Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content
• Compliance, Governance and Assurance
• Provide guidance to direct reports and customers to ensure that all policies, procedures, standards and guidelines are adhered to in execution of procurement activities
• Ensure that supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Ensure good corporate citizenship principles are adhered to

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management  

•  Manage applicable internal and external relations, including interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and employees are satisfied
• Provide relevant support to applicable stakeholders
• Collaborate and communicate with suppliers

Functional Excellence  

•  Ensure on time delivery of purchased goods
• Apply best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge in the activities of Request for Quotations (RFQ) issuing/on contract purchasing, purchase order placement, expediting and encouraging group purchasing work split/sharing or allocation
• Execute purchasing training requirements for own team of buyers and provide frequent end-users purchase requisition training
• Identify and report critical functional risks

Functional Management

• Query and non-conformance resolution coordination: Receive, investigate, resolve and give feedback on all queries relating to buying activities of team-owned purchasing groups e.g. no Purchase Order (PO), no Good Receipts Voucher (GRV) and non-compliance to contracts (call offs, price mismatch etc.)
• Performance management: Ensure BU related purchasing group buying performance measures are tracked, non-performance investigated, action taken to improve non-performance and feedback communicated to various stakeholder’s platforms. Provide feedback to managers. Coordinate functional/cross-functional activities to ensure functional alignment. Maintain high performance standards. Track and drive functional targets/goals and manage buyers responsible for achieving results
• Continuous improvement and purchasing effectiveness: Identify and execute procurement analytics on non-compliance to on-contract buying, gap on targeted functional performance, purchasing group work split/allocation ineffectiveness, end-user non-conformance trend impact on buying performance and corporate office service delivery gaps. Ensure active intervention through suggestions on improvements that will positively impact on service delivery, end-user vs Supply Chain Management (SCM) relations and functional performance
• Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage functional employees, including virtuals. Engage with managers, operations and cross-functionally with peers
• Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies and standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

People Management    

• Performance management: Clarify roles/responsibilities and expectations. Define individual performance standards, monitor and measure performance, reward and recognise high performance. Apply consistent performance and consequence management and take prompt action against non-performance
• Talent development: Actively manage talent through regular assessment of employees’ strengths, development needs and development progress. Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching and development feedback to employees. Manage functional talent pipeline and succession planning process. Promote a culture of continuous learning. Encourage and empower team to make decisions
• Culture/functional climate: Embody, translate and entrench the culture and values in function and address behaviours that undermine values. Foster effective teamwork and unity. Create an environment in which people are inspired to perform and a high performance culture
• Communication/engagement: Proactively address conflicts and initiate difficult conversations
• Team development: Develop an effective and high performing team. Create an environment of accountability and trust
• In consultation with manager procurement, identify reporting needs and validate against framework
• Determine capability and performance gaps in order to identify training needs

Procurement Control   

• Reconditioning, direct purchasing of goods and services, low value capital procurement and importation of goods/services
• Conduct market research and make recommendations relating to suppliers, costs and deliverability
• Investigate, negotiate and conclude once off purchase contracts
• Manage and administer tendering process for area
• In consultation with manager procurement, source new vendors and conduct assessments of both price and quality of products

Track benefits of contracts

• Conduct market research on commodities
• Ensure successful purchase orders are created

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Systems Infrastructure and Enablement 

•  Coordinate and provide support in audit process and continuous improvement of relevant area procurement unit
• Ensure team's utilisation of relevant Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) module and processes are done in a manner that ensures data integrity
• Monitor buyer performance on weekly/monthly basis, utilising relevant ERP systems
• Manage buying processes, R-blocks and report on savings/breakdown order management

Behavioural Alignment  

 Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective
• The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
• If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

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Job Advert Summary

PURPOSE:

• To manage, coordinate and administer contracts with suppliers.
• To assist the Manager, Group Contracts and Procurement with improving contract coverage and achieving commercial savings.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Providing a contract management service to multiple Business Units, for multiple commodities.
• Continuous pressure exists on continuously improving in terms of cost effectiveness, innovation and productivity.
• Turnaround times of contract establishment and Statement of Work.
• Maintaining and effectively executing high volumes of users demands and active contracts.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant supply chain or related; procurement, contract management experience. Adept in working with MS Office, various databases and contract management systems. Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. SAP MM, Coupa).  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities

Best Practice and Knowledge Management  

•  Identify and support the implementation of process and system enhancements to continuously improve contract management process
• Study/research best practice processes and benchmark the Company processes at regular intervals
• Assist in mitigating risk in terms of contractual exposure to the Company

Business Partner Enablement  

• Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
• Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in- transaction guidance and support
• Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

•  Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Consolidate reports and provide feedback to the Manager, Group Contracts and Procurement on appropriate contract management reporting and governance requirements
• Collaborate and communicate with suppliers
• Implement portfolio targets in alignment with legislation and charters (e.g. Mining Charter, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), etc.)
• Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure adherence to all policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Consolidate reports and provide feedback to Contracts Manager on appropriate contract management reporting and governance requirements
• Provide effective advice to the wider organisation on contract/agreement entitlements, obligations, and purchasing methods and quantities

Contract Management    

• Compile and manage contracts with service providers
• In conjunction with internal stakeholders, ensure that all relevant category strategies and governance requirements are met
• Negotiate, conclude and administer contracts throughout the contract lifecycle
• Evaluate contractual terms and condition and provide recommendations
• Responsible for the proactive management of contract lifecycle milestones for a portfolio of contracts
• Evaluate contract stipulations and provide recommendations
• Communicate and ensure adherence to contractual rights and obligations
• Record and monitor contract compliance and renewal applications
• Investigate the need for contract extensions and terminate contractual relationship upon completion if required

Obtain approval for relevant contracts and documentation in line with governance requirements and departmental budgetary stipulations

• Responsible for safekeeping and retention of contractual documentation in accordance with Group standards and policies
• Manage the end to end contract management process
• Develop and implement contracting portfolio project plans
• Develop, socialise and implement contracting strategies
• Ensure all contracting plans incorporate and address Social and Labour Plans (SLP’s), Mining Charter and BBBEE preferential procurement objectives
• Compile tender documentation, issue Request for Quote (RFQ), adjudicate tenders in collaboration with technical and commercial specialists
• Ensure guidance and planning to contract modifications, price adjustments and contract close out
• Communicate and ensure adherence to contractual rights and obligations
• Contribute to supplier development including Local Economic Development
• Develop and maintain key supplier agreements with a continuing focus on efficiency gains
• Identify opportunities for cost savings through product substitution, market testing, or other means
• Actively participate in organisation planning as it relates to procurement activities

Customer and Client Relationship Management  

• Maintain a database of supplier information and continuously ensure that integrity and quality of data are relevant and of required standard
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and suppliers in the development of Service Level Agreements (SLA's) with suppliers
• Support on-boarding of new suppliers and manage supplier relationships
• Proactive engagement with suppliers and internal stakeholders related to contractual matters, i.e. disputes, claims, performance etc.
• Work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively with both internal/external customers and/or stakeholders
• Build sound relationships with Business Unit (BU) end-users, key suppliers and colleagues
• Build and nurture effective and influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, and partners

Financial Management  

• Support and adhere to functional budget requirements and cost containment goals
• Prepare contracting project plans and strategies
• Manage allocated contract portfolio from a contract life cycle management and milestone perspective
• Conduct annual demand planning
• Act as a specialist expert in contract life cycle management process
• Represent Group to negotiate and secure approval on various commercial contracts for our client's Group (strategic sourcing and BU contracts)

Functional Excellence  

•  Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Internal Business Processes    

• Provide weekly feedback on progress related to contract lifecycle management activities
• Actively contribute to achieving Supply Chain Management (SCM) balanced score card targets
• Comply and adhere to Group processes, procedures and standards in the execution of contract lifecycle management activities
• Conduct monthly reporting on contracting process
• Ensure procurement savings occur
• Compile tender documentation as per project
• Determine commercial and financial evaluation of tenders
• Obtain tenders from specific marketplace through marketing process

Performance Management    

• Identify reporting needs and validate against framework
• Finalise competency requirements
• Confirm roles, responsibilities and expectations
• Determine capability and performance gaps in order to identify training needs
• Adhere to roles, responsibilities and expectations of the SCM process
• Comply with people performance and individual development processes and initiatives

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations Practices while ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment  

 Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective
• The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.

If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.