Job Opportunities at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job:

• Lead all aspects of the processes to develop category strategies to optimize Sasol’s external spend for the mining equipment and services commodities.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and oversee the development and implementation of strategies for the category in order to realise increased business value for Sasol by leveraging external spend through a total cost of ownership reduction approach.
• Typical spend optimization levers will include both operational and commercial levers.
• Lead cross-functional and cross-divisional project/task teams for external spend optimization.
• Prepare for and lead negotiations of high value / strategic contracts to unlock external spend savings in collaboration with team members from regional maintenance hubs and commercial specialists.
• Analyse the stakeholder landscape and proactively manage relationships to ensure support for and participation in processes to develop and implement external spend optimisation strategies.
• Oversee and coordinate the implementation of operations improvement levers identified during the Win phase of external spend optimization microbattles.
• Ensure that Sasol’s business transformation imperatives (BBBEE compliance, industry sector-specific transformation charters, etc.) are supported and enabled when identifying and implementing external spend optimization initiatives.
• Drive procurement efficiency improvement and risk reduction by implementing effective methods to maximise 'on-contract' and automated spend within the category.

Formal Education:

• 4+-year University Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mining)
• MBA / MBL (Wish)

Min Experience:

• 10+ relevant years in technical, procurement or commercial roles with 5+ in a management role.

Competencies:

• Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.
• Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation and sustainability.
• Negotiation and Deal-making: Leads and oversees deals through negotiations focused on an integrative, value creating process.
• Total Cost of Ownership reduction: Proven ability to understand drivers of total cost in the business, not limited to levers impacting direct purchasing cost, and implement initiatives to drive total cost of ownership down.

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Short Description / Purpose of Job:

• Ability to combine thinking strategically with acting on a tactical/operational level in order to perform business analysis, risk assessment, scenario planning and draw conclusions to support the right business decisions to identify and capture cost opportunities and deliver excellent results by within a highly performing team for the respective commodity groupings.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities:

• Act as a leading contributor to the design, development and implementation of commodity strategies. 
• Lead the development of relevant scope of work aligned to internal user requirements.
• Plan, lead and execute detailed spend analytics (e.g., key cost driver identification, should cost models, price variance analysis, offer comparisons, vendor spend allocation scenarios modelling), including gathering relevant data from various sources. 
• Contribute to the vision of the future supplier landscape, supplier characterization and onboarding needs for new suppliers.
• Execute continuous value delivery through optimization of Scope of Work, increased vendor productivity, SLAs rightsizing, specifications and user requirements.
• Lead development of sourcing strategy (e.g., identification of strategic imperatives based on business, commercial requirements and savings targets).
• Support or lead part of the end-to-end negotiations process (preparation, team assembly, stakeholders buy-in, orchestration, messaging, actual delivery).
• Develop allocation framework, identify senior stakeholders and propose assignment of business to different suppliers in order to secure optimal sourcing set-up (within given mandate and in agreement with MB lead).
• Contribute to the yearly target savings for own category.
• Identify, highlight and act upon cross-category synergies & opportunities.
• Oversee execution of Buy Better implementation activities to realise full potential savings.

Formal Education:

• University Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent in a related field

Min Experience:

• 10+ relevant years in technical, procurement or commercial roles

Competencies:

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics.
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Facilitation: The means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently.  Particular focus is on meetings but can include other processes such as the delivery of products and services where others are involved and their participation is critical to success.
• Integration: The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.
• Negotiating: The ability to compromise in a cooperative effort to reach mutually satisfactory conclusions and results.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well-defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Verbal Communications: Any exchange of words, either written or spoken, used to transmit information
• Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible. 

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Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities:

• Manage contract lifecycle activities and administration (contract adherence, reviews, annual amendments, contractual matters i.e. breach etc.).
• Enable operational application of contracts and collection of business intelligence on contracts by performing required contract administration activities.
• Manage enablement of concluded contracts (contract roll-out, end-user training and assistance, issue management).
• Manage and maintain data inputs required in contract management system and contract execution systems to operationalise concluded contracts.
• Work with suppliers to resolve issues relating to contract performance (e.g. contract interpretation, variations).
• Manage supplier relationship management frameworks to measure and track supplier adherence to contract outcomes.
• Observe and comply with group and functional policies and procedures in the execution of contracting responsibilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on shared objectives and requirements in terms of contracting processes.
• Establish trusted supplier relationships with open and effective communication.
• Maintain contractual records aligned with record keeping requirements.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to reduce costs, improve purchasing performance and enhance value add for Sasol Group.
   

Formal Education:

• University Bachelor's Degree in finance, law, commercial or equivalent in a related field or 6+ relevant years in technical, procurement or commercial roles

Min Experience:

• 6+ relevant years in technical, procurement or commercial roles

Competencies:

• Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen and exercises sound judgement.
• Partnership Leadership: Builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. 
• Negotiation and Deal-making: Leads and oversees deals through negotiations focused on an integrative, value creating process.
   

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• A Process Artisan operates process equipment, systems and processes for a specific plant / unit within the Sasol environment to achieve production requirements in a safe manner

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Participates in shift handover meetings
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures
• Apply and maintain safety in a working environment
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs
• Contribute to the development of training modules
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval
• Lead by example (walks the talk)
• Conduct on the job coaching of learners
• SME Presentation on specific plant equipment
• Conducts IMS inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability
• Work effectively in a team
• Play an appropriate main role during emergency situations to get the plant back on line
• Give and receive feedback to other disciplines (partners on daily issues)
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Gives input at “toolbox talks” to improve plant safety
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities in own work area
• Improve practices and/or equipment

Formal Education

• High school Diploma (Matric) with Maths & Science
• Occupational Trade Certificate (NQF4)

Min Experience

• 0 - 5 Years relevant experience
• Solvents AAA experience (wish)

Competencies

• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Efficient operation of the plant.
• Adhere to all safety regulations and work standards.
• Practice good housekeeping and plant cleaning.
• Comply with legal requirements and be prepared to do physical and uncomfortable work as stipulated in the job description.
• Process controller will be reporting to shift foreman and must adhere to foreman’s reasonable and safe instructions.
• The successful candidate will work shifts and will be required to do shift cover.
• Required outputs include, but are not limited to:
  • Physically monitor production processes.
  • Sample taking and laboratory analysis.
  • Loading of tankers
  • Operating production equipment (pumps, valves, reaction, absorption)

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Physically monitor production processes on plant and DCS.
• Sample taking and analysis in plant lab.
• Conduct visual inspections on the process and equipment.
• Report process deviations to shift supervisor /foreman.
• Compile relevant area shift report during and at the end of shift.
• Examine equipment and complete all required checklists as per job description.
• Report all risk behaviors and unsafe conditions to shift foreman/line manager.
• Take plant samples to the laboratory.
• Maintain required housekeeping standards by cleaning, washing, collecting, etc.
• Adhere and apply standard operating procedures and work instructions.
• Understand equipment failure modes and defect identification and reporting.
• Demonstrate understanding of how equipment functions, e.g. valves and pumps and different types of valves and pumps.
• Conduct basic fault-finding and problem solving.
• Attend and contribute to daily assurance meetings / toolbox talks.
• Attend and contribute to shift SHE meetings.
• Conduct plant inspections.
• Conduct safety management system inspections e.g. OSHA, ISO 14000/18000/9001.
• Conduct pre-task risk assessments.
• Must be able to work under pressure.
• Perform safe-making and prepare plant for maintenance.
• Work together with other departments to ensure plant is operational.
• Complete all required log sheets and logbooks on the plant.

Requirements

• Related plant operational experience required.
• Experience in a production environment (must).
• Experience within a petrochemical / chemical industry will be an advantage.
• Required to continue with further training and development (NQF4, QTCO)

Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12 or N3 with English, Maths and Science (must).
• NQF2 level 2 - Chemical operations occupational. (Process Controller Gr 1)
• NQF level 3 - Chemical operations occupational. (Process Controller Gr 1)
• Related plant operational experience will be a benefit.
• Experience in a production environment (must).
• Driver’s license (must).

Competencies 

• Good communication skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Be able to work independently.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Team player.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Accountability.

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Short Description / Purpose of Job

• A Process Artisan operates process equipment, systems and processes for a specific plant / unit within the Sasol environment to achieve production requirements in a safe manner

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Participates in shift handover meetings
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures
• Apply and maintain safety in a working environment
• Participates in root cause analyses, and provides feedback to RCA teams
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs
• Contribute to the development of training modules
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval
• Lead by example (walks the talk)
• Conduct on the job coaching of learners
• SME Presentation on specific plant equipment
• Conducts IMS inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability
• Work effectively in a team
• Play an appropriate main role during emergency situations to get the plant back on line
• Give and receive feedback to other disciplines (partners on daily issues)
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Gives input at “toolbox talks” to improve plant safety
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities in own work area
• Improve practices and/or equipment

Formal Education

• High school Diploma with Maths & Science
• Occupational Trade Certificate (NQF4)

Min Experience

• 0 - 5 Years

Competencies

• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking  feedback and self-correcting