Job Opportunities at South32

POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• The purpose of the role is to maintain office facilities in line with the Corporate Office Standard, South32 values, business and statutory requirements for Johannesburg and London. Influence a cost-effective approach for fit for purpose facilities management throughout South32..

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Degree or National Diploma with a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience;
• Experience in workplace safety management and legislative requirements;
• Experience or working knowledge in property development and project delivery;
• Demonstrated stakeholder engagement and change management practices to support project deliverables, business changes or requests;
• Ability to identify, and translate complex problems into refined strategic solutions (business cases);
• Sound judgment and decision-making abilities drawing from subject matter experts and business/statutory requirements.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment, and community, including ownership of all facilities-specific accountabilities for the Johannesburg and London offices;
• Attend and drive working groups from FM lens to support Health, Safety and Wellbeing relating to the office;
• Deliver on the Corporate Office Standard and other supporting framework deliverables to contract manage (facilities & travel) with precision governing budgets, quality, performance and safety to both staff and contractors;
• Life cycle management of facility assets governing landlord and South32 planned and reactive maintenance and works;
• Govern facility and travel services ensuring alignment to business requirements and objectives, maximizing return on expenditure whilst delivering best industry practices;
• Promote a high-performing and inclusive culture within the FM team by displaying S32 values. Provide mentoring and coaching to facilities team members;
• Provide inputs as required to monthly reporting and tracking activities;
• Provide advisory support and implement all required internal and external regulatory requirements for office facilities are met;
• Identify and execute solutions to deliver optimal space allocation depending on business requirements and project activity;
• Ongoing identification, review, and implementation on operational initiatives (facilities & travels).

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POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• You will be responsible for assisting the Plant maintenance foremen and teams, to ensure effective execution of breakdown, unplanned and planned maintenance work.

 
REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have Grade 12 with mathematics and science or N3 Technical Certificate and a valid Trade Test;
• A minimum of 4 years relevant experience on mechanical and electrical management on process plants is essential;
• SAP software knowledge will be advantageous.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ensuring maximum equipment availability, reliability and operational stability;
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis investigations on breakdowns and defects;
• Conduct OPEX improvement initiatives;
• Manage the Warranty Process on failed equipment under warranty;
• Manage the support of the LEAN process for execution;
• Evaluate master data using the enterprise resource planning tools (SAP) for applicability and effectiveness;
• Assist the Projects team with Factory Acceptance Testing and inspections on refurbished components
• Assess the effectiveness of the applied asset maintenance strategies.

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POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• The purpose of this role is to provide Maintenance Excellence expertise that would manage the delivery of well-designed work optimally. Design and deliver Maintenance Excellence systems to reduce exposure to catastrophic equipment failure by developing functional expertise, systems and tools and providing an assurance program to confirm their deployment across South32 globally.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Degree qualified Mechanical/Electrical/Structural Engineer or Experienced Asset Management professional, with 10 years’ experience along with experience with SAP in a maintenance / reliability role;
• Formal qualification in maintenance management/ reliability will be highly regarded for this role;
• Relevant experience with a multi-disciplined project and/ or multinational corporate operational environment;
• Deep functional SAP ECC Work Management knowledge;
• Demonstrated operational experience and understanding of asset management systems, maintenance execution and practices to contribute/influence operational decisions on business improvement.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Deliver “We all guarantee everyone goes home safe and well” through creating a culture of care and accountability as an enabler to continuously learn and improve;
• Design, own and deploy the Global South32 approach to Maintenance Excellence;
• Influence Global stakeholders such as Engineering/Maintenance Managers and functional leaders to achieve improvement in Maintenance Excellence and stewardship without having direct control of the scope and resources;
• Select, develop, coach and mentor employees so that
• they understand the value they impart to S32 business objectives;
• Develop a network of discipline related expertise both within and external to the business to identify improved practices and facilitate introduction;
• Develop framework (standards, guidelines, systems) to ensure Maintenance Excellence stewardship;
• Implement and maintain the required information systems and reports to support effective Maintenance Excellence decision making;
• Ensure that all Maintenance Excellence systems and processes comply with South32 mandatory regulations and standards;
• Identify and communicate applicable internal and external regulations and standards across South 32 globally;
• Providing assurance of delivery against these frameworks to reduce the possibility of catastrophic business impact.

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POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• HMM is launching the 2023 Graduate Development Program. The program aims to train and develop graduates within the technical disciplines as shown below. Graduate development opportunities are available across the Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Supply & Human Resources departments and applicants should have recently completed their bachelor’s degree studies in the relevant fields from a recognised tertiary institution.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Degree/BTECH/National Diploma in: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Geology, Metallurgy, Accounting, Human Resource Development, Human Resource Management, Logistics , Communications;
• Have an inclination to work in heavy industry;
• Good communication, analytical and logical thinking skills will be preferable;
• Attention to detail and the ability to work within a team is essential;
• Any vacation work experience or practical training experience with exposure to these fields will be advantageous.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Successful candidates shall be exposed to Hotazel Manganese Mines (HMM) operations to gain knowledge that will enable them to participate meaningfully in their area of knowledge;
• They will undergo a structured learning program for a duration of 2 or 3 years during which they shall have an opportunity to establish themselves as a meaningful contribution to the organization.

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POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• To project manage & deliver a Hillside capital portfolio in accordance to company relevant policies, processes, standards and performance targets for HSEC, Quality, Time and Cost.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Completed Degree/BTech/ National Diploma in Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a heavy industry;
• 2 years and more experience in Engineering Capital Project Management is essential;
• 2 Years and more experience within a Plant / Production Planning area is essential;
• In depth knowledge of procedures and concepts within engineering functional area is essential;
• Experience in managing stakeholders, clients, consultants, contractor partners is essential;
• In Depth understanding of Engineering Designs and Drawings is essential;
• In Depth understanding of Construction regulations and Construction Management is essential;
• 2 years and more working experience on SAP is essential;
• Qualification in Project management e.g Project Management Professional (PMP) is advantageous.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Provide input into the Modifications and Small Projects portfolio and related budgets, plans and schedules;
• Support feasibility studies, cost-benefits analyses, impact assessments and project business cases to obtain project approvals;
• Project manage the allocated approved Modifications and Small Projects to the defined scope, budget, schedule, standards, and specifications and in accordance with relevant processes and standards for South32 /Operation;
• Verify Modifications & Small Projects employees and contractors adhere to work standards, are competent, and understand the purpose and functionality of critical controls relevant to their work.;
• Ensure that allocated modifications and small projects are executed in compliance to SOUTH32/Hillside requirements and relevant internal and external standards;
• Take shared accountability for the performance of the Modifications & Small Projects team, promote operational discipline in work execution, ensure quality of completed tasks, and enhance technical knowledge of other team members;
• Requires detailed knowledge of procedures and concepts in own functional area and limited knowledge of other functions. Stakeholder engagement: collaborated with a small group of internal stakeholders on middle management level roles.

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POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• To provide specialised technical services that helps improve the organization's process and Manufacturing Execution Systems through the review, testing, repair and maintenance of these systems.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Degree/BTECH/ National Diploma in Automation Engineering / Information Systems / Information Technology / Computer Science / Data Science with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in MES & MIS;
• In depth knowledge of Level 2 systems and associated interfaces is essential;
• Minimum of 2 Years’ experience in Business requirements analysis is essential;
• Minimum of 3 Years’ experience working on Oracle Forms/ Reports and Database, Wonderware and Microsoft SQL Server is essential;
• Minimum of 3 Years’ experience with Dot Net, HTML programming and JAVA programming is essential;
• Minimum of 2 Years’ experience in Networks is essential.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Provide in depth technical MES and MIS Expertise to the operations;
• Ensure content of technical documentation for own discipline is maintained;
• Effectively manage Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery processes relating to MES and MIS;
• Ensure the availability of software and application backups;
• Manage obsolescence of hardware, applications, systems and software to ensure sustained and continued operations;
• Verify Technical Services contractors adhere to work standards, are competent, and understand the purpose and functionality of critical controls relevant to their work.

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POSITION SYNOPSIS:

• The purpose of the role is to provide specialist advice and ensure asset integrity is managed and maintained over the life cycle of the assets; maintain a healthy asset integrity plan that actively addresses asset integrity, obsolescence, and end-of-life of assets; inform the capital plan for asset replacement strategy and asset improvement; and to ensure that changes to equipment and plant follows the set change management process.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Serious contenders will have a Degree / BTech / National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 4 years’ experience in Plant Maintenance and Equipment Reliability;
• Experience in Managing Stakeholders, Consultants and Service Provides is essential;
• Experience in setting up projects from condition assessment, initiation up to execution (feasibility) stage is essential;
• Experienced and knowledgeable in conducting site inspections, condition assessments, compliance audits, and producing quality technical reports is essential;
• Experience in Asset Care Plan development using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process is essential;
• Experience in the extracting and analyzing ERP information (using the BI tools) is essential;
• Good understanding of Risk Management Processes for Criticality analysis is essential;
• Experience in setting of plant standards is essential;
• Experience in developing and optimizing asset life cycle strategies; calculating Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is advantageous;
• Experience working on Reliability block diagram modelling; Component reliability modelling is advantageous;
• Design experience within a heavy industry, materials handling, or mining environment is advantageous;
• Experience in Six Sigma Analytical techniques is advantageous;
• Certified Asset Management Practitioner (CAMP) is advantageous;
• Registered with an ECSA is advantageous;
• Project management professional (PMP) is advantageous.
   

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Establish and ensure adherence to systems, processes and standards for the maintenance of dynamic / life cycle data relating to assets and asset systems;
• Establish and maintain systems and processes that ensure application of reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) concepts and design requirements for new and existing assets;
• Establish and maintain systems and processes that manage asset and asset systems risk due to unreliability as related to health, safety, environment, operations, quality, regulatory compliance and cost;
• Create and maintain total cost of ownership models in order to identify low reliability, high maintainability assets / components / tasks, initiate improvement projects;
• Responsible for the maintenance and updating of all asset care plans, corrective task lists and work instructions for existing assets and assets systems;
• Evaluate asset investment proposals, preliminary design concepts, system engineering block diagrams and uses RAM Analysis to provide total cost of ownership models.
• Responsible for the development of all asset care plans, corrective task lists and work instructions for assets and assets systems prior to commissioning.