Job Vacancies at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• This role is responsible to do shutdown planning according to Critical Path Method (CPM), resource scheduling, and task descriptions.

Recruitment Description

• Support and promote company vision, values, and goals.
• Ensure values driven behavior, personal development and effectiveness is carried out.
• Build constructive working relationships with manager, peers, clients, and other service providers.
• Must plan and schedule shutdown work to serve the business by maximizing the utilization of resources and equipment available.
• Ensure activities are planned and scheduled to ensure the safe execution of activities.
• Coordinate plant walk to validate and update task lists.
• Apply the basic rules and logic of scheduling activities to ensure work is grouped and packaged together to allow effective execution.
• Develop a shutdown bar-chart plan to execute the shutdown in the safest and shortest time frame.
• Identify opportunities to maximize the utilization of resources and equipment available.

Key Accountabilities

• Follow the prescribed procedure for planning, scheduling, reporting and execution of the plan.
• Give regular feedback to leaders and the shutdown management team on progress and reasons for deviating from the shutdown planning time schedule to develop the final plan as per the agreed time schedule and milestone dates (Shutdown Planning Schedule).
• Review, plan and develop task lists for all Strategy work (Statutory and Non-Statutory) Maintenance Item work orders generated from SAP Maintenance Plans and ensure all RBI and statutory requirements are loaded in the task list in the SAP workorders.
• Coach stakeholders during the shutdown process and planning tools (e.g., interpretation of Artemis bar chart, EIS graphs indicators and eSMOP FEL).
• Determine maintenance critical path.
• Provide business unit shutdown manager with regular feedback in the update meetings on the overall progress and possible threats to the critical path during execution.
• Verify updated information according to schedule adherence. (Random checks & critical paths).

Formal Education

• High School Diploma (Grade 12) with Mathematics and Science (at N3 level), and
• A relevant Occupation Trade Qualification and / or a relevant National Diploma in an engineering field and / or completed the Sasol internal technical planning development training program.

Min Experience

• 3+ years relevant operations experience with a relevant engineering/process trade certificate (NQF4) or,
• 6+ years relevant operations experience with the internal planning development program (Sasol Internal Certificate)
• General office administration
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, MS Projects, Power BI)
• Experience to Operations Environment
• Knowledge / Experience of work management process (Turnaround and Maintenance Planning)
• Experience in document management
• SAP Plant Maintenance Module Experience
• Good / accurate typing skills

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Purpose of Job

• To coordinate and direct maintenance and repair services for a specific process within a production line, through control panel management and more complex troubleshooting.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures Work Independently
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs Apply and maintain safety in a working environment
• Participates in shift handover meetings
• Provides adequate feedback to supervisor on work progress
• Participates in risk assessments according to legislation and company requirements to improve safety
• Maintains good housekeeping and adheres to waste disposal procedures Work Independently
• Understand and know the business, drives and KPIs Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval
• 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 Gives input at toolbox talks to improve plant safety

Formal Education

• Matric/N3 with Maths, English & Physical Science

Formal Education

• Occupational Trade Qualification/Certificate

Min Experience

• Experience: 4+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To monitor and control assigned machinery to ensure safe and reliable operations. To troubleshoot and diagnose equipment for emergency repairs and carry out preventive maintenance routines to ensure business continuity.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Proven competence in pre-identified areas per discipline of the plant/mine/equipment/systems 
• Understand and use the plant maintenance documentation system 
• Understand planning work management system 
• Relevant plant/mine specific/basic process knowledge (defined per discipline) 
• Compliance of Safety Management Systems e.g. IMS, MBO, etc. 
• Able to apply emergency procedures 
• Read, interpret, and implement task risk assessment 
• Hazard identification/task risk assessments 
• Participates in daily morning meetings to discuss work assignments 
• Support the goals and vision of the business by meeting deadlines 
• 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 
• Share knowledge with junior artisans in known environment/context 
• Participates in quarterly performance appraisal with group leader to improve personal development 
• Identifies personal training and development needs, and incorporates into PDP with group leader's approval 
• Lead by example (walks the talk) 
• Assists with the development of works instructions to develop a higher level of staff competency 
• Take the lead in team efforts/tasks 
• Able to act as group leader (if appropriate to career path) 
• Contribute to overall maintenance strategy and direction 
• Mentor learners/artisans informally 
• Conducts My IMS (physical inspections to maintain and improve plant sustainability) 
• Work effectively in a team 
• Attends and interacts in PDAs and RCAs to improve plant safety and stability 
• Provides adequate feedback to group leader or planning officer on work progress 
• Ensures the correct history feedback is captured to improve renewals/ upgrades and critical spares are replaced 
• Gives input at toolbox talks to improve plant safety

Formal Education

• Occupational Trade Qualification/Certificate

Min Experience

• Experience: 0 - 5+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• An expert power user for Coupa Sourcing Optimization (CSO) to provide technical and functional expertise to the external spend optimisation micro-battle program’s data scientist/ analyst team to built sourcing events, auctions and templates.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Provide advice on and implement considerations required to successfully meet the sourcing objectives of the e-sourcing event in Coupa Sourcing Optimization (CSO).
• Build and execute complex sourcing events and can configure scenario analysis and reports to drive an efficient decision-making process in Coupa Sourcing Optimization (CSO).
• Provision of technical and functional expertise to build sourcing events, auctions and templates in Coupa Sourcing Optimization (CSO) to the data scientist/ analytical group as extended users of CSO.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree in (Engineering, Business or Financial Management, Data Science/ Analytics) or equivalent in a related field

Min Experience

• 2+ years’ technical experience with Coupa Sourcing Optimization (CSO)
• 9+ years of consulting or equivalent experience
• Advanced MS Excel Skills

Certification

• Coupa Sourcing Optimisation certification

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Purpose of Job

• To develop financial models, dashboards, evaluation templates and to program within e- sourcing tools to support Procurement decisions and value release as part of the external spend micro-battle program.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Support the gathering relevant data from various sources to develop a comprehensive fact base (e.g., spend data, master data)
• Execute detailed spend analytics (e.g., key cost driver identification, evaluation of savings levers, should cost models, price variance analysis, offer comparisons, vendor spend allocation scenarios modelling)
• Execute supplier and market research (e.g., key stakeholder groups across category value chain, category market share by supplier, key supplier profiles)
• Support preparation of RFx documentation (identifying data points required from suppliers to evaluate bid, tender bid sheet/ rate builder to be distributed to suppliers) and supplier bid evaluation and savings calculation processes (e.g., building bid evaluation model mechanics, consolidating and inputting supplier data into model in e-sourcing platform (Coupa Sourcing Optimisation))
• Support preparation of negotiation materials in terms of fact base

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree in (Engineering, Business or Financial Management, Data Science/ Analytics) or equivalent in a related field

Min Experience

• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in an analytical or data scientist role

Certification

• Microsoft certified: Azure Date Fundamentals (wish)

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Purpose of Job

• Provide communications, coaching and training to users at all levels of the organization to ensure competency, commitment and compliance with service excellence programs and initiatives.
• Design, develop, and implement programs which create a positive user experience and promote service excellence.
• Responsible for the creation and control of accurate company user experience documentation and maintain records for the efficient operation.
• Engage with all business units to ensure that the administration of the user experience system and related processes and procedures meet or exceed the user expectation.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to customer relationship management through maintenance of the user experience tools and systems. 
• Manage the Service Desk and resolve bottlenecks that prohibit them from providing an excellent user experience. 
• Maintain a good working relationship with internal and external customers by providing high standard of service and identifying opportunities that allow continuous improvement in service levels. 
• Increase the transparency in different service management processes to keep the 
• customers informed and to provide them with appropriate cause in case of any delays. 
• Ensure Sasol users are informed on IM new products/ services and planned changes that might cause business interruptions. 
• Ensure knowledge templates and articles are regularly updated and communicate changes to all stakeholders. 
• Co-create improvement roadmaps of service experience that facilitate continuous service improvement. 
• Provide accurate clerical and administrative support to the users of Sasol. 
• Support the improvement of the service experience for transactions (e.g. incidents and well-defined requests). 
• Ensure that stakeholders understand the service experience requirements. 
• Compile monthly reporting on user experience, including trends and establish improvement initiatives. 
• Promote policies and procedures, agile, new ways of work throughout the organization. 
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework. 
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.

Formal Education

• University Degree with 4 years relevant experience 

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Purpose of Job

• To enable, support, and facilitate safe and responsible operations to achieve zero harm and sustainability targets.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Delivery targets (e.g. tons, products, service Monitor and respond proactively to hazards in the workplace).
• Conduct hazard identification in the workplace.
• Provide input during risk assessments to ensure safety and health issues are identified.
• Provide advice on the selection and use of specific PPE.
• Participate in the respective forums.
• Participate in the roll out of the SHE Improvement Plan and report updates as required.
• Portray the enterprise values and goals at all times.
• Execute own competency development.
• Coach team and others on safety and health issues.
• Develop extensive knowledge relating to the field of work and personal mastery in technical skills application.
• Ensure that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Plan and execute according to performance contract.
• Execute adhoc requests and tasks.
• Establish and maintain relevant networks.
• Team and colleague communication.
• Ensure the availability of all relevant information.
• Identify, evaluate and recommend improvement opportunities.
• Share information and knowledge.

Formal Education

• High School / School Diploma or similar

Min Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• Provide a comprehensive cost control service to the whole IM department. Support the Cost Control Specialist to act as a central point of accountability for control on operational and capital cost. Provide a high-quality cost control support on all IM operational expenditures. Support monthly reporting of actual cost performance versus budget or forecast. Ensure that proper supply chain governance is adhered to in all requests.
• Maintain high standard of cost reporting by ensuring that costs are properly booked against correct cost elements. Ensure that dates on all opened purchase orders are updated to align to service delivery.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Create all types of purchasing requisitions (PRs) making use of correct cost codes and cost elements, ensure they are being released in time
• Communicate overdue commitment report with service providers and relevant platform owners, liaise with supply chain to either extend delivery dates or close off purchase orders
• Follow up with service providers to ensure invoices are received and posted in time
• Extract created service entries and follow up with platform owners to timeously act on them
• Compile cost incurred on behalf of other OMEs to ensure finance recover all before close of period every month
• Have monthly engagement with IM strategic vendors, share Sasol payment schedule dates with them for proper reconciliation
• Assist line manager to compile cost control report for monthly business review
• Actively participate in making Sasol financial half year and year end successful, be willing to work overtime during this period
• Have knowledge of  Supply Chain PtP process ensure that IM is adhering fully to the five cardinal rules for suppliers

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree with 4 relevant years