Latest Recruitment at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary

PURPOSE:

• To develop and execute logistical strategies and plans to integrate and optimise the flow of commodities to various customers.
• To ensure the Company receive maximum allocation of rail capacity and that all rail capacity is utilised optimally.
• To secure the procurement of logistics services and capacity of the right quality, at the most favourable price and conditions, and at the right time.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• The variation in logistics plans (road, rail and seaborne) requires continuous engagement with service providers and stakeholders to find timeous commercial solutions to practical logistics needs.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

•    B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BCom (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•    Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  8-10 years Relevant marketing and commercial logistic experience within a production environment.   (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

Business Process and Development

• Refer to the attached job Advert for more details 
• Compliance, Governance and Assurance    
• Ensure all commercial activities are executed within supply chain management governance and delegated authorities.
• Ensure the Group’s procurement targets with Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) companies are reached.
• Ensure employment equity targets are met.
• Customer and Client Relationship Management  
• Manage and maintain customer relationships effectively.
• Lead and create high performance teams by encouraging collaboration internally and across company borders.
• Liaise with stakeholders to determine level of current and forthcoming project activities.
• Implement customer and supplier performance management.
• Represent the Company by networking locally and internationally.
• Develop and implement Service Level Agreements (SLA's) between logistics and service providers and customers.
• Assume responsibility for the contracting of logistic service providers (issue RFQ's receipt and evaluation of tenders, contract administration etc.).
• Negotiate with recommended suppliers, applicable logistics personnel and line management to ensure equitable agreements.
• Ensure supplier base is maintained and evaluate customer satisfaction.
• Financial Performance
• Develop and implement a total cost of ownership (TCO) model to enable the measurement of each logistic flow and logistic service provider.
• Manage expenses, assets and financial risk effectively.
• Maximise income and profitability of current assets and resources according to best practice and within given mandate/governance.
• Ensure annual targets for TCO reduction are achieved by exploiting market conditions, optimising service specifications and/or product/ supplier consolidations.
• Functional Excellence  
•  Develop and maintain marketing & logistics' policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end-to-end processes, tools, templates etc. and enforce group-wide adherence to these.
• Standardise, simplify and speed-up functional processes and eliminate duplication/bureaucracy.
• Develop and apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge.
• Drive and execute functional excellence initiatives.
• Oversee and monitor functional activities at operations.
• Establish functional/cross-functional forums, Communities of Practice (COP’s) etc. to ensure functional alignment.
• Effectively manage matrix reporting.
• Identify and manage critical functional risks through appropriate mitigation plans/actions.

Functional Management  

•  Financial management: Prepare and manage marketing and logistics' budget and forecast costs.
• Performance management: Ensure marketing & logistics' strategic plan is implemented through disciplined execution processes, track implementation, and provide feedback to relevant manager. Coordinate functional/cross-functional activities to ensure strategic alignment. Set and maintain high performance standards. Track and drive functional targets/goals and hold staff responsible for achieving results. Remove obstacles that interfere with performance and manage performance problems.
• Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead marketing logistics’ improvement and change. Create culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function.
• Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage with marketing & logistics' employees, including virtuals. Engage with executives, operations and cross-functionally with peers. Represent marketing & logistics' and Company externally, as required.
• Governance: Ensure marketing & logistics adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline.

Logistics Management  

• Manage the total flow management of all commodities of the Company, exports, imports, domestic in- and outbound.
• Ensure the international portion of the supply chain is fully optimised, managed and controlled, while taking inland flow requirements into account.
• Integrate internal rail operations into total flow design, management and control to ensure that an effective interface is achieved between service providers, customers and mines.
• Ensure contract specifications are within the marketing strategy, budget and corporate governance.
• Negotiate and manage contracts to ensure effective product storage and shipment.
• Maintain good customer relations by attending to enquiries and resolving complaints to their satisfaction.

People Management  

•  Staffing: Select, appoint and on-board marketing & logistics' staff in consultation with manager, marketing and logistics.
• 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, development and feedback to employees. Manage functional talent pipeline and succession planning process. Promote culture of continuous learning. Encourage and empower team to make decisions.
• Culture/functional climate: Embody, translate and entrench Group culture and values in function, address behaviours that undermine values. Foster effective teamwork and unity. Manage functional climate in which diversity is appreciated, high performance thrives, people are involved, energised, committed, motivated and recognised. Demonstrate and encourage collaboration including cross-functionally and create culture of collaboration. Create an environment in which people are inspired to perform and a high-performance culture.
• Change leadership: Provide direction, guidance and support to people having to adapt to change, keep them committed throughout. Actively support, advocate for and embrace functional/organisational change and reinforce/role model the change. Address resistance, beliefs, mind-sets, behaviours and emotions to help people adapt to change.
• Communication/engagement: Encourage open expression of ideas/opinions and foster dialogue. Seek out different opinions. Inform people of decisions, changes and other relevant information. Proactively address conflicts and initiate difficult conversations.
• Team development: Develop effective and high performing team including shared team purpose, principles, goals and effective team player capabilities. Create an environment of accountability and trust.

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis.
• Address all unsafe practices/potential hazardous situations, rectify/report to superior.
• Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC)/technical requirements.
• Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times.

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:

• Custodian of operational excellence programme for relevant area
• To manage the implementation of operational excellence and optimisation initiatives for relevant area
• To ensure knowledge sharing and duplication of improvement and innovation opportunities between Business Unit areas.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Operational excellence and cost efficiency
• Value chain optimisation
• Defining initiatives to achieve group Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT), cost and cash flow targets for relevant area
• Driving a culture of improvement and innovation.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

•    B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•    Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
•    Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Recommended/Desirable or)
•    Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 8-10 years Relevant job-specific experience. Successfully managed a business improvement or optimisation programme, preferable in a mining/resources environment. Business improvement- or business excellence, economical evaluations, improvement methodologies (Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Theory of Constraints (TOC)  (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

Best Practice and Knowledge Management

•  Intellectual property management and protection
• Create and manage professional networks
• Participate in tertiary educational relationships
• Participate in professional external forums
• Continuously monitors exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
• Stay abreast with advances in field of business improvement and innovation

Business Performance, Operations and Continuous Improvement  

•  Execution of the annual business plan assurance process. Responsible for pre-work and assurance preparation, mobilising and briefing the BU team, facilitating the assurance site visits, distributing the critical findings and tracking the execution of mitigation actions against these findings
• Provide support to Business Optimisation Manager on target setting process
• Cascade targets (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT), cost, cash flow) down to operational- and departmental level, taking into account business and capital cycles

Business Review Process  

• Responsible for the operational performance review process (monthly performance review) for relevant area
• Ensure performance review actions are captured, assigned, distributed and tracked

Customer and Client Relationship Management  

• Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships towards enhancing corporate profile
• Manage internal and external relations, including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met and employees are satisfied

Functional Excellence  

•  Implement business optimisation functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end-to-end processes, tools and templates etc.
• Apply business optimisation functional best practices and promote sharing of best practices/knowledge
• Drive and execute functional excellence initiatives
• Oversee and monitor functional activities at area/cluster of responsibility
• Effectively manage matrix reporting
• Identify and manage critical functional risks at area/ cluster of responsibility through appropriate mitigation plans/actions

Functional Management  

•  Functional management: Responsible for the management of business improvement and industrial engineering functions for relevant area
• Financial management: Prepare/manage business optimisation function’s budget (Business Units (BU’s)) - aligned with and adhering to functional budget
• Performance management: Implement business optimisation functional strategic plan through disciplined execution processes and track implementation. Provide feedback to Business Optimisation Functional Manager. Hold staff responsible for achieving results. Remove obstacles that interfere with performance and handle performance problems
• Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead functional improvement and change. Create a culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function
• Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage functional employees including virtuals. Engage with operations and cross- functionally with peers. Represent the function/the Company externally as required
• Governance: Ensure adherence to business optimisation function governance, policies and standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

People Management 

• Staffing: Select, appoint and on-board business optimisation functional staff (BU’s)
• 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 Company culture and values in function and address behaviours that undermine values. Foster effective teamwork and unity. Manage functional climate in which diversity is appreciated, high performance thrives and where people are involved, energised, committed, motivated and recognised. Demonstrate and encourage collaboration including cross- functionally and create a culture of collaboration. Create an environment in which people are inspired to perform and a high performance culture
• Change leadership: Provide direction, guidance and support to people having to adapt to change and keep them committed throughout. Actively support, advocate for and embrace functional/ organisational change and reinforce/role model the change. Address resistance, beliefs, mind-sets, behaviours and emotions to help people adapt to change
• Communication/engagement: Encourage open expression of ideas/opinions and foster dialogue. Seek out different opinions. Inform people of decisions, changes and other relevant information. Proactively address conflicts and initiate difficult conversations
• Team development: Develop an effective and high performing team including shared team purpose, principles, goals, accountability and effective Team player capabilities. Create an environment of accountability and trust

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

•  Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
• Address all unsafe practices/potential hazardous situations and rectify/report to superior Comply with Safety Health and Environmental (SHE)/technical requirements
• Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times

Strategy Management  

•  Strategic alignment/planning: Communicate the Company and business optimisation strategy to subordinate functions. Reinforce the link between the Company, functional, operational goals, individual outputs, measures and rewards
• Manage strategy implementation at BU

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 be responsible for operational management and support provision to receiving warehouse section.
• To take responsibility for receiving of ordered goods at the business premises.
• To take responsibility as the Business Unit driver for safe collection and delivery of goods or people, whilst adhering to all road regulations/rules. To manually capture data regarding Goods Received Vouchers and service entries onto SAP accurately and timeously.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

•    Grade 12/Standard 10 (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  2-3 years Experience in warehouse, operational environment and SAP MM Module  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•    Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•    Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•    Pub Driv Lic:Code B (Essential/Minimum)
•    Forklift (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Administration and Document Control
•  Ensure queries and complaints resolved and progress reported
• Assist with item issuing, delivery, binning and dispatching
• Capture and process receiving documents data manually into SAP
• Ensure processed data is available to authorised staff
• File processing documents and maintain confidentiality
• Note incorrect deliveries accordingly on supplier’s delivery documentation
• Business Performance and Operations  
•  Conduct accurate and timeous receiving of materials, signing delivery documentation correctly on behalf of the organisation, materials management, reporting and capturing
• Participate and provide support in the audit process and improvement of the warehouse function
• Report incorrect and damaged items immediately to coordinator, warehouse and receiving/buyer
• Execute standardised processes and investigate improvement of warehouse processes.
• Compliance, Governance and Assurance  
• Provide guidance to direct reports and customers to ensure compliance
• Create awareness, address unsafe or non-conforming practices
• Utilisation of the SAP module to ensure data integrity
• Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

Functional Excellence  

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

Operational Support

• Execute of material management reporting
• Oversee truck loading/offloading by external parties and ensure compliance with Company policies and procedures
• Record received items, compare with original order and ensure availability for binning
• Ensure specified items are sealed to prevent dust/corrosion
• Ensure stacked items are bound during handling from trucks and during warehousing in accordance with policies and procedures to prevent damage or injury

People Management

• Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures
• Culture/functional climate: Uphold the Company culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity

Receiving Process  

•  Support the implementation of Information Management (IM) technology and infrastructure that supports Supply Chain Management (SCM) receiving processes
• Provide support in audit process and improvement of site receiving function
• 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
• Ensure good housekeeping in area of responsibility
• Systems Infrastructure and Enablement  
•  Participate in and support the implementation of IM technology and infrastructure that supports SCM processes in receiving unit
• Utilise relevant Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) module in a manner that ensures data integrity
• Provide support in audit process
• 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:

• Develop and lead the application of data science modelling at an Integrated Operations Centre level to deliver insight-driven tactical and strategic value creation.
• Provide statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, prescriptive analytics, simulation and optimisation to discover trends, opportunities and threats.
• Design quantitative advanced analytics models that answer business questions and/or discover opportunities for improvement/optimisation at the business unit.
• Use data to support and optimise decision making, including predictive decision-making across the business value chain from the pit right through to the port.
• Ensure the availability of approved resources (skills, funding, technology, etc.) for modelling initiatives, driving change and influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
• Communicate and present findings and recommendations to management and business.
• May coach junior data scientists.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

•  3-5 years Relevant practical or commercial analytics with coding experience in mining or related environments. Technical expertise in ML languages, packages and techniques. A proven track record of successfully leading business integration projects in the fields of data science and machine learning. Sound people and relationship skills that foster collaboration, project management, communication and teamwork.  (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

• Best Practice and Knowledge Management  
•  Intellectual property management and protection
• Create and manage professional networks
• Participate in tertiary educational relationships
•  Participate in professional external forums

Continuously monitors exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management

Stay abreast with advances in field of business improvement, data science and innovation

Business Performance and Continuous Improvement    

Monitor Value Chain throughput and identify Improvement opportunities

• Analyse data captured in the Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) to understand the dynamics and variability within the value chain and identify process bottlenecks
• Collect, organise (clean and transform) and analyse data using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and present these to relevant stakeholders towards influencing improvement, optimisation and prediction across the Business Unit (BU) value chain
• Create new insights from predictive statistical modelling activities that target and deliver value

Business Review Process    

• Support the business review process by evaluating critical performance areas - 6 monthly, quarterly and monthly within operational function level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
• Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness; auditing of current processes and identification of areas of opportunity

Compliance, Governance and Assurance  

•  Execute responsibilities in accordance to relevant governance, policies and procedures
• In preparing and building data science models: follow a structured and approved process and follow the Information Management (IM) governance in deploying and industrialising models
• Responsible for safe keeping and tracking of all relevant documentation

Customer and Client Relationship Management  

• Establish and maintain key relationships with stakeholders
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Provide relevant and specialised support to stakeholders
• Key stakeholders for this role including IOC team members; Digital Value Chain Leads (DVCL), Lead Value Chain Integrator, Business Improvement, Centralised Data Scientists/Principal Industrial Engineer, Data owners and technicians, IM, BU Production Team
• Maintain extensive internal and external professional networks

Data analytics and business insights  

Use analytic techniques to understand the dynamics and variability within the value chain and identify process bottlenecks

• Collect, organise (clean and transform) and analyse data using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and present these to relevant stakeholders towards influencing improvement, optimisation and prediction across the Business Unit value chain
• Create new insights from predictive statistical modelling activities that target and deliver value
• Work closely with business stakeholders (IOC team, Business Improvement and DVCL) to identify value and business needs and translate them into concrete problem statements to deliver on
• Where applicable delivery may require the inclusion/handover to project-based data scientists
• In preparing and building data science models: follow a structured and approved process
•  Leverage the appropriate teams to clean and transform data when necessary
• Follow the IM governance in deploying and industrialising models
• Monitor and follow-up on built models when in production to ensure good performance & value creation and update as appropriate
•  Strive to align focus to Top 5 and P75 and inversely use analytic insights to influence direction setting in these processes
•  Play a role in guiding focus areas for digitalisation
• Be competent in working with any type of data — both structured and unstructured
• Understand when a problem is a data science problem
• Document and maintain an understanding and representation of the BU data landscape
• Establish data requirements around value chain problems and where data gaps exist, work with technicians and data owners to close gaps
• Utilise appropriate indicator/value models for data science initiatives for the purposes of prioritisation and benefit tracking, in collaboration with Business Improvement and Value Chain Integrators
• Create frameworks to measure success, partner with Value Chain Integrator’s to define success metrics, create approaches to track the data and troubleshoot errors, quantify and evaluate the data, then develop a common language and effective visualisation for all colleagues to understand these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
•  Operationalize data processes - provide the team with ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools so that everyone gets a good sense of the state of the business
• Develop and disseminate models according to an agile (MVP) approach
• Visually represent models in a compelling story
• Identify and build the right user experience so that the output of data science/machine learning workflows is easily interpretable for and actionable by the business users
• Actively participate in cross BU Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Forums to build skill, synergies and scaling

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Establish and maintain a healthy environment and safe operations Practices throughout the Market to Resource value chain
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on SHE in all operations
• Set design standards in accordance with safe work principles
• Promote adherence to all SHE practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
• Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
• Comply with SHE requirements at all times

Technical Support    

• Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to focus areas
• Identify and rank initiatives in line with business priorities and an appropriate data science feasibility framework
• Approach problems in a systematic way
• Apply a system thinking approach to all tasks
• Interact with peers and/or management, with confidence and professionalism
• Ensure user adoption of developed and industrialised models
• Provide input in the evolution and continuous improvement of the IOC
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple reporting lines
• Foster a culture of high performance and collaboration across multiple teams

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.

 

go to method of application »

Job Advert Summary

PURPOSE:

•  Develop and lead the application of data science modelling at an Integrated Operations Centre level to deliver insight-driven tactical and strategic value creation.
• Provide statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, prescriptive analytics, simulation and optimisation to discover trends, opportunities and threats.
• Design quantitative advanced analytics models that answer business questions and/or discover opportunities for improvement/optimisation at the business unit.
• Use data to support and optimise decision making, including predictive decision-making across the business value chain from the pit right through to the port.
• Ensure the availability of approved resources (skills, funding, technology, etc.) for modelling initiatives, driving change and influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
• Communicate and present findings and recommendations to management and business.

May coach junior data scientists.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

 3-5 years Relevant practical or commercial analytics with coding experience in mining or related environments. Technical expertise in ML languages, packages and techniques. A proven track record of successfully leading business integration projects in the fields of data science and machine learning. Sound people and relationship skills that foster collaboration, project management, communication and teamwork.  (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

Best Practice and Knowledge Management

 Intellectual property management and protection

• Create and manage professional networks
• Participate in tertiary educational relationships
• Participate in professional external forums
• Continuously monitors exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
•  Stay abreast with advances in field of business improvement, data science and innovation

Business Performance and Continuous Improvement  

•  Monitor Value Chain throughput and identify Improvement opportunities
• Analyse data captured in the Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) to understand the dynamics and variability within the value chain and identify process bottlenecks
•  Collect, organise (clean and transform) and analyse data using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and present these to relevant stakeholders towards influencing improvement, optimisation and prediction across the Business Unit (BU) value chain
• Create new insights from predictive statistical modelling activities that target and deliver value

Business Review Process  

•  Support the business review process by evaluating critical performance areas - 6 monthly, quarterly and monthly within operational function level (mining, beneficiation, engineering etc. or for a smaller business unit)
• Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness; auditing of current processes and identification of areas of opportunity

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

• Execute responsibilities in accordance to relevant governance, policies and procedures
• In preparing and building data science models: follow a structured and approved process and follow the Information Management (IM) governance in deploying and industrialising models
• Responsible for safe keeping and tracking of all relevant documentation

Customer and Client Relationship Management

• Establish and maintain key relationships with stakeholders
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Provide relevant and specialised support to stakeholders
• Key stakeholders for this role including IOC team members; Digital Value Chain Leads (DVCL), Lead Value Chain Integrator, Business Improvement, Centralised Data Scientists/Principal Industrial Engineer, Data owners and technicians, IM, BU Production Team
•  Maintain extensive internal and external professional networks

Data analytics and business insights    

• Use analytic techniques to understand the dynamics and variability within the value chain and identify process bottlenecks
• Collect, organise (clean and transform) and analyse data using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and present these to relevant stakeholders towards influencing improvement, optimisation and prediction across the Business Unit value chain
• Create new insights from predictive statistical modelling activities that target and deliver value
•  Work closely with business stakeholders (IOC team, Business Improvement and DVCL) to identify value and business needs and translate them into concrete problem statements to deliver on
• Where applicable delivery may require the inclusion/handover to project-based data scientists
• In preparing and building data science models: follow a structured and approved process
• Leverage the appropriate teams to clean and transform data when necessary
• Follow the IM governance in deploying and industrialising models
•  Monitor and follow-up on built models when in production to ensure good performance & value creation and update as appropriate
• Strive to align focus to Top 5 and P75 and inversely use analytic insights to influence direction setting in these processes
• Play a role in guiding focus areas for digitalisation
•  Be competent in working with any type of data — both structured and unstructured
• Understand when a problem is a data science problem
• Document and maintain an understanding and representation of the BU data landscape
• Establish data requirements around value chain problems and where data gaps exist, work with technicians and data owners to close gaps
• Utilise appropriate indicator/value models for data science initiatives for the purposes of prioritisation and benefit tracking, in collaboration with Business Improvement and Value Chain Integrators
• Create frameworks to measure success, partner with Value Chain Integrator’s to define success metrics, create approaches to track the data and troubleshoot errors, quantify and evaluate the data, then develop a common language and effective visualisation for all colleagues to understand these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Operationalize data processes - provide the team with ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools so that everyone gets a good sense of the state of the business
•  Develop and disseminate models according to an agile (MVP) approach
• Visually represent models in a compelling story
•  Identify and build the right user experience so that the output of data science/machine learning workflows is easily interpretable for and actionable by the business users
• Actively participate in cross BU Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Forums to build skill, synergies and scaling

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

•  Establish and maintain a healthy environment and safe operations Practices throughout the Market to Resource value chain
•  Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on SHE in all operations
• Set design standards in accordance with safe work principles
• Promote adherence to all SHE practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
• Address all unsafe practices and potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
• Comply with SHE requirements at all times

Technical Support  

•  Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to focus areas
• Identify and rank initiatives in line with business priorities and an appropriate data science feasibility framework
• Approach problems in a systematic way
• Apply a system thinking approach to all tasks
• Interact with peers and/or management, with confidence and professionalism
•  Ensure user adoption of developed and industrialised models
• Provide input in the evolution and continuous improvement of the IOC
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple reporting lines
• Foster a culture of high performance and collaboration across multiple teams

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.