Job Description:
As General Engineering Supervisor Trucks your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Ensure a safe and healthy work environment in which workers and contractors can deliver their outputs within a controlled risk environment.
People Management:
- Lead and develop the team's performance according to company policies and systems.
- Drive the delivery of objectives and hold team members accountable for their work.
- Ensure the achievement of development goals per IDP and communicate all management instructions.
- Communicate daily with subordinates regarding scheduled tasks and resource availability.
- Enforce discipline and high performance of teams through relevant ER/P&O procedures and interventions.
- Manage engineering and union relations.
- Manage time and attendance and plan for leave with the immediate team.
- Arrange necessary and compulsory training to help subordinates deliver their outputs and assist in implementing their IDPs.
- Advise and assist the team with complex tasks.
Engineering and Maintenance Management
- Maintain equipment, machines, processes, and tools to ensure maximum availability and quality standards.
- Plan, implement, and manage maintenance schedules while considering production targets to ensure minimal interruption.
- Identify improvement opportunities, implement them where feasible, and maintain the new performance standards.
- Ensure that all system and administrative requirements are met.
- Hand over work orders to Artisan/Operators according to the Operating Model procedure.
- Ensure that the Operating Model procedures are followed.
Implementing the Operating Model Daily Tasks:
- Provide a report on daily schedule progress.
- Report on outstanding risks and urgent work from previous days and performance.
- Review daily output, schedule, and task compliance.
- Communicate all management instructions to the team.
- Ensure that all outstanding safety and equipment deviations have been addressed.
- Generate and sign off on any Routine Operating Schedule changes when required.
- Approve or cancel all SAP notifications within 24 hours.
- Monitor daily schedule compliance and address deviations promptly.
- Communicate daily with subordinates about scheduled tasks and resource availability.
- Ensure that completed work orders are returned to the Work Management Planner for closure or rescheduling/cancellation of operations.
- Escalate and Address Risks to the Schedule per the Operating Model procedure.
- Hold personnel accountable for following the Operating Model procedures.
- Give feedback on execution performance and provide coaching and development to personnel.
Weekly Tasks:
- Address compliance, reconciliation, and deviations in the weekly schedule.
- Sign off on work orders and return them to planners for closure.
- Hand over work orders to the supervisor using the operating model procedure.
- Review the draft weekly schedule.
- Attend the formal weekly schedule review meeting to finalise the execution schedule.
- Forward all risks and deviations to the risk owner and sign off on them.
- Monitor work order cost control in task status reports.
- Review work order planning and input.
- Ensure that the section safety strategy is attached to all work orders.
Monthly Tasks:
- Ensure Pre-Planning is completed within the Operating Model Procedure.
- Ensure all safety, health-related incidents, and outstanding actions are addressed in pre-planning.
- Ensure all services, quality, environment, and safety instructions are documented in the preplanning.
- Ensure all managerial instructions are documented in the pre-planning.
- Contractors Meeting FLM to have a meeting with contractors working in his section,
- Support standards committee procedures and standards revision.
Review:
- Review previous KPI Safety Inc. & Acc, output compliance, services compliance, schedule compliance.
- Review Routine Operating Schedule compliance.
- Review the month-end cost expenditure.
- Review high-risk tasks and actions.
- Review Maintenance Strategy.
- Compare monthly measured and scheduled compliance and pinpoint necessary actions to enhance the quality.
Budget Management and Cost Control:
- Compile own budget and manage the section's expenditure within the approved budget to ensure effective cost control and savings.
- Manage overtime within required limits and achieve savings in this regard.
This role is in Engineering ENG department on a Band 6 D1 level reporting to the Section Engineer Trucks & Shovels.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12/N3 Technical
- National Engineering Diploma NQF6
- SA Drivers Licence
Technical Knowledge
- 5 years of relevant operational experience in engineering maintenance.
- Technical expertise in HME within the mining industry.
- Experience in a supervisory or managerial role overseeing engineering/maintenance operations.
- Knowledge of engineering processes and best practices.
Closing Date: