Mine à Afrique du Sud

Seize this opportunity to join Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine, a values-driven Company that cares for its people unconditionally. Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine is a wholly owned subsidiary of Assore Limited.

Our mine, situated in the Limpopo Province about 60 kilometers from Lydenburg and 40 kilometers from Burgersfort, and is a world-class producer of Chrome Ore.

The successful applicant will report to the Section Manager or nominee.

• Grade 12/Standard 10 Certificate.
• Permanent Blasting for Scheduled Mines / National Certificate: Hard Rock Underground.
• Mine Overseer Certificate.
• Code 08 (B) Driver’s Licence.
• Advantageous: B-Tech/Degree in Mining Engineering.
• Advantageous: Mine Managers Certificate.
• Advantageous: Supervisory Certificate

• 5 years underground trackless mining experience of which 2 years must be a supervisor.
• Advantageous: Exposure to night shift as acting/relieving or appointed Night Shift Mine Overseer
• Advantageous: Exposure to acting/relieving as Mine Overseer
• Advantageous: Ability to work permanent night shift as Mine Overseer

• Plan, execute and manage the section in line with the department/ functional requirements to meet production requirements. To implement and manage health, safety, environmental, risk and quality systems to ensure the mine section meet legal requirements and continuously strives to improve its inherent risk profile.

• Contribute to annual departmental budget planning by compiling operational, capex and labour budgets for sub-function and submit to line management for approval.
• Effectively manage sub-function and its objectives in line with approved budgets (operational, capex and labour), report variances as required and recommend / implement remedial action within span of control.
• Review and authorize payments in line with approved budget and policy and submit for final processing.

• Ensure mining team in charge of the lamp room is complying with regulations.
• Planning for blasting and drilling making sure all equipment is available prior and inspects the process.
• Mitigation of risk and ensure compliance.
• Manage and delegate the mining cycle activities to relevant supervisors for both day shift and night shift.
• Manage the correct drill parameters.
• Determine and enforce the drilling parameters.
• Manage, control, and improve production and mining operations, including contractor performance against service level agreements to achieve production and targets.
• Assist management in setting achievable production targets, taking into account client demand and internal process capacity and constraints and to manage the short-term production plan.
• Coordinate all Mining logistics.
• Report operational issues, safety concerns and production results during night shift to management

• Production / Technical / Services goals derived from business plan.
• Own functional portion of business scorecard. Manage, control, and improve production and mining operations, including contractor performance against service level agreements in order to achieve production and targets.
• Assist management in setting achievable production targets, considering client demand and internal process capacity and constraints and to manage the short-term production plan.
• Coordinate all Mining logistics.
• Overseeing all night shift operations, coordinating equipment and personnel to meet production goals.
• Ensure Night Shift planning is in line with expected production targets
• Ensuring smooth handovers with day shift personnel.

• Manage and delegate the mining cycle activities to relevant supervisors.
• Manage the correct drill parameters.
• Determine and enforce the drilling parameters.

• Build, manage and maintain healthy diverse workable internal relations (Peer, Unions, Team, Organisation) and implement remedial actions where required. Build, manage and maintain Healthy external relations (Head Office, communities, government, etc.) to assist in achievement of organizational goals.
• Maintain internal and external relations to ensure functional/departmental needs are met and employees are satisfied.
• Always making sure the stakeholders comes first when it comes to catering for their needs.
• Address worker concerns and resolve on-shift issues.

• Manage and review proactively performance of subordinates in terms of performance agreements, and participatively discuss performance gaps, and performance improvement and having action plans in place.
• Assess potential of SoR/ Mentor SoR/ Oversee the quality of SoR leadership.
• Structured focused development (not ad hoc only). Monitor and provide feedback to reports.
• Coach subordinates.
• Do performance reviews.
• Recommend and approve development plans and optimized team structure is manned by motivated and empowered staff, and lead by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices.
• Promote teamwork, provide support, manage, and evaluate performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans and performance contracts for subordinates.
• Performance agreements in place
• Certain number of coaching sessions.

• Promote adherence to safety, health and environmental practices and procedures. Identify and address unsafe and potentially hazardous situations.
• Department safety representative.
• Translate SHERQ goals applicable as derived from business plan into clear direction and implement effectively and efficiently.
• Ensure adherence to statutory safety regulations and mine standards, procedures, and practices such as PPE, safe working practices, re-entering periods.
• Effectively communicate new regulations and procedures as and when required to ensure employees and contractor awareness and correct implementation thereof.
• Assist in rendering of appropriate first aid to injured person(s) as and when required or refer to qualified persons.

• Authorise and drive initiatives aimed at eliminating waste, improve productivity and reduce operating costs.
• Initiate and lead Functional/ Departmental change.
• Implement successful change initiatives, plan, and ensure optimal resource utilisation within designated area.

• Ensure compliance with legislation by setting and achieving procurement targets in terms of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and Mining Charter requirements.
• Develop and implement procurement policies that will aid in the achievement of procurement targets and statutory compliance.

Selection will take place according to the Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine Recruitment Operating Procedure. A strong consideration will be the individual’s fit with the Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine Values. The successful candidate will be appointed on the Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine Conditions of Employment, which includes being certified medically fit as per the Mine Health and Safety Act 29/1996. Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine is an equal opportunity employer, and due consideration will be taken in terms of the Company’s Employment Equity Plan and Mining Charter objectives.

CV’s may be submitted to: Dwarsrivier Recruitment through the link https://dwarsriviermine.simplify.hr/.

All candidates must ensure that all relevant certified (certified by SAPS) qualifications, certificates, and licences are attached to their application. Shortlisted candidates will be required to authenticate information provided in their C.V.s. Correspondence will be entered into with shortlisted candidates only. Candidates may be required to undergo psychometric and other relevant assessments. Please note that criminal and credit checks may be conducted on the successful candidate.

If a candidate fails to provide information or submit proof of qualifications as per the minimum requirements above the application will not be considered.

No late or unsolicited applications will be considered. No recruitment agency C.V.s will be accepted.

• The processing of your personal information for recruitment purposes.
• Further processing of personal information, which may be shared with third parties for verification purposes.
• Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine will keep the record of your personal information confidential and for the specific purpose it was intended for.

Note: Should you fail to provide relevant personal information requested during the Recruitment and Selection purpose for the position you have applied for, we may not be able to consider and process your application further.