Electrical Foreman
Sasol Secunda, Mpumalanga
Job Description
- Planning, control and management of operations/maintenance activity.
- Ensure effective execution of operations/maintenance activities.
- Ensure maximum task quality and efficiency, and overall effective use of equipment.
- Manage and control costs.
- During emergency situations, evaluate the abnormalities and take corrective action as to avoid downtime, equipment damage and/or SHERQ incidents.
- Ensure own team adhere to operational/maintenance procedures and for people and plant.
- Ensure maintenance planning is scheduled optimally to maximise production output.
- Take action on first occurrence performance problems, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases.
- Manage performance of own team.
- Ensure sensitisation to diversity in the workplace.
- Get results through empowering others to act.
- Enable artisans to achieve competence for career progression.
- Coaching and technical training of own staff.
- Accountable for practical "declaration of competence" of employees to operate the plant.
- Ensures team motivation and team wellness.
- Lives company values and ensures compliance of team to the values.
- Facilitate effective Communication up and down from management and also within own and other stakeholder teams.
- Participate in selection of staff by being an active member on recruitment panels.
- Ensure standard operating procedures are applied.
- Ensure compliance to Process Safety Management.
- Manage certain start-up and shutdown tasks.
- Participate in potential deviation analysis (PDA), root cause analysis (RCA) and risk assessments.
- Manage execution of work permit system.
- Conduct Task Risk Assessments and ensure that team conducts.
- Ensure compliancen to relevant Sasol procedure, policies, legislation and business processes.
- Manages behaviour based safety program.
- Ensure adherence to SHERQ legal standards and implement SHERQ processes for own area of responsibility.
- Ensure that MOC process is followed, and that modified plant/maintenance procedures are implemented by artisans.
- Ensure resources are available on site.
- Understands customer requirement and ensures product/service meets customer requirements.
- Ensure smooth transition of work from own shift to next shift.
- Effective interaction with supporting activities.
- Identifies and supports inter-dependencies with own and other departments within the value chain.
- Give input into how to improve overall Equipment Effectiveness for the plant.
- Continuously applies new ideas/work methods to improve results.
- Deals with human resistance to change in own area.
- Provide information/assist with projects with technical/support functions.
- Avail staff for training and development required due to the change initiative.
- Ensure implementation of organisational change initiatives within own team.
Requirements
- Grade 12/N3 with Mathematics, Physical Science and English
- National Diploma or Trade Test with a valid Red Seal certification
- Experience: 8 years as an Artisan or 6 years as a Technician