Engineer Mechanical

Description

• An exciting opportunity exists for Engineer: Mechanical within the Asset Management Department, reporting to the area Superintendent
• The successful candidate will be responsible to ensure that the area assets are and remain compliant to any statutory or company requirements and operated/maintained to ensure maximum asset life cycle
• Providing governance, risk assessment and repair requirements to ensure the integrity of these assets
• Engineering analysis and improvement is an integral part of continuous improvement; execution of projects to drive sustainable area asset performance
• To act as key part of the area leadership teams with production, maintenance and technical
• Reliability centred maintenance, defect elimination and other tools to achieve long term plant Engineering targets

Duties

• Maintaining HSE Standards
• Developing and maintaining governance support structures to ensure that all mechanical assets are designed, constructed, modified, and maintained effectively to ensure a safe operating environment for operational teams
• Ensuring that the area asset integrity is managed to ensure regulatory and company requirements and amend gaps
• Championing audits to ensure structural integrity and drive action plans to ensure governance
• Predicting and preventing process safety incidents; escalation of and process safety or asset integrity non-compliance or concerns
• Ensuring that mechanical engineering standards are up to date and implemented to ensure the safe operating of mechanical equipment
• Maintaining high standards of communication with team members, peers, and customers
• Ensuring the processes are in place to measure the quality of the products and services you provide to your customers and feedback processes are in place to measure customer satisfaction
• Supporting the development and continuous review of contract and service level agreements
• Recommending improvements to processes and discussing these with other superintendents involved in the process

Requisites

• Grade 12 certificate
• A recognized Bachelor’s / BEng / BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering (NQF Level 7/8) with a minimum of five (5) years post qualification working experience as a Mechanical Engineer in the mining or processing environment
• OR
• A recognized National Engineering Diploma/ N6 (NQF Level 6) with a minimum of seven (7) years post qualification working experience as a Mechanical Engineer in the mining or processing environment
• Relevant Project Management certification (preferred, not required)
• Sound knowledge of the Mechanical engineering discipline with a broad understanding of other engineering fields
• Sound working knowledge of Project Management
• A valid Code B driver’s licence
• A Police certificate of conduct of not older than six months is required
• A record will not automatically disqualify candidates
• Required Competencies and Skills:
• Leadership
• Quality Orientation
• Engineering knowledge
• Problem solving and analysis.
• Proficient with AutoCAD and Modelling Packages
• Proficient with MS Office (Projects, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted
• Please take note that the recruitment process will be subjected to assessments (if necessary) which will form part of the selection process