Supervisor Production Shift

• REFERENCE:
  HR0281970
• CONTRACT:
  Full-time
• PRIMARY LOCATION:
  Richards Bay, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
• DATE POSTED:
  13 Jun 2014

Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK. Rio Tinto'sbusiness is finding, mining and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and Southern Africa. For more information, please visit www.riotinto.com.

Located in the KwaZulu Natal province, Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is part of the Rio Tinto Group (74% shareholding). RBM is an internationally recognized sand mining and mineral processing operations leader and is one of the world's foremost producers of titanium minerals, high purity pig iron and zircon.

Employing some 2 000 permanent staff and a number of well-established contracting companies, RBM is proud of the accreditation for ISO 9001 for quality, OHSAS 18001 certification for occupational health and safety management, and ISO 14001 accreditation for environmental management.  The company has implemented a sound corporate social development programme and an internationally recognised environmental rehabilitation programme to restore the mined dunes to their natural state after mining.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Reporting to the Superintendent: Mining Pond D, Mining as the Supervisor: Production - Shift you will supervise and control the activities of shift staff to optimize safe production in accordance with Mine Health and Safety regulations and RBM procedures, programs and standards.

JOB OBJECTIVES:

- Achieve set HSEC, production, maintenance, analytical and equipment utilization targets.

- Produce at an optimum rate to ensure production targets can be met and sustained.

- Conduct toolbox talks and walkabouts to identify housekeeping needs toward ensuring safe and effective operations.

- Supervise and control the activities, standards of performance and behaviour of staff to ensure that the correct procedures are followed.

- Conduct disciplinary hearings and attend to IR-related problems.

- Liaise with Superintendent, Operations Specialist, Maintenance Controllers, MIS Supervisor to identify solicit and direct resources to safer production objectives

- Issue and control plant permits for any type of work to be performed within his/her area of responsibility.

- Compile breakdown reports.

- Controls and manages spares, PPE and consumables on hand and ensure ordering thereof is done timeously

- Maintain and improve safety, health and environmental standards and practices.

- Perform fair and reasonable tasks related to the job and working environment, at the discretion of the Superintendent or Operations Specialist.

- Investigate incidents (safety or process) as and when they occur

- Drive a high performance team culture

- Drive and sustain a mission directed work team at Level 1 and participate actively in Level 2 (Visual Management Centers)

OUTPUTS:

- Safe Production

- Compliance to DMR and license to operate requirements

- Plant Task Observations on safety critical tasks on a routine basis

- Informed decision making resulting in effective implementation of mine plans

- Sufficient availability of resources to meet daily production targets

- Continuous improvement on safety, health and environmental standards and practices

- Reporting of incidents and participation in incident investigations

- Monthly reports of work completed in line with KPI

- Building of healthy relationships with stakeholders

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

- N6 Level qualification with 3 years production operations experience of which at least 1 year  accumulated supervisory experience; OR

- Grade 12 (Maths and Science)  with 5 years production operations experience of which at least 2 years should have been in a supervisory capacity

- Driver’s License: EB

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

- Strong people management skills

- Interpersonal skills

- Computer literacy: MS Office, SAP

- Be familiar with Historian - trending

- Problem solving skills

- Advanced planning and scheduling skills

- Sound judgement, reasoning and decision-making skills

- Resource utilization

- Risk management

Closing date: 27 June 2014 

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