Supervisor Relocation and Installation

REFERENCE:

HR0281968
CONTRACT:

Full-time
PRIMARY LOCATION:

Richards Bay, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
DATE POSTED:

13 Jun 2014

Supervisor: Relocation & Installation

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: Mine Infrastructure Services, Mining, as the Supervisor: Relocation & Installation you will supervise and control relocation and installation operations of land-based equipment at the Mine.

JOB OBJECTIVES:

Supervise and control the efficient relocation and installation of pumps, pipes and land-based equipment and infrastructure within the mine lease area.
Supervise and assist in the planning of the transport of equipment, resources and staff in the mine lease area.
Maintain and improve safety, health and environmental standards and practices.
Ensure that staff training and development needs are identified and technical skills imparted via formalized training and on-the-job coaching to facilitate optimal functioning.
Check all users of equipment and ensure that daily pre-start checklists are completed.
Conduct toolbox talks, maintain attendance register and capture timesheets on the system.
Report on CIP’s, PSI’s and Ngwenya investigations with team.
Attend monthly meetings with clients.
Report on accident investigations.
Conduct pipe counts and report on deviations on a monthly basis.
Plan and manage the overtime of incumbents ensure the overtime is within limits.
Performs fair and reasonable tasks related to the job and working environment, at the discretion of the supervisor.

OUTPUTS:

Informed decision making resulting in effective implementation of mine plans
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:

Grade 12 (Maths and Science) / N3
Experience in a mining / heavy minerals industry environment with good understanding of operation of heavy mobile equipment
Code 08 driver’s License
PDP/ Code 10 driver’s license would be advantageous

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES: