Job Vacancy For Shiftboss

• The Shiftboss role is a regulatory mandated role that leads the Quality Assurance and Control and to ensure compliance to the mining and other related legislation.
• Risk Manage all underground mining ore extraction, material handling and underground constructional activities to the required mine and industry standards.

• Assess risks for all tasks and ensure they are controlled before and during task execution.
• Report all incidents and ensure they have been investigated and corrective actions completed on time.
• Act on all corrective actions assigned to you or under your jurisdiction and ensure timely completion.
• Investigate all operational incidents in assigned work areas and prepare reports with recommendations for your supervisor. for onward submission to management.
• Implement safe procedures for transportation of men and material and prevent shortages of materials (consumables) underground.
• Implement shaft monitoring system.
• Ensure that all shaft banks, surface and yards are properly house kept. Use approved tools to prevent accidents within the sections.
• Monitor, record, and report on material haulage and hoisting activities to repository. Achieve daily set targets.
• Ensure that all mine shafts banks, surface and yard demarcations, shaft stations, shaft loading points, conveyors, storage areas and the installations therein are well kept.
• Ensure that rail haulage infrastructure is well maintained and managed.
• Ensure that railway traffic, tipping points, chutes, crushers, conveyors skip buckets are appropriately managed for optimal productivity.
• Implement strategies of reducing cost by offering a prudent material usage by mobbing material leftovers for reuse
• Manage contractor activities per mine standards.
• Legally comply with all regulatory requirements and execute any other tasks as assigned by supervisor

• BSc. / Diploma in Mining Engineering or equivalent.

• Two (3) to Five (5) years' operational experience within an underground mining environment of which at least two (2) years is at supervisory level.
• Knowledge of ore extraction by underground mining methods (LHOPS & UHDF), material handling (Grizzlies, Rock chains, Rock breakers, conveyors, chutes, crushers, skips etc.) and underground construction is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of fundamental underground development and production methods.
• Proficient in the use of Mining Software.

• Understands the mining processes and actively contributes in part to delivery of the expected outcome / service the mining processes deliver.
• Has demonstrated the ability to apply technical skills and/or delivery of a service within one or more of the mining processes with minimal supervision.
• Can identify potential problems and propose solutions for higher approval.
• Directly responsible for delivering a production aspect of the plan.
• Understands good underground production practices, management, support systems, and how each should interact to deliver targeted performance
• Understands the adjacent technical disciplines (geology, processing, engineering etc.) and participates in discussions with colleagues in these disciplines on areas of overlap and opportunity.
• Uses cost-benefit thinking to set priorities and identify cost-effective approaches
• Actively looks for ways to manage costs without impacting on planned outcomes

• Creating a disciplined team to deliver the planned work to the defined standards.
• Managing oneself - taking ownership of one's personal development.
• Building effective working relationships - the ability to build and maintain effective collateral and cross functional working relationship;
• Building trust & accountability - displaying high levels of integrity and honesty;
• Maximising performance & achievement of results - solving problems and analysing issues, driving for results

• Underground Shiftboss's Certificate of Competency as required by the Minerals Commission (Chief Inspector of Mines) is a must.

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