Operator Gr Iii, Multi Purpose

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- To operate all Grade III equipment as required.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Grade 10/Standard 8 Technical (Essential/Minimum)
- AET Level 4 (Essential/Minimum)

**EXPERIENCE**:
6-12 months Relevant job-specific experience (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Customer and Client Relationship Management**
- Render professional customer support services.
- Communicate with clients and direct superior to share information on duties performed.

**Equipment Operations and Control**
- Operate and control various types of mechanical equipment
- Responsible to do pre-shift inspection of machines, machine parts, and/or components of the production line to ensure production flow according to standards within prescribed processes and procedures
- Report non-conformance/deviation to supervisor
- Assist with preventative and breakdown maintenance
- Some roles only: Inspect mobile drilling equipment, at beginning and end of shift for oil, air pressure, electrical components, hydraulic functions and general condition for functionality and safety, against checklist
- Continuously observe /monitor component performance against standards to identify any sub performance and report to Supervisor

**Financial Management**
- Participate in cost saving initiatives and adhere to financial procedures
- Monitoring and optimizing production and costs within area of control

**Maintenance**
- Assume responsibility for the safe and optimal use of equipment and related machinery
- Do minor prescribed maintenance
- Assist during planned maintenance and breakdown recovery
- Responsible for first line maintenance

**Production Efficiency**
- Adhere to planned maintenance/production schedules to assist in achieving production throughout
- Ensures optimised process flow within applicable circuit/Machine/s according to process flow chart
- Identify constraints and/or troubleshoot process flow according to predetermined procedure and communicate with Supervisor
- Assist in assuring correct product grade by following controlled processes
- Prepared to be flexible and rotate in the different functional areas
- Assume responsibility for the safe and optimal use of equipment and related machinery
- Take active role in development of multi-skilled work group
- Maintain skills by way of operator re-training programs
- Assist in implementing Quality System in the work area
- Encourage involvement in process/plant improvement projects

**Safe and Healthy Work Environment**
- Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices/potential hazardous situations, rectify and report to superior
- Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) /technical requirements
- Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times
- Promote good housekeeping practices and accept safety responsibility
- Ensure safety rules and regulations are adhered to

**Technical Support**

Some outputs applicable to some roles only and comprises of the following:

- Working in temperature extremes or adverse weather conditions
- Working in several different geographic locations each day
- Working both in and out of a company-owned vehicle
- Wearing appropriate special safety equipment
- Inspect tanks and attached piping components for leaks or unusual conditions and taking corrective action
- Climbing heights
- Maintain injection rates, start up and shut processes;
- Walking, bending, stooping and lifting
- Maintenance of tarred
- and gravel roads
- Cleaning and maintenance of water channels by using applicable equipment
- Drilling of holes
- Communicate effectively with line Supervisors / Foremen and related Plant / Mine Personnel
- Render support with ad hoc tasks

**Behavioural Alignment**

Demonstrates the following:

- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
- Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
- Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
- Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.