Technician, Dispatch

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

- To ensure development, optimization and continuous improvement of technology by assisting relevant stakeholders in execution of operational directives during projects and business operations.

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

- N Dip: Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
- Trade: Millwright MQA/QCTO (Recommended/Desirable)
- B Tech (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)
- Certificate First Line Management (Recommended/Desirable)

**EXPERIENCE**:
5 years Relevant experience within Engineering operations. Experience on fleet management systems hardware and software installation and maintenance of operating systems and databases (Linux/Windows/MS SQL) Essential/Minimum Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Budget and Cost Control**

- Monitoring, forecasting and reporting contracts; project cash flows and cost trends
- Monitoring of actual and earned contracts and projects costs
- Compilation and reporting of estimates to completion and close-out project costs
- compilation and updating of planned, forecast and actual expenditure graphs
- preparation of monthly reports for manager’s approval
- Periodical cost reporting to Project Controls Managers, Cost Engineers

**Compliance**
- Develop, maintain and improve safe operational
- and engineering standards and continuously review specifications and schedules
- Ensure equipment integrity is maintained according to safety standards. Manage and control quality of raw materials, products and processes
- Conduct investigation of incidents and ensure adequate remedial action is implemented
- Ensure effective risk management by identifying hazardous activities and mitigation measures on a continuous basis

**Continuous Improvement**
- Review comparable technical specifications, design processes and procedures to ensure compliance with criteria and instructions, economy and suitability to functional requirements
- Initiate Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives whilst keeping touch with new developments and technologies to improve process capabilities, product quality and throughput requirements
- Liaise with other specialists, contractors and personnel to ensure effective resolution
- Optimize dispatch mobile communication network and hardware units

**Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management**
- Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
- Manage internal and external relations, including interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met
- Monitoring, control and reporting of contractors' monthly certificates claims and variations orders

**Financial Support Services**
- Compilation of estimation calculation and compilation of cost and financial plan data throughout project from feasibility study to implementation
- Compilation of management reports regarding expenditure of Project in relation to business plans, budgets, cost control, forecasting, contract modifications etc.
- Report on financial performance and ensure budget reflects targets from business plans
- Do forecasting of operational costs and monitor expenditure and cash flow on a regular basis for approval

**Safe and Healthy Work Environment**
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

**Supplier and Contract Management**
- Monitoring, control and reporting of contractors' monthly certificates claims and variations orders

**Support Services**
- Develop dispatching strategies as per requirement to meet the production goals of the operation
- Ensure that the Dispatch hardware is in good operational condition at all times
- Ensure Global Positioning System (GPS) and Radio/Master link Communication integrity
- Software development / changes and reloading of field units as well as report developments
- Assist the Dispatch Administrator on a daily basis to ensure dispatch integrity
- Act as Dispatch Administrator and fulfil Dispatch Administrator duties during periods of absence.

**Technical Services**
- Plan and conduct relative conventional smaller to medium-sized projects with limited scope
- Install dispatch hardware on primary and secondary equipment, while conducting daily dispatch hardware checks. Maintain and repair dispatch field units
- Maintain, repair, and install mobile network units

**Behavioural Alignment**

Demonstrates the following:

- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, sa