Plant Manager

**INTRODUCTION** DRA Water is looking for qualified local individual for their project based on the Tweefontein Water Treatment Plant in Witbank, Mpumalanga. This position is based on a Project Based Fixed Term Contract. **DUTIES NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING**: **OPERATIONAL DELIVERY** - Sustainably maintain plant at its design capacity and quality specification. - Ensure the site is managed in terms of operations, discipline and administration on a daily basis by complying to Company and Client policies and procedures. - Responsibly maintain the plant equipment and membrane health. - Direct maintenance team to conduct preventative maintenance, condition monitoring and attend to breakdowns, ensuring required targets are met. Ensure all maintenance activities are captured on the maintenance information system. - Ensure all the plant operations routines and monitoring are complied with. Perform over-inspections. - Ensure the necessary plant samples are taken at prescribed intervals and sent to lab for testing. Immediately report any out of specification conditions. - Ensure that chemical stock levels are maintained, and that dosage rates are correctly managed. - Ensure monthly stock taking of critical spares are performed and replacement purchase orders generated. - Drive and manage procurement processes for the site. - Ensure a site asset register is maintained and updated. - Maintain all site accreditations - e.g. ISO, Blue drop, etc. - Ensure the site generates all the required daily/weekly/monthly reports as set out by the site schedule. - Daily reporting to General Manager on all aspects of the plant. **CUSTOMER CENTRICITY** - Management of the relationship with the Client with the specific focus on forming a long term mutually beneficial relationships thereby securing repeat business. - Ensure all communication to Clients by means of a daily/weekly/monthly reporting as set out by the client schedule. - Maintain a daily diary of events and activities - Improve order intake in terms of earnings growth, by understanding customers’ needs and earning a good reputation. - Ensure all communication to Clients by means of a daily/weekly/monthly reporting as set out by the client schedule. Maintain a daily diary of events and activities. **FINANCE AND GROWTH** - To increase enterprise value, profitability and cash generation in a responsible manner by optimising business performance, maximise internal efficiencies, managing risks and ensure cost controls are in place. - Managing budgets effectively in line with project profitability, by demonstrating cost savings initiatives. - Timeously provide reports to facilitate financial reporting and control - timesheets, overtime, production, chemical consumptions, invoice information. **PEOPLE** - Ensure site is adequately resourced and trained. - Foster a winning culture through continuously developing expertise and achieving strategic goals. - Ensuring effective management of personnel and all levels of staff receive on-job and other training to improve their performance. - Ensure site maintains an updated training matrix which satisfies both Client and Company requirements. - Lead succession planning by identifying key talent and ensure succession and development plans in place. - Lead by example. Demonstrate adherence to DRA values & behaviours. - Ensure staff discipline is maintained and managed in a transparent and consistent manner. **SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT** - Fostering a Safety Culture towards the business goal by actively contributing to building of a safety culture within the group. - Ensure staff and site compliance to all Client and Company safety, health and environment rules. - Ensure a risked assessed and controlled environment. - Ensure the site staff receive the necessary fit for purpose tools to do the work safely and the relevant tool and equipment controls are in place. - Ensure all statutory and compliance inspections, PTO’s etc. are timeously completed. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** **QUALIFICATIONS** - BSc / Diploma in Chemical Engineering or > 5 years O&M related experience - Essential - Degree or Diploma in Water Treatment - Advantageous **EXPERIENCE** - At-least 3 years Water Treatment Plant Management/Supervision/Operation on mine water desalination - Essential - At-least 3 years track record of being able to manage a team of people - Essential - Ability to manage Client relations - Essential - Knowledge of plant maintenance practices - Essential - Budget and cost control practices - Advantageous **KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS** - ** Technical Analysis - Essential**: - Analyses plant and maintenance performance data as well as water quality analyses to assess how to operate the plant and intervene where necessary. - ** Plant Operation - Essential**: - Knowledge of SCADA/PLC systems, assessing alarms and trends to make interventions when required to do so. - ** Performance Reporting - Essential**: - Collate and report on all plant perfor