Magazine Master

**Overview**:
**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12 (with mathematics). (E)
- Certificated as Magazine Master with the CIE. (E)
- Blasting Assistant Certificate (E)
- Competent A Certificate - MQA (E)

**Experience**:

- 2 years blasting assistant experience
- Transportation and storage of blasting accessories / explosives
- Drivers Licence for applicable explosives vehicle

**Duties**:

- Receives finished blasting accessories / explosives from the plant as well as other orders placed by the Explosives Coordinator
- Ensures that explosives are off-loaded and packed in the magazine in an orderly, secure and safe manner
- Checks received blasting accessories / explosives against the delivery note and signs it
- Books the newly arrived load into the Register Book
- Verifies the physical delivery with the driver
- Informs the Explosives Coordinator for further action when discrepancies are detected
- Receives Schedule of Orders from the Scheduling Coordinator
- Checks that the Continuous Transport Permit (CTP) corresponds to the order
- Completes the pre-issue checklist to make sure that the vehicle and driver comply with all prescriptions, prior to loading of the order
- Requests the driver to rectify the matter or otherwise contacts the Explosives Coordinator for higher level action in the event of non-compliance
- Signs and files the checklist in the event of compliance
- Ensures that the order is moved from the magazine, loaded and stacked on to the accessories transport vehicle in and orderly and safe manner
- Makes out a Delivery Note / Requisition for the order and hands over a copy to the driver and a copy to the Administrator

**Job Competencies**:

- Enters the detail of the delivery in the Register Book
- Takes responsibility for the security of the company’s assets stored in the magazine
- Performs a daily physical stock take
- Compares and reconciles the physical stock amounts to the Register Book
- Identifies, corrects and reports any discrepancies on a daily basis
- Reports weekly stock count figures to Administrator
- Follows FIFO principles in organising dispatches
- Monitors age of stock and informs the Explosives Coordinator for taking further action
- Ensures that all the requirements of SHERQ, legal and mine procedures are met

**General**: