Operations Foreman

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

- Grade 12 with Mathematics
- Rock Breaking/Blasting Ticket (mandatory)

**Advantageous Requirements**
- Blasting Assistant Certificate MQA
- Competent A Certificate - MQA
- AXXIS blasting

**Experience**:

- 5 years’ demonstrated experience as an Truck Operator or Blaster (including surface mining, blasting, blast reports, seismograph reports)
- 3 years’ demonstrated experience in supervising employees
- 3 years’ demonstrated experience in responsibility for managing costs
- 3 years’ demonstrated experience in responsibility for managing SHERQ requirements

**Duties**:

- Works closely with internal and external customers to assess needs and plan operations accordingly
- Plans and organises the availability of resources to meet customer’s requests
- Ensures that the assets of the company are protected from theft and damage
- Organises, schedules, and coordinates explosive trucks to facilitate the smooth, timeous flow of deliveries.
- Administers stocks and continuous stock availability by ensuring that paperwork such as silo stock is up to date and reconciled
- Ensures that all administration, documents, and storage of information are kept according to BME, ISO, and legal standards
- Provides inputs to the site manager for annual budgeting process in line with the objectives of the department
- Identifies cost-saving initiatives while balancing customer requirements
- Ensures that the necessary incident investigations take place
- Ensures that required staff training is up to date
- Ensures that all procedures and policy training is up to date
- Ensures that the impact of production processes on the environment is understood by staff and appropriately monitored
- Plans daily/ weekly/ monthly scheduling of customer bookings with emphasis of truck utilization
- Ensures induction for new staff members
- Ensures that all staff are given the required training by work requirements
- Ensure overall compliance with OHSA and MHSA
- Ensure overall compliance with regards to company management systems (ISO)
- Provides input with client blasting queries
- Drives daily/ weekly/ monthly/ internal SHERQ requirements

**Job Competencies**:

- Working knowledge of production and quality control principles.
- Ability to interpret and analyze technical data.
- Ability to reference and interpret technical operating manuals, specifications drawings and diagrams.
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks and consistently meet deadlines and schedules.
- Able to respond positively to changing requirements and pressures.

**General**: