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**Requirements**:

- Experience
- 15 years in a chemical manufacturing plant environment, preferably chlor-alkali manufacturing
- Experience on quality management and laboratory operations
- Experiencing in world class systems and operational excellence implementation
- Experience in developing and using an MES system for analysis of operational data
- Familiar with financial budgeting and capex management
- Qualifications:

- Matric
- BSc, BEng Chemical Engineering
- Project management / PRINCE II certification and/or experience
- Professional Engineer (PR Eng)
- Technical Competencies
- Extensive knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, No. 85 of 1993
- Extensive knowledge of ISO 9001 and quality management system
- Extensive knowledge of hazardous chemical manufacturing and handling codes, preferably in a Chlor Alkali plant
- Knowledgeable on different types of equipment related to chemical manufacturing plants
- Skilled in hazard identification, risk assessment and root cause analysis
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and technical data books
- Past experience in working with operational excellence, energy management and world class manufacturing principles
- Experience in managing and coordinating projects, and continuous improvement activities
- Experience in using SharePoint and Corrective Action Systems (i.E. Digilex)
- Knowledge on Operations Technology (i.E. SCADA, PLC, SAP IM and MES)
- Experienced in relationship building and cross collaboration at a senior level
- Strategic management, planning, co-ordination, and control
- Technical custodian and ability to travel locally and internationally to technical conferences

**Responsibilities**:

- The Operational Excellence Engineer is a technical specialist who reports to the Technical Services Manager and has the primary responsibilities to:

- Focus on operating strategy and business philosophy, while controlling and monitoring operations effectiveness and profitability
- Implement world class systems and manage operational excellence to ensure operation performance is met in terms of both output and efficiency through effective production, engineering, and distribution
- Lead the energy management framework and ensure its alignment to group policy
- Support and optimize plant performance and energy balance via resources and projects
- Design and implement plant changes to minimize the need for maintenance shutdowns thus maximizing plant uptime and output
- Deviations on plant quality, chemistry and operational processes are investigated and technical reports prepared with proposed preventative measures
- Become the technical custodian on the Chlor-Alkai manufacturing knowledge base
- Provide specialized technical services, operations support, process control and effluent waste monitoring services for the organization
- Assist in ensuring business compliance with legal and SHERQ requirements in terms of the manufacturing process

**Experience**:

- 15 years in a chemical manufacturing plant environment, preferably chlor-alkali manufacturing
- Experience on quality management and laboratory operations
- Experiencing in world class systems and operational excellence implementation
- Experience in developing and using an MES system for analysis of operational data
- Familiar with financial budgeting and capex management
**Key performance area**
- Provide technical services on site
- Ensure process control philosophy is developed and well understood
- Ensure technical support to any process trains that require investigation and improvement
- Repeat failures, incidents and customer complaints are investigated and preventative measures are implemented
- Raw material and final product quality are monitored, and deviations acted upon accordingly
- Provide reports on any process deviations on the system
- Measure and evaluate and report on the effluent management on the site and find opportunities for effluent reduction
- Standards and codes of good practice
- Make use of site drawings, engineering standards and technical library to assist the plant operations to achieve the required standard
- Responsible for the development and control of P&ID's, HAZOP studies and design reviews for updates on the system as per the operational strategy development
- Assist in the development of Electrolyser protection, manufacturing data and quality parameters according to OEM standards
- Implement and monitor operating technology systems (i.e., MES, Track and Trace, SCADA, operational systems)
- Continuous improvement and operational excellence
- Provide technical input to ensure that the operations are legally compliant and adheres to certification requirements
- Lead the energy management framework and ensure alignment to the Groups energy policy
- Become the technical custodian on Chlor-Alkali manufacturing and ensure knowledge management and technical expertise are embedded in the organisation
- Find opportunities to improve the overall business through low-cost or agile processes through the development or change in processes to allow maximization of uptime and output
- Design and implement a plant operational capability that allows for statutory maintenance to be completed without stopping production
- Implement world class manufacturing principles
- Related SHERQ responsibilities

**Benefits**:
Generous fringe benefits commensurate with large companies.

JOB TYPE

Work Day: Full Time

Employment type: Permanent Job

Salary: ZAR 60,000.00 - 79,000.00 Monthly

Positions available: 2

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimal experience: Unspecified

Gender: Indistinct