Operator (Explosives Truck)

**Overview**:
**Role impacts**:

- Vehicle safety
- General maintenance & house keeping
- Quality control

**Key Relationships**:

- Senior Management/Management
- Customers
- Support Teams
- Operations
- Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time.

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12 (Mathematics)
- EC Licence
- Dangerous Goods and Passengers permit (DGP)

**Advantageous Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- 3 years Truck Driving experience (preferably in mining environment)
- 5 years’ experience in driving heavy duty vehicles (EC)

**Duties**:

- Conducts the prescribed pre-use inspections and completion of the checklist prior to use of the truck
- Ensures that immediate corrections or repairs must be brought about before driving off when any problems in the red category are detected
- Makes the necessary corrections or repairs in the event of detecting any problems in the blue category, on site if possible, otherwise to report this for correction within 24 hours
- Signs the checklist and ensures that it is also signed by the Foreman and the mechanic
- Calibrates the instrumentation on the truck plant to ensure that all metrics remain correct or after major repairs were done on the vehicle, on

a monthly basis
- Cleans the vehicle on an ongoing basis so that it is presentable in the eye of the public and takes personal pride in it
- Completes for Truck Performance administration daily
- Greases, captures and signs off the truck on a weekly basis
- Calibrates the sample required scale daily
- Drives the truck safely and responsibly in all weather conditions and on all road surface conditions when picking up or delivering product to

the blasting site, responsible for
- Ensures that all the prescribed legal paperwork is in truck (e.g., copies of manufacturing permits, CTP, TTP, as stated in work instruction)
- Supervises the loading of the truck at the silos with the required product by the Truck Assistant

**Job Competencies**:

- Ensures that all SHERQ requirements are met
- Receives the charging instruction from the Blaster
- Carries out an inspection of all the holes and measures and records them to ensure that they are drilled to the correct depth
- Reports any out of spec holes to blaster
- Performs calculations to determine the correct mass of product to be loaded in each hole and reports any discrepancies to with the Foreman
- Inspects all the pumps and settings prior to commencing with the pumping process
- Takes a sample of the product and then analyses it to assess the product density prior to commencing the charging process
- Reports any out of spec analyses to the Foreman and will only start the pumping when completely satisfied with the product quality
- Reports any out of spec settings or equipment to the Foreman and will only start the pumping when completely satisfied with the mechanics

of the process
- Engages the pumping process and loading the holes according to the design specs while ensuring all prescribed SHERQ requirements are

met
- Takes a sample of the product as per BME standards, and/or customer requirements, to ensure that the product quality remains within spec

and records it on the sheet provided
- Performs general administrative duties such as correct completion of loading sheets, pre-use checklists, as per BME standards
- Complete grease schedules, calibrations and truck performance
- Supervises the work of the Truck Assistant

**General**: