Explosives Truck Operator

1 day ago

Mogalakwena Limpopo, South Africa Omnia (Pty) LTD Full time

**Overview**:
The purpose for this position is to load holes with explosive products utilising a mixer-placer truck, according to BME standards and responsible for truck inspection and maintenance.

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12 with Maths
- Code 14 with Dangerous Goods Permit (PDP)

**Experience**:

- 2 years’ demonstrated truck driving experience.
- 3 years’ demonstrated truck driving experience in a mining/explosive/dangerous goods environment
- 1 year demonstrated experience in emulsion charging unit

**Duties**:
**Loading holes**
- Engage the pumping process and loading the holes according to the design specs while ensuring all prescribed SHERQ requirements are met.
- Carry out an inspection of all the holes and measures and records them to ensure that they are drilled to the correct depth.
- Report any out of spec holes to blaster.
- Do calculations to determine the correct mass of product to be loaded in each hole and reports any discrepancies to with the Foreman.
- inspect all the pumps and settings prior to commencing with the pumping process.
- Take a sample of the product and then analyses it to assess the product density prior to commencing the charging process.

**Truck inspection, repairs and maintenance**
- Conduct the prescribed pre-use inspections and completion of the checklist prior to use of the truck.
- Ensure that immediate corrections or repairs have to be brought about before driving off when any problems in the red category are detected.
- Make 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.
- Sign the checklist and ensures that it is also signed by the Foreman and the mechanic.
- Calibrate the instrumentation on the truck plant to ensure that all metrics remain correct or after major repairs were done on the vehicle, monthly
- Clean the vehicle on an ongoing basis so that it is presentable in the eye of the public and takes personal pride in it.
- Complete Truck Performance administration on a daily basis
- captures and signs off the truck on a weekly basis.
- calibrates the sample required scale on a daily basis.

**Truck Driving**
- Driving 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).

**Supervision**
- Supervise the work of the Truck Assistant.

**Job Competencies**:

- Numerical skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication/interpersonal skills
- Report-writing abilities
- Customer Focus
- Problem Solving

**General**:
**Key Relationships**
- Executive Team
- Senior Management/Management/Country Managers
- Customers
- Support Teams
- Operations
- Production
- Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time

**Key Dimensions**

Role impacts:

- Customer Satisfaction
- Safe environment
- Blasting in line with Company Policies and Procedures
- Well maintained company vehicles

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