General Assistant

2 days ago

King Williams Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa Omnia Holdings Full time R120 000 - R180 000 per year

Job Description,
The purpose of this role is to assist the truck operator in collecting products from the silos and delivering them to the blasting face. The individual will be responsible for the housekeeping and maintenance of the vehicle, refilling area, and other work areas. All tasks and duties must be performed in compliance with statutory, legal, client, and BME requirements and standards, without any shortcuts.

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Overview
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The purpose of this role is to assist the truck operator in collecting products from the silos and delivering them to the blasting face. The individual will be responsible for the housekeeping and maintenance of the vehicle, refilling area, and other work areas. All tasks and duties must be performed in compliance with statutory, legal, client, and BME requirements and standards, without any shortcuts.

, Qualifications,
Matric / Grade 12 with Mathematics

Advantageous Requirements

  • Preferable - Code B or EC Licence
  • Preferable Competent A & Blasting assistant certificate (MQA)

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Experience
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  • 1 year experience in blasting / mining environment
  • 1 year blasting assistant experience

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Duties
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  • Risk assessment and Safe work declarations to be done with the blaster at the place of work before entering workplace as per client requirements.
  • Assist MMU with charging up blasting holes and filling up MMU with products.
  • Assisting the blaster for preparing the blast / charge-up area by meeting all the statutory, legal, client and BME requirements/standards/prescriptions.
  • Together with the Blaster, inspects the site to determine the target block and to plan the blasting process.
  • Marks off the working area by erecting the prescribed barricading material as prescribed by the client.
  • Required to map the holes to ensure that all the required holes correctly placed.
  • Required to measure and check the depth of the holes, and to ensure that they are all correctly drilled within the prescribed parameters.
  • In the event of detecting any deviations from prescriptions, responsible for behaving assertively and taking the necessary steps to rectify matters, e.g., by interacting and communicating to mine staff, drill contractor or the Foreman.
  • On instruction from the Blaster, required to collect the correct accessories to carry out the blasting assignment successfully.
  • Responsible to place all detonators and boosters at the collar of the hole to prepare for priming of the blast holes as per the blast plan issued by the mine.
  • Responsible for priming the holes by carefully inserting detonators into boosters, attaching weigh-down material to the primer, and lower this primer in the hole under the supervision of the blaster.
  • Any additional ad hoc duties must be completed within the specified timeframe.

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Job Competencies
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  • Business Acumen - Essential
  • Conflict Management - Essential
  • Customer Focus - Essential
  • Timely Decision Making - Essential
  • Functional Technical Skills - Mastery
  • Developing Direct Reports and Others - Strong Focus
  • Innovation Management - Essential
  • Meeting Deadlines - Essential
  • Motivating Others - Essential
  • Problem Solving - Essential
  • Drive for Results - Essential

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General
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Job Related Skills

  • Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
  • Numerical skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong communication/interpersonal skills
  • Report-writing abilities

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