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Qualifications
Advantageous:
Experience
- 3 years’ mining experience as a supervisor or Equivalent (preferably Underground)
- 3 years’ demonstrated knowledge of performing mechanical, hydraulic and electrical maintenance
Duties
Successful blasts according to requirements
- Responsible for ensuring that blasting takes place on time and in line with the customer’s request.
- This includes all the pre-blasting activities such as: (among other things)
- Preparation of the Emulsion Charging Unit,
- The planning of the blast,
- Blasting design,
- Preparation including measuring of holes, pumping, wiring, timing and stemming of holes,
- Testing and quality assurance of the product,
- Monthly report to BME management and mine including a blasting efficiencies report and cost analysis.
- Take actions to ensure cost/tonne targets are met.
Compliant with legal and company requirements
- Underground safety.
- Storage of accessories and products is in line with statutory prescriptions. Responsible for ensuring the security of stocks in storage areas in order to eliminate damage, theft and pilferage.
- Stocks stored with due consideration to all statutory and SHEQ prescriptions such as, for example, the separate storage of explosives and accessories.
- Correct and appropriate procedures followed with regard to loading/unloading of trucks and the movement of products into and out of storage areas.
Ensure that all the requirements of the OSH Act, and statutory prescriptions (at a minimum) are met on the site.
- Ensure staff working on the site meet all the statutory, legal and BME SHEQ requirements, standards, and prescriptions necessary for the performance of day-to-day activities on the site as well as preparing for and executing a detonation.
- This includes, among other things, the items on the Monthly Site
- Inspection Form as well as for underground blasting preparation and exec.
Enabled blasting operations and services
- Hands on guidance of employees to function optimally
- Inputs to Site Management budgeting process in line with site objectives
- Train and create an environment of knowledge transfer/ sharing with mine personnel.
- Responsible for ensuring the sound management of storage areas such as the silo and the magazines on site.
Prevented waste/eliminated cost
- Make sure the necessary controls are in place to monitor usage to eliminate unnecessary waste
- Responsible for exercising financial control by ensuring that expenditures on site are managed inside the allocated budget costs, are allocated to
- appropriate cost centres or cost codes, checking for errors or omissions, and making the necessary corrections.
Service clients
- Work closely with mine employees on the site and manage the relationships with them so that needs can be assessed, and sound service delivery can take place.
- Ensuring customer satisfaction on site.