Operations Foreman - Khumani King

About the role

Omnia is hiring an Operations Foreman - Khumani King in BME South African Operations, based in Khumani King, Northern Cape. The role reports to the Operations Manager. Manage the customer accounts focusing on both sales and service in support of the region's goals and objectives and achieving a sustainable and profitable region

Responsibilities

• Works closely with internal and external customers in order to assess needs and plan operations accordingly
• Plans and organises the availability to resources, in order to meet customer's requests
• Ensures that the assets of the company are protected from theft and damage
• Responsible for the operation rollers, bending press and Guillotine
• Organises, schedules and coordinates building off explosives truck tanks in order to facilitate the smooth, timeous flow of deliveries.
• Administers stocks and continuous stock availability by ensuring that paperwork such as store stock are up to date and reconciled
• Ensures that all administration, documents, storage of information are kept according to BME standards
• Provides inputs into the annual budgeting process in line with the objectives of the department
• Identifies cost saving initiatives while balancing customer requirements
• Ensures that the necessary incident investigations take place
• Ensures that required staff training is up to date
• Ensures that the impact of production processes on environment is understood by staff and appropriately monitored
• Ensures that suitable employees are recruited
• Plans daily/ weekly/ monthly scheduling of work/shift allocations
• Ensures induction for new staff members
• Ensures that all staff are given the required training in accordance with work requirements

Requirements

• Qualifications
• Grade 12
• Blasting Ticket (mandatory)
• Blasting Assistant Certificate MQA (Desired)
• Competent A Certificate - MQA (Desired)
• Experience
• 5 years' demonstrated experience as Truck Operator or Blaster (including surface mining, blasting, blast reports, seismograph
• 3 years' demonstrated experience in supervising employees
• 3 years' demonstrated experience in responsibility for managing costs
• Key Competencies
• Ensures that systems, processes and procedures are in place and managed to ensure timely maintenance is performed on equipment and vehicles.
• Plans, coordinates and schedules maintenance
• Ensures that regular inspections are conducted on Boiler shop equipment
• Implements controls and does inspections to assess correct usage of PPE or equipment and to take the necessary actions
• Implements controls to ensure that maintenance and repair work has been satisfactorily conducted