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Company: Sasol
Location: South Africa
Closing Date: 10 April 2026
Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 75-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do.
Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.
Purpose of Job
To oversee the engineering maintenance processes within the appointed area of responsibility to enable various mining teams to reach production targets within the principles of QCDSM
Key Accountabilities
- Manage and carry out engineering and maintenance strategies and overhaul plans on a day to day basis that ensure that departments KPI’s are met deliver maintenance, if and when to replace / repair equipment.
- Manage maintenance cost vs R/t in appointed area Maintenance budget.
- Ensure availability of equipment by effectively managing downtime / shift / MTTF / MTTR (infrastructure and inspection equipment).
- Ensure adherence to maintenance programme.
- Implements operational projects, ensures engineering compliance, develops and implements engineering Standard Operating Procedures (SOP in appointed area of responsibility.
- Ensures adherence to Engineering principles and legislation.
- Compliance to engineering governance bodies (standardisation committees) SOP / COP implementation and adherence.
- Assess economics / engineering viability of no major engineering business cases and provides specific, inspection expertise and coaching.
- Manage delivery against OE initiatives.
- Carry out condition monitoring programs in appointed area of responsibility. Compliance to Condition monitoring program schedules.
- Conduct failure trend analysis and root cause elimination.
- Execution of Predictive Maintenance recommendations (backlog).
- Support departments to achieve set targets by coordinating planning within appointed area of responsibility.
- Control costs to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget.
- Ensure best in class safety performance and continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain required RCR.
- Ensure SHE compliance rates vs. targets (especially major findings, % outstanding actions on findings) Zero harm, Zero fatalities, LWDCR.
- Ensure the effective recruitment, training, coaching and career development.
- Manage vacancy rates against staff establishment (vacancies incl. Absence due to TSD / PSD, AWOP, Successors for critical positions).
- Manage team bearing in mind key role turnover rate vs. industry average, absenteeism, employee engagement and enablement score (%, Tons/man/year, Monthly bonus targets) training days for department.
- Planned Task observations.
Formal Education
- National Senior Certificate / N3 with Mathematics, Physical/ Engineering Science / English
- Occupational Trade (Millwright Trade Certificate)
- Flameproof Certificate
- Gas Testing Certificate
- Competent A Certificate
Working Experience
Experience: 6+ relevant years
Required Personal and Professional Skills
TC_Action Planning
TC_Engineering Technology
LC_Commercial Agility
LC_Drives Innovation
TC_Engineering design
LC_Customer Centricity
TC_SHE Policies, Procedures and Standards
LC_Collaborative
LC_Inspirational
LC_Builds Talent
LC_Developing Self
LC_Partnerships
TC_Engineering Development
LC_Delivery Excellence
