General Engineering Supervisor

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General Engineering Supervisor (Electrical), D2
Seriti, New Vaal Colliery, Free State

Internal & External

Ref no: NVC123/25GS
Closing date: 19 December 2025

The role:
The role directs the maintenance programme for the operation, ensuring effective management and continuous improvement of Seritis engineering assets, resources, and infrastructure in a safe and sustainable manner, while overseeing the day-to-day execution of plans to maintain machinery and equipment availability and managing people and resources to achieve planned production targets.

Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Effective People management, ensuring that roles are well defined and clarified and that competencies and learning paths are developed to human capacity and capability
• Financial Budgeting & Management
• Knowledge of SCADA system, PLC & Electrical reticulation
• Maintain safe work practices and a safe working environment by ensuring that legal requirements and group working standards and policies related to engineering are implemented and followed on the Operations and Projects
• Manage conveyor belt inventory and forecasting
• Management of critical spares and sub-assemblies (stock levels/turnaround time and quality of repairs)
• Managing structural/mechanical/hydraulic drawing libraries
• Optimize planned maintenance schedules of machinery and equipment ensuring that equipment is effectively maintained
• Participate in ad hoc projects providing input into drafting of scope for new projects
• Research and implement best practice systems with respect to cost, maintenance, safety and people management
• Sound knowledge of conveyor belts, transfer chutes, screening, crushing, stacker-reclaimers, pumps, dense medium separation plant and hydraulic/pneumatic equipment
• Structural integrity maintenance management

Requirements:

• N4 Technical certificate and recognized Trade Test in the relevant discipline or National Diploma or Engineering Degree
• Minimum of 4 years experience as an appointed 2.9.2 Electrical Foreman
• An in-depth knowledge of technical engineering aspects such as outside equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). An in-depth knowledge of technical engineering aspects such as outside equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and South Africa Bureau of Standards (SABS)
• A good working knowledge and understanding of machinery and equipment used in the Mining industry
• Aware of best practices and new technologies relating to Engineering Principles and Processes
• Computer Literacy: MS Office and SAP
• Valid drivers license
• In possession or able to obtain a valid Certificate of Fitness

Advantageous:

• Technical experience in Low Voltage, instrumentation (control systems) and Medium Voltage equipment and infrastructure

Please note:

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• Appointments will be made in line with Employment Equity targets
• All applicants are thanked for their interest
• Applications which have not been responded to within 30 days of closing date should be regarded as unsuccessful
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