Closing Date: 24 May 2023
OME: Energy Operations
Business Unit: Energy Ops - Sasolburg & Ekandustria Ops
City / Town: Ekandustria / Sandton
Org Structure No: 80012305
Short Description / Purpose of Job
Provide technical support to customers, the SASOL DYNO NOBEL Marketing and Sales team and relevant internal stakeholders.
Enable smooth-running of the SASOL DYNO NOBEL business.
Monitor day-to-day explosives and accessories applications and the performance thereof. Supervise and train operational mining personnel and customers.
Demonstrate the value of SASOL DYNO NOBEL products to support the sustainability and continued growth of SASOL DYNO NOBEL. Act as the SASOL DYNO NOBEL product value proposition custodian.
Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities
- Provide day-to-day advice (technical, mining) to ensure service excellence, product application, and product performance.
- Provide verbal and written feedback to customers with respect to product performance and application. Perform product observations and problem solving.
- Liaise with the distributor marketing teams / customers to maintain a high level of service. Define and communicate the SASOL DYNO NOBEL value proposition.
- Deliver on the customer strategy needs. Manage and operate monitoring equipment.
- Fulfil customer needs to maximise customer satisfaction. Market SASOL DYNO NOBEL products in line with proper governance processes.
- Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations. Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with customers to remain preferred provider of product and services.
- Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.
- Manage team performance and development formally and informally based on standard practices in use across Sasol Group.
- Identify and activate learning as required based on individual and collective needs.
- Nurture a team spirit and openness towards feedback, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation.
Formal Education
- BSc degree (mining); or
- Bachelor's in Technology degree (hard-rock mining);
- Extensive knowledge in explosives application (surface, underground and construction) work experience in an explosives company
Min Experience
- 12+ relevant years in mining and or explosives
Certification & Professional Membership
- Mine Managers Certificate; or
- Mine Overseer Certificate
Competencies
Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.
Facilitation: The means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently
Business Enablement: Responsible for ensuring that the customers are well equipped with core product, application and service knowledge as the overall feature adoption for the customers solutions. This includes training programs, methodologies, techniques and concepts.
Value Proposition: Drive the value proposition model to ensure SASOL DYNO NOBELs products are pushed closer to the product / market need / fit. Remove the knowledge gaps and show how our products / application methods, differentiate it to improve the users out-put / needs and value.
Sasol is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Inspired by our Purpose of Innovating for better world, Sasol acknowledges that diversity is intrinsic to the fabric of our organisation and is the key to our growth and success. Sasol is committed to the full inclusion of all suitably qualified individuals. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and people with disabilities according to Sasols Employment Equity Plan. This includes reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
