Job Description

MINE OVERSEER (Grading D5)
Job specification

• Mine Overseer with a minimum of 5 years active production experience in all relevant mining underground activities
• Comprehensive knowledge of all underground workings
• Trackless mining, including Decline, footwall, and on-reef development experience, is essential and required
• Trackless mining of high stoping widths is essential and required
• Valid Blasting Certificate for Metalliferous Mines
• Mine Overseer Certificate of Competence for Metalliferous Mines
• Proficiency in Microsoft products, with an emphasis on Excel
• Proficient in English and any of 11 official languages
• Interpersonal communication and outstanding technical skills
• South African Citizenship
• Clear Criminal Record

Responsibilities

• Ensure the safe and timely movement/transportation of people, material, explosives, and equipment to and from collection and delivery points on the shaft.
• Ensure adherence to the scheduled delivery of material, explosives, and equipment
• Ensure material, explosives, and equipment are delivered to the correct areas
• Effectively control material delivery and issuing.
• Ensure compliance of material and equipment with legal requirements and company standards.
• Support the achievement of all scheduled maintenance plans.
• Liaise with the maintenance planner to obtain a schedule for equipment maintenance
• Ensure that identified deficiencies are scheduled and executed.
• Coordinate equipment and material utilisation.
• Monitor production variances against daily targets.
• Monitor usage of equipment and material to ensure minimum wastage.
• Effectively manage production systems and processes to achieve operational targets and prevent equipment breakdowns.
• Oversee the process of moving waste from underground to surface holding areas.
• Ensure completion of necessary documentation as per ISO and procedural standards.
• Ensure proper record-keeping of all documentation related to waste movement for audit purposes.
• Eliminate risks of incidents and accidents.
• Conduct accident and incident investigations.
• Reporting and feedback daily
• Conduct all work according to required standards and specifications
• Adhere to MHSA standards & Gold1s safety motto: Nothing is so important that it cannot be done safely

Skills Required