Job Description

Our client, one of South Africas largest black-empowered resource companies, and among the top five coal producers in the country, is looking for a Site Supervisor, Electrical for their flagship project at Matla Mine, Kriel, Mpumalanga.

This is a 12-month renewable contract (Ts & Cs apply), on a fixed monthly salary including leave benefits.

This opportunity is open to South African citizens only.

The role of the Electrical Site Supervisor is to manage the Contractor Construction Supervisors for a project or area within a project, controlling all contractor activities via a multi-Disciplinary team for the construction execution of the project on site, interface to the relevant Engineering, PCO, SHE, Procurement, Risk and Project Management functions as required and according to the relevant PEP and Procedures.

Major challenges of the role are:

• Safety
• Construction sequencing and planning
• Proactively manage the financial impact of changes in project scope
• Tight project timelines
• Ensuring the right quality
• Contractor commercial responses
• Construction complete ready for commissioning

Minimum Qualifications & Requirements:

• Degree in Electical Engineering or B Tech Electrical Engineering or N Dip: Electrical Engineering
• Trade: Artisan (Relevant) MQA/QCTO Accred (Advantage)
• Electrical Wiremans licence. (COC) (Desired)

Experience:

• 5 Years minimum relevant construction and Commercial exposure.
• Extensive construction experience (2.9.2 Appointment as Site Supervisor).
• Bulk material handling systems installations and commissioning (electrical and instrumentation).
• Electrical network reticulation and building installations to compliance with electrical codes and standards.
• Ensuring effectiveness of QA program - reviewing AFC drawings, coordinating inspections, conducting FAT and SAT, databook management.
• Identification, management and reporting of SHEQ risks related to construction execution.
• Knowledge of the Requirements of the Mine Health & Safety Act & Regulations, Occupation Health & Safety Act & Regulations and Building Regulations.
• Stakeholder relationship management and management of technical interfaces.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Administration and Support Services

• Updating of procedures, chapters, and other relevant documentation to ensure project execution growth and improvement to a better maturity level
• Inputs are given to the month report

Commercial Management

• Be involved with tender evaluations and scoring of contractors
• Prompting of Contract Managers to write the correct letters to contractors on Performance according to contract GC terms

Commissioning

• Construction complete documentation generated per discipline
• Construction executed in accordance with the commissioning sequence

Contractor Management

• Ensure well co-ordinated construction implementation using integration meetings, scheduling, and commercial conditions of contract. With a strong focus on LTIFR and TRIR
• Excellent Engineering team liaison to reduce TQNs
• Close out procedure driven from day one
• Engineering Integrity sign offs
• Ensuring contractor schedules are received frequently and with the correct detail to monitor progress
• Interfacing with the Contracts manager to generate the relevant commercial letter
• Continuous review of the construction schedule to ensure the correct construction sequence
• Review of contractor equipment placement for smooth flowing construction
• Redline Drawings are managed and correctly marked up and verified

Cost Management

• Assist Contract Managers to stay within BOQ limits and limit Site Instruction
• Maintaining clear commercial lines and visibility
• Drawing revisions are re-measured by the QS

Document Control and Quality Management

• Work with the Quality Manager to deliver a best quality product for the timeline and life span of the project
• Document control of all relevant documents

Effective People Management

• All normal line manager functions
• Performance Management contracts for the team
• Resource loading forecasting

Employee Relations

• Close liaison with the ER/IR manager to ensure smooth contractor workforce relations
• Development of response to strikes and labour disruptions

Risk Management and Control

• Assist in identifying risks and putting them on the risk register
• Development of mitigation plans and the implementation thereof to remove the risk

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• High focus on daily SHE inspections
• Monthly audits on every contractor
• Hours management of own and contractor teams
• Legal appointments in place per contractor and own team

Specialised Support

• Checking of equipment arriving on site
• Verification of installation MCCs, Lighting, DBs and field isolators
• Isolation integrity checks on relevant cable installations
• Protection setting programming
• Permitting for electrical switching
• Transformer installations with MV Switchgear points
• Interface management between brownfields client equipment
• Cable racking installations
• Overall Electrical construction management in line with the project scope

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