Shift Supervisor

Job Details

Business Unit: Inland BU

Department: Mining

Site: Slurry

Location - Town / City: Slurry

Job Advert Summary: PPC SLURRY: INTERNAL/EXTERNAL ADVERTISEMENT POSITION: Shift Supervisor Mining JOB GRADE: C2 DEPARTMENT: Mining REPORT LINE: Manager Mining LOCATION: PPC Slurry Factory DATE OF VACANCY: 03 August 2026 NUMBER OF VACANCIES: 1

Supervises and coordinates their shift, plans and allocates daily tasks through the Invocom system. Solves problem and ensures the availability of the required resources. Communicates with service departments to attend to mobile equipment, drill rig and the crushing plants. Continuous controlling of all the seven elements of Limestone quality in order to produce optimised stockpiles. Ensures all key results' records are kept and runs required reports. Also executes delegated work from the Mining manager.

Minimum Requirements

• Matric/Grade 12 Diploma/Certificate - Mining or equivalent qualification
• Blasting Licence
• Driver's licence
• EXPERIENCE Opencast mining experience (At least 3 years)
• Supervisory experience and people leadership skills
• SAP ERP

Duties and Responsibilities

KEY OUTPUTS

• Production Control - Ensure Operator Logs are accurately completed by operators and mobile equipment operators.
• Compile End of shift report, accurately and comprehensively completed, including: Target / Actual / Variance (including down time and outstanding work orders) as well as proper action planning during the shift.
• Ensure production data is being used for Visual Management in all areas in the plant.

Production Review

• Facilitate start of shift production INVOCOM and provide input where necessary.
• Conduct Short Interval Control with operators throughout the shift.

Process Optimisation

• Action recommendations from Quarry Foreperson.
• Conduct preliminary diagnostic during process upsets.
• Provide input into efficiency and productivity improvement initiatives

Liaise with engineering on resolution of mechanical or electrical issues

• Raise scheduled and urgent work orders
• Equipment condition monitoring - Ensure pre-start checks are done properly done and action plans actioned.
• Ensure ongoing and systematic 1st line equipment surveillance and condition monitoring.

Material movement and processing

• Issue work instructions aligned to the shift plan to all teams.
• Stock management - Conduct end of shift assessment of material.
• Assist with variance investigations and stock adjustments as required.

Quality Management

• Ensure adherence to grade and blast plans.
• Investigate and resolve quality deviation.
• Escalate quality deviations to foreperson.

Governance

• Comply with departmental Joint Audit Protocols.
• Comply with PPC Operating Best Practices.

Risk Management

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures.
• Assist with investigations of incident & accidents and implement required corrective action.
• Comply with IMS system requirements.

Contractor Management

• Sign contractor reports on a daily basis.
• Contract Labour Management - Raise requests for use of contract labour.
• Assign work instructions.