Planning Advisor

As our Planning Advisor your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Safety Health and Environment

• Prioritise safety and health principles in all team interactions taking personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and eliminate fatalities.
• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health are paramount.
• Identify and avoid specific risks within the working area by implementing plans/systems to minimise them.
• Manage safety and health systems within the work area including assessing safety leadership capabilities assessing team members fitness for duty and conducting physical safety checks.
• Create safety reports and manage analysis of KPIs based on available data.
• Investigate incidents related to safety health environmental and social issues within the work area. Visit the site of the incidents as part of the investigation. Follow the appropriate process to establish the root cause. Elevate incidents on time.
• Active participation in VFLs Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions capturing and implementing learnings and sharing them across teams.

Performance Delivery

• Oversee the work management process.
• Ensure the SAP system workflow integrity and data accuracy for the accountable section is aligned with SAP PM best practices.
• Source and evaluate best practices on planning scheduling and resourcing in Anglo America and make recommendations for the site accordingly.
• Compare WM KPIs with Process KPIs and use insights from this comparison.
• Conduct Root Cause analysis to identify gaps/deviations in applying the Work Management process on-site.
• Refine and guide criteria and standards for high-quality work requests and notifications including:
• Planning (work orders work requests notifications job scoping work packages)
• Scheduling (short- medium- and long-term scheduling and associated duties)
• Resourcing (labour materials tools contractors)
• AOM Clerk responsibilities (data capturing confirmations maintenance plan updates document control)
• Advise on optimising human resources to deliver maximum output by identifying capabilities tools systems and processes.
• Facilitate and provide input into the 52-week budget.
• Coach direct reports on the applicable Work Management process.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:

• Advise on how to plan and schedule maintenance effectively.
• Determine appropriate frequencies and timing of maintenance tasks.
• Ensure the schedule maintains a proper balance of preventive and corrective work.
• Review WK3 to WK12 during management routines to mitigate risks including shutdowns.
• Enforce the locking-in of WK1 and WK2 schedules.
• Coach and guide the implementation of AAOM principles and the development of accurate work packages.
• Optimise and manage maintenance plans including frequency reviews task standardisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coach and guide the effectiveness of planning and scheduling-related management routines.
• Address compliance with the weekly schedule reconcile discrepancies and manage deviations.

Plant Equipment:

• Advice on processing materials or products and the equipment utilised.
• Advise on optimal loading of resources to achieve 100% capacity utilisation.
• Ensure effective use of systems and tools to enable planning and scheduling functions.

Availability:

• Advise on enhancing equipment and process availability when needed. This is crucial for maintaining a smooth workflow and meeting production goals.
• Monitor active backlog management.
• Monitor Key Performance Indicators (a comparison between Work Management KPIs: Scheduling compliance Scheduling effectiveness).
• Compile performance and planning status reports and continuously communicate to relevant key role-players to enable decision-making.
• Execute spares management for WK0WK12 ensuring material readiness and risk mitigation across the full planning horizon.

Sustainability:

• Conduct maintenance activities to minimise waste reduce environmental impact and ensure the long-term viability of the equipment and processes.
• Develop and adopt measures for work planning quality within the discipline.
• Advise how to improve work planning measures that are not stable or capable.
• Routine sampling of planning details with the aim of continuous improvement.
• Advise and facilitate team roles to implement solutions to close gaps (Process systems and performance gaps).

Compliance:

• Manage team compliance with external and internal requirements including legislative regulatory and permitting obligations.
• Adhere to Anglo American compliance requirements and ensure compliance within the work area.
• Conduct site inspections to identify and escalate non-compliance and use systems to monitor and manage non-compliance.
• Participate in audits attend close-outs for audit findings and implement required actions.

This role is in the Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) department on a band 6.10 (D1) level reporting to the Section Engineer Outside Services Contractors/Conveyor/LV.

Qualifications :

• Grade 12 Certificate / N3 Technical
• National Diploma in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (NQF6)
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in the AA Operating Model especially Work Management.
• 5 years of SAP experience.
• Maintenance and Scheduling experience within the mining industry.
• Project Management experience will be advantageous.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office Packages.
• Knowledge of Risk Management techniques.
• Budgeting tools and methodologies.

Additional Information :

Who we are

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine.

We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve peoples lives.

How we are committed to your safety

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a days work. To make that happen we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that were also continually investing in new technologies from drones to data analytics that are helping to make mining safer.

Inclusion and Diversity

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

How to apply

To apply for this role please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time