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- Grade 12 with Maths & Science. Plus Managerial Qualification with 14 Years of Metal & Mineral Inspections Experience
- Knowledge of the different laws (Labour. Safety)
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining constant communication with management (in SA & UK), staff, and vendors to ensure effective operations of the business.
- Strong Leader. Motivate and support the Team in the time-sensitive and demanding environment, including setup and implementation of career development plans for all direct reports and problem resolution. It is the post holder’s responsibility to inform the Operations Manager of continual resourcing difficulties and/or operational problems.
- Planning, organizing, leading, and control of daily operations to meet the agreed work schedules and targets.
- Enforcing adherence to the business methods, policies, and procedures.
- Leading the Site Foreman and Junior Inspectors to effectively manage their teams such as sampling work processed at the warehouses and/or any other location as efficiently as possible to meet the turnaround schedule agreed with clients.
- Liaising with the administration and laboratory departments to prioritize work specific to customer’ expectations
- In charge of the day-to-day operations of the Namibia sites
- Maintaining the most cost-effective utilization of resources within Namibia operations to ensure reporting schedules are maintained by managing timely data collection to update operations metrics to achieve productivity targets, reduce cost per unit, eliminate errors, and deliver excellent customer service.
- Communicate customer issues with the operations team and devise ways of improving the customer experience, including resolving problems and complaints.
- Liaise with the 0perations Manager to ensure that the following contingencies are met: – Staff shortages as a consequence of leavers, illness, holidays, equipment malfunction/breakdown. peaking or growth of work volume within the operations, re-prioritizing of significant amounts of sampling work.
- Ensuring at all times that a high degree of accuracy and precision is applied to sampling/surveying through incorporation and promoting good sampling practice principles.
- Ensuring that work throughput is followed in accordance to documented methods and procedures, it is the post holder’s responsibility to inform the Operations Manager of any failure in compliance with documented methods
- Providing technical advice and support to the site staff as required, on technical or operational problems acting in a troubleshooting capacity to subordinates.
- Alerting the operations manager of repetitive technical problems relating to day-to-day sampling procedures
- Maintaining record keeping such that work is clearly and easily auditable and traceable within the guidelines of AHK
- Supporting the operation manager in organizing and participating in client visits and general client-related technical discussions.
- Participating in disciplinary and grievance meetings in line with the company procedure and in consultation with the HR Department
- Monitoring staff attendance and punctuality in consultation with the HR Department
- Conduct regular meetings with the operations manager and daily meetings with subordinates to discuss job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising and reviewing job contributions
- Liaise with the operation manager to ensure that equipment is maintained in a working and calibrated state, organizing maintenance where necessary
- Oversee material and inventory management
- Ensuringsiteworkareasandofficeareasarekeptcleanandtidy with unwanted material and debris removed
- Liaise support and conduct regular meetings with clients and all counterparts involved in the supply chain including warehouses, port authorities, and transporters.
- Conduct monthly budget reviews and report cost plans to the operations manager
- Issuing of monthly reports on cost & equipment
Person Specification
Required Knowledge, Skills and behaviors to perform this job
- Ability to demonstrate Literacy and be Numerate
- Excellent ability to delegate responsibilities while maintaining organizational control of branch operations and customer services
- Conflict management and effective interpersonal skills
- Highly proficient in English (written & verbal) with the ability to present clear well-structured reports and briefs
- Demonstrate the ability to lead
- Can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal
- Critical thinking, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Adaptable/Flexible & Good Timekeeping
- Quality – Right first-time, approach, completes work to a high standard, continually looking for improvements and strong problem solver, high level of attention to detail is key within this role
- Managing uncertainty – Handles pressure and ambiguity well, exercises good judgment, and handles challenges in a mature manner, with flexibility and pragmatism, and the ability to deal with ambiguity
- Team Player/ Interpersonal Build and maintain positive working relationships with their own team and more widely
- Able to work as part of a team as well as indecently
- Energetic Self-starter with Committed safe work practices
- Sober Habits with No Criminal Record
- Knowledge of the Labour/Safety Laws
- Knowledge of WSMD
- Knowledge of sampling methodology
Good knowledge of general business software and aptitude to learn new applications proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word. Excel. Outlook
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Job Application Details
APPLICATION DETAILS
Suitable Qualified candidates are invited to forward their CV to: [email protected] Closing Date: 3 October 2023
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