·The role is responsible for Supervising and leading a team of Equipment Operators and Mining Assistants to complete road building projects and maintain roads, ramps within and around the mine. The role is also responsible for managing and ensuring that all required documentation is done to standard.

Specific Job Responsibility

• Ensure good operation practices.
• Controlling waste dumps, ramps and road building, general road maintenance.
• Ensure that material is moved according to plan and instructions.
• Inspecting and maintaining dumps, ramps and haul roads as per set down standards.
• Achieve daily targets of machine utilization for their area and ensure that crews are achieving productivity target for their area.
• Identify and assist in implementing improvements to road construction and maintenance processes and techniques to optimize project objectives and targets and report on the outcomes.
• Maximizing crew and employee performance and safety through training and matching of employee experience to daily equipment allocation and priorities.
• Ensure compliance of safe mining practices.
• Developing and promoting a positive employee relations environment within the operations crew and across shifts.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Report all substandard/unsafe conditions to Coordinator.
• Operate safely by following procedures,
• Keep KPI’s levels high.
• Ensure that Log Book entries are done after every shift.
• Ensure that tasks given by Coordinator are executed.
• Ensure that all handovers are done correctly and accurately.
• Ability to operate a two –way radio and knowledge of all emergency procedures.
• Ensure that incidents, accidents are reported immediately and that reports are completed in full and handed to Coordinator.
• Ensure that per-checks are done on all equipment and LV’s – report defects immediately.
• Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
• Comply with current environmental regulations in Zambia.
• Comply with the commitments contained in the Environmental Impact Studies and other additional studies in this regard, which apply to your area and activities.
• Comply with the provisions of the Trident Environmental Management System.

Job Specific Competencies

• Machine Operation Monitoring
• Quality Control Analysis
• Working knowledge of earth moving equipment
• Basic knowledge of condition monitoring
• Job specific equipment selection ability
• Report writing skills
• Knowledge of geometry
• Excellent supervisory skills

Key Job Attributes

• Bolder: Flexible, versatile, and prepared to take on challenges as needed.
• Smarter: always looks for efficiencies and better ways of doing things
• Driven: Sets high standards, is motivated and determined.
• Together: communicates well with peers and understand others’ views.

Experience required to perform in this job

• 3 – 5 years’ work experience in a mining environment, with not less than 1 year at a supervisor level
• Excellent building, organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to operate Laser equipment.

Qualifications

• Full Grade 12 Certificate.
• Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering or related field
• Computer Literate
• Valid blasting license and First Aid Certificate
• Valid Zambian driver’s license.