Afrimat – Cemnet has a vacancy for: Graduate – Chemical Engineering.
Closing Date: 22 May 2024
Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities include (but not limited to the following):
- Adhere to the group’s health and safety rules
- Understand and comply to the group’s health and safety standards
- Keep the laboratory and storage area clean and safe
- Assist supervisor in chairing safety toolbox meetings
- Housekeeping/inspections reports
- Participate in all health and safety campaigns
- Conduct VFL’s
- SANAS technical signatory for cement tests
- Assist with clearing of audit findings and improvement of ISIC Quality Management System
- Coordinating and planning of all assigned products
- Ensures that all products meet the demands as set by ISI Manager, Commercial department and Industrial department
- Ensures that products are completed on time with all objectives achieved
- Tracks the performance of cement products from all sites and issues an update ISI Manager on a monthly basis
- Liaises with the operations to ensure correction action are implemented and properly documented
- Ensures standardization of the compliance evaluation at all cement operations
- Responsible for cement formulation of the new products
- Laboratory validation of new product development before industrial verification is conducted by plant trials
- Initial launch industrial support and continuous performance monitoring
- Be part of the post launch evaluation of the product development process
- Evaluates cement performance and suggests opportunities for optimization in terms of materials and production process
- Conducts laboratory evaluation on new systems and/or additives and make recommendations to the plant team
- Assists the plant team with the implementation of the recommendations
- Organizes regular quality workshops for information sharing and training on specific topics at least three times per year
- Conducts onboarding training for new employees on cement process and product knowledge.
- Liaises/visit with internal and external customers where necessary
- Ensure that Auto control /customer certificate are distributed to sales personnel monthly.
- Conduct clinker reactivity analysis monthly to evaluate if products are still produced with quality raw material.
- Responsible for technical report writing
- Performs any other reasonable tasks when requested by the N+1
Minimum Experience & Key Requirements:
- National Diploma, BEng Tech and Advance Diploma in Chemical Engineering or higher
- Driver’s license code B
- Independence
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good team working skills
- Analytical skills
- Computer literate
- Project management skills
- Presentation skills
- Precise and rigorous
- Quality orientation
- Ability to investigate
- Eagerness to learn
- Decision making
- Performance orientated
- Tolerance for stress
The candidates must be medically fit in terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act and the Company standards for medical fitness.
Closing Date: 22 May 2024
How to Apply
In line with the Company’s commitment to Employment Equity and diversifying its workforce, applications from the designated groups and historically disadvantaged students will be given priority consideration.
Afrimat is committed to fair and ethical recruitment practices that sustains consistent delivery towards diversity and inclusion, effective performance and job engagement.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. The Company reserves the right not to make an appointment.
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