Company: Omnia
Location: South Africa
Closing Date: 10 February 2025
Job Description
Omnia is hiring General Assistants to join their technical field team. As a General Assistant, you will be responsible for performing various tasks related to housekeeping and maintenance, such as cleaning, sanitizing, repairing, and inspecting equipment and facilities. You will also assist in quality control, ensuring that the products and services meet the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Role impacts:
- Technical field
- Housekeeping and maintenance
- Quality control
Key Relationships:
- Senior Management/Management
- Customers
- Support Teams
- Operations
- Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time
Qualifications
- Grade 12 with Maths
Advantageous:
- Code 08 / Code B Licence
- Magazine Master Ticket
- Blasting assistant certificate (MQA)
- Stemming Loader
Experience
- Previous experience in blasting /mining environment
- 2 years blasting assistant experience
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Duties And Responsibilities
- Risk assessment and Safe work declarations to be done with the blaster at the place of work before entering workplace as per client
- requirements
- Assisting the blaster for preparing the blast / charge-up area by meeting all the statutory, legal, client and BME
- requirements/standards/prescriptions
- Together with the Blaster, inspects the site to determine the target block and to plan the blasting process
- Marks off the working area by erecting the prescribed barricading material as prescribed by the client
- Required to map the holes to ensure that all the required holes correctly placed
- Required to measure and check the depth of the holes, and to ensure that they are all correctly drilled within the prescribed parameters
- In the event of detecting any deviations from prescriptions, responsible for behaving assertively and taking the necessary steps to rectify
- matters, e.g., by interacting and communicating to mine staff, drill contractor or the Foreman
- On instruction from the Blaster, required to collect the correct accessories to carry out the blasting assignment successfully
- Responsible to place all detonators and boosters at the collar of the hole to prepare for priming of the blast holes as per the blast plan
- issued by the mine
- Responsible for priming the holes by carefully inserting detonators into boosters, attaching weigh-down material to the primer, and lower this primer in the hole under the supervision of the blaster.
Job Competencies
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Numerical skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication/interpersonal skills
- Report-writing abilities
How To Apply
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Other Omnia Job Vacancies
Interested applicants can also apply for the following listed on Omnia job portal.
- Operations Manager
- Operations Foreman
- Blasting Technician
- MmU Operator
- Fitter
- Technical Cruise Technician