Dispatcher vacancy at Anglo American
DEADLINE: 10 January 2025
Anglo American has an exciting position for a Dispatcher to coordinate and monitor mining production operations’ production and secondary in-shift activities through relevant systems to ensure optimal production performance.
Duties and Responsibilities
As a Dispatcher you will provide services as required and your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Adhere to all health and safety practices and requirements.
- Monitor equipment utilisation and maintenance process to ensure optimal availability during shift.
- Monitor and manage the in-shift activities of the mining production operations through the system to ensure optimal production performance.
- Manage the shift handover process to reduce inefficiencies associated with this process.
- Monitor the data captured by operators and the system’s automatic event logging to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
- Monitor secondary(support) equipment utilisation and process to ensure optimal production support.
- Monitor, support, and manage the in-shift activities supporting mining production operations.
- Monitor loading accuracy through HPGPS systems: Provision, MineWare Guided Spotting, MineCare (Misfires and excluding zones).
- Monitor the data captured by operators and the system’s automatic event logging to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
- Manage the shift handover process to reduce inefficiencies associated with this process.
- Monitor equipment maintenance process to ensure optimal availability during shift.
- Monitor and manage the in-shift maintenance activities to ensure optimal equipment availabilities(O4R).
- Manage the maintenance handover process to reduce inefficiencies associated with equipment utilisation.
- Monitor and optimise equipment fuel levels through systems. Distribution of shift reports.
- Enter the correct statuses and reason codes, i.e. machines in production, on delay and down.
- Assign drills and loading tools to the correct locations, and material grades and drill blocks are loaded up with correct design files at the beginning and throughout the shift.
- Lock Operators in and use production systems accordingly.
- Assign and define the correct priorities according to the weekly schedule.
- Lock and bar equipment in line with production priorities.
- Set the optimisation parameters (e.g. material blending, truck queueing, shovel hanging) on the relevant systems to ensure optimal production performance.
Qualifications
- Grade 12 Certificate / N3 Technical
- Relevant Higher National Qualification on NQF5, e.g. Computer Science/Information Technology: System Support/Mining Management
- Relevant Fleet Management System Certificate (Dispatch) will be an advantage
- Ms Office Suite Certificate
- SA Drivers Licence: Code B (Light vehicle)
Experience
- 3-5 years of Mining production experience.
- Understand equipment capabilities and limitations.
- Understands the mining lifecycle, value chain and impact of mining activities on business and operational performance.
- Understand the impact of operational stressors.
- Understanding CAD system features such as mapping, GPS tracking, and automated routing.
- Knowledge of radio protocols and procedures.
- Basic understanding of GIS software to visualise and analyse spatial data.
- Knowledge of MMS software for tracking production data, equipment performance, and personnel locations.
- Understanding FMS software for tracking vehicle location, fuel consumption, and maintenance schedules.
- Knowledge of safety management software for tracking incident reports, safety inspections, and training records.