Job Description

Job Purpose

The ideal Technical Supervisor / Planner delivers strong technical and safety support on-site while effectively engaging with client stakeholders. They are adaptable and resourceful, thriving in a fast-changing environment. Above all, they play a key role in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality on-site operations

For more information about Otraco Southern Africa , please read the details below.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with tyre suppliers on supply, performance, and warranties.
• Recommend improvements to optimise tyre performance, costs, and operations.
• Ensure contract deliverables meet high quality and service standards.
• Maintain and audit compliance with OMS standards, policies, and documentation.
• Provide technical support, reporting, and input on equipment and contracts.
• Conduct site audits, tool inspections, and equipment calibrations.
• Plan and schedule work, including forecasting tyre requirements and asset management.
• Deliver technical training and evaluate personnel competency.
• Enforce health, safety, and compliance requirements, including PPE, inductions, and procedures.
• Promote a strong safety culture through audits, risk assessments, and incident investigations.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education, Master, other certification:

• Grade 12 National Senior Certificate
• A valid drivers license
• Related industry field certificates or relevant experience.
• 4 years or more of Off the Road (OTR) earthmoving experience
• Broad base workplace safety experience – NOSA certificate accepted only

Preferred:

• 2 years of Supervisory experience.
• Experience in the Off the Road Tyre Services industry.
• Certificate in Risk management
• Bachelor of Engineering degree

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and motivate diverse teams.
• Sound understanding of the working mechanism of the tools or the machinery they are handling.
• good supervisory skills and ability to pay attention to the details.
• Strong understanding of mining safety regulations.

With over 50 years’ experience delivering off-the-road (OTR) and light mobile equipment (LME) tyre management solutions, Otraco help customers to maximise tyre life, increase productivity, reduce waste and improve safety. Otraco’s highly skilled teams are in 60+ customer mining operations across three continents in Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and Chile.

Otraco offers a robust portfolio of OTR tire management solutions that track tires across the full lifecycle, such as its computerized Otracom platform. Otraco’s offering will complement Bridgestone’s world-class OTR products and solutions, including Bridgestone MasterCore*3 surface mining tires and the tire monitoring and management solution. Bridgestone Southern Africa Mining services and OTRACO Southern Africa have joined forces to accelerate Mining tyre management and mobility solutions in Southern Africa, under one banner. Together Bridgestone and OTRACO have market-leading Mining tyre management and mobility solutions.