Exxaro VOHESuperintendent New Denmark Colliery

VOHE Superintendent UG, D4

Seriti, New Denmark Colliery, Mpumalanga

Ref no: NDC034/26GS

Closing date: 10 April 2026

The Role:

The purpose of this role is to manage and ensure the implementation, coordination, and maintenance of the Occupational Hygiene program at the site. This includes ensuring alignment with legal, corporate, and other requirements and initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Assists the General Manager with designing and governance of VOHE standard risk management and monitoring requirements.
• Ensures short, medium, and long-term (Life of Mine) planning of ventilation and occupational hygiene management.
• Provides oversight to ensure VOHE legal requirements, Seriti standards and policies are adhered to, and Codes of Practices are implemented at the operation.
• Ensures correct aggregation of VOHE consultant inputs and technical expertise.
• Ensures the development of goals for the VOHE service consistent with the organization's goals.
• Undertakes quality control and auditing of the site VOHE function.
• Collates, interprets, and verifies VOHE reports and statistics for validity/integrity before submission to group.
• Undertakes ICAM investigations of VOHE related incidents.
• Ensures VOHE stakeholder engagement and compliance with corporate and local legislation.
• Undertakes relevant operational hygiene research aimed at improving hygiene systems and services.
• Undertakes Exposure reduction projects.
• Liaises with external service providers regarding the monitoring of Occupational Hygiene hazards.
• Develops monitoring schedules.
• Ensures that Overexposure Investigations and Occupational Illness investigations are conducted.
• Develops exposure control plans.
• Ensures that Health and Hygiene assessments are conducted.
• Ensures the monitoring and investigation of exposure levels.
• Provides the Occupational Medical Practitioner with relevant hygiene data to enable development of a relevant and appropriate medical surveillance program.
• Ensures compliance to medical surveillance program.
• Serves as the link between the site clinic and the operation.
• Contributes to safety improvement plan implementations and VFL.
• Manages or supports ventilation engineering process for the operations.

Requirements:

• Grade 12 with Math (Not Literacy) or N3 Math and Science.
• Mine Environmental Control (MEC) Certificate.
• 5 Years' experience in the mining/engineering field with a minimum of 2 years as Senior VOHE Officer / Occupational Hygiene Specialist at an underground operation.
• Computer literacy (MS Office, SAP, other specialised technical programmes).
• A valid driver's license.
• In possession or able to obtain a valid Certificate of Fitness.

Advantageous:

• B Tech, BSc, B Eng., National Mechanical/Engineering Diploma.
• Coaching and Mentoring.
• S3 ORMP.
• Competency in Ventsim Ventilation Simulation Skills.
• Supervisory Development, MDP, LFI.