South Africa – at least 3 days per week at Mogalakwena Mine expected
Mokopane, Limpopo
TASKS
- Architect, design and deliver nuGen IT and OT (Operational Technology) solutions with Company Group Information Management team
- Collaborate with Site Service Delivery and OT Infrastructure Specialists and site teams to ensure smooth and secure operations of the nuGen PoC site
- Review infrastructure landscape and suggest improvements/ optimisation opportunities
- Maintain a governance role to monitor the operational productivity of IT/OT infrastructure
- Manage and own Industrial IT (OT) principles, policies, standards, solution designs and architectures
- Manage and drive IT/OT process improvements
- Provide highly-valued consulting level support and guidance through crucial IT and IIT initiatives
- Share knowledge of technology risks and opportunities proactively to build competitive advantage and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business units
- Forecast financial, physical, and people resource needs to meet established objectives
- Partner within service delivery structures to manage operations to improve IT/OT infrastructure costs, performance and end-user satisfaction
- Research, provide recommendations and implement continuous improvement to prevent problems and to maintain high infrastructure service levels
- Provide in-depth technical expertise for both tactical and strategical initiatives.
- Manage strategic relationships with key IT/OT product and services providers.
SKILLS NEEDED
Ability to: - understand global IT/OT governance and compliance risks and required mitigations - build and leverage mutually beneficial relationships with all stakeholders - drive issues to resolution by aligning the team, finances and technology solutions - manage PoC site problems and the different processes involved - perform continuous improvement reviews to align with the changing business demands - manage service improvement programmes - manage IT/OT strategies that reduce client service complexity and enable improved delivery - consider stakeholder requirements and revise portfolio goals to align - develop mutually beneficial partnerships with internal and external stakeholders - manage best practice delivery and benchmark quality and quantity improvement indicators - continuously improve team performance |
Ability to: - effectively influence and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve required outcomes - facilitate agreement and cooperation using a diplomatic and open approach - effectively work with diverse teams and be sensitive to local social, political also, cultural realities - comfortably interact across all mediums of interaction, i.e. face to face vs virtual interactions with team and stakeholders - use networks in all stages of decision making to ensure decisions are not made in isolation, though not to the extent that would be seen as abdicating responsibility Role-specific knowledge: - IT/OT discipline and governance (ISA95, IEC62443) - Networking (Cisco, Rajant Kinetic Mesh , LoRaWAN, SD-WAN) - Servers, Virtual Clusters - IoT Edge - Proficiency in required languages - regional and local conditions - Business unit plans and initiatives |