| Specific responsibilities of the role include: Stakeholder Relations - Representing the operating companies in engagements with the authorities, regulatory agencies, lenders, partners, banks, service providers, professional organisations and the affected communities within which we operate.
- Coordinating internal stakeholders and ensuring departmental interfaces and services are well managed
- Maintaining smooth relationships with all stakeholders while devoting best efforts to minimise and solve possible disputes in the best interest of the assets
- Identifying, analyzing and managing risks and opportunities
Finance - Managing operations within approved budgetary limits;
- Maximising profitability and shareholder value;
- Controlling and supervising the financial management, and particularly:
- Comprehensive and effective company costs control;
- Prepare medium and long-term budget forecasts for management and board approval, monitoring and reporting variances and deviations on a regular basis; and
- Monitor loans and finance agreements.
- Controlling and approving procurement and all expenditures as per the DOA.
Operations Management - Managing the Environmental, Health and Safety performance of the assets including emergency preparedness;
- Improving collaboration, overall performance, and process/resource/cost synergies between the assets
- Ensuring that a culture of excellence in HSE standards is applied and consistently maintained;
- Ensuring and maintaining compliance with the key agreements and all South African laws;
- Following up proper execution of the commercial and financial contracts and bringing in solutions to any argument or problem that may arise, in coordination with the ESA management team and Board of Directors;
- Formulation of business plans, which will include long term and annual operating plans and budgets, as well as the implementation of appropriate maintenance, operation, outage and spares management strategies and master plans.
- Development and implementation of the LT training and skills development plan for the workforce of each site.
- Approving and overseeing the departmental performance (Ops, Maint, Eng etc) including setting of KPIs aligned with planned objectives and regular tracking of such KPIs. Linking KPIs with the annual objectives of the Managers.
- Coordinating the annual outage plan, scheduling the outages for minor and major overhauls and coordinating in accordance with the requirements of the O&M Agreement and the LTMC/LTSA. Ensuring the required parts, tools & fixtures and manpower are available well in time to start the outage.
- Together with HR, periodic benchmarking the salary and wages within the industry and the peer group for effective attraction and retention of the talent, as well as employee engagements and union discussions.
- Ensure compliance with EDO, BEE, BBBEE commitments and internal targets for DEI
- Responsible to the ESA management team and Board for good utility practices in the management and administration.
- Responsible for ensuring ethical governance and practices enacted by the Board and team.
- Coordinating relevant matters with the Project Companies and Asset Managers; ensuring that the O&M Company keeps an appropriate organisation in place and performs its activities as per the contracts and in accordance with Good Utility practices; Including the development & implementation of operating and maintenance strategies and policies to achieve optimum operation and availability of the plant;
- Risk identification, assessment and management; Implementation and follow-up of actions needed to minimise risks and/or consequences, with clear and consistent management and board reporting;
- Making sure that applicable changes in law and/or regulations are implemented where necessary, to ensure compliance;
- Creating processes, systems and SOPs, and maintaining and updating related documents and procedures.
- Ad hoc support to business development or construction activities, including sharing of lessons learnt
Reporting - Reporting on the status of the assets to the ESA management team, Board of Directors and the shareholders of operating companies as and when required;
- Reporting to lenders, client, authorities as required under law or the project agreements.
Resource Management - Put the correct organisation in place and set clear measurable objectives for the team, evaluating personnel, tools, systems and processes on a regular basis, providing performance feedback and enabling developmental opportunities.
- Leading, coordinating and supporting the team in the execution of their responsibilities.
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