Training Officer Mining

Job Description

As our Training Officer Mining, your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Safety, Health and Environment

• Apply Anglo American Safety and Health principles in all learning activities to achieve zero harm and eliminate fatalities.
• Demonstrate visible safety leadership and reinforce compliance with site safety standards.
• Create an environment where learners actively identify, raise and address unsafe conditions and behaviours.
• Integrate critical risks, critical controls and Potential Unwanted Events (PUEs) into training delivery and competency assessments.
• Assess learner fitness for duty and safety readiness before practical training and assessment activities.
• Conduct workplace observations, interventions and coaching to strengthen safe work practices.
• Monitor compliance with legislative, site and discipline-specific safety requirements during learning interventions.
• Support audits, inspections and visitor engagements by ensuring compliance with site safety systems and standards.

Performance and Delivery

Delivery Learning Programmes

• Deliver theoretical, practical, simulator-based and workplace learning interventions in accordance with approved training plans and schedules.
• Facilitate legal, mandatory, operational and technical learning programmes relevant to the discipline.
• Prepare learners for assessment and workplace application by ensuring achievement of required outcomes and competency standards.
• Coach and mentor learners to improve competence, confidence and workplace performance.

Conduct Competency Assessments

• Assess learner competence against legislative requirements, unit standards, operating procedures and organisational standards.
• Verify learner readiness for authorisation and certification processes.
• Monitor learner performance and provide developmental feedback to support competence progression.
• Evaluate learning effectiveness and recommend interventions to address identified competency gaps.

Maintain Learning Systems and Records

• Develop, review and maintain training matrices, learning materials, assessment instruments and competency frameworks.
• Maintain learner portfolios, assessment records and supporting documentation in accordance with MQA, SAQA, legislative and company requirements.
• Ensure accuracy, integrity and accessibility of learning records and reporting information.
• Compile attendance records, assessment outcomes and learning reports to support operational and regulatory requirements.

Identify and Address Learning Needs

• Conduct learning needs analyses and skills gap assessments to identify competency requirements.
• Develop and maintain discipline-specific training gap analyses.
• Recommend learning solutions that support business requirements and workforce capability development.

Support Continuous Improvement

• Monitor learning performance indicators and identify opportunities to enhance training effectiveness.
• Maintain awareness of developments, technologies, legislation and best practices relevant to the discipline.
• Participate in the review and continuous improvement of learning programmes, assessment methodologies and competency frameworks.
• Engage operational stakeholders to ensure learning interventions remain relevant to business needs.

Stakeholder and Service Provider Engagement

• Build effective relationships with operational leaders, discipline specialists, regulatory bodies and learning stakeholders.
• Coordinate with learning service providers, contractors and communities of practice to support capability development objectives.
• Provide inputs on discipline-related competency requirements and learning solutions.

This role is in the People & Organisation (P&O) department on a band 7.8 (C4) reporting to the Learning Delivery (LD) Supervisor HME.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 (NQF 4) or SAQA-recognised equivalent.
• ETDP Qualification or Occupational Certificate in Learning Facilitation/Training Practice at NQF Level 5.
• Higher Certificate in OD ETDP or related Learning and Development qualification (Preferred).
• Assessor Registration (or equivalent occupational assessor credential).
• Moderator Registration where required.
• A2 Safety Training and Legal Liability.
• Valid Code B Driver's Licence.
• Relevant HME operator licences and authorisations.
• Relevant HME licences.
• Simulator operation accreditation where applicable.

Technical Knowledge

• 3–5 years' relevant operational experience in the assigned discipline in a mining environment.
• 3-5 years’ operating Heavy Mining Equipment in a mining environment.
• 3-5 years of practical HME operations and simulator training experience.
• Knowledge of adult-learning principles, facilitation methods and workplace-learning techniques; competency-based learning, assessment and evidence requirements; and learning-needs identification and approved programme-delivery requirements.
• Knowledge of workplace coaching, learner support and feedback practices, and of learning evaluation and continuous-improvement methods.
• Familiarity with Learning Management Systems used to schedule, track and record learning; experience and competence in SuccessFactors LMS and Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of applicable learning governance, document-control and records-management requirements, and of confidentiality, fairness and ethical requirements in learning and assessment.
• Awareness of applicable mining legislation, operational standards and learning-related regulatory requirements, and knowledge of the operational or technical value chain relevant to the assigned learning area.
• HME operating principles.
• Mobile equipment safety systems.
• Equipment authorisation requirements.
• Simulator-based training Methodologies.
• Equipment operating systems and performance monitoring.

Additional Information

Who we are?

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine.

We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

How we are committed to your safety

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies – from drones to data analytics – that are helping to make mining safer.

Inclusion and Diversity

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

How to apply

To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.