PPC Cement Jobs – 30 July 2026

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Senior Procurement Technical Specialist

Closing Date
2026/08/08
Reference Number
PPC260729-3
Job Title Senior Procurement Technical Specialist
Job Category Other
Job Type Permanent
Business Unit RSA Admin
Department Supply Chain
Site Rosebank
Location – Town / City Johannesburg (Rosebank)
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Advert Summary
The Senior Procurement Technical Specialist bridges the gap between commercial purchasing and complex technical operations. This role serves as a critical liaison between cross-functional engineering, production and procurement. It is responsible for overseeing the purchasing and storage of MRO (Maintenance, Repairable and Operations) spares. It will source specialised high-value equipment, spares, and service solutions ensuring these are acquired on time within budget and to exact specification; evaluate vendors’ technical capabilities; manage technical contracts; and ensure compliance with industry standards to optimise operational efficiency and achieve cost savings

Minimum Requirements
Diploma or Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field

Cement or similar industry experience with a strong emphasis on procurement & stores management

Experience in a technical purchasing or procurement role

Experience using ERP systems (e.g., SAP, e-Procurement tools, and data analytics platforms)

Leading and managing teams

Duties and Responsibilities
Sourcing and Negotiation (40%)

• Assist internal departments in translating business needs into clear technical specifications, scope of work (SOW) documents, and cost models. Evaluate supplier capabilities, ensuring proposed technical solutions align with company standards.
• Lead localised plant sourcing negotiations.
• Drive cost-reduction initiatives through value analysis, strategic sourcing, and bulk purchasing strategies.
• Maintain executed contracts in a single repository
• Monitor contract compliance & expiration dates
• Provide process support to assure efficient and responsive purchasing
• Enforce procurement policies, including preferred supplier usage and approvals
• Enforce contract pricing compliance
• Provide supplier performance management guidance and evaluation templates
• Report on inventory performance data.
• Maintain optimal stock levels for critical components to prevent production delays, shortages, or excess obsolete inventory.
• Maintain OEM, critical and preferred supplier list

People Management (30%)

• Creating a culture of discipline: Manage the performance of direct reports and monitor adherence to expected standards.
• Managing and encouraging employee multi-skilling
• Ensuring that staff are trained according to development plans
• Creating an environment that embraces diversity
• Ensuring open and effective communication
• One on one coaching and mentoring sessions with employees
• Monitor and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) relating to actual costs versus budget
• Effect continuous improvement in PPC processes and operations.
• Provide project support to various projects including cross function Projects.
• Offer guidance and support and if required take appropriate disciplinary action
• Participate in the selection and appointment of new team members

Stakeholder Management (30 %)

Develop, manage, and maintain strong relationships with suppliers
Coordinate the planning and procurement of materials in partnership with internal stakeholders
Communicate with stakeholders regarding new/ modified/ obsolete items and manage the system accordingly
Communicate to Management regarding stock levels, discrepancies, issues etc
Build and maintain strategic relationships with key technology and equipment suppliers. Conduct performance reviews, track vendor metrics, and resolve complex supply or service issues.
Liaise closely with internal stakeholders to ensure procurement and technical requirements are perfectly understood.

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Process Operator

Closing Date
2026/08/08
Reference Number
PPC260729-1
Job Title Process Operator
Job Category Manufacturing
Job Type Permanent
Business Unit Inland BU
Department Production
Site Slurry
Location – Town / City Slurry
Location – Province North West
Location – Country South Africa
Job Advert Summary
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

PPC SLURRY: INTERNAL & EXTERNAL ADVERTISEMENT

POSITION: PROCESS OPERATOR BURNER

JOB GRADE: C1

Department: PRODUCTION

LOCATION: PPC SLURRY FACTORY

DATE OF VACANCY: 29 JULY 2026

NUMBER OF VACANCIES: 1

Executes the clinker plant operation during their shift in a cost-effective and safe manner. Anticipates and solves problems on shift and reports unresolved problems to the Shift Supervisor and to the incoming shift Process operator. Aims to achieve the shift targets. Ensures that shift production figures are recorded accurately and timeously

Minimum Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Matric/Gr12
Diploma/Certificate in chemical engineering, production management, chemistry or equivalent
EXPERIENCE:

2 Years Experience in a clinker/cement manufacturing plant and/or process
Microsoft Office – Basic
Industrial Control Software (SCADA)
Performance Management System
Achiever System
Certificate of competency in mobile equipment & plant operation
ISO EMS 14001 2015, QMS 9001 and OHS45001 2018 systems

Duties and Responsibilities
Production control – Ensure Operator Logs are accurately completed by operators and mobile equipment. Operators. Compile End of shift report, accurately and comprehensively completed, including Target / Actual / Variance (including down time and outstanding work orders) as well as proper action planning during the shift. Ensure production data is being used for Visual Management in all areas in the plant.
Production review – Gather relevant production data, prepare for and provide input into start of shift production INVOCOM. Conduct Short Interval Control with supervisor.
Process Optimisation – Conduct preliminary diagnostic during process upsets. Actions instructions during efficiency and productivity improvement initiatives. Liaise with supervisor on resolution of mechanical, electrical and operational issues and raise urgent/non-urgent work-order requests. Minimise waste.
Equipment condition monitoring – Conduct pre-start checks before operating equipment. Conduct ongoing and systematic 1st line equipment surveillance and condition monitoring.
Material handling and processing – Adhere to milling instructions and monitor mill & Kiln runs.
Issue work instructions to Operator support.
Stock management – Conduct end of shift assessment of raw material and work-in-progress material.
Quality Management – Escalate quality issues that may affect production to the foreman.
Governance – Comply with departmental Joint Audit Protocols. Comply with PPC Operating Best Practices.
Risk Management – Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures. Assist with investigations of incident & accidents and implement required corrective action. Comply with ISO 9001 system requirements.
Minimise waste – Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimise waste.
Internal customer support – Ensure product availability and quality to loadout process
Provide input into scoping of engineering project relating to production in terms of equipment specification. Provide support to internal stakeholders on request
Competency Management – Perform Planned Job Observation as per competency assessment criteria. Identify gaps and remedial action (on the job training).
Performance Management – Conduct scheduled Performance reviews and amend IDPs as required.

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Administrator Human Resources

Closing Date
2026/08/07
Reference Number
PPC260728-2
Job Title Administrator Human Resources
Job Category Human Resources
Job Type Fixed Term Contract
Business Unit Group Admin
Department Human Recourses
Site Dwaalboom
Location – Town / City Dwaalboom
Location – Province Limpopo
Location – Country South Africa

Job Advert Summary
The HR Administrator is responsible for providing general administrative support for all HR activities such as Talent Management, Performance Management, Change Management, Learning & Development, Rewards and Benefits, General HR in line with relevant labour legislation, internal policies and procedures. The HR Administrator is responsible for providing comprehensive and hands-on HR support at site level. This role ensures that all people-related processes are effectively implemented in line with company policies, labour legislation, and operational needs. The incumbent will serve as the first point of contact for all site HR matters, ensuring that HR services are delivered efficiently and professionally in a fast-paced, labour-intensive environment. This postion is a short term Fixted Contract.

Minimum Requirements
At least 2-3 years in HR administration experience preferably in a construction, mining, or manufacturing environment.
A minimum of 2 year’s SAP HR experience
Familiarity with relevant statutory legislation (Strong understanding of BCEA, LRA, and other labour-related legislation.)
Know how to access and interpret human resources policies / processes / legislations
Knowledge of SAP HR
Knowledge in Ms Word, PowerPoint and excel
Extraction, interpretation and report writing

Duties and Responsibilities
Provide operational and administrative HR support to the site/plant.
Administer payroll inputs and employee benefits.
Maintain employee files and master data.
HR Systems –support line managers in creating effective organisation structures for their own functional areas in line with business unit objectives and processes performed in the business.
Ensure HR data integrity aligned to relevant legislation and audit protocols and reporting from the SAP system.
Review appropriateness of job contents with line managers and job family owners for all new and updated job profiles, prior to submitting for job evaluation and publication.
Ensure that structural changes are checked and updated monthly on the SAP system including reporting line changes, new joiners and vacancies.
Ensure a thorough understanding of all Human Capital processes and policies.
Guideline managers across the business on how to interpret and apply the requirements and what the business benefits are of doing so.
Proactively brief line managers of major events in Human Resources calendar.
Act as the change champion for improvements in HR processes and systems by explaining the benefits to line managers.
Ensure a personal deep understanding of the capability that exists on the Human Capital systems (SAP). Encourage business users to use all the available functionality.
Comply with all audit and regulatory requirements.
Administer all employee personal details aligned to group policies and legislation,
Administer all employee movements i.e. appointments, terminations, promotions and transfers.
Verify leave, overtime, and site allowances for payroll processing.
Liaise with Payroll and HR departments to resolve pay-related queries.
Act as the first point of contact for site employees and supervisors on HR-related issues.
Support and guideline management on disciplinary and grievance procedures in line with the LRA.
Attend disciplinary hearings and maintain related documentation.
Promote a positive employee relations environment and act promptly on-site concerns.
Facilitate employee inductions and onboarding of new hires to ensure smooth integration.
Coordinate training logistics for site employees (bookings, attendance registers, feedback).
Maintain the training matrix and assist with skills development reporting.

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Planner

Closing Date
2026/08/02
Reference Number
PPC260728-1
Job Title Planner l C3
Job Category Engineering
Job Type Permanent
Business Unit Inland BU
Department Engineering
Site Hercules
Location – Town / City Pretoria
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Advert Summary
Conducts effective maintenance planning of both ongoing schedules and for shutdowns. Supervises and coordinates daily work order generation, return, completeness, and capture. Monitors and reports system adherence to best practice requirements. Analysing and timeously reporting condition monitoring alarms in the system. Takes part in the root cause analyses and closure of problem areas. Generates daily, weekly, month end and year end departmental reports. Takes part in departmental audits.

Minimum Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:

Engineering Qualification (Min. National Certificate)
EXPERIENCE:

Technical maintenance and plant Engineering. (Min 3 years).
Planning department in cement or other industry. Strong leadership, decision making and interpersonal skills.
Planning of major shutdown.
Long term (5 year) planning of budget, resource smoothing.
Maintenance planning for large equipment
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Driver’s License.
EMS, QMS, On key and other System Skills
Physical Requirements
KEY COMPETENCIES:

Internal Stakeholders – Promote a culture of customer-centric service delivery and engagement with internal customers. Promote effective communication with internal users and convey improvement opportunities to all internal stakeholders. Promote accurate and relevant data entry into the ON KEY system.
External Stakeholders – Liaise with external contractors, suppliers and other stakeholders.
Departmental Budgeting – Provide input to departmental budget (Plan 0 and Plan 1)
Special Maintenance – Provide input to the Special Maintenance (SM) budget. Ensure Workorders can be traced to the correct cost centres within the ERP system.
CAPEX Management – Ensure Work orders are accurate in respect of CAPEX allocation. Ensure Workorders can be traced to the correct cost centres within the ERP system.
OM Management – Optimise maintenance cost against plant reliability and availability. Ensure user and resources attributes are correct in the system (resource rates). Monitor functional overheads. Ensure that requisitions are correctly processed against cost centres.
Competency Management and People Development – Establish developmental needs within the department in support of the ACP and execution of the planning function.
Coach subordinates to comply with the required work standards.
Performance Management – Promote shop-floor decision making and initiative. Foster a culture of Continuous Improvement.
Employee Relations – Create a positive working environment and manage conflict.

Duties and Responsibilities
Business Intelligence – Analyse system history and failure data.
Functional Strategy and Planning – Manage and oversee the 5 year Asset Care Plan (ACP) for the plant – all major asset replacements, renewals, maintenance and disposals (Asset Life Cycle). Review the previous shutdown post-mortem, Plan and create a shutdown event in ON KEY with input from the Foreman and Technical Specialist. Create workorders and requisitions for each event and print the job-cards. Liaise with the Foreman on the allocation of workorders for the purposes of resource levelling, taking resource availability and job duration into account. Conduct a shutdown post-mortem with the Foreman and Technical Specialist. Ensure that the plan has minimum impact on production run-time. Run the due and backlog list to take advantage of maintenance opportunities during Urgent and Non-urgent maintenance. Create and maintain a six month planning horizon, as well as a three week resource plan. Create spares requisitions in the system for pro-active maintenance. Plan and schedule follow-up work-orders for Planned and un-planned jobs, as well as work arising from the Temporary Change process Ensure postponed workorders are re-scheduled and completed. Generate and circulate weekly and monthly reports
Execution of Maintenance – Optimise the department’s core internal processes.
Operational Control – Ensure that data is captured into ON KEY and that the data is correct, accurate and relevant. Create a monthly log (ON KEY) for resource Intangible Time booking. Ensure that Intangible time is captured by the Planning Clerks. Administer the ON KEY approval change process and liaise with requesters, the PPC Helpdesk and the Admin Manager.
Communication and Reporting – Provide input into interdepartmental INVOCOMs. Ensure that the correct, accurate and timeous key metrics feed into the weekly OPS reports. Report factors, incidents and accidents that pose a business risk. Monitor and evaluate control reports (month-end and Ad-Hoc), as well as KPIs.
Governance and Risk Management – Adhere to legal, IMS, statutory and regulatory structures and frameworks and promote a culture of compliance. Comply with JAP and other Ad-Hoc audit requirements and implement corrective actions.
Inventory Management – Raise requisitions for work-orders being planned to mitigate delays in execution.
Contractor Management – Create requisitions for Engineering contractors and contract labour, link to the responsible sections/jobs and allocate workorders to contract personnel.

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