Senior Specialist, Business Planning Ii

**1. JOB DETAILS**:
**Position Title**:Specialist: Chemist Laboratory
**Broad Band**:E1: M09: Professional
**Reports to
**Department & Function:
**Job Code**:
**Date Prepared/Revised:
**Talent Pipeline Layer**:Manage Self Operational (MS)
**2. OVERALL JOB PURPOSE**:
**3. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS**:
**Qualification**:
**Higher education diploma (Chemistry) / B Tech
**Experience**:
**4 Years
**Skills**:

- **Acute safety awareness and attitude**:

- **Sound chemistry knowledge and skill**:

- **Sound competence using (advanced) laboratory equipment**:

- **Proficiently skilled in basic conversion techniques & maths to convert data to value add information**:

- **Analytical and critical thinking**:

- **Effective oral and written communication**:

- **Proficient attention to detail**:

- **Sound judgement and decision making skills**:

- **Problem sensitivity and sound problem solving skills**:

- **Effective self time management, planning and organising skills**:

- **Ability to cope with pressures and setbacks**:

- **Sound ability to gather information and accumulate data**:

- **Deductive & inductive reasoning**:

- **Innovative and curious**:

- **Sound working knowledge using applicable software and systems**:

- **Ability to adapt and respond to change**:

- **Proficient knowledge of Ma'aden commercial practices**:

- **Sound awareness and understanding of HSE legislation and regulations**:

- **Sound knowledge of discipline processes and procedures**:

- **Following rules, regulations and procedures
**4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:
**Focus Area**

**Operational / Functional**

**Legal**:
**1. Consistently achieve all delivery targets (e.g. tons, products, services)**
**2. Ensure all work is met through quality results (agreed standards, quality, quantity and due dates)**
**3. Cost awareness and control**
**4. Resources utilization and efficiency through optimizing available resources and contained cost**
**5. Consistently achieve all HSE targets**
- **Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials**:

- **Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment**:

- **Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy**:

- **Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications**:

- **Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas**:

- **Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits**:

- **Provide technical support or assistance to colleagues, scientists, or engineering staff**:

- **Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment**:

- **Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies**:

- **Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses**:

- **Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products**:

- **Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results**:

- **Calibrate & operate a variety of instruments / modification of equipment**:

- **Ensure credibility of test results and accuracy of instruments and test methods**:

- **Safely carry our work according to work instructions, quality requirements, deadlines and schedules with limited supervision**:

- **Understand and follow work request & prioritization systems and close off & communicate all requests on completion**:

- **Ensure optimal maintenance & usage of equipment**:

- **Practical implementation of safety, accuracy and reliability**:

- **Maintain appropriate spares and consumables levels for general lab equipment**:

- **Troubleshoot, and address problems with general lab equipment**:

- **Commission or participate in commissioning new equipment**:

- **Ensure full compliance to SHERQ requirements and standards**:

- **Plan, organize and control own work and progress - keep line informed**:

- **Report on work & progress - verbal, written and presentation**:

- **Manage requests on time, within budget, and to quality and customer requirements**:

- **Resolve work obstacles and issues impacting performance quickly and positively**:

- **Motivate for procurement of new equipment**:
**Leadership**

**1. Understand, support and live the Ma'aden vision, values and goals**
**2. Takes accountability for personal improvement, personal development, skills development and effectiveness**
**3. Takes responsibility, agree on and review personal performance goals and achievement of high performance goals**
**4. Plan, organize, control and report own work and consistently ensure that work is completed to plan**
**6. Resolve work obstacles a