About this role
Job Title
Site Supervisor
About the Role
Job Purpose
The ideal candidate ensures safe, efficient, and high-quality tyre management services in line with OMS and client standards. They provide strong leadership, maintain accurate data and well-managed equipment, and support a compliant, well-trained team. They promote a proactive safety culture, address risks, and drive consistent operational performance.
For more information about Otraco Southern Africa , please read the details below.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure all personnel comply with OMS, client policies, and safety procedures (including lock-out/tag-out and emergency requirements).
- Oversee and prioritise tyre fitting, maintenance, and workshop tasks to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality service delivery.
- Maintain accurate data entry and documentation, including tyre/rim records, quality documents, and electronic backups.
- Perform administrative duties such as rosters, leave, overtime, and reporting to Head Office.
- Manage stock and equipment through ordering, auditing, verification, and ensuring calibration/maintenance systems are in place.
- Conduct inspections, assessments, and Job Hazard Analyses, taking corrective actions where required.
- Ensure personnel are properly inducted, trained, competent, and have valid licences, medicals, and certifications.
- Investigate hazards, incidents, and unsafe conditions, implementing corrective or preventative actions.
- Promote workplace safety through regular meetings, inspections, and communication of safety information.
- Perform tyre fitter tasks or other allocated duties when required and ensure personal fitness for duty
Qualifications & Experience Required
Education, Master, other certification:
- Grade 12 National Senior Certificate.
- A valid and appropriate light vehicle driver’s license (South African Code 08).
- Related industry field certificates or relevant experience.
- 5 years of Earthmover tyre fitting experience
Preferred:
- 3 years of Supervisory experience.
- Experience in the Off the Road Tyre Services industry.
Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and motivate diverse teams.
- Sound understanding of the working mechanism of the tools or the machinery they are handling.
- good supervisory skills and ability to pay attention to the details.
- Strong understanding of mining safety regulations.
With over 50 years’ experience delivering off-the-road (OTR) and light mobile equipment (LME) tyre management solutions, Otraco help customers to maximise tyre life, increase productivity, reduce waste and improve safety. Otraco’s highly skilled teams are in 60+ customer mining operations across three continents in Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and Chile.
Otraco offers a robust portfolio of OTR tire management solutions that track tires across the full lifecycle, such as its computerized Otracom platform. Otraco’s offering will complement Bridgestone’s world-class OTR products and solutions, including Bridgestone MasterCore*3 surface mining tires and the tire monitoring and management solution. Bridgestone Southern Africa Mining services and OTRACO Southern Africa have joined forces to accelerate Mining tyre management and mobility solutions in Southern Africa, under one banner. Together Bridgestone and OTRACO have market-leading Mining tyre management and mobility solutions.