Site Supervisor

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JobReq ID: 55640 Type of work: On site Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent Full/Part Time: Full time Salary Range: Location: Kathu, ZA ABOUT US

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

ABOUT THE 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.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Bridgestone, what really matter is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive payment; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

We are committed to create an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality, and helps our increasingly diverse teammates, customers, and communities thrive, by providing equal opportunities in employment. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.

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