Thungela Career Pathways
Keep the operation running – and lead it

Career Pathways:
Engineering

Artisan, technician, engineering, planning and reliability roles that design, maintain and optimise Thungela's equipment and assets.

8
Career paths
51
Roles
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Sub-families

Engineering career paths

Pick a path to see every step from entry level to the destination role.

01

Engineering Operator/Assistant – Artisan

This career path unpacks and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to go from an Engineering Operator and/or Engineering Assistant to an Artisan.

6 roles 5 levels
Start
Engineering Assistant
Destination
Artisan
02

Artisan – General Engineering Superintendent

This career path unpacks and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to go from an Artisan to a General Engineering Superintendent.

12 roles 5 levels
Start
Fitter Learnership / Electrician Learnership / Mechanician Learnership / Diesel Mechanic Learnership
Destination
General Engineering Superintendent
03

Centre of Excellence

This career path unpacks and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to go from an Engineer to the Head of Engineering. This path encompasses multiple engineering roles both at the operations as well as the center. It also unpacks possible cross disciplines moves to Projects should this be of interest.

21 roles 5 levels
Start
Professional In Training
Destination
Head of Engineering / Head of Projects
04

Control & Instrumentation (C&I)

This career path unpacks the options one has within C&I Engineering and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to move between the various roles.

8 roles 4 levels
Start
General Engineering Superintendent / Section Engineer / Technician Superintendent
Destination
Head of Engineering
05

Technician

This career path unpacks and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to go from a Technician into a Principal CI & Electrical Engineer role.

11 roles 7 levels
Start
Instrument Mechanician / Electrician / Technician Learnership
Destination
Head of Engineering
06

Asset Strategy & Reliability (AS&R)

This career path unpacks the options one has within AS&R and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to move between the various roles.

6 roles 4 levels
Start
Section Engineer / Reliability Engineer
Destination
Head of Engineering
07

Condition Monitoring

This career path unpacks and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to go from a Condition Monitoring Assistant to a General Engineering Superintendent or Technical Expeditor.

6 roles 5 levels
Start
Condition Monitoring Assistant
Destination
General Engineering Superintendent
08

Rotables / Technical Expeditor

This career path unpacks and provides guidance on the required skills, knowledge, and education you will need to go from a Planning Role to Technical Expeditor role.

9 roles 5 levels
Start
Planning Officer Assistant Eng / Rotables Assistant
Destination
Technical Expeditor / General Engineering Superintendent

How Engineering roles are grouped

Roles are grouped into sub-families that share similar skill sets.

Sub-families
Engineering Operations Maintenance Planning Engineering Management Mechanical Engineering Electrical, Energy & CI Engineering Asset Strategy & Reliability

Explore other disciplines

Many skills carry across – see where else your experience could take you.

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