Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Fitter • Do pre and post assessments of equipment sent for repairs: pumps, locos and loaders • Providing and maintaining a safe environment for all employees by ensuring full compliance to the Health and Safety regulations • Completing daily registers and job cards • Perform breakdown maintenance. • Perform tool changeovers on hydraulic presses • Inspect, service, repair, and overhaul machinery.
Standards Enforcement and Quality Assurance • Assist in establishing programs to maintain and improve the quality of maintenance and the maintenance systems employed to minimize unplanned downtime on key equipment. • Ensure that employees have clear work expectations and plans • Direct maintenance personnel to continuously evaluate compliance and strict adherence to the established procedures and policies. • Assist in establishing a monitoring system to measure maintenance quality and improvement initiatives. • Provide technical assistance and direction to other functional groups in order to drive quality improvements and enhance the maintenance function. • Interface with regulatory agencies for complaint investigation and technical interchanges to present the company viewpoint, and during regulatory inspections serve as the subject matter expert. • Assist in establishing cross functional teams to address cleaning, lubrication and first line maintenance functions.
Planning and Scheduling • Facilitates a one to three-year maintenance management strategy for the operations. • Liaises with planned maintenance officers to ensure inspection and audit findings are scheduled for remediation in accordance win the established priorities. • Monitors compliance to maintenance schedules and programs interventions to remedy deviations. • Actively manage legal maintenance compliance. • Assist with the preparation of schedules and the supervision of major works/shutdowns. • Develop the critical spares and sub assembly register for all equipment on the operations. • Allocate labour resources and equipment to scheduled and priority activities so as to maintain and ensure high levels of labour, equipment and operational performance standards.
Information and Early equipment Management • Ensures that equipment data, nomenclature, descriptions, component serialisation are correct as captured in the ERP System. • Updates technical manuals and documents as appropriate. • Develops equipment and process performance parameters for monitoring purposes. • Continuously review equipment task lists in the system in light of maintenance improvements, equipment developments and modifications. • Participation and representation in relevant forums. • Keep up to date with the latest technology available. • Compile accurate and professional reports. • Provide direction and participates in new equipment specifications. • Conduct and participate in RCM exercises for all new equipment before commissioning establishing the maintenance strategies and task lists to be adopted. • Participate in Group wide RCM template development and review for primary production equipment and review for primary production equipment.
Building a values-based organisational culture • Actively support and meaningfully participate in the execution of the segment specific organisational development plan. This support will manifest in the targeted shift in culture as described by a valid culture assessment. ESG Compliance • Align to international responsible mining principles. • SA Gold Operations: Align to World Gold Council (WGC) Responsible Gold Mining Principles (RGMPs). • SA PGM Operations: Enhance Together for Sustainability (eTfS) initiative. SHE Compliance • Maintain and comply with SHE standards within the work environment. • Participate in risk assessments and investigate and take appropriate action as per identified risks. • Ensure adherence to all company policies and procedures. SHE Management: • Instil a culture of SHE leadership within the department. • Participate in regional/local bodies and decision-making forums in the process developing a business relevant external environment, that will result in the longer-term sustainability of the Division. Quality Management System (QMS): • Approve department’s documents. • Comply with requirements of the Quality Management System. Focus on safe production & operational excellence • Focus on safety and health as well as operational excellence • Improve our position on global industry cost curve