• To manage mechanical maintenance work and ensure that production plans are realised.
• To lead and support mechanical supervisors and technicians and support career development for mechanical apprentices to enable competency levels and availability goals to be achieved.

In This Role You Will:

Mechanical Maintenance Execution:

• Develop and implement maintenance strategies based in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques, budgets and plans to ensure maximum equipment’s availability at optimum cost.
• Writing of Authorization for Expenditure’s (AFE’s) for Capex to be used to purchase items for maintenance activities.
• Establish work schedules and coordinate the activities of Mechanical Supervisors to complete both scheduled maintenance and unscheduled breakdown repairs with minimal disruptions to production schedules.
• Collaborate with the stores / procurement department to ensure that all the necessary maintenance parts and supplies are available to maintain the process plant and associated facilities.
• Provide input into failure analysis studies and recommend alternative strategies for maintenance.
• Oversee all Crane operating activities both at the process plant and other departments.
• Assign and manage resources (permanent and Contract employees) during both planned and unplanned shutdowns.

Mechanical Maintenance Management:

• Organise, distribute and coordinate all mechanical works at all of the process areas and others to support all of the activities assigned to Process Maintenance, including planning.
• Oversee maintenance work in all process plant areas (i.e. Crushing, Grinding, Carbon in Leach (CIL), Elution, Continuous Counter-Current Decantation (CCD), Water Storage Facility (WSF), Machining, Workshop rebuild & fabrication, Rubber & Belt splicing and Tailings Storage Facility (TSF).
• Oversee contractors’ management.
• Ensure that pre-shift handover meetings are conducted.
• Provide technical support when major work is to be carried on any area of the process plant equipment.
• Set up workshops for rebuilding equipment by providing hands-on assistance during maintenance activities to ensure safe work practices are followed.

Reporting:

• Produce mechanical related maintenance reports on a case by case basis and submit to the Superintendent.
• Discuss maintenance issues arise from the maintenance and operation supervisors meeting with the maintenance superintendent.

Management:

• Contribute to the development and implementation of training programs for the national workforce in performing maintenance tasks for the Ahafo process plant.
• Ensure that staff training, and development programs are conducted in accordance with the Newmont Golden Ridge Limited people development program.
• Deputize for the process Maintenance Superintendent role during periods of leave.
• Manage allocated staff member(s) by:
  • performing the first level of performance appraisal.
  • recommending further / relevant training courses and development actions.
  • disciplining bad performance, behavior or actions.
  • approving leave.
  • enhancing communication with staff through regular feedback, contact, meetings and briefings, etc.

Work Scheduling and Allocation:

• Supervise the tasks completed by the Supervisors and Technicians and verify that these are performed according to specified plans.
• Provide and coordinate support to the team to execute the plant modification to achieve result in a timely manner.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• Sectional Engineering Certification of Competency or Higher from the Minerals Commission.

Additional Knowledge:

• Advanced knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards.
• Advanced knowledge of the work management process.
• Advanced knowledge of defect elimination methodologies and their interpretation.
• Advanced knowledge in maintenance of mechanical plant equipment.
• Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling.
• Working knowledge in laser alignment machine to align various drive shaft of crushers, mills transmission drives, agitators, pumps and conveyer systems.
• Working knowledge in welding applications.

Experience:

• Minimum of 6 – 8 years’ experience in a mining process plant or similar environment.
• Minimum of 4 – 6 years’ experience in a supervisory capacity, managing large and diverse teams.

Technical Skills:

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced computer literacy skills – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), MS Project.
• Advanced information monitoring and management skills.
• Advanced planning, organizing and prioritizing skills.
• Strong technical skills in Engineering Management, quality assurance and cost.
• Strong people management skills.
• Strong consultation, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Advance interpretation of engineering drawing.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Accuracy.
• Analytical.
• Decisive.
• Influential.
• Leadership.
• Pro-active.
• Creative
• Reliable.
• Safety Conscious.
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.

Working Conditions:

• Position is located at our Ahafo North site.
• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.
  • Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
  • Work Environment: The employee is required to operate in a safety-critical environment with hazardous materials and potentially harmful / dangerous machinery and equipment. The employee occasionally is exposed to noise, fumes, high temperature hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch points, vibration, slippery surfaces etc.
  • Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask.