• This role shall manage, supervise, and coordinate process plant Mechanical Maintenance Technicians (including contractors) involved with rubber lining, belt splicing, blasting, painting, and scaffolding.
• Manage mechanical maintenance work for your areas of responsibility to ensure that availability goals are attained, and production plans are achieved.

In This Role You Will:

Health, Safety and Management

• Comply with the Mine Regulation Act and other applicable regulation clauses that apply to one’s own work area.
• Oversee that all statutory requirements are met.
• Maintain own and teams’ compliance with Plant procedures, including MOS.
• Instruct team personnel on safe work practices and conduct regular workplace inspections.
• Accept personal responsibility for the health and safety of every employee under or assigned to his / her supervision.
• Conduct periodic safety meetings and inspections.
• Attend monthly safety inspections and meetings.

Rubber Lining Maintenance Execution

• Manage and coordinate daily corrective actions.
• Work with process maintenance department to achieve process plant equipment efficiency and availability.
• Build, develop, and manage Rubber Lining Team capable of carrying out needed engineering initiatives.
• Assist in conducting failure analysis studies and recommend alternative strategies for maintenance.
• Assist or liaise with Administrative Coordinator in communicating the maintenance mission, vision, goals, and objective to the maintenance workforce.
• Contribute to a climate of mutual respect, team spirit and team identity.
• Approve requisition, purchasing of items at the warehouse and searching of parts, estimated time of arrival of items to plan work effectively.
• Work in conjunction with the Senior Asset Planner to determine rubber maintenance backlogs, scheduling, resource allocation and equipment shutdown planning.
• Assist in the development and review of the maintenance standard task procedures (STP’s).
• Conduct performance appraisals six monthly.
• Work with operation supervisors on the best practices to get task done without affecting production.
• Liaise with planning on backlog, scheduling, equipment shutdown planning and resource.
• Liaise with maintenance management to identify training needs of the mechanical employee’s workforce.
• Ensure all employees receive appropriate training to enable them to undertake their roles as diligently, efficiently and safely.

Rubber Lining & Belt Splicing Maintenance Supervision

• Oversee mechanical (rubber lining) maintenance work in all process areas (i.e. Crushing, Grinding, Carbon in Leach (CIL), Elution, Counter Current Decantaion(CCD)).
• Provide hands-on assistance during operations activities and ensure that safe work practices are followed.
• Conduct shift handover meetings during shutdowns.
• Provide technical support when major rubber lining maintenance work is to be carried out on any plant equipment.
• Manage and coordinate daily corrective actions.

Reporting

• Produce reports indicating jobs completed for the day and submit the report to the General Foreman.
• Identify and eliminate or report any wasteful practices.
• Ensure any training or skill deficiencies the team may have been discussed with and addressed with maintenance management.

Staff Supervision

• Supervise contractors in the completion of mechanical maintenance work and activities.
• Work in conjunction with Top Management and other Supervisors, to track maintenance work completion and when contractors are required for work.
• Supervise team responsible for the maintenance of the Process Plant and associated facilities.
• Supervise allocated staff member(s) by:
  • leading and supporting Rubber Lining Technicians
  • providing on-the-job training, mentoring and coaching.
  • furthering career development of Rubber Lining Technicians.
  • recommending further / relevant training courses and development actions.
  • recommending salary increases or promotions for staff.
  • disciplining poor performance or actions (first level of disciplinary).
  • approving leave (first signature) and enhancing communication with staff through regular feedback, contact, meetings, and briefings.
• Participate in call out roster.
• Responsible for all mechanical conveyor work including belt splicing.
• Responsible for all rubber lining work on site.
• Conduct daily scaffold inspections and keep scaffold register.

Work Scheduling and Allocation

• Schedule tasks for the mechanical maintenance crew according to the drafted plan.
• Provide and coordinate support to the team executing plant modifications to achieve results in a timely manner.

Your Trainings, Skills and Experience:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Qualified HND Mechanical Engineering or Its Equivalent.
• Qualified Belt splicer.

Additional Knowledge:

Strong working knowledge of maintenance of plant equipment.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 – 7 years’ experience in a mechanical maintenance environment within a mining process plant or similar.

Minimum of 3 – 4 years’ experience in a supervisory capacity, managing large and diverse teams.

Skills and Abilities:

Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.

Demonstrate ability to lead people and get results through others.

Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Strong customer orientation.

Technical Skills:

• Advanced communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced computer literacy skills – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), MS Project and SAP.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills (RCFA and FMEA).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong information monitoring and management skills.
• Strong planning, organising and prioritising skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Conflict management and influencing skills.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Assertive.
• Customer focused.
• Decisive.
• Directive.
• Diversity management.
• Environmental scan.
• Goal oriented.
• Influential.
• Takes initiative.
• Lateral thinking.
• Quality oriented.
• Results driven.
• Safety conscious.
• Team player.
• Technically inclined.