Bulyanhulu Gold Mine seeks to appoint a Mechanical Foreman at the Gold Processing Plant. The “Mechanical Foreman”, ensures that all scheduled and unscheduled mechanical maintenance activities for the Gold Plant, TSF Dam and Fire suppression system at BGM are properly planned and executed in a safe and efficient manner. This is to ensure required performance of critical assets is achieved, whilst also meeting the maintenance budget.
KEY RESULT AREAS/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Spend significant time in the field – “visible felt leadership” – interacting with the workforce, ~30% of working time.
• Set and enforce a high standard of housekeeping in all work areas to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all employees and contractors.
• Review and sign-off on JSA’s/SOP’s ensuring risks are identified and mitigated. Has the authority to stop a job that does not meet these two criteria.
• Review hazard ID and incident reports (from BGM database) and provide feedback as appropriate.
• Conduct quality incident investigations (injury, significant near-miss and equipment damage), complete with detailed RCA (root cause analysis) and practical corrective actions. Ensure that the corrective actions are effectively implemented and tracked.
• Establish and refine maintenance strategies for the Gold Plant, in consultation with Process, Maintenance Planner and contractors/OEM’s to ensure that PM’s and other routine maintenance activities will deliver the desired equipment performance – e.g. equipment availability/reliability targets.
• Review (with Supervisor and Maintenance Planner), sign-off and execute weekly maintenance schedule to ensure all priority maintenance activities are prioritised and managed effectively. Has the authority to prioritise jobs.
• Report Work Management KPI’s to assess compliance to the schedule and associated work efficiencies, including the effective management of backlog.
• Develop annual budget with support from the Maintenance Planner. Report actual costs versus budget on a monthly basis and explain variances.
• Manage annual leave, sick leave, etc – capacity updated (via Maintenance Planner) in EMPAC – for the crew. Manage the roster of shift fitters to ensure coverage at all times, with the authority of approving annual leave.
• Complete annual performance reviews for all direct reports, in consultation with the Leading Hand.
• Ensure that succession planning for key roles is in place.
• Coordinate the updating of the crew’s training matrix through the Training Department and ensure that all direct reports are completing an appropriate level of training to be deemed competent for all tasks that they are assigned.
• Assume the role of shift Supervisor during plant shutdowns to ensure 100% coverage.
Initiate/implement plant improvement trials (e.g. “Pump Improvement Team”) – using the Ideas Management System.
• Attend daily Production meetings, weekly downtime review meetings, weekly PM Review Meeting - implement assigned actions from any of these meetings.
WORK EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL
• Demonstrated safety leadership for both self and for a team
• 5 to 10 year’s practical experience in a maintenance environment, preferably in mining/heavy industry and Gold Plants
• Minimum of 2 years frontline supervisory experience, preferably in a mining/ heavy industry environment
DESIRABLE
• Experience with computer-based maintenance planning/scheduling
• Experience working in a minerals processing plant
QUALIFICATIONS
ESSENTIAL
• Mechanical trade
• Driver’s licence
DESIRABLE
• Technical qualification in Maintenance Planning/Asset Management
Apply online before 19/05/2011.
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