Artisan Fitting UG at Sibanye-Stillwater

Minimum Required Qualification:

• Be in possession of a Matric / Grade 12 / N3 Qualification
• Have a valid recognized trade test certificate

The Appointee should:

• Have a minimum of 4 years’ experience in the repairs and maintenance of clear and dirty water pumps, locos, hydraulics and loaders.
• Have good knowledge of mining industry equipment, as well as the prescribed safety and health regulations.
• Have 2 to 5 years’ experience in a vertical shaft and winder environment.
• Clear security screening record.
• Be declared medically fit for the position and environment, as determined by a risk based medical examination at a relevant Sibanye Stillwater Occupational Health Centre.

Advantageous Qualifications:

• Trained as an Assessor will be advantageous.
• Foreman Certificate will be advantageous.
• Be computer literate particularly in Microsoft Office packages.

Additional Requirements:

• Valid drivers license.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensures that equipment data, nomenclature, descriptions, component serialisation are correct as captured in the ERP System.
• 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.
• Conduct and participate in RCM exercises for all new equipment before commissioning establishing the maintenance strategies and task lists to be adopted.
• 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.
• Focus on safety and health as well as operational excellence.
• Improve our position on global industry cost curve.