Group Engineering Manager – Global Operations - JHB at Minopex

Duties & Responsibilities:
Engineering

• Technical Lead for maintenance management and associated utilities tsupport Minopex Group Operational sites and ensure appropriate maintenance standards are formulated and rolled out tall sites and client requirements.
• Be a reliability subject matter expert tunderstand the critical aspect of condition monitoring requirements and be the point of reference for audits
• Leads , manages and implements measures that takes the Minopex engineering centre of excellence tworld standards on quality and delivery – retaining and growing our client bases globally
• Embraces the best fit technology and innovation tdrive the best in class service from this centre of excellence
• Leads continuous improvement processes
• Evaluates maintenance strategies tensure the effective design and implementation thereof across all the sites
• Maximizes equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs
• Develops, reviews, and improves documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions etc
• Leads repair programmes on equipment
• Ensures that the QA and QC policies, inspection techniques are implemented for all equipment repair types
• Critical analyses of all site equipment and spares requirements

Operational Management

• Adheres tall regulatory requirements and participates in audits tenhance maintenance efficiencies. Monitors and follows up tensure timely completion of all commitments
• Participates in and writes quality investigations and Change Controls as required and is the Owner of applicable action items
• Provides technical support for maintenance requirements tthe sites as required
• Optimizes maintenance strategies (preventive and corrective) for the system
• Works in conjunction with team members tensure that the system provides a computerized maintenance management system, spare parts inventory, planning, and scheduling.
• Works with quality, operations, and engineering tsupport the Sites
• Leads technical troubleshooting efforts tdetermine the root cause of equipment failures and underperformance and implements timely and effective corrective actions
• Drives implementation of continuous improvement actions
• Leads a Team of reliability engineers timprove plant uptime and effective cost control for life cycle costing.

Financial

• Manages personal and project budget man-hours
• Ensures maintenance requirements are in accordance with capital budget and quantities
• Ensures proper change management procedures are adhered to
• Assists with the budget process for the maintenance function

Client Relations

• Ensures that all interactions with Clients are conducted in a professional and respectful manner
• Ensures that Clients are kept informed and up tdate on the status of project technical aspects
• Ensures that Minopex Operations remains the Clients Engineering service provider of choice

Qualification Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical or a related technical field)

Experience and Skills Requirements

• At least ten (10) years’ experience in a similar role is required with:
•    Maintenance excellence experience in a mining operations environment, including implementing upgraded processes
• Experience addressing site infrastructure needs
•   Processing, mining, and/or machine control systems experience
• Good knowledge of CMMS, Lean techniques, statistical analysis, and automated systems
• Exceptional oral and written communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent problem identification, solving, and analytical skills
• Ability tcommunicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Excellent Computer skills, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strong engineering project management skills