Head, Maintenance - Kriel at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:  

• To optimize maintenance resources, to ensure equipment availability to meet production targets.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Equipment and skills availability aligned with maintenance targets.
• Quality assured, maintenance philosophies and procedures aligned with best practise specifications.
• To ensure a competent complement of Human resource capital.
• To resolve unique technical constraints and incidents.
• Variety and technology of resources to maintain in area of responsibility.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• N Dip: Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
• Trade: Artisan(Relevant) MQA/QCTO Accred (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)
• B Tech Engineering (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 5 years  Maintenance within a Mining and equipment environment of which at least 2 years supervisory level Surface or Underground mining experience  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Continuous Improvement    

• Manage equipment maintenance work
• Responsible for optimised routine and breakdown maintenance activities
• Initiate continuous improvement initiatives
• Conduct research work in order to initiate process changes
• Liaise with other sections
• Manage projects and technology to enhance maintenance operations
• Conduct desktop and feasibility studies toward improving process flow

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

• Support core business and ensure appropriate stakeholder relationships
• Manage internal and external relations
• Provide relevant support and legislative service to applicable stakeholders

Equipment Control and Maintenance    

• Contribute to meeting production targets by attending to breakdown and routine work maintenance targets within functional area
• Ensure effective services and resource management, optimal use of physical assets and available resources
• Assume responsibility for quality of maintenance work
• Conduct trouble-shooting
• Complete, process and update all records and documentation

Functional Excellence    

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge

Performance Management    

• Lead team transformational leadership practices
• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance
• Oversee recruitment and Human Resources (HR) related activities of reporting staff
• Perform faired reasonable tasks related to job

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment   
Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective