Principal 830E at De Beers Group

Your duties will include:

• Develop asset and service strategies for 830E class (220t) fleet
• Ensure these service strategies and tactics are governed centrally where applicable, and subject to the E&M Master Data Standards
• Ensure operations produce 12 week and rolling 52 week plans and review for quality
• Work with operations to maximise OEE and MTFB of these equipments
• Work with site and Supply Chain to ensure replacement components are available for planned work
• Coach and mentor site engineers and execution teams as needed
• Report on deviations to the plan both from operations and Supply of components
• Refine and develop reliability block diagrams (simulate and determine optimal component replacement strategy, costs, spares needed as stock) taking into consideration OEM recommendations and statistical life of components
• Develop and share baseline asset tactics taking into account reliability block diagrams, asset strategy and OEM inputs
• Conduct site visits in order to understand local conditions and planning procedures, etc.
• Conduct community of practices with shared experiences, best practices and develop joint programs of work (Centre and Site improvements)
• Conduct close discussions with OEMs concerning engineering improvements, changed guidelines and feedback from operations
• Closely collaborate with SC on the purchase specifications for equipment and strategic planning with suppliers
• Work with all other functions in E&M to ensure Asset Plans are accurate and replacement norms reflect best practices
• Work with all other functions in E&M to ensure Asset Plans are accurate and replacement norms reflect best practices
• Regular international and local travel will be required
• Participates in Root Cause Analysis and Defect Elimination as required
• Prepare centralised data set for owned fleet that feeds into E&M master data

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline (e.g. Mechanical Engineering)
• A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline would be an advantage
• Registered Engineer

Experience

• 10 years’ experience managing 830E equipment or similar
• Sound working knowledge of 830E trucks
• Demonstrated knowledge of operational complexities experienced as an engineer in a mining operation
• Demonstrated maintenance and operational support experience
• Solve technical and operational issues in cooperation with relevant stakeholders.
• Implements the most effective solutions to drive efficiencies
• Optimise productivity and quality targets through utilising Engineering knowledge and cooperating with multi-disciplinary teams highlight areas of improvement
• Manage, monitors and drives project activities within a specific project or Operation
• Demonstrable balance between theoretical mechanical engineering and practical mechanical system maintenance, operations and management
• Proactively identifies, mitigates or escalate risks
• In addition to English proficiency, Portuguese and/or Spanish language skills would be highly advantageous