Planned Maintenance Officer Full Time

A High-Performance mining company based in the Northern Cape has an exciting opportunity for a Miner Drill & Blast. The successful candidate will assist in setting up the engineering planned maintenance department to ultimately provide equipment capability, reliability and availability to Operations through application of the maintenance service for the greatest operating profit. The role reports to the Planned Maintenance Coordinator.

Responsibilities:

• Asset care strategy
• Conduct a task analysis and take appropriate action to address identified risks.
• Conduct an issue based risk assessment and take appropriate action.
• Comply with Company Policies, Standards and procedures.
• Ensure all maintenance work procedures are carried out in accordance with the health and safety standards and practices.
• Comply with legal requirements within area of responsibility.
• Initiate and follow emergency procedures when and if required.
• Preventive maintenance
• Detect and prevent fraud
• Ensure equipment cost are captured against function location.
• Maintain SAP master data against financial policies and procedures.
• Monitor equipment performance against design parameters and budgeted operating cost.
• Analysis and improvement
• Facilitates failure analysis techniques for cross functional teams
• Identifies significant recurring failure patterns by analysing maintenance history
• Ensures that preventative actions are implemented to ensure cost effective maintenance programs
• Makes formalized recommendations to engineers
• Planning and scheduling
• Ensures that maintenance schedules are agreed upon by production and engineering at formal weekly meetings
• Ensures that capacity planning is done on a daily basis, covering both preventative and corrective maintenance
• Employs critical path analysis for shutdowns

Requirements:

• Grade 12
• Trade Certificate
• Management Maintenance Certificate
• Law and Standards (Engineering Supervisory Certificate)
• Experienced in managing a computerized planned maintenance system
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Planned Maintenance Officer within an underground mining environment.

If you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to mining@rporecruitment.us or visit our website: www.rporecruitment.co.za

Alternatively, you are also welcome to contact Lee Wilhelm on LinkedIn.

Please note that correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates for this position. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.