Leads the safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance of fixed plant mechanical assets across the processing plant, associated infrastructure, and compressors at Geita Gold Mine.
Responsibilities
- Drive a strong safety culture through visible leadership, frontline engagement, site safety programs, and critical control verifications.
- Champion process safety, material risk management, insurance audit readiness, and compliance with statutory, health and safety, ethics, and governance requirements.
- Lead and coordinate mechanical maintenance activities within the processing plant and mine compressors to achieve production and reliability targets.
- Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs in line with OEM recommendations and engineering standards.
- Monitor equipment performance, review maintenance work orders, prioritize critical activities, and support troubleshooting of major mechanical equipment failures.
- Ensure timely execution of planned shutdowns and maintenance campaigns.
- Drive asset reliability improvement through reliability-centered maintenance, equipment criticality assessments, and maintenance optimization programs.
- Analyze equipment failure trends, lead root cause failure analysis, monitor reliability indicators, and implement corrective actions.
- Support life-cycle asset management initiatives aligned with long-term operational objectives.
- Prepare and manage maintenance budgets and forecasts, control expenditure, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Manage labour, contractor, and material costs and ensure effective utilization of maintenance resources.
- Manage interfaces with capital projects to support development, execution, commissioning, and operational readiness.
- Participate in Management of Change processes, engineering audits, governance activities, and action closure.
- Lead employee performance management, development, succession planning, talent management, coaching, and accountability.
- Support diversity and inclusion, wellness, fatigue management, and mentorship initiatives.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives aligned with long-term operational and asset management objectives.
Requirements
- Mechanical engineering knowledge applicable to fixed plant maintenance
- Strong management and leadership skills
- Financial, commercial, and project management skills
- Reliability improvement and root cause analysis skills
- Knowledge of preventive, predictive, condition-based, and reliability-centered maintenance
- Knowledge of SAP PM module
- Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Project, and Excel
- Technical communication skills, both oral and written
- Ability to delegate tasks and assign workers to project areas
- Ability to evaluate progress and adherence to deadlines
- Ability to develop innovative solutions to engineering and operational problems
- Ability to build and sustain high-performing teams
- Commitment to safety, compliance, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and company values
