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About This Role

• To perform mechanical maintenance planning and scheduling for the Mine Maintenance Department.
• To avail the required resources, provide support to maintenance work groups, reduce unplanned equipment maintenance, and prevent equipment breakdowns.

In This Role You Will:

Health, Safety and Environment

• Deliver on prescribed outcomes and / or provide support services, by applying Newmont’s health, safety and environment systems, policies, and protocols.
• Ensure that safety standards are adhered to.
• Contribute to and attend all safety meetings.

Manage New Work Requests

• Manage work requests, check for duplicates, review and validate requests.
• Prioritize, set due dates, and obtain approvals, as required.
• Manage aged work request backlogs.
• Convert notifications or work requests to work orders.

Manage Completion of Work Orders in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

• Update Component Tracking in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Check and ensure that Work Orders are completed with appropriate labor, materials, and coding in a timeous manner.
• Review closing comments and improvement suggestions on completed work orders and action these appropriately to improve future planning.
• Produce and review Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each period and take action to improve work.

Plan and Schedule Shutdown work as Required

• Review work orders and Maintenance Plans or MST’s for inclusion in shutdowns and change work groups, as required.
• Export shutdown work orders to Microsoft Project, as required.
• Determine shutdown critical path activities and update shutdown schedule as required.
• Update Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) based on changes made to the shutdown schedule.
• Finalize and commit shutdown scope, budget, and schedule.

Schedule Work Orders and Issue Work Packs

• Use Multi Resource Scheduling Tool (MRS) to schedule resources after work planning.
• Review outstanding work orders with priority P3 or P4 to identify jobs to be planned.
• Identify and document scheduling details including but not limited to job scope, task list, procedures, resources, skill sets, parts, materials, services, job duration, cranes and hoists, special tools, required plant, outage requirement, cost estimate, safety requirements, risk assessments, permits, isolations and quality checks.
• Create reservations and requisitions for parts, materials, services and special tools and equipment.
• Obtain approvals and set work order status to fully planned.
• Update and create maintenance plans with task lists or standard jobs for all repetitive corrective work.
• Create Bill of Materials (BOM) or Application Parts List (APL) and Work Packs.
• Organize and facilitate backlog review meetings with key stakeholders, as required.
• Assist Maintenance Supervisors to plan and resource P1 & P2 work orders, as required.
• Identify assets available for work and run forecasts for the next schedule period.
• Run and distribute the following reports for each scheduling period to relevant stakeholders: Outstanding Work Report, Weekly Scheduling Report, Work Order Parts and Material Availability Report.
• Prepare and review draft schedules with relevant stakeholders, update and finalize.
• Distribute committed schedule to stakeholders and prepare weekly schedule folders for each work group.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• HND in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.

Additional Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of planning and scheduling.
• Strong knowledge of the work management process.
• Knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards.
• Sound knowledge of the operation of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (Ellipse / SAP).
• General knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation.
• General knowledge of defect elimination methodologies and their interpretation.

Experience: 

• Minimum 3-4 years’ related work experience in Mechanical and Electrical equipment maintenance  (preferably in a gold mining environment).

Technical Skills:

• Strong planning, organizing and prioritizing skills.
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Sound communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Sound computer literacy skills – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and MS Project.
• Sound information monitoring and management skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks.
• Ability to provide supervision and support staff with clear, detailed, guidance to perform their assigned roles.

Behavioural Attributes:

• High level of accuracy.
• Detail focused.
• Follow-through.
• Goal oriented.
• Quality oriented.
• Reliable.
• Safety conscious.
• Self-motivated.
• Team player.
• Technically inclined.

Working Conditions

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described, are a representation of those that must be met by an employee to efficiently perform in this role.
  • Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.