About This Role

• To be accountable for maintaining and controlling maintenance spare parts for the site; also, the day to day operations including stock availability, reserving, and pulling, kitting, and staging spare parts.
• To support the warehouse if required on daily cycle counts; aiding plant personnel in identifying and locating spare parts; and assisting Finance to perform audits.

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.

Parts Availability

• Properly store, segregate, and protect materials, parts, and supplies.
• Ensure accuracy of parts issued.
• Follow proper procedures when receiving, stocking, issuing, and disposing of all spare parts.
• Follow proper procedures for performing inventory counts and audits.
• Provide emergency support for locating and ordering out of stock and / or obsolete critical parts.

Maintenance Work Management in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

• Update component tracking in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Ensure that work orders are completed with appropriate labor, materials, and coding in a timeous manner.
• Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), review performance and take continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support a flexible work schedule that includes overtime, shift changes, and emergency call-in.
• Support spare parts ordering and cost saving initiatives.
• Review and support plant shutdown materials / parts management.
• Determine shutdown critical path activities and ensure that all parts are booked out and staged.
• Finalize and commit shutdown parts budget and schedule.

Kitting and Staging of Materials or Parts

• Support plant SAP system from a spare parts perspective by kitting required spare parts, reviewing safety stock to ensure sufficient inventory to support preventive maintenance activities, updating changes, and submitting reservations for parts used.
• Assist with the kitting and parts coordination of major focus plant and utility outages as well as long-term maintenance schedules.
• Support spare parts ordering and cost saving initiatives.
• Obtain work approvals to release parts ordered or reserved, as required.
• Create reservations and requisitions for parts, materials, services and special tools and equipment.
• Update the Bill of Materials (BOM) or Application Parts List (APL) and Work Packs.
• Organize and facilitate Parts Availability Review Meetings with key stakeholders, as required.
• Run and distribute Work Order Parts and Material Availability Reports, to relevant stakeholders.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Bachelors’ degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• HND 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 four (4) years’ work experience in Mechanical or Electrical and Instrumentation Maintenance (preferably in a gold process plant).
• Minimum one (1) year of experience working in a spare parts department for a processing plant, preferably within a highly regulated industry like mining.

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.
• 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.
  • While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to lift parts, climb stairs, or walk with parts form one location to another.