Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate daily engineering activities, ensuring safe and efficient execution of maintenance and operational tasks.
• Oversee planned and preventative maintenance programmes for electrical and mechanical equipment and infrastructure.
• Manage breakdowns, fault-finding, troubleshooting and root cause investigations to minimise equipment downtime.
• Ensure compliance with applicable mining legislation, regulations, engineering standards and statutory requirements.
• Develop, write, review and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), safe work procedures and engineering instructions.
• Ensure that SOPs and work procedures reflect current operational practices, legislative requirements, risk assessments and engineering best practices.
• Facilitate the implementation and communication of approved procedures to relevant personnel.
• Conduct regular workplace inspections, engineering audits and compliance assessments.
• Ensure that engineering risks are identified, assessed and effectively controlled.
• Monitor equipment performance, reliability and maintenance effectiveness, implementing improvement initiatives where necessary.
• Manage engineering personnel, contractors and service providers, ensuring accountability and adherence to safety and performance standards.
• Ensure effective planning and utilisation of engineering resources, labour, tools, equipment and materials.
• Investigate engineering incidents and deviations, recommend corrective actions for zero repeats and monitor implementation thereof.
• Compile and review engineering reports, maintenance records, operational statistics and performance indicators.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance equipment availability, reliability, safety and operational efficiency.