SUPERINTENDENT, MECHANICAL | MINING CAREER AT FQM, KALUMBILA, SOLWEZI, ZAMBIA
Requisition Number: JR3519| Country: Zambia | Contract Type: On-going| Location: Solwezi | Category: Engineering
Key Responsibilities:
The holder of this position will be required to adhere to all relevant requirements, policies, procedures and legal regulations pertaining to health, safety, environment and quality, as well as finance, human resource, and any other regulations as required by the company and relevant to the level of the role and responsibilities of the function.
- KPI 95% plant availability.
- Mentor and Develop subordinates, encouraging initiative and effectiveness.
- Ensuring the safety of employees and effectiveness of equipment at all times.
- Ensuring the compliance of statutory inspections is done in a timely manner, internally and externally.
- Ensuring the integrity of the plant by managing the condition monitoring program effectively.
- Ensuring the applicability of maintenance practices is maintained at all levels in the section, including good housekeeping of the plant and workshops.
- Managing Continuous Improvement and Projects associated with the plant.
- Management of employee training to improve good maintenance practices and improve discipline in the section.
- Making sure plant availability of 95% is achieved cost effectively. This will involve active participation with defect elimination strategies and employee performance management, particularly with respect to empowerment, succession planning and accountability.
- Communicate with other sections/departments on all critical requirements to achieve set production targets.
- Manage the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of equipment.
- Ensuring reports and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) are done on all critical equipment and events.
- Ensure all Safety procedures are followed at all times by all in their respective crews.
- Ensure that all Break downs and handovers are well executed.
- Any other Duties as Directed by the Engineering Manager.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 Certificate
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical/Mechanical
- Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ).
- Member of Engineering Registration Board (ERB)
- Possess strong interpersonal skills
Experience:
Minimum 13 years’ experience in Mining Fixed Plant.
Work Experience with :
- Blowers and Compressors
- Multi-stage/ single stage pumps
- Concentrator plant
- Smelter Plant
- Refinery plant
- Neutralisation/Leach plants
- Oxygen plant Main Air compressor and Oxygen Compressor maintenance.
- Autoclave Mechanical seal systems
- Understand safety requirements for High Pressure Leach (HPL) and associated equipment.
- Acid plants
- Gravity Concentrators
- Electrowinning, Solvent Extraction and Tank farms.
- Lime Plant
- Gold Plant Mechanical Equipment
- Shutdown Planning and Supervision experience
- Understand rotable spares systems procedure
- Literacy in M/S Outlook, Excel, Word, Power points, AutoCAD
Behavioural Traits:
- Team player
- Organised
- Good Communication skills
- Bold initiative
- Thinking Safety
Deadline: 22 September 2021