Job Description
Provide Asset Management solutions to improve asset up time and at the same time reduce maintenance costs to meet the strategic objectives as determined by the Company. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of all employees and contractors by compliance with the Company's Health and Safety systems, policies and procedures.
Responsibilities
Ensure compliance to relevant statutory requirements.
Ensure that mechanical maintenance employees and contractors are provided with a safe work environment.
Ensure that mechanical maintenance employees and contractors are trained and found competent in all aspects of the work requirements including health, safety and environmental related requirements.
Provide a coaching and mentoring role to the mechanical maintenance employees.
Ensure that all job instructions, JSEAs, SWIs are in place, reviewed and updated regularly.
Provide fit for purpose tools, equipment and infrastructure to enable maintenance and project tasks to be performed safely and effectively.
Compliance to environmental standards and regulatory environmental requirements are maintained.
Ensure that assets are fit for duty and capable of achieving the availability, reliability and production targets through management of maintenance activities.
Ensuring that the Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Programs are fully functional to achieve optimal life cycle costs.
Analyse and reassess equipment maintenance requirements and frequencies and make recommendations to the maintenance planning department when changes are deemed necessary.
Assisting in developing and working to short and long term maintenance plans.
Actively supporting site and department improvement initiatives evidenced by department achieving improvement targets and 100% completion of agreed improvement projects in own area of responsibility.
Assuring that engineering, maintenance and operational solutions are being implemented through the Work Management & Loss Elimination processes.
Preparing fixed plant expenditure forecasts and budgets on a monthly and annually basis.
Monitoring expenditure against the budget and investigating variances.
Proposing and achieving efficiency and waste reduction targets.
Compliance with the annual expense and capital budgets.
Liaise with technical, processing and maintenance personnel to ensure that asset downtime is eliminated and assets are utilised optimally.
Qualifications
Minimum 5 years management experience within the mining industry
Tertiary Qualifications within fitter/machinist
A class driver's licence
Ability to lead, mentor and support the mechanical team
Strong focus and prioritization on safe work practices
About The Team
Harmony is the largest gold producer by volume in South Africa and is a significant operator of gold tailings retreatment facilities. In Papua New Guinea, Harmony owns and operates the Hidden Valley mine and owns 50% of the Tier 1 Wafi-Golpu copper-gold project. In Australia, Harmony owns the high-grade CSA copper mine in Cobar, NSW and is constructing the Eva Copper Mine in Cloncurry, QLD with first production targeted for the second half of the 2028 calendar year. These assets are supported by the Harmony Australasia regional corporate office located in Milton, Brisbane.