JOB ADVERT – MAINTENANCE PLANNER (01 VACANCY)

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is seeking to recruit Maintenance Planner to join our team. The successful candidate for this position is expected to align to the Barrick DNA and drive a change within his team and the business and on a practical note will ensure activities in the Planning Section are effectively planned and undertaken in a safe and cost-effective manner to achieve targets in accordance to BGML Mining Safety Standards, Policies and Procedures.

Reporting to: Underground Electrical Forman

Work Schedule: 6 Weeks On / 3 Weeks Off

Duration: Permanent

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Comply with all site safety and environmental standards, procedures, and policies.
• Ensure safe work practices by reporting incidents/accident and making sure total adherence to all Safety, Occupational Health, AND Environment Policies, as well as other policies, procedures, and guidelines as well as proper use of requirement /mandatory PPE’s.
• Develop, maintain, monitor, and update maintenance manuals for Electrical Sections
• Prepare daily/weekly/monthly/quarter and annual maintenance reports with accurate information and on time.
• Compile, update and distribute backlogs reports and other mandated control reports.
• Maintain database and report on tracking work completion, scheduled vs unscheduled and other metrics to track and improve overall maintenance performance.
• Create accurate plans for scheduling and manpower forecasting for weekly/ monthly and long-term maintenance schedulers.
• Manage maintenance system including data quality and ensure improvement for the system.
• Monitor and measure Electrical costs and adjust planning accordingly.
• Analyze trends in equipment maintenance needs including breakdown, preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, MTBF and MTTR.
• In collaboration with other team members, review and prioritize electrical work requests.
• Plan for all preventive maintenance and shutdown activities and ensuring plans are adequately resourced.
• Organize and conduct pre and post shutdown meetings involving all stakeholders and ensure inputs are captured and communicated for review prior to and after shutdown.
• Ensure the maintenance management strategies for spare parts, planned maintenance task and planned outages increase electrical reliability.
• Identify and manage inventory level of critical spares and work closely with the supply chain Department to ensure parts availability and durability.
• Measure and report on maintenance planning Kay Performance Indicator (KPI’s) and compute MTBF and MTTR for critical equipment as suggested.
• Maintain electrical integrity and available ensuring that parts lists are documented, and Bill of Materials (BOM) are completed.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:                                                                             

• Minimum bachelor’s degree from recognized institution/University.
• Must have valid driving license.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 3 years in maintenance and planning experience (Experience in a mining environment will be an added advantage)

SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have management skills.
• Solid understand of maintenance planning and scheduling concepts
• Must have computer skills with solid understand and applications of SAP