Responsabilities

Attached to a mine site, the goal is to ensure good working performance and conditions of the fleet of equipment’s executing the maintenance policy and procedures of BIA and Manufacturers.

· Perform inspections, preventive maintenance operations, troubleshooting and repairs on the mining equipment under contract (SLA or RAMP) to ensure machines contractual availability at optimized costs.

· To guarantee the good quality of technical diagnostics and interventions on the machines, following OEM’s guidelines.

· Manage the « Assistant Fleet Managers », « Supervisors » and their team: organize work, dispatch staffs and optimize their utilization rate.

· Report and analyze technical data’s with a logical of continuous improvement.
· Mastering knowledge of machines (reading of shop manuals, parts books,.) and develop knowledge of local staff.
· Plan jobs: prepare and manage human resources tooling & parts to reduce emergency orders.
· Do daily inspections, perform technical diagnosis, analyze machine data’s (VHMS, KOWA, etc.) and organize curative maintenance.
· Analyze failures: frequency, MTBF, etc. and propose improvement actions.
· Make sure the actual SMR are taken from each machine and given to Planning Dpt.
· Providing technical feedback to Planning Dpt and Senior Management: including but not limited to status of ongoing jobs, jobs to plan, jobs closed, backlogs.
· Check and/or amend recommended parts lists to order for the planned jobs (midlife, OVH, etc.) in order to reduce inventory value and unused parts.
· Give validation to issue of parts from warehouse.
· Check the accuracy and completeness of each work order + sign it + close it before transmission to Planning Dpt. If needed, give instructions to open backlog work order.
· Housekeeping: make sure works places, LV, tools are always orderly and kept clean.
· Systematically run failure reports and/or OEM technical reports (TSI).
· Daily use of ERP maintenance system in place (Ramos and/or other) and other Komatsu and/or business tools (SMAP, etc).
. Participate in updating risk assessment.
· Ensure that the HSE operational procedures are respected & followed.
· Promote hazards identification in work places.
· Increase awareness of his/her staff to risk analysis before every activity.
· Make sure the staff under your responsibilities; maximize performance and lifetime of PPE and tools/equipment for tasks.
· Define needs of HSE training of staff and make sure they actively participate to the organized training sessions.
· Be part of every mandatory HSE meeting + conduct safety meeting periodically.
· Realize JHA before each job having potential risks.
· Increase the awareness of staff to SOP linked to jobs to perform.
· Follow the HSE KPI’s and participate to improve them.
· Ensure works places, LV, tools are always orderly and kept clean.
· Report accidents and near misses to HSE team and management.

Education and Experience

– Languages : ideally French and English (good knowledge of the second language required)
– Hold a technical degree (electromechanical or mechanical)
– Computer skills : ERP + MS Office
– Experience in Africa or in another country as expatriate
– Experience in mining (or at least in construction / civil works) required

Competences

– Leadership: Be a manager and a leader (People Mgmt)
– Teamwork
– Developing and coaching others
– Stress resistant
– Results orientation
– Rigorous and accurate
– High capacity to identify and manage priorities
– Deep technical knowledge
– Able to take initiative and being pro-active
– SAP knowledge is a plus