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Group Engineering Manager
Sandown, Sandton, Johannesburg, GautengPOSITION: Group Engineering Manager
LOCATION: Sandown, Sandton
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
LOCATION: Sandown, Sandton
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide Engineering Technical Support and Incorporating New Technologies for the Group.
- Overseeing Project Management, Design and Construction (Planning, Design, Construction, Commissioning and Handover) for all engineering functions in the Group.
- Ensure the safety, installation, operation and maintenance of all machinery and equipment.
- Ensure compliance with the provisions of the Mine Health and Safety Act and Regulations (Act 29 of 1996) in area of responsibility.
- Overseeing the metallurgical production plant and tailings storage facilities of the engineering sections in the Group.
- Overseeing all aspects of engineering of the underground and surface operations.
- Ensuring the implementation and maintaining standards, procedures and codes of practice.
- Ensuring effective labor utilization in the engineering department.
- Overseeing and monitoring the engineering expenditure and budgeting. Maintain and establish a cost system with effective budgets parameters, reconciling of all engineering accounts (e.g., Eskom bill, Invoices etc.)
- Ensure the work cycle management is functional and deviations are reviewed i.e., maintenance schedules, works orders & breakdowns
- Ensuring the implementation of a maintenance plan - short, medium, and long term inclusive of inspection, log sheets and logbooks, condition monitoring and planned maintenance shutdowns
- Identify value added engineering projects and implement.
- Develop and maintain a feedback and reporting system to manage activities in your area of responsibility.
- Enforce engineering data procurement i.e. OEM manuals, drawings in the centralized library.
- Guide and assisting to reduce repeat breakdowns through instituting discipline on breakdown investigations.
- Guide and assist to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) on breakdowns Requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- GCC Mines and Works.
- National Diploma/BTech Degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
- At least 10 years of experience in the mining industry, both underground and surface.
- Experience in Process Plant, Operation and Maintenance (TMMs, Conveyor Belts, Screening, Thickening, etc.