Group Engineering Manager – Global operations

Introduction

This position will be based at the Head Office in Woodmead.

Description

This position is responsible to provide Engineering Support to Minopex global Group Operations. This will include but not be limited to the role out and standardisation of a maintenance management system. The role will have a strong focus on supporting the operational sites in terms of safety, quality, standards, and service objectives using continuous improvement methodologies. This position would require work to be done for internal and external clients, conduct maintenance gap analyses and operational audits as per the company requirements. Develop client documentation and reports as required.

Duties & Responsibilities

Engineering

• Technical Lead for maintenance management and associated utilities to support Minopex Group Operational sites and ensure appropriate maintenance standards are formulated and rolled out to all sites and client requirements.
• Be a reliability subject matter expert to understand the critical aspect of condition monitoring requirements and be the point of reference for audits
• Leads , manages and implements measures that takes the Minopex engineering centre of excellence to world standards on quality and delivery retaining and growing our client bases globally
• Embraces the best fit technology and innovation to drive the best in class service from this centre of excellence
• Leads continuous improvement processes
• Evaluates maintenance strategies to ensure the effective design and implementation thereof across all the sites
• Maximizes equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs
• Develops, reviews, and improves documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions etc
• Leads repair programmes on equipment
• Ensures that the QA and QC policies, inspection techniques are implemented for all equipment repair types
• Critical analyses of all site equipment and spares requirements

Operational Management

• Adheres to all regulatory requirements and participates in audits to enhance maintenance efficiencies. Monitors and follows up to ensure timely completion of all commitments
• Participates in and writes quality investigations and Change Controls as required and is the Owner of applicable action items
• Provides technical support for maintenance requirements to the sites as required
• Optimizes maintenance strategies (preventive and corrective) for the system
• Works in conjunction with team members to ensure that the system provides a computerized maintenance management system, spare parts inventory, planning, and scheduling.
• Works with quality, operations, and engineering to support the Sites
• Leads technical troubleshooting efforts to determine the root cause of equipment failures and underperformance and implements timely and effective corrective actions
• Drives implementation of continuous improvement actions
• Leads a Team of reliability engineers to improve plant uptime and effective cost control for life cycle costing.

Financial

• Manages personal and project budget man-hours
• Ensures maintenance requirements are in accordance with capital budget and quantities
• Ensures proper change management procedures are adhered to
• Assists with the budget process for the maintenance function

Client Relations

• Ensures that all interactions with Clients are conducted in a professional and respectful manner
• Ensures that Clients are kept informed and up to date on the status of project technical aspects
• Ensures that Minopex Operations remains the Clients Engineering service provider of choice

Qualification Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical or a related technical field)

Experience And Skills Requirements

• At least ten (10) years experience in a similar role is required with:
• Maintenance excellence experience in a mining operations environment, including implementing upgraded processes
• Experience addressing site infrastructure needs
• Processing, mining, and/or machine control systems experience
• Good knowledge of CMMS, Lean techniques, statistical analysis, and automated systems
• Exceptional oral and written communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent problem identification, solving, and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Excellent Computer skills, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strong engineering project management skills