Position Description

This position reports to the Maintenance Manager Successful candidate will be responsible for the below duties.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that safety protocols and all safety, health and environmental requirements are met.
• Ensure that the requirements of the Project Management Plans are adhered to and implemented.
• The assistant planner should be able to show that maintenance issues are not affected operations/production or causing other losses or delays.
• Equipment downtime should be within limits.
• Maintenance costs are not spiralling out of control.
• Should be seeing a reduction in unplanned /breakdown work and an increase in planned /preventative maintenance planner starts working.
• Conduct time inventory planning for spare parts.
• Backlog management:
• Manage the work order backlog system such that work is planned and scheduled based upon priority and is undertaken prior to equipment failure.
• Detailed work order planning
• Develop detailed scopes of work for future planned work schedules (weekly, shutdowns, annual plans) that improves resource effectiveness.
• Develop integrated maintenance schedules of work that optimizes equipment downtime and resource utilization.
• Develop equipment availability forecasts based upon planned work.
• Master Data update in the system with equipment.
• Develop and issue work management KPI’s and improvement plans.
• Develop, implement, and maintain safe work procedures and promote high safety and health awareness. Promote and comply with the Occupational Health & Safety Policy.
• Be responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the team.
• Ensure appropriate facilities, procedures, and workforce competence to achieve legal compliance, incident prevention and the achievement of tasks in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering from a recognized university.
• Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambian.
• Minimum two (2) years mining experience in planning function focused on either mobile fleet or fixed plant.
• High levels of competency in maintenance planning, integrated scheduling, backlog management, shutdown management, budget development, asset master data, maintenance KPI reporting and continuous improvement techniques.
• Competent in asset strategy development and life cycle costing.
• Competent in supporting processes such as contracts, procurement, rotables management, spares management.
• Must have been a supervisor for at least 3 years.
• Must be able to read understand and reference maintenance manuals.
• Medium level competency in budgeting tools.
• Must have a valid driver’s license
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in maintenance planning and scheduling of mobile equipment in the Mining environment.