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Organization Background 

Kascco Ltd, is specialized in Contract Mining, Civil construction, Drilling, Crushing, and screening, projects (Bulk earth works) and Plant hire. For over 14 years, Kascco Ltd has been offering its clients a series of potential solutions adapted to each of their sites and coping with stringent logistical constraints. Our team includes some of the most highly skilled and experienced professionals in the industry. Kascco prides themselves in their ability to transport and hire quality construction and mining machinery to their clients as well as the execution of highly quality construction and mining projects. Quality policy statement Kascco concentrates on providing its customers with quality products. To this end the group mobilizes its management skills and uses its resources in the most efficient and cost-effective manner to produce projects of the required standard and quality.

Kascco limited, is an equal opportunity employer.

We are therefore inviting applications to fill the below vacant position.

1. WORKSHOP SUPERIENTENDENTS X 2 – KALUMBILA SITE

Position Description

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

• Develop short, medium, and long-term integrated maintenance schedules of work that optimizes equipment downtime, resources, costs, and, which reduces long term equipment integrity risk.
• Undertake reliability improvement programs that include defect elimination, equipment condition risk and contingency planning, Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) compliance of work executed.
• Develop life cycle costs models for critical assets that optimize costs, and which identify repair v replacement decisions.
• Develop fully planned work scopes for future planned work schedules.
• Develop and update master data into the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for new and existing equipment.
• Ensuring all technical faults and breakdowns are dealt with expeditiously and economically.
• Ensure compliance by all subordinates to all Quality, Health & Safety standards on the mine as may be specified by legal and other associated requirements and providing periodic reports as and when required.
• Performs trouble shooting and diagnostics procedure on mine equipment and vehicles.
• Record observations and findings during diagnostics run and decide on the correct method of repair, as necessary.
• Supervise and follow up on actual progress of each individual repair job.
• Provide on-the-job training as well as coaching and mentoring to mechanics and helpers.
• Follow up repair order, registering the time taken to complete each task.
• Responsible for reliability and dependability by providing all fields with the technical assistance that they require from the workshop.
• Evaluate the training requirements of his subordinates and discuss/ agree training needs with the subordinates.
• Conduct final check/test driving for all HEMM equipment/vehicles prior to release.
• Responsible for implementing HSEQ standards within the workshop.
• Test and approve operators for truck, excavator, loaders, cranes, grader, backhoe and dump trucks.
• Assists with the interviewing and conducts heads-on testing of technical applicants.
• Conduct annual performance appraisal of all direct subordinates.
• Signs and approves employee timesheets.
• Support and full comply with company and departmental policies and procedures.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

• Full Grade Twelve Certificate.
• Degree in Mechanical/ Electrical/ industrial Engineering
• Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia
• Holder of a valid Zambian driver’s license.
• Minimum of 5 years mining experience with demonstrated experience in large multi pit operations maintaining large-scale heavy mobile equipment and Original Equipment Maintenance OEM requirements
• Demonstrated competency in equipment strategy development using Root Cause Analysis (RCM) methods, life cycle costing, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), long term planning, shutdown management, budget development and cost forecasting.
• Demonstrated competency in condition monitoring techniques and data interpretation.
• Demonstrated understanding and compliance with mining regulations
• Has strong proficiency in the use of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems.