Superintendent Engineering

Sibanye-Stillwater; Rustenburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 750 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mining company in Rustenburg is seeking an Engineering Supervisor to oversee maintenance practices and ensure compliance with safety standards. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of supervisory experience in engineering, hold relevant qualifications like an Engineering Supervisor Certificate, and be medically fit for the work environment. You will play a critical role in maintaining equipment, planning schedules, and conducting audits to enhance operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ relevant experience in an Engineering supervisory capacity.
• Medically fit to work in the specific business area.
• Relevant valid Artisan Trade Certificate (Section 13 or Section 26D) including statement of results.

Responsibilities

• Identify and establish special tools for maintenance tasks.
• Ensure compliance with MHSA, OHSA standards in facilities.
• Provide direction for new equipment specifications.
• Monitor compliance to maintenance schedules and enforce quality standards.

Skills

Valid driver’s license

Clear security screening record

Operational compliance knowledge

Team leadership

Education

Engineering Supervisor Certificate of Competence

National N2 Certificate or higher

Artisan Trade Certificate (Section 13 or 26D)

Job description

Requirements

• Valid driver’s license (if applicable).
• Clear security screening record.
• Medically fit to work in the specific business area.
• At least 5 years’ relevant experience in an Engineering supervisory capacity.
• Relevant valid Artisan Trade Certificate (Section 13 or Section 26D) including statement of results.
• Engineering Supervisor Certificate of Competence.
• National N2 Certificate or higher.

Advantageous Qualifications

• NQF Level 5 Diploma Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Maintenance Facilities and Tools
  • Identifies and establishes the special tools required to perform the identified maintenance tasks to be carried out.
  • Ensures compliance to MHSA, OHSA and domestic requirements in all maintenance facilities provided.
  • Ensure that workshops have been upgraded to comply to existing best practice with workshop standards, environmental control and material flow.
  • Support a housekeeping program.
  • Determines, in conjunction with Supervisors, that all facilities and tools are adequate for basic maintenance tasks.
• Early Equipment Management
  • Provide direction and participates in new equipment specifications.
  • Conducts RCM exercises for all new equipment before commissioning establishing the maintenance strategies and task lists to be adopted.
  • Participate in Group wide RCM template development and review for primary production equipment and review for primary production equipment.
• Information Management
  • Ensures that equipment data, nomenclature, descriptions, component serialisation are correct as captured in the ERP System.
  • Updates technical manuals and documents as appropriate.
  • Develops equipment and process performance parameters for monitoring purposes.
  • Continuously reviews equipment task lists in the ERP-SAP system in light of maintenance improvements, equipment developments and modifications.
  • Participation and representation in relevant forums.
  • Keep up to date with the latest technology available.
• Planning and Scheduling
  • Facilitates a three to five-year maintenance management strategy for the operations.
  • Liaises with planned maintenance officers to ensure inspection and audit findings are scheduled for remediation in accordance with the established priorities.
  • Monitors compliance to maintenance schedules and programs interventions to remedy deviations.
  • Assist with the preparation of schedules and the supervision of major works/shutdowns.
  • Assist with the development of the critical spares and sub assembly register for all equipment on the operations.
• Analysis and Improvement
  • Assess equipment criticality and performance trends analysis to assure systemic problems are identified and make the necessary decisions or changes to current maintenance practices to remedy and fix the problems arising.
  • Facilitates failure analysis techniques for cross functional teams.
  • Participate in incident investigations (SIRs, Safety etc.).
  • Drive corrective actions to systemic problems that directly impact on the production process and improve overall maintenance effectiveness.
  • Identifies significant recurring failure patterns by analysing maintenance history.
  • Ensures that preventative actions are implemented to ensure cost effective maintenance programs.
  • Makes formalized recommendations to engineers.
• Standards Enforcement and Quality Assurance
  • Assist in establishing programs to maintain and improve the quality of maintenance and the maintenance systems employed to minimize unplanned downtime on key equipment.
  • Directs maintenance personnel to continuously evaluate compliance and strict adherence to the established procedures and policies.
  • Assist in establishing a monitoring system to measure maintenance quality and improvement initiatives.
  • Provide technical assistance and direction to other functional groups in order to drive quality improvements and enhance the maintenance function.
  • Interface with regulatory agencies for complaint investigation and technical interchanges to present the company viewpoint, and during regulatory inspections serve as the subject matter expert.
  • Assist in establishing cross functional teams to address cleaning, lubrication and first line maintenance functions
• Audits
  • Visit sites and equipment locations on the mine and undertake equipment audits and inspections in respect to engineering workmanship, quality and compliance with engineering policies, procedures and standards.
  • Proof and evaluate compliance of the maintenance application to legal and statutory regulations, standards, codes of practice, specifications and standard operating procedures.
  • Attest and direct remediation of deviations to standard technical, maintenance and operating practices.
  • Assess key maintenance functions to ascertain whether they efficiently and effectively support the operations.
  • Determine and recommend improvements to the maintenance processes from the audit findings.
  • Identify control procedures to use to ensure each key risk for equipment type is properly controlled and monitored.
  • Report problems identified and initiate action plans to address the problems.
  • Follow up on reported findings at appropriate intervals and ensure remedial actions have been done or in progress, maintain a tracking database for this purpose.
  • Give objective assessment of performance relative to best practice.
  • Appraise equipment and associated systems with assurance that they are fit for purpose.
  • Assists in addressing all key elements of asset management strategy using KPIs.
  • Facilitates cross functional engineering and production teams to minimize reactive maintenance.