Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 29 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Lumwana Mining Company seeks to recruit a highly motivated and committed employee for the position of a Shovels and Excavators to join the versatile Maintenance team.
Reporting to the Assistant Maintenance Manager Pit, you will be responsible for providing leadership and execution strategies to deliver industry best asset performance at Lumwana Mining Company together with creating an enabling environment to achieve and exceed the business plan. Your duties will include but are not limited to the following:
• Promote and encourage compliance with the Safety & Health and Environmental policies, standards, procedures, and regulations.
• Identify and respond to risks by developing and implementing Environmental, Health and Safety plans in the workplace with the aim of entrenching a zero-harm culture.
• Prepare and deliver on the annual maintenance budget in collaboration with both mining and reliability teams.
• Improve reliability of Shovels and Excavators to ensure that major production stoppages are averted, and budget availabilities and throughput is achieved.
• Manage the maintenance of Shovels and Excavators
• Maintain the company’s assets in a responsible manner through allocation of maintenance resources, critical spares, and demanding quality of workmanship.
• Integrate demand planning with supply chain to optimize stock levels and prevent write-off of obsolete stock.
• Conduct life cycle costing analysis of major equipment to inform decisions on replacement/refurbishment/component change out.
• Increase the asset management maturity level through training, work management measures, defect elimination, asset tactics development and use of condition monitoring.
• Ensure that the capital expenditure program is supported from a maintenance perspective, to support the LOM plan.
• Effectively manage and monitor Shovels OEM’s and contactors to ensure high quality service delivery.
• Actively promote full cooperation between mobile maintenance and mining operations
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement strategies, communicate and implement.
• Monitor equipment condition, measure and report overall equip performance.
• Provide in depth technical support and troubleshooting mentorship to the maintenance execution team.
• Carry out quality assurance reviews of planned and breakdown maintenance activities ensuring that it is carried out to defined OEM, site and legislative requirements.
• Develop work procedures for the safe and quality execution of maintenance activities.
• Develop training and assessment plans that are tracked against each person.
• Develop and deploy improvement projects that improves work execution quality and people development.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following requirements:
• Full Grade 12 School Certificate.
• Advanced Craft Certificate in Heavy Equipment Repair/Diploma/Degree in Mechanical /Electrical Engineering.
• Certified applicable Trade qualification.
• Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia
• Significant experience (10 years) in Heavy Earthmoving Equipment maintenance.
• Experience in large multi pit operations utilizing large scale mining equipment.
• Able to clearly demonstrate the aptitude to drive a light vehicle and hold a current Zambian driver’s license.
• Be physically fit and be able to pass a pre-employment medical examination.
• Competent in incident/accident investigation
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team safely and improve team safety awareness.
• High level understanding of all relevant legislation affecting the employment and safety of persons in the mining industry in Zambia.
• High levels of competency in the maintenance execution of Mining equipment such as PC3000, PC7000 and PC8000 Electric and Diesel Shovels and Excavators
• Medium levels of competency in the use of CMMS systems (e.g., SAP), MS office products (e.g., Word, Excel, Project, Power Point)
• Demonstrated experience in improving equipment performance and developing people ability to show initiative and have good interpersonal skills.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
• Applicants that meet the above stated requirements are invited to submit their CVs to the Job Portal link: http://jobs.barrick.com/. 
• Barrick has a strong commitment to environmental, health and safety management.
• Barrick offers employment opportunities to both qualified women and men.
• Women who meet the above qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply.
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• Lumwana Mining Company does not solicit for payment of any funds towards the recruitment process.
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