Head, Maintenance X2

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**: - To optimize maintenance resources, to ensure equipment availability to meet production targets.

**MAJOR CHALLENGES**:

- Equipment and skills availability aligned with maintenance targets. - Quality assured, maintenance philosophies and procedures aligned with best practise specifications. - To ensure a competent complement of Human resource capital. - To resolve unique technical constraints and incidents. - Variety and technology of resources to maintain in area of responsibility.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- N Dip: Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
- Trade: Artisan(Relevant) MQA/QCTO Accred ( Essential/Minimum )
- Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)
- B Tech Engineering (Relevant) (Recommended/Desirable)

**EXPERIENCE**:
5 years Maintenance within a Mining and equipment environment of which at least 2 years supervisory level Surface or Underground mining experience (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Continuous Improvement**
- Manage equipment maintenance work
- Responsible for optimised routine and breakdown maintenance activities
- Initiate continuous improvement initiatives
- Conduct research work in order to initiate process changes
- Liaise with other sections
- Manage projects and technology to enhance maintenance operations
- Conduct desktop and feasibility studies toward improving process flow

**Customer and Client Relationship Management**
- Support core business and ensure appropriate stakeholder relationships
- Manage internal and external relations
- Provide relevant support and legislative service to applicable stakeholders

**Equipment Control and Maintenance**
- Contribute to meeting production targets by attending to breakdown and routine work maintenance targets within functional area
- Ensure effective services and resource management, optimal use of physical assets and available resources
- Assume responsibility for quality of maintenance work
- Conduct trouble-shooting
- Complete, process and update all records and documentation

**Functional Excellence**
- Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
- Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication and bureaucracy

**Performance Management**
- Lead team transformational leadership practices
- Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance
- Oversee recruitment and Human Resources (HR) related activities of reporting staff
- Perform faired reasonable tasks related to job

**Safe and Healthy Work Environment**
- Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
- Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
- Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

**Behavioural Alignment**

Demonstrates the following:

- Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
- Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
- Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
- Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
- Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.