Coordinator : Drills | Barrick Gold Corporation
Lumwana Mining Company Limited (LMC), a copper mining company owned by Barrick Gold Corporation is situated in the North-Western region of Zambia, some 300 km west of the Zambian Copperbelt and 95 km southwest of the provincial capital of Solwezi. The mine is a multi-pit, multi-staged operation mining approximately 100MT of ore and waste per annum and producing copper concentrates containing an average of 120,000 tonnes of copper metal per year over a twenty (20) year mine life, making Lumwana the largest single open-cut copper mine in Africa. The Company is now looking for an experienced and qualified individual to be considered for the position of Coordinator – Drills.
Role Summary
Reporting to the Superintendent – Shovels & Drills, you will be responsible for supporting the operations in delivering mobile equipment at budgeted availabilities and performance through the robust execution of the approved maintenance strategy.
Responsibilities
- Execute planned maintenance activities
- Execute of planned inspections, component changeouts and corrective work to defined OEM and site standards
- Execute planned work within a defined schedule (e.g. +/- 10% of hours)
- Identify future corrective work from planned inspections
- Proactively assess equipment risk and ensure critical backlog work is placed into forwarding schedules
- Ensure rebuild components are removed, cleaned and issued to supply for repairs
- Manage unplanned maintenance activities
- Source labor and materials
- Execute unplanned maintenance to defined OEM and site standards
- Undertake 5 why / root cause analysis for defined equipment downtime events and execute corrective action plans
- Develop the skills and competencies of the work team members
- Learning and development plans were undertaken for each team member
- Competency assessments are undertaken on team members
- ETAMS competency scorecard regularly reviewed and updated
- Employee Lines of Progression managed
- Work is assigned to competent and authorized persons
- Manage costs within budget
- Undertake budgeted work to schedule
- Motivate required unbudgeted work
- Understand expenditure and future forecast spend against budget
- Develop forward forecast and budgets in conjunction with Planning and Engineering
- Develop and deploy health, safety and environment improvement plans
- Deploy Management of Change processes by initiating management of change requests for any plant and equipment change
Experience & Qualifications
- Diploma in Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering
- Member of Engineering Institution of Zambia
- Minimum of 10 years mining experience
- Demonstrated experience in large multi pit operations maintaining large-scale drilling equipment to OEM requirements ( e.g. Sandvik DK45’S, Atlas DML Series machines)
- Demonstrated experience of leading teams
- Demonstrated experience in developing the skills and competencies of people
- Demonstrated competency in work management, fault finding, root cause analysis (RCA) and defect elimination processes applicable to large scale drilling equipment
- Awareness of condition monitoring techniques inclusive of oil condition, thermography, vibration analysis, thickness testing, ultrasonic testing
Closing Date: 12 Nov 2020
