Maintenance Specialist Furnaces (Mining / Risk Management / SHEQ / Failure Analysis) – Northwest, South Africa

 

 

Job Description:

Our client is an international mining house who is seeking a Maintenance Specialist Furnaces, who will be responsible for continuously improving the Asset Capability Assurance process in a safe manner, through Root Cause Failure Analysis on high frequency and high-cost breakdowns and analysing maintenance performance. The ideal incumbent will have experience with working in the development and analysis of Electric arc furnace maintenance performance in the mining industry.

 

Responsibilities:

• Identify and assess level of issue-based risk exposures in area of responsibility by considering exposures to business, financial, legal issues, people, equipment, material, environment, processes, etc.
• Consider the level of risk, apply mitigation and implement control measures for residual risk (set objectives, minimum requirements, etc.).
• Utilise the Integrated Management System (IMS) to initiate, investigate and report SHEQ status.
• Identify and assess level of issue-based risk exposures in area of responsibility by considering exposures to business, financial, legal issues, people, equipment, material, environment, processes, etc.
• Ensure Customer Satisfaction.
• Proactively seek ways of improving equipment reliability, planned maintenance and physical maintenance in the plant
• Initiate task list reviews.
• Develop maintenance plans (frequencies, maintainable items).
• Initiate plan review and review maintenance plans.
• Perform Pareto analyses, correlation analyses and report top 5 chronic losses.
• Interview production personnel with regards to trips and artisans with regards to repetitive trips.
• Arrange RCFA investigation and facilitate the problem-solving session
• Recommend best solutions to problems through the change management process.
• Record actions arising from RCA.
• Monitor recurring failures related to implemented RCA's (KPI until close out).
• Track Condition Monitoring (CM) results.
• Analyse equipment failure history.
• Log equipment problems identified for further action.
• Develop a list of clear problem statements and business cases for problems requiring RCA.
• Monitor and share Company-wide similarities / learning opportunities by using the Intranet Sites and SAP History.
• Monitor and advertise latest maintenance and technology developments.
• Develop, maintain and monitor adherence to maintenance standards and specifications.
• Ensure the latest techniques are being applied with respect to NDT and condition monitoring.
• Advise in building reliability and maintainability in the design of new or modified equipment.
• Ensure sustained FLAC improvements.
• Maintain Scope of Work data base (Specifications, Quality Plan, Witness points).

 

 

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• At least 4 years’ relevant experience
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Degree or National Diploma
• Electric arc furnace maintenance.
• SAP

 

Benefits and Contractual information:

• Permanent

 

If you wish to apply for the position please send your CV to Ruan Roodt at rroodt@camining.com

 

Please visit www.camining.com for more exciting opportunities.

 

Ruan Roodt

Senior Executive Consultant

CA Mining

 

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.