Engineer: Maintenance - Swakopmund
Swakop Uranium
- Swakopmund, Erongo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Participate in the maintenance, inspection and repair of equipment.
- Coordinate the receipt of new equipment.
- Produce contingency plans and remedial actions to minimize operational and technical risks.
- Ensure maintenance is carried out in compliance to Company policies and procedures and work instructions.
- Determine maintenance project schedules and track progress.
- Identify downtime root causes and implement preventative maintenance programs to eliminate downtime causes.
- Identify and determine areas where deviations from standard RCM practices are acceptable.
- Investigate and resolve user problems, initiate system corrections, monitor and expedite system changes-in-progress and test corrections and enhancement.
- Analyse RCM data/reports, investigate causes of delays and deviation and implement action to optimise process performance and efficiency targets.
- Identify production losses and abnormal high maintenance cost assets. Adhere to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
- Implement approved reliability improvement initiatives.
- Develop, investigate and implement enhancements to the reliability centered maintenance and reliability centered spares system.
- Provide input in preparation of the section’s annual operational budget.
- BTech / Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering with 3 years’ of Engineering experience.
- Experience in a Mining environment will be a distinct advantage.
- Exposure in asset management and repairs of open pit heavy duty equipment such as Haul Truck, Shovel, Wheel Loader, Drill etc.
- Proven experience in multi-disciplinary continuous improvement projects and exposure to research and development work into new / improved project.
- Exposure in equipment life extension and improvement of equipment reliability.
- Good track record of contract & contractor coordination.
- Valid Code B/BE Driver’s License.