Coordinator – Drills Job at Barrick Gold Corporation


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  • Company: Barrick Gold Corporation
  • Location: Zambia
  • State: Lumwana
  • Job type: Full-Time
  • Job category: Engineering Jobs in Zambia

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

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Closing Date: 12 Nov 2020