Equipment Health Coordinator job Opportunity in Zambia

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has grown from a small mineral operation in Zambia into a multinational mining business in less than two decades, with a global portfolio of copper and nickel assets in Europe, Africa, Australia and South America. This phenomenal growth is down to FQM people who have strived to be Bolder, Smarter and Driven in everything they do.

In March 2013, First Quantum Minerals acquired Inmet Mining Corporation, a Canadian-based mining company primarily producing copper and zinc from mines in Finland, Spain and Turkey, with also a major copper deposit under development in Panama, known as Cobre Panama. The combination of the First Quantum and Inmet assets has created one of the world’s leading copper producers with a geographically diversified portfolio of high-quality operations and development projects in eight countries across five continents.

With a strategic plan to produce more than 1.3 million tonnes per annum of copper within five years, the Company is poised to become the largest, widely-held pure-play copper producer and one of the top five copper producers in the world.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the planning team is planning and scheduling medium and low priority corrective repairs in a timely manner and that any identified work that impacts the long term plan is managed effectively
• Ensure accurate maintenance schedules are developed by the planning team
• Contribute to Pre-Outage review meetings for all shutdowns that are greater than 48hrs in duration
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to improve equipment reliability
• Review KPI’s and identify areas of improvement to work management practices
• Provide input to Work Management audits with the aim of determining the level of compliance and improving the execution of maintenance practices onsite
• Provide leadership and mentoring for your subordinates, including ongoing training and development, performance management, conflict management and crisis management. Ensuring the right people are in the right job
• Ensure the Maintenance Department are capturing sufficient defect and job information in the relevant systems to support the reliability function
• Contribute to weekly, Monthly and YTD performance KPI’s. Set up contracts as necessary with consultants or contractors for project work
• Ensure the Warehouse Team are effectively managing parts to deliver the required output for the maintenance team
• With the assistance of the Planner / Scheduler identify backlog tasks that can be included in major outage scopes.
• Ensure all component change out strategy tasks have been updated on the completion of work

Knowledge, Training, & Experience Required:

• Relevant trade and/or diploma
• Minimum of 5 years post trade experience in a maintenance role.
• At least 2-3 years years in a supervisory role.
• Experience in maintenance of mobile mining equipment is essential

Practical/ Specialist Skills:

• MS Office
• Knowledge of Pronto or other CMMS is an advantage
• 3-5 years mining fleet maintenance planning experience in an opencast environment is essential
• CAT / Komatsu mining equipment is required – ultra-class rigid dump trucks and rope shovel experience being an advantage.
• Demonstrable experience with maintenance management systems and RCA will be a significant advantage.
• Ability to develop and implement processes and workflows aligned with operational requirements

Other Skills and Competencies:

• The ability and drive to supervise a planning and reliability engineering work group in a technically challenging and geographically remote environment.
• Sound planning, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and oral communication skills in English.
• Knowledge and understanding of diverse third world cultures and customs an advantage.