Engineer: Maintenance – SWAKOP URANIUM

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

To plan and coordinate activities concerned with design, construction, modification, and maintenance of the plant to ensure effective and efficient maintenance of all mechanical equipment to achieve production targets, at maximum workshop availability and optimum cost, including adherence to SSHER requirements.

Key Performance Areas:

• Enforce and implement legal and procedural compliance and ensure Statutory and general governances in area of responsibility.
• Produce contingency plans and remedial actions to minimize short, medium and long term risks.
• Draw up operational project objectives, by means of project proposals and plans, and conferring with management.
• Maintain an accurate record and electronic data base and backup of all elements of the project.
• Collaborate with various departments to maintain mechanical integrity of all plant equipment.
• Ensure that the plant equipment is maintained and working as per OEM’s specifications.
• Identify downtime root causes and implement preventative maintenance programs.
• Monitor and quantify reliability cost savings, increased production and/or equipment life cycle costs.
• Identify production losses and abnormal high maintenance cost assets, and find ways to reduce those losses or high costs.
• Apply data analysis techniques, root cause analysis (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS) in order to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures, and all other problems that adversely affect operations.
• Adhere to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Develop, investigate and implement enhancements to the reliability centered maintenance and reliability centered spares system.
• Utilize RCM/RCS analysis effectively in the implementation of predictive and preventative maintenance tasks.
• Provide input in preparation of the section’s annual operational budget, by forecasting costs and monitor expenditure and cash flow on a regular basis against approved budget parameters.

Requirements and experience:

• BTech / Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 3 years’ work experience.
• Mining / Processing plant environment experience will be a distinct advantage.
• Exposure in structural and chemical tank repairs and EMV’s.
• Proven experience in multi-disciplinary continuous improvement projects and exposure to research and development work into new / improved project.
• Exposure in process optimization, equipment life extension and improvement of equipment reliability.
• Good track record of contract & contractor coordination
• Code B or BE Driver’s License.