Section Engineer - TMM Pre-Production at De Beers Group

Job Description
Your key responsibilities will include: 

• Driving Maintenance KPI’s of permanent employees, contractors, and subcontractors to ensure vehicle / equipment availability, reliability, and optimization.
• Roll out TMM maintenance strategy to minimise equipment downtime and ensure availability of equipment at the right time.
• Manage overall maintenance management performance. 
• Financial / Budget Control in terms of Mining Maintenance activities. 
• Managing of change process regarding any deviations to Maintenance activities and work scope. 
• Manage the establishment of Engineering standards, specifications, and service levels according to organizational objectives to ensure maximum operational availability. 
• Implement CI initiatives by keeping abreast of developments and introducing change in work processes where appropriate (Cost reductions and cost avoidances).
• Ensure and Maintain Legal Compliance, Audits and Governance.

Qualifications

• B Eng/BSc/BTech/National Diploma discipline, National Certificate – NTC 6 Engineering (with relevant Trade Certification) in Mechanical or Electrical
• Completed Government Certificate of Competence, Mines and Works (GCC).
• Completed or in the process of completing a postgraduate qualification (Honours, Masters, MDP, etc.) would be advantageous

Required Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Section Engineer (Legal Appointee) of which 3 years in a UG TMM environment, preferably in an operation that utilises caving and/or long hole drilling methods.   
• Must have good cognitive and analytical abilities.
• Project management experience would be highly advantageous.
• Experience in the in Underground Large Excavation TMM equipment and technology would be advantageous.
• Experience managing a large contractor mining operation will be advantageous. 
• Operational readiness implementation experience will be advantageous.