MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your key accountabilities include:

· Monitoring contractor compliance with SLA/KPIs (availability, reliability, response times) and verifying that maintenance work meets agreed scope, OEM standards and site requirements.

· Reviewing daily/weekly contractor reports and validating accuracy against actual site conditions.

· Ensuring all planned maintenance and breakdown repairs are executed as per schedule.

· Auditing maintenance practices, tooling, and adherence to OEM standards.

· Overseeing breakdown response and ensure timely fault finding and repair and participating in and enforcing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major failures.

· Ensuring implementation of corrective actions and track effectiveness through Identification of systemic issues (skills, parts, planning) affecting reliability.

· Enforcing mine safety standards and legal compliance ( MQW&M) and ensuring contractor adherence to SHE policies, procedures and risk assessments

· Participating in incident investigations and hold contractor accountable for findings and conducting routine safety audits on contractor teams.

· Validating contractor claims, work orders and invoices against actual work done.

· Monitoring cost drivers (labour, spares, rework, standby time) and preventing cost leakage due to poor workmanship or inefficiencies and supporting contract performance reviews and commercial discussions.

· Ensuring contractor delivers on training and skills transfer commitments and monitoring competency levels of contractor artisans (expatriate vs local workforce).

· Identifying gaps (e.g., auto electricians, diagnostics capability) and escalating for corrective purposes and ensuring reduction of dependency on expatriate labour over time.

· Interfacing between operations, planning team and contractors by ensuring alignment of maintenance schedules with production requirements.

· Participating in shutdown planning and execution oversight and ensuring proper resource allocation by contractor (skills, tools, parts).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE:

· Trade Certificate (Diesel Mechanic / Auto Electrician / HME Fitter) or NCQF Level 4–5 or equivalent

· Minimum of 7–10 years HME maintenance experience and Minimum 3 years in a supervisory or contractor management role

· Supervisory / Foreman training (advantageous)

· Strong exposure to contractor-driven maintenance environments

· Experience with major OEM fleets (CAT, Komatsu, Sandvik, Epiroc) a pre-requisite