Reporting to the Manager- Asset Maintenance Department, you will be responsible for the leadership of the Maintenance Shutdown Department, playing a crucial role in overseeing and optimizing maintenance shutdown planning activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective extraction of gold resources. You will contribute to organisational success by delivering shutdown planning aligned to the strategic direction of the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and guidance to the shutdown team and all participants during the planning and execution phases.
- Work with the relevant personnel to develop a consolidated shutdown schedule which includes all operations, maintenance, logistics (parts, people and accommodation) engineering and project tasks.
- Create, manage, update, and report on shutdown readiness on an ongoing basis.
- During execution of the shutdown, monitor and manage all elements of the shutdown, including Safety, Environmental, Security, Cost, Schedule, Inspection and Work Quality.
- Ensure that a process for controlling scope changes is in place. This includes ensuring that any post-cutoff date changes to scope or schedule are approved by the appropriate authority.
- Initiate, hold, and document progress meetings, including relevant metrics/KPIs, schedules, and gaps.
- Intervene wherever necessary to prevent and deal with safety, cost, and schedule problems.
- Complete a post-shutdown evaluation, recommending changes to procedures, standards, practices and ways of working.
- Safe and effective leadership of a multi-disciplined team including coaching, mentoring and development.
- Provide visible positive leadership by demonstrating safe behaviors at all times and displaying the Company’s values, whilst managing the effective optimization of the plant.
- Manage expectation setting and performance reviews of team members to ensure a successful pathway is built for the team.
- Providing support and input into shutdown planning processes to ensure all scheduled tasks are achievable and allow for safe and efficient production.
- Focus on continuous improvement strategies and implementation to ensure production improvements are delivered.
