Mine Maintenance Superintendent

Main Purposes

To lead and coordinate the safe, efficient, and effective execution of mining activities within the Mine Maintenance department.

Main Responsibilities/Activities

• Provide direction, guidance, and support to Supervisors and other direct reports for effective daily execution.
• Promote teamwork, communication, and alignment across shifts and crews.
• Coach Supervisors in leadership, planning, and performance management, and build and lead their development plans.
• Recognize and reinforce desired behaviors and cultural standards.
• Encourage innovation, ownership, and employee participation in problem-solving.
• Ensure effective two-way communication between front-line teams and site leadership.
• Demonstrate visible safety leadership in the field by reinforcing positive behaviors and addressing concerns.
• Establish processes and procedures for work execution, including WO shop papers, effective shift hand-over, recommissioning, completion, and signoff by technicians and supervisors.
• Participate in and help drive the weekly final maintenance plan review meeting while working in conjunction with mine operations.
• Review and monitor daily, weekly and monthly equipment performance and work management targets.
• Accountable for ensuring accurate Work Order input.
• Complete PM and Pre PM audits in the shops and field on equipment.
• Report on non-conformances to the maintenance plans and related KPI targets.
• Develop the annual budget to support asset strategies, planned shutdowns, and major repairs, while monitoring expenditures by reviewing financial performance, executing necessary reallocations, re-classes, and accruals, and providing clear variance explanations.
• Set team goals and expectations based on departmental and mine objectives.
• Ensure training requirements matrix based on employee skill and competencies is developed.

Education, Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of relevant heavy equipment asset and/or maintenance management experience
• Knowledge of heavy equipment, asset management and maintenance
• Mining or related experience preferred
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively use Microsoft Office Suite and SAP

Key Personal Competencies

• Action oriented – Drives others to take timely action, Identifies and seizes new opportunities
• Ensures Accountability – Accepts responsibility for successes and failures of own work and team’s work
• Decision Quality – Synthesizes information, experience, and inputs to determine the best course of action
• Collaborates – Facilitates effective collaboration among coworkers and external partners
• Communicates Effectively – Practices active and attentive listening skills to verify understanding
• Manages Ambiguity – Coaches others in finding solutions despite incomplete information
• Drives Engagement – Ensures that all team members are motivated to work toward common goals
• Plans and Aligns - Ensures that the team’s plans and priorities are aligned with the organization
• Strategic Mindset – Leads the team to pursue possibilities that will create sustainable value
• Builds Effective Teams – Ensures that the team has the right mix of skills and leverages strengths

HSEC Accountabilities

• Accept personal responsibility for HSEC
• Identify hazards, unsafe actions, and conditions that could result in damage to property, injury, impacts to the environment, and the community
• Obey any instruction issued to protect their own personal health and safety, and the health and safety of others, protection of the environment and the community
• Report, as soon as practicable to their Manager any situations where HSEC requirements are not being conformed to within their work area
• Avoid endangerment to any other person through any act or omission
• Only use equipment you are trained to use and operate the equipment in a way that is safe, protects the environment and doesn’t cause undue community impacts
• Participate in HSEC training provided to them
• Report all incidents; including but not limited to injuries, near miss, community interactions and impacts, environmental impacts, spills, unsafe work practices, etc.