Senior Manager: Engineering

Website: www.anglogoldashanti.com

Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The purpose of this role is to deliver site targets by development and adoption of both maintenance and asset integrity strategies for all plant, equipment and infrastructure thereby delivering reliable and safe performance at the optimum life cycle cost to support the production plan in the long term. The role provides for tactical and operational execution for assigned functions across the full range of Engineering/Maintenance activities thereby ensuring operational excellence and adherence to amongst others, national, site and Group standards, policies and procedures (This includes capital requirements)

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• University Engineering Degree (Elec or Mech) or Tertiary Equivalent Qualification
• A post graduate degree / diploma in business management will be advantageous.
• Have at least 5 years’ senior level hands-on engineering discipline management experience in a relevant maintenance or service providing environment.
• Track record of successfully managing maintenance activities and finding practical and innovative solutions in maintenance.
• Demonstrated success in building, leading, and managing a diverse group of employees.
• Ability to thrive in remote, high pressure and complex environments.
• Understanding of design specifications and requirements for different disciplines. Can lead, intergrate and develop/implement design philosophies for multidiscipline engineering  systems

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

The key output of this role is to lead the Asset Management  strategies for all plant, equipment and infrastructure thereby delivering reliable and safe performance at the optimum life cycle cost to support the production plan. You report directly to the Operations Manager.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

In fulfilling this role, the following general accountabilities will apply:

Overall Engineering Discipline:

• To be the overall site custodian and to lead the development of the site Asset Management Strategy (Operational, maintenance, asset integrity, Engineering TYraining, safety etc)
• This role is accountable to provide management support in terms of the overall engineering function across the site.
• To serve as liaison and first point of contact for engineering and asset management in terms of implementation of strategies and initiatives from both the region and CTO teams.
• To ensure that all areas of engineering and asset management are staffed by suitable qualified and experience persons and that health of discipline is managed across the site.
• To liaise with external stakeholders and suppliers thereby ensuring that stakeholder expectations are managed and or complied with Provide direct support to the site in the liason and management of key strategic suppliers and contract holders eg power supply, water, MARC etc.
• To liaise with all other departments and functions thereby ensuring that the engineering function both supports and integrates completely with the other functions from a cross functional perspective.
• Develop, manage and maintain an appropriate level of both engineering and maintenance standards across site.

Safety:

• To perform the leadership functions of a senior manager in terms of both safety leadership and behaviour
• To lead a program which identifies and ensure the appropriate mitigation of all hazards (inclusive of the management of major hazards and critical controls) within the engineering function
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Site Asset Management & Reliability: This includes all engineering & maintenance departments

• Lead and  implement an integrated asset management plan aligned to both the AGA strategy and the site-specific opportunities.
• Develop and ensure the revision of maintenance tactics as appropriate but as a minimum to ensure migration towards appropriate condition based strategies for higher criticality equipment. This shall include undertaking RCM studies for new or unreliable equipment.
• To develop a comprehensive set of performance measures and as required to undertake both analysis and improve or defect elimination strategies to improve overall reliability and availability of plant and equipment. This shall include the completion of RCA’s for critical equipment failure
• Ensure that disciplined implementation of a work planning and control system thereby ensuring that the maintenance strategy is effectively and timeously executed. (This includes major shutdowns on both mobile and fixed plant)
• Lead continuous improvement projects/process towards world class operations specifically in terms of equipment OEE optimisation and FAP initiatives)
• Included within the role of asset management is to ensure both availability and capability of resources Optimize shutdowns to ensure maximum availability of equipment.

Technical Engineering

• To serve as on site discipline master in that this provides specialist skill in an on mine consulting level to the entire complex inclusive for all electrical, mechanical, civil, structural and control engineering functions inclusive ensuring adherence to design, maintenance and operational standards.
• To lead and or solicit the help of both group and external technical expertise for complex or repeated failure modes.
• Maintain a library of relevant engineering documentation within the operation inclusive, backups, drawings, manuals, parts list, OEM manuals etc
• Implementation/development and or management of engineering systems and processes including but not limited to CMMS, Fleet, Scada etc
• Provide expert technical support during engineering project execution, task and CI initiatives to maintain high standards.
• Conducts assessments and ensures compliance to standards
• Conducts risk assessments and highlights shortcomings
• Leads specialist studies and RCA’s into complex failures
• Develops and or inputs into major equipment repair scopes and conducts off site specialist QA during both manufacturing and repair processes.
• Custodian of the provision of engineering services, infrastructure (roads, power, water, ventilation) and equipment availability are adequate and maintained to meet operational goals..
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Maintenance Budgeting and Cost Control

• To develop and maintain 3 year budget forecasts aligned to the mine plan
• To manage engineering and maintenance costs to within the approved budgets
• To bench mark engineering costs and implement strategies to improve cost performance
• Provides strong contract management and assurance both on quality and cost in terms of outsourced and other service provider contracts inclusive of query and dispute resolution, warrantee and quality of work/service.

Projects & SIB Accountabilities:  

• De-risk operations by the identification, justification and implementation of the discipline specific Asset Integrity assessments (including scheduled SIMM inspections and ownership of the sites Asset Integrity system and plans) and multi year SIB capital requirements within the operation.
• Manage together with the operational engineering teams the overall SIB portfolio inclusive reporting and control in terms of time, quality and cost.
• Manage the overall delivery of the SIB portfolio inclusive Engineering, procurement, Commissioning and overall management.
• Lead and Manage of a team of project delivery resources inclusive engineers, clerks of works, construction managers, estimating, planning etc resources.

As an AGA Gold Mine employee, you are also accountable for the following:

• Commit your best endeavours and full capability to the work assigned to you by your manager.
• Advise your manager if you do not understand the work they have assigned to you, or if the assignment does not fit with your knowledge of the circumstances, current skills or available time and resources.
• Advise your manager of any situations or conditions that could create obstacles to, or opportunities for, the work of the managerial team or company.
• Demonstrate work behaviours consistent with the company values and work within prescribed boundaries, including required behaviours, company policies, standards, procedures and legislation requirements.
• Disclose timely information to your manager when accountability cannot be met within limits or can be met with less time or resources than planned.

 Reporting to:

Operations Manager   

Remuneration:

As per the AGA salary scales.

Internal applications:

Please complete the Internal Job Application Form and kindly inform your Line Manager, Manager once Removed and HR Manager of your intentions. Submit the signed Internal Job Application Form with your comprehensive CV via Success factors by close of business on 31 January 2025.

External applications:

Please note that applications should be submitted before the 31 January 2025 and applicants not contacted within 30 days of applying, should consider their application unsuccessful.

AngloGold Ashanti Limited

Reg No: 1944/017354/06     

Directors: MDC Ramos (Chairperson)   A Calderon Zuleta (Chief Executive Officer) (Australian)   GA Doran (Chief Financial Officer) (Australian)   KOF Busia (Ghanaian)   AM Ferguson (British)   AH Garner (American)   R Gasant SP Lawson (American)   MC Richter (American/Panamanian)   JE Tilk (Canadian)

Company Secretary: LM Goliath