SUPERINTENDENT – PLANNING AND RELIABILITY

Responsabilités

The Superintendent – Planning and Reliability assumes the responsibilities of the Senior Superintendent – Planning and Reliability when required. The role is instrumental in minimising equipment downtime, optimising asset lifecycle costs, and improving equipment reliability to maximise production performance. It is responsible for maintaining and optimising the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), ensuring that preventive and breakdown maintenance activities are effectively planned, scheduled, and executed in a timely and cost-efficient manner. The position provides support to maintenance and operations personnel to ensure adherence to established maintenance plans, while monitoring equipment defects, tracking plant item issues, and coordinating machinery component replacements. It oversees maintenance planning, scheduling, performance reporting, and documentation across the Gold Processing Plant, Non-Process Infrastructure, Mobile Fleet, Power Station, and ancillary equipment. The role is also responsible for developing and optimising equipment maintenance and operating strategies based on Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), monitoring asset health, analysing reliability and maintenance data, evaluating lifecycle costs and economic benefits, and prioritising maintenance activities to improve reliability, operational efficiency, and overall asset performance. The Superintendent ensures compliance with Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) requirements and routine asset maintenance programmes to maintain safety, operational performance, equipment integrity, and insurance compliance. The role also provides coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to maintenance planners and engineers, promoting best practices, professional development, and continuous improvement in maintenance planning and reliability engineering. Key Responsibilities: Management of Safety, Environment, and Community Relations – Ensure all maintenance planning and engineering personnel complete site inductions and receive timely updates whenever relevant policies, procedures, or safety requirements change. – Ensure maintenance planning and engineering personnel understand and comply with applicable Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) policies, procedures, and standards. – Ensure maintenance planning and engineering personnel attend all relevant site toolbox meetings while on site. – Participate in departmental safety meetings and contribute to the reporting, review, and communication of safety incidents and observations. – Promote a strong safety culture among employees, contractors, and processing personnel through visible leadership and active engagement. – Ensure compliance with all applicable HSE legislation, regulations, company policies, and site-specific safety requirements within areas of responsibility. – Maintain a safe working environment and ensure safe work practices are consistently applied across all areas under the role’s control. – Promote and conduct formal and informal risk assessments to identify hazards, evaluate risks, and implement appropriate control measures. – Ensure all injuries, incidents, accidents, and equipment damage are thoroughly investigated, documented, and reported promptly, with appropriate corrective and preventive actions implemented. – Drive initiatives to prevent Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) within the Maintenance Department through effective risk management, hazard identification, and safety leadership. – Promote safety awareness and safe working practices among processing personnel and other site employees. – Ensure all contractors complete the required contractor documentation, acknowledge applicable site requirements, and comply with established safety procedures before commencing work. People Management – Support succession planning and workforce development within the department to ensure continuity of critical roles and retention of key technical skills. – Lead, supervise, and support maintenance planning and engineering personnel, providing technical guidance and assistance as required. – Coach and mentor the planning and engineering team to maintain high standards of work quality, procedural compliance, and continuous improvement. – Manage personnel performance by establishing clear objectives, providing regular feedback, conducting performance reviews, and implementing structured training and development programmes. – Ensure maintenance planning and engineering personnel understand their roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations, and are held accountable through established site management and disciplinary processes. – Support maintenance supervisors in implementing best practices for work order management, prioritisation, planning, and execution. – Uphold the Company Code of Conduct and ensure compliance with company standards, policies, procedures, rules, and guidelines. – Foster effective teamwork, collaboration, and accountability across the maintenance planning and engineering functions. – Maintain effective communication and working relationships between Maintenance and all relevant internal and external stakeholders. Maintenance Planning and Reliability Operations – Lead and manage the maintenance planning and reliability function to achieve equipment reliability targets, optimise maintenance execution, and ensure work scheduling processes meet established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). – Develop long-term maintenance plans for planned shutdowns and maintain a rolling annual forecast of major component replacements in accordance with equipment maintenance strategies, operating requirements, and equipment criticality. – Regularly review work order history and equipment performance data to optimise component replacement intervals, eliminate recurring defects, and improve equipment reliability. – Ensure all equipment data and maintenance records in the Pronto Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) are accurate, complete, and up to date, including equipment history, preventive maintenance optimisation, and critical and insurance spare parts requirements. – Coordinate the preparation of annual operating and capital maintenance budgets in consultation with the Maintenance Manager and Maintenance Superintendent. – Ensure all required components, materials, and spare parts are available on site at least four weeks before scheduled major component replacements. – Ensure plant asset registers and equipment records are correctly classified, complete, and maintained in an up-to-date condition. – Monitor and coordinate maintenance activities with internal and contractor workshops to ensure work is completed safely, to the required quality standards, and in accordance with approved plans and schedules. – Coach and mentor maintenance planners and engineers to strengthen technical capability, improve planning effectiveness, develop annual leave relief capacity, and support workforce succession planning. – Manage maintenance planning and scheduling for the Gold Processing Plant, Non-Process Infrastructure, Mobile Fleet, Power Station, and ancillary equipment through Pronto, ensuring appropriate mid-life maintenance and asset lifecycle strategies are established and implemented. – Ensure all relevant maintenance and reliability information is accurately recorded in electronic systems and hard-copy documentation, maintaining data quality, consistency, traceability, and integrity. – Develop and maintain standard job procedures, ensuring work instructions are current and include the required labour, materials, spare parts, tools, and resources. – Manage equipment warranty claims, supporting documentation, and warranty receipts to ensure the operation receives all entitlements in accordance with agreed warranty terms and conditions. – Review corrective maintenance activities and failure records to identify recurring defects and implement effective defect elimination strategies. – Coordinate component rebuild programmes to ensure work is completed to specification, meets quality requirements, and delivers reliable service life. – Manage the equipment condition monitoring programme to support proactive maintenance planning, work prioritisation, and scheduling decisions. – Develop and implement a risk-based Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programme incorporating vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, ultrasonic thickness testing, and other appropriate condition monitoring techniques based on equipment criticality. – Assess and maintain asset criticality classifications and develop, review, and implement maintenance strategies to improve equipment reliability, availability, and overall maintenance effectiveness. – Ensure recommended maintenance strategies are aligned with equipment criticality, operational risk, and lifecycle requirements, and are accurately configured and maintained within Pronto CMMS. – Maintain and periodically review the Equipment Criticality Register to ensure classifications reflect current operating conditions, failure consequences, and business risks. – Establish and maintain an effective defect elimination process, ensuring significant equipment failures and key production losses are accurately recorded, analysed, and addressed. – Analyse production losses, equipment failures, and maintenance costs, and facilitate Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) using appropriate methodologies, including the Five Whys technique, to identify underlying causes and develop sustainable corrective actions in collaboration with the Maintenance Superintendent. – Monitor and report equipment reliability and maintenance performance through Pronto and appropriate reporting dashboards. Track key metrics, including Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), scheduled and unscheduled downtime, equipment availability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), where applicable, to evaluate performance and measure continuous improvement. – Attend relevant business meetings as directed by the Maintenance Superintendent to understand long-term operational priorities, support proactive maintenance planning, and develop equipment downtime forecasts to inform production and business planning. – Continuously identify, evaluate, and implement improvements to maintenance planning, scheduling, and work management practices in alignment with business objectives, operational requirements, and established performance targets. – Carry out duties and responsibilities in accordance with the direction and priorities established by the Maintenance Superintendent. – Perform any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as assigned by management in support of operational and business objectives. Skills, Knowledge, Abilities and Attributes: Essential – A minimum of years (5) years of experience in a Maintenance Planning Superintendent role or a higher-level maintenance leadership position. – Ability to read vehicle and equipment manuals – Ability to read vendor manuals to decipher parts and equipment successfully – Pronto experience – MS Office experience – MS Project experience – Manual Driver’s license Desired – Engineering or Industry related tertiary qualifications – Technical training for mine process plant equipment Qualifications & Licences: – Trade qualifications or Diploma in a maintenance or other related field Additional Information: – Prepared to undertake external training to complement the operation. – Incumbent may be expected to work outside Normal Working Hours on occasions. – Incumbent will from time to time be required to travel on company business. Application Mode: Applications will only be received by email to with the advertised job title Senior Superintendent – Planning and Reliability as the subject line of the email.Applications closes on 19 November 2026

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