General Foreman - Maintenance

Sibanye Stillwater•Big Timber, MT

21d•Onsite

About The Position

The General Foreman - Mobile Maintenance leads the safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance of the underground mobile equipment fleet. The role aligns planning and frontline execution by setting priorities, approving maintenance commitments, resolving cross-functional constraints, developing the Planner and Supervisors, and holding the department accountable for equipment availability, work quality, schedule performance, and maintenance cost. The role sets safety and fleet-maintenance priorities, ensures effective field and planned-work controls, approves the rolling one-month maintenance plan and weekly schedule, and resolves near-term constraints and significant work decisions. It also coordinates equipment access and return-to-service requirements, controls near-term spending, evaluates departmental performance, and ensures inspections, reporting, corrective actions, and maintenance documentation are completed accurately and on time. The General Foreman leads Mobile Maintenance Supervisors, the planning function, and supporting resources across shifts and work areas. The position coaches leaders, maintains staffing and skills, coordinates with operational and support functions, and verifies that preventive maintenance, equipment availability, backlog health, and other performance measures meet targets or have effective corrective actions.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Seven years of progressive maintenance experience involving stationary, fixed-plant, industrial mechanical, industrial electrical, instrumentation, power distribution, or closely related heavy-industrial assets.
Knowledge of maintenance work management, including scoping, planning, estimating, resource readiness, scheduling, execution, closeout, feedback, backlog control, and continuous improvement.
Knowledge of preventive, predictive, corrective, breakdown, component-repair, rebuild, condition-monitoring, reliability, and lifecycle practices.
Knowledge of MSHA requirements and site controls for workplace examinations, permits, stored-energy isolation, Lockout, Tagout, and Try-out, lifting and rigging, and contractors.
Ability to make and document sound decisions involving schedule commitments, break-in or deferred work, overtime, contractors, equipment release, and resource allocation.
Ability to coach and hold leaders accountable while applying labor agreements, policies, and performance-management processes consistently.
Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Safety, Materials Management, contractors, vendors, and union representatives.
Ability to analyze performance trends, maintain accurate records, use applicable business systems, and intervene decisively when risk is not adequately controlled.

Nice To Haves

Associate or bachelor's degree in diesel technology, mechanical or electrical technology, maintenance management, engineering technology, asset management, business, or a related field.
Recognized trade qualification or equivalent technical training in diesel, heavy equipment, mechanical, electrical, welding, millwright, or industrial maintenance.

Responsibilities

Set stationary and electrical maintenance safety priorities based on incidents, inspections, audit findings, and equipment-related information.
Set weekly and monthly Mobile Maintenance safety priorities by reviewing incidents, near misses, inspections, audit findings, equipment damage, and upcoming high-risk work with Supervisors, the Planner, and Safety.
Review Supervisor verification of workplace conditions and confirm the Planner incorporates required hazards, permits, procedures, lifting controls, and isolations into scheduled work.
Set weekly and monthly expectations and decision boundaries for Supervisors and the Planner through operating reviews, documented commitments, and routine follow-up.
Hold Supervisors and the Planner accountable for safety, execution, planning, scheduling, readiness, documentation, and feedback responsibilities; address performance gaps promptly.
Develop leadership and planning capability through coaching, monthly performance discussions, documented development actions, cross-training, and succession planning.
Review leave, vacancies, overtime, contractor needs, and qualification gaps; reallocate resources or coordinate recruiting, onboarding, and training support as needed.
Set weekly and monthly fleet-maintenance priorities based on safety risk, production criticality, equipment condition, preventive maintenance due dates, failure history, backlog status, and available resources.
Approve the rolling one-month maintenance plan and weekly schedule after reviewing capacity, equipment access, shop constraints, labor and skills, parts, tooling, contractors, and operational risk.
Resolve near-term constraints and authorize significant break-in work, schedule changes, equipment releases, high-risk repairs, contractor use, overtime, or maintenance deferrals within delegated authority, weighing safety, production impact, and resource availability.
Coordinate equipment access, return-to-service requirements, and environmental actions through weekly and monthly reviews with Operations and other responsible functions.
Control near-term spending by authorizing expenditures within delegated authority, escalating exceptions, and reviewing overtime, contractor use, parts consumption, component costs, warranty recovery, and repair-versus-replace decisions.
Address unfavorable cost or utilization trends by assigning recovery actions, owners, and due dates, and tracking progress through weekly and monthly reviews.
Review departmental performance, including schedule and preventive maintenance compliance, break-in work, backlog age, rework, repeat failures, availability, labor utilization, overtime, cost variance, and corrective-action closure.
Ensure safety controls, required inspections, incident reporting, and corrective actions are completed accurately and on time.
Ensure weekly schedules and the rolling one-month maintenance plan are resource-ready, achieve targets, and are converted into auditable Daily Shift Plans.
Verify preventive maintenance compliance, equipment availability, backlog health, repeat failures, rework, and significant downtime meet established targets or have effective corrective actions.
Verify break-in, deferred, and rescheduled work is accurately documented, reviewed, and reduced where preventable.
Lead Mobile Maintenance Supervisors, the planning function, and supporting resources across shifts and work areas.
Make and document sound decisions involving schedule commitments, break-in or deferred work, overtime, contractors, equipment release, and resource allocation.
Coach and hold leaders accountable while applying labor agreements, policies, and performance-management processes consistently.
Communicate and coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Safety, Materials Management, contractors, vendors, and union representatives.
Analyze performance trends, maintain accurate records, use applicable business systems, and intervene decisively when risk is not adequately controlled.