Maintenance Manager

Origin Mining Company•Golden Valley, AZ

19d

About The Position

The Maintenance Manager leads maintenance across the mine’s mobile equipment, fixed plant, and electrical and instrumentation systems. The role is accountable for safe execution, equipment availability, maintenance planning, and cost control. During the concentrator restart, the Maintenance Manager will help prepare equipment, teams, and maintenance systems for commissioning and sustained operation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 10 years of progressive maintenance experience in mining or heavy industrial operations, including leadership of maintenance teams.
Experience with both mobile mining equipment and fixed processing plant maintenance.
Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems, maintenance planning, and reliability practices.
Ability to interpret equipment manuals, drawings, and schematics and use them to guide troubleshooting and repair.
Experience managing budgets, contractors, and equipment rebuilds.
Clear communication, sound judgment under pressure, and a demonstrated commitment to safe work.
Must be able to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand, walk on uneven surfaces, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, feel, talk, hear, and perform repetitive motion.
Ability to work indoors and outdoors in all kinds of weather.
Able to operate a telephone and mine phone/radio with sufficient voice and hearing to communicate information.
Able to hear sufficiently to distinguish various pitches of warning alarms.
Able to lift up to 25 pounds periodically.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting a copper concentrator.
Experience with plant commissioning or restart.
Experience with electrical and instrumentation maintenance in a mine setting.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and maintenance planning personnel.
Set maintenance priorities with mine and processing operations, balancing production needs, equipment condition, and safety risks.
Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for mobile equipment, crushing and grinding circuits, flotation equipment, SX/EW facilities, and supporting infrastructure.
Build effective planning and scheduling practices, including work orders, shutdown plans, parts readiness, and backlog management.
Track equipment availability, reliability, maintenance costs, and recurring failures; lead root cause investigations and implement lasting corrective actions.
Support installation, equipment handover, commissioning, and startup of the restarted concentrator.
Develop maintenance budgets, staffing plans, contractor scopes, and critical spare parts strategies.
Manage vendors and repair contractors, including rebuild quality, schedules, and performance.
Ensure maintenance work follows site safety procedures, environmental requirements, and applicable regulations.
Lead incident reviews and follow through on corrective actions.
Partner with operations and technical teams to improve equipment performance and establish practical, cost effective maintenance standards.