Maintenance Superintendent

Barminco Mining Services USA LLC•Helena, MT

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Barminco Mining Services USA Ltd. has an exciting opportunity for an Maintenance Superintendent to join our team at a project location 65 miles outside of Elko, Nevada. Reporting to the Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for working within the mobile maintenance department, this will provide supervision, oversight and a safe working environment to the on-site maintenance team. You will ensure planned maintenance and servicing of site mobile equipment is carried out efficiently and safely using sound judgement to meet the objective of maximizing production capability.

Requirements

A minimum of at least 10 years Underground Mining Experience, specifically within the high-speed, high production environment
Extensive knowledge of Barminco Jumbo operations and full scope utilization for high-speed development equipment, including installation of ground support, to ensure proper break-fix solutions and proper preventative maintenance cycles required.
Full comprehension of Sandvik error codes in equipment operating systems to reduce down-time and productivity loses for diagnostic research.
Strong interpersonal, management and communication skills.
Extensive experience working as a Maintenance superintendent within an underground mining environment and involvement with earthmoving machinery including makes such as CAT and Sandvik
Strong credibility in a working with and influencing a front line operational workforce
Strong understanding of capability in a safety culture and leadership concepts and practical application of risk assessment; hazard identification and controls; and incident management and investigation
High level of integrity
Strong safety focus with demonstrated evidence of actively promoting and sustaining a Zero harm environment

Responsibilities

Maintenance Department performance including safety, quality, and equipment performance against Barminco standards.
Develop and maintain a positive safety, quality, and performance culture within the maintenance department consistent with the purpose, ambition, and core values of Barminco.
Provide clear leadership and standards across the Maintenance department through visual leadership behaviors, clear communication to crew leaders and work teams.
Ensure that required capability, processes and strong support are in place to enable completion of high-quality incident investigations, to identify and prevent recurrence of incidents and improve safety leadership and culture within the maintenance department at the mine site.
Provide direction and leadership to the site leadership team including the Maintenance Foreman, Maintenance Planners, and leading hands (or any combination of roles in the maintenance leadership team for the project).
Utilize Barminco management systems and tools to monitor and manage performance measures to ensure that equipment performance meets or exceeds expectations of the client and Barminco.
Identify, develop, implement, and monitor action plans to ensure that expectations and performance measures are met or exceeded in cases where performance variance occurs.
Identify and escalate issues to Barminco senior leadership where they cannot be effectively managed at site or where further support is required.
Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Barminco maintenance management systems in line with our ambition to become the worlds leading underground hard rock mining service provider.
Be the designated Barminco company representative for all maintenance related issues at a site level, including equipment availability, safety performance, people management and costs.
Ensure that all maintenance department and equipment information, data and correspondence is managed professionally, effectively and in accordance with Barminco management systems.
Provide leadership and career development support for employees who report to the site maintenance dept leadership.
Provide support to the Maintenance Leadership Team and fellow Maintenance Superintendents through effective sharing of knowledge, information, data, and resources as and when appropriate.
Work closely with central support teams (safety and people, asset management, supply, technology and innovation, information technology) in developing and implementing programs to deliver safety, cost, quality and efficiency improvements to the project and to Barminco.
Provide timely and accurate Maintenance reporting and Forecast budget spend.