Maintenance Parts Coordinator at Newmont Mining Corporation

In This Role You Will:

Health, Safety and Environment

• Deliver on prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services by applying Newmont’s health, safety and environment systems, policies and protocols.
• Ensure that safety standards are adhered to.
• Contribute to and attend all safety meetings.

Parts Availability

• Properly store, segregate and protect materials, parts and supplies.
• Ensure accuracy of parts issued.
• Follow proper procedures when receiving, stocking, issuing and disposing of all spare parts.
• Follow proper procedures for performing inventory counts and audits.
• Provide emergency support for locating and ordering out of stock and/or obsolete critical parts.

Maintenance Work Management in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

• Update component tracking in a CMMS.
• Ensure that work orders are completed with appropriate labor, materials and coding in a timely manner.
• Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), review performance and take continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support a flexible work schedule that includes overtime, shift changes and emergency call-in.
• Support spare parts ordering and cost saving initiatives.
• Review and support plant shutdown materials/parts management.
• Determine shutdown critical path activities and ensure that all parts are booked out and staged.
• Finalize and commit shutdown parts budget and schedule.
• Facilitate backlog review meetings with key stakeholders as required.
• Assist Maintenance Supervisors to plan and resource work orders, as required.
• Review financial cost transactions and preparing accruals.

Kitting and Staging of Materials or Parts

• Support plant SAP system from a spare parts perspective by kitting required spare parts, reviewing safety stock to ensure sufficient inventory to support preventive maintenance activities, updating changes, and submitting reservations for parts used.
• Assist with the kitting and parts coordination of major focus plant and utility outages as well as long-term maintenance schedules.
• Support spare parts ordering and cost saving initiatives.
• Obtain work approvals to release parts ordered or reserved, as required.
• Create reservations and requisitions for parts, materials, services and special tools and equipment.
• Update the Bill of Materials (BOM) or Application Parts List (APL) and work packs.
• Organize and facilitate parts availability review meetings with key stakeholders, as required.
• Run and distribute work order parts and material availability reports to relevant stakeholders.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Bachelors\’ degree or Higher National Diploma in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.

Additional Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of planning and scheduling.
• Strong knowledge of the work management process.
• Knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards.
• Sound knowledge of the operation of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (Ellipse / SAP).
• General knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation.
• General knowledge of defect elimination methodologies and their interpretation.

Experience: 

• A minimum of three (3) to four (4) years’ work experience in planning and maintenance systems in a large mining operation or similar heavy industrial site.
• A minimum one (1) year of experience working in a spare parts unit for a gold Mine Maintenance Department, preferably within a highly regulated industry like mining.
• Supervisory experience is highly desirable.
• Underground mining experience is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) will be an added advantaged.

Technical Skills:

• Strong planning, organizing and prioritizing skills.
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Sound communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Sound computer literacy skills – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and MS Project.
• Sound information monitoring and management skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks.
•  Ability to provide supervision and support staff with clear, detailed, guidance to perform their assigned roles.

Behavioural Attributes:

• High level of accuracy.
• Detail focused.
• Goal oriented.
• Quality oriented.
• Reliable.
• Safety conscious.
• Self-motivated.
• Team player.
• Technically inclined.

Working Conditions

• The position is located at the Subika Underground.