Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 11 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
To provide expert diagnostics, maintenance, and repair services for maintaining all high-voltage electrical infrastructure and HV reticulation in underground operations, ensuring that necessary safety and quality standards are upheld at all times. The expat will be accountable to Identify, training and development shortcomings and training needs for HV electrical technicians as per the set development plan in place.

QUALIFICATIONS:
• A recognized Electrical trade test certificate.
• High Voltage training Certificate.
• Must have a valid driving license.

EXPERIENCE:
• A Minimum of 8 - 10 years’ experience in heavy underground mining equipment maintenance.
• Experience in detailed maintenance strategy of underground equipment.
• Extensive experience as trainer/coach, specifically with a national workforce.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Experience in managing engineering HV infrastructure in underground mining operations.
• Experience in detailed maintenance strategy of underground equipment.
• Experience in maintenance of 11KV Transformers/Switchgear/RMU.
• Experience in MV Cable splicing and terminations.
• Experience high/low voltage circuit breaker.
• Earth leakage protections.
• Experience in 1000V equipment and gulley box.
• Experience in Jumbo drill unit.

MAIN OR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
1. Health, Safety, and Environment
• Adhere and promote HSE regulations at GGM with zero tolerance for breaches.
• Support our workforce to work safely by identifying and managing workplace hazards associated with the work being performed.
• Drive and champion the safety-first value and apply the principle to both design and field activities.
• To ensure work is performed to acceptable safety quality standards and that best fitment and installation practices are adhered to and imparted to the workforce.

2. Audit, Governance, and Compliance
• Participate in internal and external audits as required.
• Provide expert advice to maintenance supervisors and trades personnel engaged in the maintenance of the mining fleets and electrical infrastructures as directed by the superintendents.

3. Asset Management
• Participate in internal audits and over-inspections to ensure adherence and compliance to asset management plans/strategy.
• Manage and update the HV maintenance document repository for drawings and manuals.
• Monitor the stock levels of critical spares and supplies.
• Monitor all UG HV infrastructure to support day-to-day underground mining activities.
• Monitor (assess, record, feedback) equipment performance to ensure continuous improvement.
• Development of scope of work for major works associated with the high voltage electrical works.

4. Strategic role
• Support the Mining team in Life of Mine planning by providing early input into the design and constructability process for all HV new build infrastructure.
• In Conjunction with the UG HV Technical Specialists proactively manage and lead underground reticulation expansion and engineering construction functions,
• Manage, oversee, and monitor all HV infrastructure to support day-to-day underground mining activities.
• Co-ordinate all electrical maintenance activities to ensure the reliability of equipment.

5. HV Infrastructure Capital & Projects
• Assist with and maintain the underground HV infrastructure capital management process in conjunction with the GGM Capital Projects Champion.
• Assist in coordinating, planning, managing, and executing underground electrical infrastructure projects in all GGM underground operations.

6. Plans, Procedures, Standards and Documentation
• Assist in developing and maintaining the Life of Mine underground HV infrastructure plans, specifically infrastructure new builds and other infrastructure project construction activities, as a key sub-plan to the overall underground Mining Plan.
• To support the team in complying with the work schedule while attending to emerging work efficiently and to ensure the availability and reliability of equipment is optimized.

7. Technical Training & Development
• Develop skills matrices for all electrical infrastructure work types.
• Identify training and development shortcomings and training needs for HV electrical technicians.
• To monitor maintenance skill levels, providing necessary on-the-job training whenever necessary.
• To maintain a register of training for maintainers and to ensure the workforce can work without supervision.

8. Meetings, Reviews, and Communication
• Attend Mining and Maintenance Planning meetings as well as other key review meetings, as required.
• Provide regular operational and maintenance updates to the management team in relation to maintenance schedules and HV electrical issues that may impact on compliance or cause delays.
• Participate in formal HSE, risk management, change management, cost, and schedule reviews.

9. Progress and Performance Reporting
• Identify preventive maintenance through the maintenance system to avoid backlog during upcoming work schedules.

10. HV Risk, Change, and Quality Management
• Identify and address HV reticulation risks early by communicating to appropriate stakeholders.
• Inspect all HV works to ensure construction activities are in accordance with engineering designs, and authority requirements.
• To continually check all work in progress by monitoring quality.
• Write repair reports with photos of each major failure and document repairs
• Make sure all the planned jobs and breakdown jobs have Works Orders, and all the works orders must be closed on the system on completion of the job.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Professional Certificate

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