Role Overview

Join a leading mining operation in Hotazel as a site-based Maintenance Improvement Specialist. Analyse maintenance performance, reduce breakdowns, improve reliability across the mine and process plant, and help technical teams adopt proactive, data-driven maintenance practices. Relocation to Hotazel is required.

Responsibilities

Analyse maintenance practices and optimise reactive, planned, and predictive maintenance.
Develop and implement maintenance-improvement plans aligned with business goals.
Reduce breakdowns and unplanned downtime through systematic improvement and RCFA/RCA.
Identify chronic equipment issues, reliability risks, and maintenance cost drivers.
Improve MTBF, MTTR, availability, job plans, task lists, maintenance standards, and scheduling compliance.
Support RCM principles, backlog management, spares strategies, audits, compliance, and safety improvements.
Analyse CMMS data, track maintenance KPIs, and benchmark performance against best practice.
Coach artisans, planners, and supervisors and work with Operations, Engineering, OEMs, suppliers, Commercial, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

Mechanical or Electrical Engineering qualification at NQF 6.
At least five years of maintenance-improvement experience in opencast mining and a process plant.
Strong CMMS experience with SAP, Ellipse, SAGE, KARABO PM, or a similar system.
Project-management certificate and engineering supervisory certificate.
Artisan trade certificate is advantageous.
Strong analytical, diagnostic, reporting, communication, planning, coaching, and problem-solving skills.
Valid Code 08 driver’s licence and medical fitness for a mining environment.