Surface Mechanical Supervisor

At Sandfire MATSA, we offer you challenges that will help you grow, new goals, and projects that adapt to your skills and experiences in order to later enhance them. Training and continuous improvement are fundamental at Sandfire MATSA, and key to you continuing to evolve and expanding your career in different areas.

This could be an interesting opportunity for you to begin your professional relationship with us.

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Functions, among others:

Coordinate, Supervise, and Control Preventive Maintenance

• Supervise the execution and compliance of the preventive maintenance Plan (inspections, reviews, scheduled shutdowns...) for surface machinery and facilities, transferring the corresponding mechanical maintenance work orders to the maintenance team. Monthly and annual planning. Shutdown coordination.
• Periodically coordinate the preventive maintenance requirements for each type of machinery and facility to be able to develop the preventive maintenance plan, determining efficient maintenance intervals for each piece of equipment, and coordinating priorities and necessary production shutdowns with plant operations.
• Report the status of the machinery to the team and the Maintenance Manager, communicating if it is necessary to introduce any changes to the preventive maintenance planning based on the condition of each machine and its wear level.
• Physically verify the condition of each machine once the planned preventive maintenance actions have been completed on it (pass the quality checklist) to finalize the action. Physically verify the condition of each machine once the planned preventive maintenance actions have been completed on it (pass the quality checklist) to finalize the action.
• Control of equipment affected by relevant legal regulations as well as the planning of WOs within the annual plan of regulatory inspections for the facilities.

Coordinate, Supervise, and Control Corrective Maintenance

• Provide support for the daily and weekly planning and scheduling of corrective maintenance work; likewise, they must be responsible for the preparation of the works to be executed according to the programs and work packages during shutdowns.
• Coordinate and verify the execution of daily corrective mechanical maintenance work, attending to its criticality, assigning times and materials to each of the planned works, and keeping a record of all of it. (resolution of critical corrective maintenance during the shift, passing it to the next shift if it could not be resolved, or transferring it to planning to be scheduled if it is not urgent).
• Assess on-site the type of failure or breakdown presented by the machinery and determine its criticality; so that its repair is assigned to the priority team (relief) or the incident is escalated to the planning supervisor so that they transfer the repair to the planning.
• Monitor temperature and vibrations of key or production-critical equipment, and repetitive breakdowns or failures, in order to support predictive models.
• Support the reliability department in estimating the useful life of each piece of machinery and facility based on its condition, in order to anticipate future investment needs.
• Establish the minimum stock in the warehouse for critical materials and spare parts and coordinate with the logistics, purchasing, and warehouse departments regarding the existence of materials and spare parts that are consigned, performing punctual follow-up of orders, in order to avoid stockouts in the warehouse that prevent attending to a maintenance task at a given time; due to its importance, it stands out above all: liner material for horizontal and vertical mills, pump spares, etc.
• Prepare mechanical drawings of the equipment and machinery, and associated spare parts, for the subsequent location of spare parts in the warehouse.
• Ensure that the records, files, controls, and statistics of the unit in charge are updated (KPIs),
• Prepare a daily report on whether the Planned maintenance has been carried out.
• Participate in the preparation of the maintenance budget together with the Maintenance Manager.

We are recruiting a Surface Mechanical Supervisor for our Surface Maintenance team. We require a professional to plan, prepare, and implement the necessary maintenance actions to prevent any malfunction of the surface facilities at all times, including both maintenance shutdowns as well as supporting daily and monthly scheduling, in order to achieve the best operational performance for each machine.
Enforce the mechanical Maintenance Plan for the surface facilities, according to the planning, and maintain constant vigilance over the condition of machinery and equipment, in order to ensure its availability and guarantee that all maintenance actions undertaken on the machines are carried out according to established safety and environmental procedures, as well as with the required quality.

• Minimum of 5 years in similar mechanical maintenance positions in industrial environments, preferably in metal mining.

• Office and corporate programs
• ERP (JDE/ SAP Maintenance Modules)
• Excel
• Proficiency in AUTOCAD (drawing orientation/editing)
• Document manager (blue cielo)