Engineerin Foreman

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Engineering Foreman will lead day-to-day engineering and maintenance activities across a mining or drilling project environment with responsibility for equipment availability maintenance execution breakdown response technical supervision and safe delivery of work. The role combines frontline leadership with hands-on engineering judgement and requires a strong understanding of heavy mechanical electrical hydraulic and drilling equipment.

The successful candidate will coordinate artisans and technical personnel plan and monitor maintenance work support fault finding and root-cause analysis ensure equipment is maintained to operational standards and work closely with production project and engineering teams to minimise downtime and improve reliability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervise engineering and maintenance teams across mining drilling and associated project equipment.

Plan coordinate and monitor preventive planned and corrective maintenance activities to support maximum equipment availability.

Lead breakdown response fault finding and technical troubleshooting across mechanical electrical hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Ensure daily weekly and shutdown maintenance work is properly planned prioritised executed and closed out.

Monitor equipment condition recurring failures downtime trends and maintenance backlogs and drive corrective actions.

Support root-cause investigations on significant equipment failures and implement practical reliability improvements.

Coordinate inspections servicing repairs component replacements and rebuild activities on heavy mining and drilling equipment.

Ensure maintenance standards OEM requirements engineering procedures and statutory safety requirements are consistently applied.

Manage workshop and site engineering activities including tools spares consumables and critical replacement components.

Liaise with OEMs suppliers and technical support teams regarding diagnostics parts technical information and specialist interventions.

Support commissioning mobilisation and demobilisation of drilling and project equipment where required.

Maintain accurate maintenance records job cards equipment history and technical reporting including outstanding defects and action tracking.

Supervise artisans technicians and assistants allocate work and ensure competent execution of engineering tasks.

Coach technical team members and reinforce safe work practices lock-out procedures permits and risk controls.

Work closely with the Contract Manager / Project Manager and operations teams to balance maintenance requirements with production priorities.

EQUIPMENT & TECHNICAL EXPOSURE

Heavy mining and drilling equipment including drill rigs and associated mechanical systems.

Mechanical drive systems bearings gearboxes couplings and rotating equipment.

Hydraulic power packs cylinders valves pumps hoses and hydraulic fault finding.

Electrical motors starters panels basic control systems instrumentation and field electrical troubleshooting.

Preventive maintenance condition monitoring inspections and equipment reliability practices.

Mobile and fixed equipment maintenance within demanding mining or industrial environments.

SANY mining / drilling equipment knowledge or previous maintenance exposure is a strong advantage.

Experience with other recognised heavy-equipment OEMs will also be considered relevant.

Disciplined planning reporting and follow-through on defects and maintenance actions.

EQUIPMENT & TECHNICAL EXPOSURE

Heavy mining and drilling equipment including drill rigs and associated mechanical systems.

Mechanical drive systems bearings gearboxes couplings and rotating equipment.

Hydraulic power packs cylinders valves pumps hoses and hydraulic fault finding.

Electrical motors starters panels basic control systems instrumentation and field electrical troubleshooting.

Preventive maintenance condition monitoring inspections and equipment reliability practices.

Mobile and fixed equipment maintenance within demanding mining or industrial environments.

SANY mining / drilling equipment knowledge or previous maintenance exposure is a strong advantage.

Experience with other recognised heavy-equipment OEMs will also be considered relevant.

EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS

Minimum 5 years relevant engineering maintenance or heavy-equipment experience in mining drilling construction or a comparable industrial environment.

Demonstrated experience supervising artisans technicians or maintenance teams in an operational environment.

Strong practical fault-finding capability across mechanical and hydraulic systems; electrical exposure is highly advantageous.

Experience planning and controlling maintenance work breakdown response and equipment inspections.

Sound knowledge of mining-site safety requirements and safe maintenance practices.

Ability to interpret technical manuals drawings schematics and OEM maintenance information.

Strong planning prioritisation communication and practical problem-solving ability.

Willingness to work on operational project sites including shifts overtime rotation or temporary relocation where required.

Medically fit for mining / operational site work and in possession of a valid drivers licence.

QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED PROFILE

Recognised trade qualification such as Millwright Fitter Electrician Diesel Mechanic or closely related technical trade; and/or

N4N6 Diploma or equivalent technical qualification in Mechanical Electrical or Mining Engineering.

Additional maintenance reliability hydraulics electrical OEM or supervisory training will be advantageous.

ADVANTAGEOUS

Direct experience maintaining SANY drill rigs mining machinery or associated SANY equipment.

Raise-bore shaft underground drilling or specialist mining equipment exposure.

Experience working with maintenance planning systems / CMMS and structured job-card processes.

Experience with component rebuilds major shutdowns mobilisation or commissioning activities.

Root Cause Analysis / reliability improvement experience.

OEM technical training on drilling hydraulic electrical or heavy mobile equipment.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Hands-on engineering judgement and practical maintenance leadership.

Strong troubleshooting and decision-making under operational pressure.

High focus on safety equipment reliability and quality of workmanship.

Ability to lead technical teams and hold maintenance standards consistently.

Strong communication with operations management suppliers and OEM technical teams.

Disciplined planning reporting and follow-through on defects and maintenance actions