HME Superintendent – Khoemacau Copper Mining

Job Description

HME SUPERINTENDENT (CONTRACTOR OVERSIGHT – MINING MAINTENANCE)- 5 YEAR FIXED TERM CONTRACT

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your key accountabilities include:

• Monitoring contractor compliance with SLA/KPIs (availability, reliability, response times) and verifying that maintenance work meets agreed scope, OEM standards and site requirements.
• Reviewing daily/weekly contractor reports and validating accuracy against actual site conditions.
• Ensuring all planned maintenance and breakdown repairs are executed as per schedule.
• Auditing maintenance practices, tooling, and adherence to OEM standards.
• Overseeing breakdown response and ensuring timely fault finding, repairing, participating in and enforcing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major failures.
• Ensuring implementation of corrective actions and tracking effectiveness through identification of systemic issues (skills, parts, planning) affecting reliability.
• Enforcing mine safety standards and legal compliance (MQW&M) and ensuring contractor adherence to SHE policies, procedures and risk assessments.
• Participating in incident investigations, holding contractors accountable for findings and conducting routine safety audits on contractor teams.
• Validating contractor claims, work orders and invoices against actual work done.
• Monitoring cost drivers (labour, spares, rework, standby time) and preventing cost leakage due to poor workmanship or inefficiencies and supporting contract performance reviews and commercial discussions.
• Ensuring contractors deliver on training and skills transfer commitments and monitoring competency levels of contractor artisans (expatriate vs local workforce).
• Interfacing between operations, planning team and contractors by ensuring alignment of maintenance schedules with production requirements.
• Participating in shutdown planning and execution oversight and ensuring proper resource allocation by contractor (skills, tools, parts).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR

EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE:

• Trade Certificate (Diesel Mechanic / Auto Electrician / HME Fitter) or NCQF Level
• 4–5 or equivalent
• Minimum of 7–10 years HME maintenance experience and minimum 3 years in a

supervisory or contractor management role

• Supervisory / Foreman training (advantageous)
• Strong exposure to contractor-driven maintenance environment
• Experience with major OEM fleets (CAT, Komatsu, Sandvik, Epiroc) a pre-requisite

Closing date: 19 June 2026

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