Head of Mechanical Maintenance

About the role

Dangote Cement Tanzania is looking for a results‑oriented Head of Mechanical Maintenance to provide strategic and hands‑on leadership for all mechanical maintenance activities across its integrated cement plant. The role ensures safe, reliable and cost‑effective operation of production assets while driving people development and field‑level ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute the plant mechanical maintenance strategy in line with production targets, OEM recommendations and statutory requirements.
• Own preventive, predictive, condition‑based and corrective maintenance programmes, ensuring disciplined planning, scheduling, execution and close‑out.
• Improve equipment reliability through root‑cause analysis, failure elimination, life‑cycle planning and continuous improvement.
• Establish and enforce standards for lubrication, alignment, balancing, vibration monitoring, thermography, oil analysis, inspection routes and equipment preservation.
• Maintain accurate equipment history, bills of material, task lists and maintenance records in the CMMS/SAP system.
• Lead mechanical maintenance of crushers, stackers/reclaimers, raw and coal mills, rotary kiln, pre‑heater, clinker cooler, cement mills, separators, packing plants and bulk‑loading systems.
• Ensure reliability of gearboxes, girth gears, pinions, bearings, couplings, hydraulic systems, fans, compressors, pumps, conveyors, elevators, feeders, dust collectors and utility equipment.
• Maintain mechanical integrity of the kiln system, including shell, tyres, rollers, thrust rollers, drive train, seals and refractory interfaces.
• Coordinate OEM and specialist support for major technical problems, upgrades, overhauls and performance restoration.
• Lead annual shutdowns and major overhauls from scope definition through execution, quality control and lessons learned.

Required profile

• Competent, energetic and visible leader who takes ownership and works effectively under pressure.
• Spends meaningful time in the field, develops people and converts technical analysis into timely action.

Required skills

• Preventive maintenance
• Predictive maintenance
• Condition‑based maintenance
• Root‑cause analysis
• CMMS (SAP)
• Lubrication
• Alignment (including laser alignment)
• Balancing
• Vibration monitoring
• Thermography
• Oil analysis
• Non‑destructive testing (NDT)
• Welding
• Fabrication
• Machining