Superintendent 2 - Process Plant Maintenance

About the role

AngloGold Ashanti is hiring a Superintendent 2 for Process Plant Maintenance at its Geita Gold Mine in Tanzania. The role is accountable for the safe, reliable and cost-effective maintenance of all fixed plant mechanical assets across the Processing Plant, associated infrastructure and compressors, providing strategic leadership, technical governance and operational oversight to optimise equipment reliability, asset integrity and plant availability.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate all mechanical maintenance activities in the processing plant and mine compressors to meet production and reliability targets.
• Develop and run preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance programmes in line with OEM recommendations and engineering standards.
• Monitor equipment performance, prioritise work orders, support troubleshooting of major failures and plan and execute shutdowns and maintenance campaigns.
• Drive reliability improvement through reliability-centred maintenance, equipment criticality assessments and root cause analysis of failures.
• Prepare annual mechanical maintenance budgets, forecast costs and control labour, contractor and material spend.
• Manage the interface with capital projects, strengthen Management of Change processes and engineering audits, and contribute to Life of Mine maintenance budgets.
• Lead team performance management, succession planning, coaching and accountability, and support diversity, inclusion, wellness and fatigue management initiatives.
• Promote a strong safety culture, process safety and compliance with statutory and company requirements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• At least 10 years' experience in process plant maintenance, engineering or reliability within mining, heavy industry or large-scale processing.
• Demonstrated hands-on plant mechanical maintenance and leadership of multi-section teams.
• Experience managing operational budgets, cost control and financial forecasting; exposure to capital projects including commissioning.
• Proven record in reliability improvement and root cause analysis, and shutdown planning and execution.

Required skills

• Strong maintenance competencies in fixed plants and knowledge of SAP PM.
• Excellent Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Project and Excel.
• Financial, commercial and project management skills; continuous improvement methodologies.
• Ability to communicate technical issues orally and in writing and to delegate and evaluate progress against deadlines.

What we offer

• Medical insurance, employee assistance programmes and wellbeing initiatives.
• Company-supported pension or provident fund contributions.
• Annual leave, sick leave and public holidays in line with company policy.