Newmont Ghana Gold Limited Seeks Process Maintenance Foreman (E&I)

Newmont Ghana Gold Limited has engineering opportunities/jobs in Ghana to hire Process Maintenance Foreman (E&I). We are one of five core operating regions of Newmont Mining Corporation (www.newmont.com), one of the largest gold companies in the world. Newmont operates the Ahafo Mine in the Brong-Ahafo Region and the Akyem Project in the Eastern Region. 

The company has approximately 46,000 employees and contractors worldwide, and employs over 6,500 employees and contractors in Ghana. 

JOB SUMMARY

Company:

Newmont Ghana Gold

Industry:

Mining

Category:

Engineering

Location:

Akyem

Job Status:

Full-time

Salary:

GH¢ 

Education:

BSc

Experience:

4 years

Job Expires:

04 Jan, 2013

Job Description

PURPOSE: Electrical and Instrumentation Supervision for the process plant

  • Supervise E&I technicians assigned to you.
  • To prevent equipment breakdowns.
  • To reduce unplanned equipment maintenance.
  • To provide support to the Maintenance work groups.
  • To increase reliability and availability of plant equipment.
  • To plan and utilize available resources.
  • To ensure that maintenance works are carried out under safe conditions.
  • Interact with purchasing and stores to ensure that parts, supplies and resources are available to accomplish work assignment
  • within maintenance department in a timely manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES: Become familiar with and strictly adhere to Newmont's Health, Safety and Environmental standards. Act as a role model in complying with and supporting these standards and practices.

  • Plan, Schedule and Supervise Electrical and Instrumentation work as required, including:
    • Breakdown tasks and resources.
    • Planned tasks and resources.
    • Shutdown tasks and resources.
    • Determine shutdown critical path activities, update
    • shutdown schedule as required.
  • Ability to use the following Instruments:
    • RTD/Thermocouple and current simulators for trouble shooting of temperature sensors and transmitters.
    • HART communicator for programming and trouble shooting.
    • Dead weight test for calibration of transmitters and gauges.
    • Modiewak for checking dead circuits if there is voltage (low or high).
    • Meggar's and Multimeter for testing voltage, resistance checks and resistance current.
  • Contractor management including work orders, service orders, tracking purchases to ensure that preferred suppliers of labor and materials are used and rates adhered. Manage Invoices and payment approvals.

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Position is located in a very remote location. The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.

  • Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust
  • focus.
  • Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to sit at a desk for extended periods, climb
  • stairs, walk and stand.
  • Work Environment: The noise level in the office work environment is minimal.  Occasional exposure to noise, fumes, high temperature hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces etc.

Required Skills or Experience

ESSENTIALS SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or HND Electrical Engineering with minimum 4 years working experience in the process plant or similar.
  • Be strong team player.
  • Commitment to company values.
  • Thorough knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards.
  • Thorough knowledge of the work management process.
  • Thorough knowledge of planning and scheduling.
  • General knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation.
  • General knowledge of defect elimination methodologies and their interpretation.
  • Thorough knowledge of the operation of the CMMS (SAP).
  • Ability to effectively prioritize jobs in order of importance
  • Strong knowledge in MS Office Suite.
  • Ability to interpret electrical engineering drawings.

DESIREABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ;

  • Training and experience in Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) techniques, such as Vibration Analysis, Thermography and Oil Analysis.
  • Knowledge and experience with Reliability Centered Maintenance, Top 10 Analysis of Breakdowns.
  • Training and experience with High Voltage switching programs.
  • Experience in maintenance practices for large brush motors.

How To Apply

Interested applicants should please create a profile and apply at the Newmont's website at 

www.Newmont.com/Join-Our-Team  


This is the preferred mode of application.

However, if you do not have access to an Internet resource, please send your CV and cover letter to the site HR office before or on the closing date.

The HR Manager
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited
PMB Airport Post Office
Accra, Ghana

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