Manager, Maintenance ARGP

Role Overview

Manager, Maintenance ARGP at Ma'aden. This role provides site-wide leadership and accountability for the fixed plant maintenance function at a medium scale gold operation.

Role Purpose

Provide site-wide leadership and accountability for the fixed plant maintenance function, ensuring safe, reliable, cost-effective operation of the processing plant and associated infrastructure. The role maximizes plant availability, drives disciplined maintenance execution, and embeds best practice asset management systems aligned with Ma'aden standards, MSHEM requirements, and globally recognized maintenance and reliability frameworks. The Maintenance Manager acts as a key member of the site leadership team, partnering with Processing, Supply Chain, Projects and EHSS to deliver stable production, controlled costs, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Safety, Health & Environmental Leadership

• Act as the visible safety leader for all maintenance activities across the processing plant.
• Ensure full compliance with MSHEM standards, Isolation & LOTO, Work Permits, confined space, working at height, and contractor safety requirements.
• Lead safety interactions, risk assessments, and incident investigations within maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance plans and shutdowns are risk-assessed, authorized, and executed safely.

Plant Reliability & Asset Performance

• Own and deliver fixed plant availability, reliability, and OEE targets.
• Implement and continuously improve preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Ensure asset strategies are aligned to criticality rankings, failure modes, and plant operating context.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on major failures and recurring downtime.

Maintenance Planning, Scheduling & Execution

• Establish and enforce disciplined work management covering work identification and prioritization, planning and job scoping, weekly and daily scheduling, and execution and close-out quality.
• Ensure maintenance backlog is controlled, visible, and risk-based.
• Drive high compliance to weekly schedules and preventive maintenance plans.

Shutdown & Major Maintenance Management

• Lead the planning and execution of major plant shutdowns, statutory inspections, and crusher and mill relines.
• Ensure shutdowns are fully planned, resourced, costed, and risk-managed.
• Deliver shutdowns safely, on time and within approved budgets.

Financial & Cost Management

• Develop and control the annual maintenance budget, including labor, spares, and contractor costs.
• Drive cost optimization through improved planning, reduced rework, inventory optimization and reliability improvements.
• Provide accurate maintenance cost forecasting and performance reporting.

Systems, Data & Digital Enablement

• Own the effectiveness of the CMMS / EAM system (for example SAP PM, Oracle EAM).
• Ensure asset master data, maintenance plans, BOMs and history are accurate and complete.
• Use maintenance KPIs and data analytics to drive decisions and improvement.

Leadership, Capability & Organization

• Build and lead a competent, disciplined, and engaged maintenance organization.
• Develop supervisors and engineers through coaching, structured performance management and capability development.
• Ensure appropriate use and governance of maintenance contractors.
• Foster strong collaboration with Processing and Projects teams.

Continuous Improvement & Best Practice

• Benchmark maintenance performance against gold and base-metals industry best practice.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on plant stability, equipment life extension, reduced unplanned downtime, and improved maintenance efficiency.
• Support plant upgrades, debottlenecking and capital projects from a maintenance and reliability perspective.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
• Professional maintenance or reliability certification (for example CMRP) desirable.
• 12–15+ years' experience in maintenance management within gold or base-metals processing operations.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong safety leadership mindset.
• Deep understanding of gold processing equipment including crushing, milling, CIL/CIP, pumps, conveyors, and power distribution.
• Maintenance strategy and reliability engineering.
• Budget and cost control.
• Planning discipline and execution focus.
• Leadership, coaching and accountability.
• Data driven decision making.

Additional Information

Key Success Measures (Indicative KPIs)

• Plant availability and unplanned downtime.
• PM compliance and schedule adherence.
• Maintenance cost per tonne processed.
• Shutdown performance measured by safety, duration, and cost.
• Safety performance measured by TRIF and high potential incidents.