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Maintenance Team Leader Job at Rutongo Mines Ltd
Rutongo Mines Ltd
Job Description
The Maintenance Team Leader is responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of preventive and corrective maintenance activities on all mining machinery, vehicles, and fixed equipment across the operation. The role oversees a multi-disciplinary crew of mechanics and auto-electricians, ensuring asset availability targets are met and safety standards are enforced.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the daily activities of mechanics, auto-electricians, assistant mechanics, and apprentices across all mining sites.
- Allocate daily work orders and prioritize tasks based on operational urgency, equipment criticality, and resource availability.
- Provide on-the-job coaching and technical mentoring; contribute observations and feedback to the Maintenance Supervisor to support performance evaluations and career development of crew members.
- Conduct daily toolbox talks, shift handovers, and team briefings to align the crew on priorities, hazards, and standards.
- Escalate disciplinary matters, performance concerns, and resourcing gaps to the Maintenance Supervisor for resolution.
- Execute the Preventive Maintenance Schedule (PMS) for all mining machinery, vehicles, and fixed equipment, ensuring tasks are completed on time, in full, and to standard.
- Lead the response to breakdowns: triage, dispatch the right resources, oversee diagnosis and repair, and verify that equipment is restored to operational condition.
- Verify the technical quality of all repairs before signing off equipment for return to service.
- Identify recurring failures and lead root cause analysis (RCA) to drive permanent corrective actions.
- Coordinate with the storekeeper to ensure availability of critical spare parts and consumables ahead of scheduled maintenance.
- Validate parts requisitions raised by the team and confirm correct usage during repairs.
- Monitor consumption patterns and flag MIN/MAX corrections needed in the stores system.
- Ensure proper care, calibration, and accountability of workshop tools and diagnostic equipment.
- Enforce strict compliance with HSSE policies, lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) procedures, and safe work practices on every job.
- Conduct pre-task risk assessments and ensure appropriate PPE is worn at all times in the workshop and on the field.
- Lead incident reporting, near-miss reporting, and participation in investigations when required.
- Ensure waste oils, used filters, and other hazardous materials are handled and disposed of in line with environmental procedures.
- Ensure accurate completion of job cards, work orders, and maintenance logs by the team for every task performed.
- Submit daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance reports to the Maintenance Supervisor covering work completed, hours spent, parts used, and outstanding jobs.
- Track team-level KPIs including PM compliance, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), and fleet availability.
- Support the Data Administrator in validating maintenance data captured into the CMMS or maintenance database.
- Identify opportunities to improve maintenance procedures, reduce downtime, and extend asset life, and submit improvement proposals to the Maintenance Supervisor.
- Participate in cross-functional improvement initiatives with Production, Stores, and HSSE teams.
- Coach the team on new techniques, OEM updates, and lessons learned from incidents and breakdowns.
- Be on-call for emergency repairs and maintenance outside of regular working hours.
- Lead the emergency response crew during major breakdowns to restore producti
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