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Maintenance Specialist

Optimum Coal is a broad-based, South African coal mining and exploration group with a strong vision to be a leading player in the export and domestic coal industries. Our flagship operations are Optimum Collieries and Koornfontein Mines in Mpumalanga. Optimum Coal is the sixth largest producer of thermal coal in Southern Africa, SA’s fourth largest coal exporter with significant shareholding of RBTC and a key supplier of coal to Eskom. In order to develop our coal opportunities we need to build our team with committed and suitably qualified people. Our bright future waits.


MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST
(Paterson Grading DL)

ROLE, PURPOSE AND DELIVERABLES

Optimum Collieries requires the services of a hardworking, conscientious individual to safely and effectively manage the maintenance process plant section and to deliver value through optimising its repair and maintenance process.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications and experience

You will have the following exposure, competencies and qualifications required for success:
• National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical)
• Recognised relevant Trade Test (Red Seal) in Mechanical or Electrical
• Five (5) years’ supervisory experience
• Exposure to maintenance practices in an opencast mining or process plant environment
• Knowledge of maintenance systems and SAP
• Post-maintenance qualification will be an added advantage
• Provincial (Code 08/EB) driver’s licence.

GENERAL
• The successful candidate must be able to obtain a certificate of medical fitness
• The appointment will be made in line with Optimum Coal’s transformation commitments and in alignment with the BBBEE Act (53/2003).

Closing date: 23 September 2011

All applicants are thanked for their interest. However, applicants who have received no response within 21 days must consider their applications unsuccessful.