Maintenance & Asset Manager

emergiTEL is hiring a Maintenance & Asset Manager for our client in the Mining industry. This is a Full-Time role.

Location: Red Lake District, Northwestern Ontario

Work Schedule: 5 days on / 2 days off, followed by 4 days on / 3 days off

• The Maintenance & Asset Manager is a senior site leadership role responsible for the reliability, maintenance, and lifecycle management of all operational assets, including mobile mining equipment, fixed plant, mechanical and electrical systems, instrumentation and controls, buildings, facilities, and site infrastructure.
• Lead the maintenance and asset management function to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective equipment performance.
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies that support mining and processing objectives.
• Oversee preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Improve equipment availability, reliability, and utilization while reducing unplanned downtime and production losses.
• Develop maintenance operating and capital budgets from first principles based on equipment requirements, labour, parts, rebuilds, contractors, and planned maintenance.
• Lead asset management, reliability engineering, equipment replacement, and lifecycle planning.
• Oversee maintenance planning, scheduling, shutdowns, major overhauls, and equipment rebuild programs.
• Manage fixed plant, electrical, instrumentation, and control system maintenance.
• Establish equipment criticality rankings, critical-spares strategies, and root cause analysis processes.
• Monitor maintenance costs, equipment performance, and budget variances.
• Work with Operations, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, and Health & Safety teams to support operational goals.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary maintenance teams, including supervisors, engineers, planners, reliability personnel, and trades.
• Ensure compliance with applicable mining legislation, engineering standards, safety requirements, and company procedures.
• Communicate equipment risks, maintenance priorities, costs, and performance clearly to frontline employees and senior leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from a recognized university.
• Current Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Canada or eligibility for registration in the applicable Canadian jurisdiction.
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) from a recognized institution.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in the mining industry.
• Senior leadership experience in mine maintenance and/or asset management.
• Experience with mobile mining equipment, fixed plant, electrical systems, and instrumentation maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to develop maintenance operating and capital budgets from first principles.
• Experience managing significant maintenance operating and capital budgets.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between maintenance performance, equipment reliability, production, cost, and mine economics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated integrity, accountability, reliability, and leadership capabilities.

• Experience leading a large, multidisciplinary maintenance organization.
• Experience developing asset management and reliability strategies.
• Knowledge of long-term equipment replacement, rebuild, and lifecycle capital planning.
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), condition monitoring, and defect elimination.
• Experience implementing or optimizing CMMS/EAM systems.
• Experience managing major shutdowns, overhauls, and equipment rebuild programs.
• Experience developing equipment criticality and critical-spares strategies.
• Experience with equipment specification, procurement, commissioning, and…