Maintenance Manager

Reports To: General Manager / Senior Project Leadership

Our client is a well funded North American gold development company advancing a large scale oxide gold project through feasibility, permitting, construction readiness, commissioning, and ultimately operations.

The project is a technically straightforward open pit, run of mine, heap leach gold operation with a long anticipated mine life and significant mineral reserves. Planned infrastructure includes conventional open pit mining, crushing facilities, heap leach processing, ADR plant and refinery, supporting utilities, workshops, roads, pipelines, and associated site infrastructure.

As the project progresses toward construction, the company is building an experienced leadership team to deliver the next phase of development safely and efficiently.

Our client is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to support the successful development, construction, commissioning, and long term operation of a major open pit mining project.

The successful candidate will lead the development and implementation of the maintenance function across both the mobile fleet and fixed plant assets. Responsibilities will include mining equipment, ancillary fleet, crushing and conveying systems, process plant infrastructure, workshops, utilities, site services, and supporting facilities.

This individual will play a key leadership role in establishing maintenance systems, strategies, teams, budgets, work management processes, and reliability programs from the ground up while ensuring maintenance requirements are incorporated throughout engineering, construction, operational readiness, and steady state operations.

The role requires a practical, field focused leader capable of building a safe, reliable, and cost effective maintenance organisation that supports long term operational success.

• Champion a safety first culture across all maintenance activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable mining regulations and company standards.
• Build a high performing maintenance culture focused on accountability, reliability, planning, and continuous improvement.
• Provide visible leadership to employees, contractors, and vendors.
• Participate as a member of the site leadership team.
• Support investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions following maintenance related incidents.
• Support engineering, construction, operations, and procurement teams throughout project development.
• Review equipment layouts, maintenance access, workshops, tooling, spare parts strategy, and maintainability.
• Provide input into equipment selection, reliability, standardisation, and lifecycle planning.
• Support maintenance related capital and operating cost estimates.
• Participate in vendor technical evaluations.
• Assist with commissioning and operational readiness planning.

• Support construction sequencing, equipment preservation, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Develop maintenance readiness plans covering staffing, procedures, training, spare parts, tooling, contractors, and maintenance systems.
• Establish preventive maintenance programs, inspection routines, work instructions, and lockout procedures.
• Ensure maintenance resources are prepared for startup and ongoing operations.

• Lead maintenance activities across both mobile mining equipment and fixed plant assets.
• Develop preventive, predictive, and condition based maintenance strategies.
• Manage shutdown planning, component replacement, rebuild strategies, lubrication programs, and critical spares.
• Implement disciplined work management and scheduling processes.
• Partner closely with operations to maximise equipment availability and reliability.
• Monitor KPIs including availability, utilisation, MTBF, MTTR, schedule compliance, maintenance costs, and work quality.

• Drive continuous improvement through reliability engineering and defect elimination.
• Conduct root cause investigations following significant equipment failures.
• Develop asset criticality rankings and risk based maintenance strategies.
• Establish maintenance reporting, dashboards, and performance metrics.
• Support implementation and optimisation of the site's CMMS.
• Improve equipment performance while reducing total lifecycle costs.

• Develop and manage maintenance operating and capital budgets.
• Prepare maintenance forecasts and major component replacement plans.
• Support procurement strategies for equipment, services, consumables, and contractors.
• Evaluate repair versus replacement decisions and lifecycle cost opportunities.

• Build and lead the maintenance organisation through construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Recruit, coach, mentor, and develop supervisors, planners, tradespeople, reliability personnel, and contractors.
• Develop staffing plans, competency frameworks, and succession plans.
• Manage contractor performance and OEM…