Asset Management Manager

About the Role

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The purpose of the Asset Management Manager role is to maximize value, safety, and reliability of all physical assets across the mine and gold processing plant by governing the full asset lifecycle from design and commissioning through operation, maintenance, and optimization while ensuring operational readiness and sustainable production performance.

                                Workplace
                                Remote / Hybrid
                            

                                Career Path
                                Growth Potential
                            

                                Compensation
                                Competitive
                            

Responsibilities

Provide asset stewardship for the gold processing plant, ensuring grinding, leaching, adsorption, elution, electrowinning, tailings, and reagent systems achieve design throughput, recovery, availability, and cost targets.
Partner closely with Operations to support stable, safe, and optimized gold production, addressing plant bottlenecks, chronic equipment issues, and reliability risks.
Lead asset-side input to plant operating strategies, shutdown planning, and production ramp-up
Own the Asset Management Strategy and Asset Management Plan aligned with the mine plan and gold production objectives.
Define lifecycle standards for acquisition, commissioning, operation, maintenance, modification, and disposal.
Chair the Asset Risk & Reliability forum, ensuring systematic management of critical risks and bad actors.
Ensure compliance with all statutory asset requirements.
Govern mechanical completion, commissioning, and handover of the gold plant and infrastructure.
Ensure complete and accurate as-builts, BoMs, PM strategies, spares, and Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) master data prior to startup.
Lead Reliability‑Centred Maintenance (RCM) and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) for all gold plant critical systems.
Oversee maintenance execution for the gold plant, infrastructure, and facilities.
Establish best-practice work management, planning, scheduling, QA/QC, and shutdown governance.
Lead reliability engineering (RCFA, condition monitoring, RAM analysis, asset health optimisation).
Ensure reliability, safety, and compliance of power, water, process water, tailings services, fuel, camp, roads, and communications.
GoDefine critical spares, technical specifications, and maintenance material standards.
Collaborate with Supply Chain to ensure inventory practices support gold plant reliability and availability.vern utilities and site services contracts and performance.
Sponsor asset-related capital projects (debottlenecking, reliability, safety, recovery improvements).
Govern Management of Change for all plant and infrastructure modifications.
Own maintenance and reliability KPIs linked to gold plant availability, recovery, cost, and risk.
Drive continuous improvement and benchmark performance against industry best practice.
Build a competent, disciplined asset management and maintenance organization.
Promote strong safety leadership, operational discipline, and accountability.

Required Skills

Exceptional Organizational Skills: Ability to meticulously organize, categories, and manage multiple operational disciplines and functions.

Corporate and Mining Regulatory Environments: Sound understanding of Corporate and Mining regulatory environments and their interrelationships.

Excellent interpersonal and Consultative Skills: Ability to interact with senior people in the company and represent the company in a positive manner in the private and public sectors and to effectively present and communicate key technical, environmental and social matters to Management and other stakeholders.

Highly Analytic and Strategic: Ability to recognizes the cause-and-effect relationships between actions, people, and processes, and anticipates their broader consequences.

Problem-Solving: Strong analytical, data interpretation and decision-making skills.

Leadership: Excellent multicultural leadership, coaching and mentoring and cross-functional coordination skills.

Team Orientated: Ability to work effectively as part of a team and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

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Requirements

Candidates should possess relevant experience in this field. Ability to work in a team environment, strong problem-solving skills, and effective communication capabilities are required.

How to Apply

                    Submit your application and CV along with supporting documents via email: apply@lonadd.com by putting Application for Asset Management Manager in the subject line

Only Shortlisted Candidates will be contacted