Junior Maintenance Engineer-MER program
Date: Apr 21, 2025
Location: Tasiast, Inchiri region, Mauritania
Company: Kinross Gold Corporation
Job Description
Acquire a comprehensive understanding of asset management to become a leader in maintenance, encompassing both technical and financial aspects of the business.
Job Responsibilities
• Ensure the safety of employees and integrity of assets by preventing failures.
• Optimize maintenance processes to align with budget constraints, reliability requirements, and cost-effectiveness.
• Identify and address items to enhance workforce productivity.
• Monitor daily operations and propose actions to improve key maintenance performance indicators for the plant and fleet.
• Implement continuous improvement practices in all processes involving asset maintenance, planning, and execution.
• Pursue cost reduction responsibly, prioritizing safety and gold production.
• Analyze failure history to generate insights that, combined with modeling techniques, will enhance reliability.
• Support management with weekly and monthly recommendations to improve gold production and asset availability.
• Understand equipment life cycles to optimize property costs.
• Develop a loss profile for the industrial plant and fleet.
• Lead and support the implementation of continuous improvement programs in the work area.
• Assist in long-term planning to reduce losses and improve asset availability.
• Develop “what if” scenarios to fully assess alternatives across multiple years and/or technical areas, and to assess risk.
Education and Experience
Mandatory Requirements for this position:
• Engineer Degree in Mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering degree.
• No more than 1 year of prior maintenance work experience.
• Proficiency in english.
• Commited to safety best practices.
• Organized individual.
• Flexibility and critical analyses
• Common sense and pro-activity.
• Resilience and sistemic view of processes.