Mechanical Maintenance Head

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a
**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
The **Mechanical Maintenance Head** will contribute to reach maximum availability / reliability of the mechanical equipment and installations in the plant, coordinate the execution of appropriate corrective and preventive maintenance actions at the lowest optimum cost and in compliance with the OH&S regulations, following the maintenance guidelines of the Cement Industrial Framework (iCIF) and Maintenance Management System (MAC).

**Responsibilities**:
**Health and Safety**:

- Guarantee compliance with OH&S and environment policies for mechanical maintenance personnel.
- Establish safety culture and tackle specific actions to ensure health and safety prevention during maintenance activities.
- Contribute to plant housekeeping and cleanliness.
- Ensure internal controls are in place, providing reasonable assurance of effective and efficient operations, including actions to prevent and detect fraud and protect Company resources.

**Maintenance Operations**:

- Determine and contribute to the planning and scheduling of the necessary actions of corrective and preventive mechanical maintenance in coordination with Electrical and Preventive Maintenance Head and Supervisors to assure proper functioning of mechanical equipment and installations.
- Ensure mechanical maintenance team’s full time readiness to efficiently tackle emergencies or urgent breakdowns.
- Contribute with his team to the development and planning of the necessary preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance actions and plans to assure long term proper functioning of equipment and installations in cooperation with the Production and Process, Capex departments, Electrical and Preventive Maintenance Heads / Coordinator.
- Prepare weekly and daily maintenance plans (work orders) according to preventive maintenance plans or scheduled corrective maintenance actions.
- Coordinate and supervise execution of work order activities, failure data gathering (cause, symptom ), time confirmation (external and internal), material withdrawal, BOM data collection and ensure the quality of the work execution.
- Manage execution of maintenance activities by third parties.
- Cooperate with Production and Process, Capex departments, Electrical and Preventive Maintenance Heads / Coordinator in the execution of complex maintenance actions.
- Contribute to NWC optimization by identifying critical parts of equipment (based on risk assessment), proposing optimal stock levels of spare parts (through FMEA and RCA) and identifying remaining lifetime of critical equipment.
- Define measures to extend lifetimes and set-up replacement planning in line with cost target and PDP.
- Provide technical requirements and support supplier qualification and evaluation for mechanical maintenance services contracting.

**Planning and Cost Control**:

- Support the Maintenance Manager in the elaboration and control of the maintenance budget, ensuring planning and follow-up of costs.
- Implement effective and systematic solutions to achieve budget and to meet or exceed targets.

**Standards**
- Communicate and implement regulations, company goals, local permits, policies and procedures; optimise the internal processes and structures within its group.
- Respect Cement Industrial Framework (iCIF) and Maintenance Management System (MAC) standard; follow up monthly and weekly MAC targets (KPIs and SPIs).

**People Management**:

- Monitor performance of mechanical maintenance personnel (internal and external).
- Develop, inform and motivate its team, ensuring competencies and skills development according to technical innovations, plant or personal needs.
- Train and coach the maintenance team on maintenance best practices.

**Innovation and Continuous Improvement**:

- Contribute to the reliability analysis, RCA execution and actions follow up.
- Coordinate the development of the Standard operational procedures for repetitive activities
- Consider new techniques and/or technologies to optimise mechanical maintenance cost and improve the technical condition and functioning of the installed equipment.

Qualifications:
**Education**:

- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent education / experience.

**Experience and Skill Set**:

- 3-5 years experience dealing with production or maintenance
- Experience in heavy industry experience preferred
- Knowledge of cement production process
- Knowledge of CIF (Cement Industrial Framework), MAC (Maintenance Cement), HAC (Holcim Asset Code System), CbM (Computer based Monitoring), Project Management Approach