Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare a maintenance program
- Access, interpret and apply compliance documentation relevant to implementation and maintaining of site plant, equipment and infrastructure maintenance plans
- Identify and determine maintenance needs of site plant, equipment and infrastructure in compliance with organisation's plant, equipment and infrastructure maintenance requirements
- Obtain manufacturers and supplier's advice on maintenance needs of plant, equipment and infrastructure
- Prepare a maintenance program, in consultation with other stakeholders, which meets the organisation's requirements
- Apply risk, statutory compliance, health, safety and environmental management principles when developing the maintenance program
- Identify and gain approval for resources required to support the maintenance program
- Obtain any approvals required for the implementation of the maintenance program
- Implement maintenance program
- Advise site supervisors and staff of the need for and objectives of the maintenance program and seek their input into its implementation
- Ensure maintenance instructions are in place for each activity and appropriate permitting processes are in place for isolating plant and systems prior to maintenance
- Ensure return to service commissioning and hand over system is in place with operating section
- Arrange identified training requirements for maintenance and any necessary operation/commissioning activities to support the implementation of the program
- Allocate responsibilities and provide clear instructions to supervisors and other appropriate personnel in sufficient detail for them to fulfil their role in the implementation of the program
- Arrange for the timely availability of financial and other resources necessary for the implementation of the program
- Arrange on-line maintenance and outage schedules to minimise impact on mining operations
- Monitor, adjust and report on program
- Monitor plant performance and use information to predict failure events and need for maintenance
- Ensure procedures are in place to review plant or component failures to assess if redesign of components is required or warranted
- Ensure records of maintenance, monitoring, breakdown, major plant modifications, programmed activities and costs are maintained in sufficient detail to allow later analysis
- Monitor and report on any environmental, safety or other event outside acceptable standards
- Analyse maintenance program performance and identify improvements
- Implement improvements to program having gained approval where necessary
- Complete and submit reports on plant, equipment and infrastructure maintenance in accordance with organisational requirements