Asset Management Manager

Department: Integrated Maintenance — Mine & Plant

Level: Senior Leadership / Management

Role Purpose:

The Asset Management Manager is a senior leadership position accountable for the integrated management, reliability, availability, performance and life-cycle cost of Golden company’s mobile and fixed assets. The position leads the maintenance organization covering the mine mobile fleet and process plant, ensuring that asset performance supports the site's production plan while optimizing cost, risk and asset life. The role is responsible for maximizing the value generated by Golden Queen's physical assets throughout their life cycle—from investment, acquisition and commissioning through operation, maintenance, renewal and eventual disposal. The position ensures that maintenance and asset-management activities are conducted safely, efficiently and in compliance with company standards, MSHA requirements, applicable California regulations and environmental obligations.

Key Accountabilities

Asset Management Strategy & Governance

• Own and maintain the Asset Management Policy and Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP).
• Establish clear alignment between corporate objectives, site strategy, asset plans, budgets and maintenance execution.
• Define measurable asset-management objectives, accountabilities, resources and deadlines, and report performance to site and corporate leadership.
• Establish asset governance covering performance, risk, cost, capital investment and life-cycle decisions in collaboration with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain and HSEC.
• Maintain the asset criticality framework and associated risk register, ensuring maintenance strategies are proportional to asset criticality.
• Lead the progressive improvement of asset-management maturity through periodic assessments and defined improvement roadmaps.
• Ensure asset strategies are reviewed and updated based on operational experience, failure history, changing production requirements and life-of-mine plans.

Asset Economics, Budget & Life-Cycle Management

• Own the total cost of ownership of assets and their contribution to operating cash cost (OCC) and all-in sustaining cost (AISC) per ounce.
• Develop, defend, phase and control the maintenance OPEX budget and sustaining CAPEX plan.
• Implement budget control at business-unit, cost-center and asset/unit-cost level.
• Conduct variance analysis based on volume, rate, scope and timing, rather than accounting lines alone.
• Identify and eliminate sources of value leakage, including:
• Emergency and expedited purchases
• Premium costs associated with unplanned work
• Rework
• Contractor-rate exposure
• Standby and idle equipment
• Obsolete or excess inventory
• Partner with Finance on capitalization, componentization, depreciation, inventory provisioning and CAPEX/OPEX treatment.
• Ensure budgeted overhaul and component-replacement intervals are clearly distinguished from OEM technical recommendations and are supported by an explicit engineering basis.
• Own the asset replacement and renewal strategy across the life of mine.
• Lead repair-versus-replace-versus-rebuild decisions using life-cycle cost, remaining useful life, criticality, reliability and residual value.
• Ensure new or modified assets are commissioned with a complete asset-management package, including:
• Criticality assessment
• Maintenance strategy
• Spare-parts requirements
• CMMS master data
• Technical documentation
• Training and competency requirements
• Conduct post-investment reviews for material capital projects and evaluate benefits achieved against those committed.
• Manage asset disposal, redeployment and end-of-life decisions, including residual-value recovery and closure obligations.

Maintenance & Reliability

Mine Mobile Equipment

Provide strategic and operational leadership for maintenance of:

• Electric/hydraulic shovels
• Haul trucks
• Front-end loaders
• Drill rigs
• Ancillary and support equipment
• Other critical mobile assets

Ensure equipment availability and reliability meet the requirements of Mine Operations and the approved mine plan.

Process Plant

Provide strategic and operational leadership for maintenance of:

• Primary and secondary crushing
• Conveyors
• Agglomeration systems
• Stacking systems
• Heap-leach solution irrigation and recirculation systems
• Merrill-Crowe recovery plant
• Associated fixed plant infrastructure and critical utilities

Work Management

• Govern maintenance strategies, maintenance plans and the complete maintenance work-management cycle.
• Establish discipline across:
• Identify → Plan → Schedule → Execute → Close → Analyze → Improve.
• Establish clear KPIs for each stage of the work-management process.
• Maintain a disciplined frozen weekly schedule and measure schedule compliance.
• Ensure all maintenance work is planned, scheduled, executed and closed through the company’s designated CMMS as the single system of record.
• Ensure work-order quality, failure coding, labor reporting, material consumption and technical history are accurate and actionable.

Reliability Engineering

• Establish reliability engineering as a permanent organizational capability.
• Lead failure-data quality, MTBF/MTTR analysis, bad-actor identification and reliability improvement.
• Establish mandatory Root Cause Analysis(RCA) triggers based on safety, production, cost and recurrence criteria.
• Maintain an action register and verify the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Demonstrate measurable reduction in recurring failure modes.
• Develop and govern condition-based and predictive maintenance programs, including:
• Oil analysis
• Vibration analysis
• Thermography
• Structural monitoring
• Wear monitoring
• Establish alarm limits, response protocols and conversion of predictive findings into planned work.
• Use reliability data to continuously optimize maintenance strategies.

Operations & Mine Plan Integration

• Share ownership with Mine Operations and Processing for the availability and utilization required to deliver the production plan.
• Establish common definitions for:
• Availability
• Utilization
• Equipment states
• Downtime
• Production losses
• Ensure maintenance and Operations use consistent data across dispatch, FMS, CMMS and other operational systems.
• Participate in short-, medium- and long-term mine planning.
• Integrate maintenance windows, major overhauls, component replacements and fleet capacity requirements into production planning.
• Ensure maintenance constraints are identified and managed proactively rather than becoming downstream production constraints.

Digital Systems & Data

• Ensure effective integration between the CMMS and ERP systems.
• Ensure integration between the CMMS, Fleet Management System (FMS) and OEM telemetry platforms.
• Govern CMMS configuration, master data, asset hierarchy, equipment history and maintenance-plan integrity.
• Establish reliable data flows for maintenance, reliability, cost and asset-performance reporting.
• Own technical document management, including:
• OEM manuals
• Drawings
• Procedures
• Certifications
• Warranty records
• Inspection records
• Engineering changes
• Ensure appropriate document version control, accessibility and retention.

Supply Chain & Contractor Management

• Define the technical demand for maintenance materials, components and services.
• Maintain clear segregation of duties between technical demand definition, procurement, physical custody and purchasing authorization.
• Establish and govern the critical-spares strategy, including:
• Criticality-based stocking policies
• Min/max parameters
• Strategic spares
• Repairable-component pools
• Emergency-purchase reduction
• Establish material-readiness standards and measure schedule losses attributable to material shortages.
• Establish the maintenance-contractor management framework covering:
• Scope definition
• Technical evaluation
• Commercial interface
• SLA/KPI requirements
• Safety and competency requirements
• Performance reviews
• Manage strategic relationships with OEMs and specialized maintenance providers.

Safety, Health, Environment & Compliance

• Maintain accountability for the safety and integrity of maintenance activities.
• Ensure effective management of critical controls, including:
• Lockout/tagout
• Permit-to-work systems
• Lifting equipment
• Pressure equipment
• Mobile equipment fitness for use
• Statutory inspections
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with applicable MSHA requirements.
• Ensure asset-related environmental obligations are incorporated into maintenance and asset strategies, including containment, emissions, hazardous materials and waste management.
• Integrate asset-related risks into the site's overall risk-management process.
• Prioritize asset risks according to potential consequences to people, environment, production, reputation and financial performance.

Organization, Leadership & Capability

• Lead and develop an integrated mine-and-plant maintenance organization.
• Establish clear organizational structures, roles, responsibilities and spans of control.
• Develop succession plans for critical positions.
• Establish competency matrices and structured development plans.
• Ensure competency certification and technical training are appropriate to equipment, task and regulatory requirements.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, reliability and disciplined execution.
• Build effective collaboration between Maintenance, Operations, HSEC, Supply Chain, Technical Services, Finance and Human Resources.
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Minimum Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in:
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Master's degree or postgraduate qualification in Asset Management, Reliability Engineering or a related discipline is desirable.

Experience

• Minimum 20 years of experience in mining maintenance.
• Minimum 15 years in leadership positions overseeing integrated mine and plant maintenance in open-pit mining operations.
• Demonstrated experience managing large mobile-equipment fleets and fixed-process plant assets.
• Experience with heap-leach operations and Merrill-Crowe recovery is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in asset strategy, maintenance budgeting, reliability improvement and life-cycle asset management.

Certifications

• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) desirable.
• Training/certification in RCM, FMECA and TPM.
• Appropriate MSHA Part 46/48 training/certification.

Languages

• English — mandatory.
• Spanish — desirable.

Systems

• Strong experience with CMMS/EAM platforms.
• Experience with Limble preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
• Advanced Excel and Power BI/data-analysis capability.