Maintenance & Asset Manager | Canadian Gold Mining

I’m currently working with an established Canadian gold producer that is progressing a historic high-grade underground gold operation towards sustainable commercial production, while simultaneously advancing additional nearby deposits to support its longer-term growth strategy.

With modern infrastructure, an experienced workforce and a strong technical team, the operation is entering an exciting stage of development, creating an opportunity for a Maintenance & Asset Manager to play a key role in building and leading its maintenance function.

Reporting directly to the Mine General Manager , this is a senior site leadership position with accountability for the reliability, integrity and lifecycle management of the operation’s assets, including:

- Mobile mining equipment and heavy equipment
- Fixed plant and mineral processing equipment
- Electrical systems and infrastructure
- Instrumentation and control systems
- Pumps, compressors, ventilation and dewatering systems
- Underground and surface infrastructure, buildings and facilities

A major focus of the position will be developing maintenance operating and capital budgets from first principles , based on the physical requirements of the operation and mine plan rather than simply extrapolating historical expenditure.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance organisation across mobile, fixed plant, electrical, instrumentation, reliability and planning functions
- Establish maintenance strategies aligned with mine and processing plans
- Drive improvements in equipment availability,



reliability and utilisation while reducing unplanned downtime and repeat failures
- Develop and implement the site’s asset management and reliability strategy
- Establish asset criticality, risk-based maintenance and critical-spares strategies
- Develop equipment strategies across the full asset lifecycle, from specification and procurement through operation, rebuild, replacement and retirement
- Implement reliability engineering practices including RCA, FMEA, condition monitoring and defect elimination
- Establish disciplined maintenance planning and scheduling systems and optimise CMMS/EAM utilisation
- Lead shutdown, overhaul, equipment rebuild and replacement strategies
- Own maintenance operating and capital budgets, monthly forecasts and expenditure projections
- Build detailed annual and long-range budgets covering labour, parts, major components, rebuilds, contractors, consumables, planned maintenance and shutdowns
- Develop short, medium and long-term asset replacement and capital plans
- Lead repair-versus-replace evaluations and develop technically and financially sound capital business cases
- Provide senior mechanical engineering leadership and maintain appropriate engineering and technical governance
- Work closely with Operations, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain and Health & Safety




- Lead OEM, vendor, contractor and engineering consultant relationships
- Develop succession plans and technical capability across the maintenance organisation
- Maintain a strong culture of safety, accountability, proactive maintenance and continuous improvement

About You

Candidates must possess:

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from a recognised university
- Current P.Eng. designation in Canada, or eligibility for registration in the applicable Canadian jurisdiction
- MBA from a recognised institution
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in the mining industry
- Demonstrated senior leadership experience within a mine maintenance and/or asset management function
- Experience across mobile mining equipment, fixed plant, electrical and instrumentation maintenance
- Demonstrated ability to develop maintenance operating and capital budgets from first principles
- Experience managing significant maintenance operating and capital budgets
- Robust understanding of the relationship between maintenance performance, equipment reliability, production, cost and mine economics
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A proven record of integrity, accountability and reliability in leadership roles

Highly Desirable Experience

- Leading a large, multidisciplinary maintenance organisation
- Asset management and reliability strategy development
- Long-range equipment replacement, rebuild and lifecycle capital planning
- Reliability engineering methodologies including RCA, FMEA, condition monitoring and defect eliminati

📌 Maintenance Manager (Ontario)
🏢 Verrus
📍 Ontario