Shutdown Superintendent – Conveyor Maintenance | Guinea FIFO

About the opportunity

Boton Guinea is seeking an experienced Shutdown Superintendent to support conveyor maintenance services at the Simandou Mine Processing Plant in Guinea on an 6/3 roster.

This is a senior shutdown leadership position responsible for planning, coordinating and controlling the execution of planned shutdowns, major conveyor belt change-outs, significant repair works and urgent recovery campaigns.

Reporting to the Contract Manager or Site Superintendent, you will lead shutdown supervisors, leading hands, rigging specialists, belt-splicing crews, mechanical crews and support personnel.

Key responsibilities

You will:

• Develop shutdown execution strategies based on the approved scope, forecast and site constraints.

• Prepare shutdown manpower forecasts, equipment plans, mobilisation dates and staging requirements.

• Coordinate crane, rigging, access, scaffolding, permit, isolation and support-equipment requirements.

• Verify belt-change methodologies, belt-pull calculations, rigging plans and traffic controls.

• Confirm workforce and equipment readiness in advance of each shutdown.

• Lead shutdown progress meetings during every active shift.

• Manage critical-path activities, constraints, actions, delays and recovery plans.

• Coordinate work-front access, isolations, cranes, EWPs, tooling, spares, splice tents and quality hold points.

• Ensure effective written handovers between day and night shifts.

• Maintain accurate labour, equipment, standby, disruption and delay records.

• Escalate changes to scope, access, sequencing, duration or resource requirements.

• Ensure work packs, QA records, photographs, defects and punch-list items are complete before release.

• Lead shutdown close-out reviews and lessons-learned activities.

About you

You will have:

• At least ten years’ mining shutdown execution experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading conveyor belt change-outs and major conveyor repairs.

• Experience managing multi-shift shutdown teams.

• A mechanical trade qualification, shutdown or project-management qualification, or equivalent major shutdown leadership experience.

• Strong knowledge of conveyor systems, splicing, belt pulls, rigging and lifting interfaces.

• Experience coordinating cranes, scaffolding, EWPs, permits, isolations and access requirements.

• Strong understanding of critical-risk controls and safe shutdown execution.

• Experience with scheduling tools, SAP, RTBS or equivalent maintenance systems.

• Strong daily progress-reporting, action-tracking and delay-recording capability.

• Professional working proficiency in English.

French-language capability will be highly regarded, particularly for local workforce supervision and communication.

Mobilisation requirements

Appointment will be subject to:

• Medical and fitness-for-work clearance.

• Visa and international travel requirements.

• Site inductions and access approval.

• Verification of qualifications, licences and competencies.

• Company and client mobilisation approval.

What is offered

• A senior shutdown leadership role on an international mining project.

• Responsibility for major conveyor shutdowns and belt change-outs.

• Direct accountability for shutdown safety, execution and schedule performance.

• Immediate start

• 6/3 roster