Job Description
UG Asset Health Specialist – Africa & Middle East
Position Description
The
Underground Asset Health Specialist is the regional lead responsible for Underground HME reliability, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, and asset health performance across
Barrick AME Underground operations.
The role drives reliability improvement strategies and asset health programmes that support breakdown reduction, component life optimisation, maintenance quality improvement, and operational performance across Underground fleets.
Join Our Exceptional Team And Embody Barrick's Core Values As You Work With Us. We Are In Search Of Individuals Who Can Champion Barrick's DNA By
- Communicating Honestly, Transparently, and Acting with Integrity
- Exhibiting a Results-Driven approach
- Delivering solutions that are Fit for Purpose
- Dedicating themselves to Building a Sustainable Legacy
- Taking Responsibility and being Accountable
- Committing to Zero Harm
- Cultivating strong and meaningful Partnerships
If you're ready to contribute to our
world-class team while embracing these values, we encourage you to apply and become a valued member of our diverse workforce.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive the regional Underground reliability and asset health strategy.
- Lead reliability improvement initiatives across Underground HME operations.
- Govern and standardise:
- Condition monitoring programmes
- Predictive maintenance processes
- Defect elimination programmes
- Failure analysis methodologies
- Reliability reporting standards
- Lead condition-based maintenance and reliability-centred maintenance initiatives across Underground fleets.
- Monitor and analyse Underground HME asset health and reliability performance.
- Integrate and analyse:
- Oil analysis data
- OEM telematics
- Vibration analysis
- Thermography
- Electrical condition monitoring
- Machine telemetry
- Inspection data
- Operational performance data
- Convert asset health and reliability insights into prioritised maintenance actions and operational work plans.
- Drive reduction of:
- Repeat failures
- Breakdown events
- Maintenance-related losses
- Component failures
- Support optimisation of:
- Component life
- Maintenance quality
- Rebuild quality
- Contamination control
- Tyre health performance
- Support operational readiness and reliability planning for new Underground projects and fleet deployments.
- Collaborate with Systems and Automation teams to support:
- Predictive maintenance capability
- Asset health reporting
- Maintenance analytics
- Reliability data integration
- Develop and deliver reliability training and capability development programmes.
- Support site maintenance teams with:
- Failure analysis
- Reliability reviews
- Defect elimination
- Maintenance optimisation
- Monitor reliability KPIs and provide reporting, escalation, and improvement recommendations to regional leadership.
- Support lifecycle planning and maintenance budget forecasting through reliability analysis.
- Ensure all asset health and reliability activities comply with:
- Barrick standards
- Maintenance governance requirements
- Safety requirements
- Site operational requirements
Qualification Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, or related field preferred
- Professional certification in reliability engineering or asset management is strongly preferred.
- Certifications may include:
- CMRP.
- CRE.
- Equivalent reliability or asset management qualifications.
- Professional registration with a relevant engineering body is beneficial.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 8–10 years’ experience in reliability engineering, condition monitoring, or asset health management within large-scale underground mining operations.
- Strong HME reliability experience across multiple sites is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience developing and driving reliability improvement roadmaps and asset health strategies.
- Proven experience implementing:
- Reliability standards.
- Defect elimination programmes.
- Condition-based maintenance strategies.
- Predictive maintenance programmes.
- Reliability reporting systems.
- Demonstrated experience driving SAP utilisation for:
- Asset health tracking.
- Failure analysis.
- Condition monitoring workflows.
- Reliability reporting.
- Demonstrated experience with complementary reliability and predictive maintenance platforms.
- Experience supporting:
- OEM-agnostic condition monitoring.
- Predictive failure identification.
- Automated notification workflows.
- Reliability analytics.
- Demonstrated experience influencing site reliability teams across multiple locations without direct line authority.
- Experience delivering reliability training and building site reliability capability.
- Experience supporting workshop reliability improvement and rebuild quality initiatives is advantageous.
- Experience working with OEMs, condition monitoring vendors, and technical service providers is advantageous.
Knowledge & Skills Requirements
- Keep knowledge of Underground HME reliability engineering principles.
- Strong understanding of:
- Defect elimination.
- Failure analysis.
- Predictive maintenance.
- Condition-based maintenance.
- Reliability-centred maintenance.
- Asset health monitoring.
- Strong understanding of Underground HME maintenance work management principles.
- Strong understanding of the Barrick Maintenance Work Management Procedure.
- Strong understanding of Underground HME fleets including:
- LHDs.
- Underground trucks.
- Drills.
- Ancillary equipment.
- Ability to maximise SAP’s current reliability and asset health functionality.
- Ability to support implementation and operational governance of Barrick-approved complementary reliability platforms.
- Ability to leverage automation telemetry and machine data for predictive reliability outcomes.
- Strong analytical capability for:
- Failure analysis.
- Trend analysis.
- Breakdown analysis.
- Financial quantification of avoided failures.
- Reliability performance tracking.
- Strong reporting and analytics capability.
- Proficient in Power BI or equivalent reporting platforms.
- Excellent influencing, coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to hold site teams accountable across dispersed locations without direct line authority.
What We Can Offer You
- A comprehensive compensation package including bonuses and site-specific benefits
- The ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- Opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues
- Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization
Please forward applications before: 26 June 2026
We are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities.
Thank you for your application, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
About Us
Our mission is to be the world’s most valued gold and copper mining business. We are committed to partnering with our host countries and communities to transform their natural resources into tangible benefits and mutual prosperity.
Barrick is a leading global mining, exploration and development company. With one of the largest portfolios of world-class and life-long gold and copper assets in the industry - including six of the world's Tier One gold mines - Barrick's operations an projects span 18 countries and five continents. Barrick is also the largest gold producer in the United States. We create real, long-term value for all stakeholders through responsible mining, strong partnerships, and a disciplined approach to growth. Barrick shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "B" and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "ABX".
