Heavy Equipment Manager

General Description

Fleet Maintenance and Performance

• Lead maintenance and repair activities and provide technical guidance across ABI, Kubota, SANY, Hyundai, and Klemm equipment.
• Develop preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies and establish repair priorities.
• Monitor equipment availability, utilization, downtime, breakdowns, turnaround time, compliance, and fleet performance.
• Maintain equipment records, work orders, inspection records, and equipment history for operational and management review.
• Prepare reports covering fleet condition, maintenance performance, costs, risks, and improvement actions.

Safety, Cost, and Stakeholder Management

• Ensure compliance with safe working practices, applicable legislation, HSE policies, LOTO, tool calibration, lifting controls, and technical standards.
• Provide leadership, coaching, technical development, operator training, and competency assessment.
• Manage maintenance budgets and control labor, parts, external repair, inventory, vendor, and other equipment costs.
• Coordinate with Operations, Workshop, Stores, Procurement, and Finance to resolve equipment and maintenance issues.

Operator and Field Coordination

• Distinguish equipment productivity constraints from operator or operational issues and assign appropriate corrective action.
• Ensure operators complete daily and pre-start checks and that defects are promptly communicated to maintenance teams.
• Review productivity, operating hours, utilization, idle time, breakdowns, defects, and recurring operator issues.
• Maintain communication between field operators, Operations, and Workshop and oversee safe, correct, and efficient equipment operation.
• Develop operator training programs covering safe operation, inspections, troubleshooting, utilization, and good operating practices.

Qualification Requirements

• Associate’s degree, trade certification, diploma, or equivalent technical qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Heavy Equipment Maintenance, Industrial Maintenance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in heavy equipment, workshop, fleet maintenance, or heavy maintenance operations.
• Strong hands-on experience with ABI, Kubota, SANY, Hyundai, and Klemm equipment.
• Experience developing maintenance strategies, managing fleet allocation and availability, and planning operations.
• Experience with budgeting, financial analysis, and maintenance cost control.
• Ability to analyze productivity, downtime, maintenance data, operator performance, and equipment utilization.
• Ability to develop and deliver operator training and assess operator competency.

Must-have Skills

• Strong technical diagnostic and problem-solving capability across heavy equipment.
• Strong understanding of preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Ability to manage repair priorities and achieve turnaround and time-compliance targets.
• Strong leadership, training, people-development, communication, organization, and commercial skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite and experience with ERP or fleet maintenance systems.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and relevant HSE requirements.
• Strong knowledge of drilling activities, equipment, accessories, operation, maintenance, inspection, repair, and field application.
• Ability to use telemetry and equipment data to identify trends, early failures, productivity issues, and proactive maintenance actions.