General Foreman - Mobile MaintenanceLocation:East Boulder Mine - McLeod, MT
Schedule:7x7 Dayshift
Job Responsibilities and Duties:The General Foreman - Mobile Maintenance exists to lead the safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance of the underground mobile equipment fleet. The role aligns planning and frontline execution by setting priorities, approving maintenance commitments, removing cross-functional constraints, developing the Planner and Supervisors, and holding the department accountable for equipment availability, work quality, schedule performance, and maintenance cost.
The General Foreman's primary duties are:
- Set Stationary and Electrical Maintenance safety priorities based on incidents, inspections, audit findings, equipment
- Set weekly and monthly Mobile Maintenance safety priorities by reviewing incidents, near misses, inspections, audit findings, equipment damage, and upcoming high-risk work with Supervisors, the Planner, and Safety.
- Ensure field and planned-work controls are effective by reviewing Supervisor verification of workplace conditions and confirming the Planner incorporates required hazards, permits, procedures, lifting controls, and isolations into scheduled work.
- Set clear weekly and monthly expectations and decision boundaries for Supervisors and the Planner through operating reviews, documented commitments, and routine follow-up.
- Hold Supervisors and the Planner accountable for their respective safety, execution, planning, scheduling, readiness, documentation, and feedback responsibilities by reviewing agreed measures and addressing gaps promptly.
- Develop leadership and planning capability through coaching, monthly performance discussions, documented development actions, cross-training, and succession planning.
- Maintain near-term staffing and skills by reviewing leave, vacancies, overtime, contractor needs, and qualification gaps and then reallocating resources or coordinating recruiting, onboarding, and training support.
- Set weekly and monthly fleet-maintenance priorities by evaluating safety risk, production criticality, equipment condition, preventive maintenance due dates, failure history, backlog status, and available resources.
- Approve the rolling one-month maintenance plan and weekly schedule through structured reviews of capacity, equipment access, shop constraints, labor and skills, parts, tooling, contractors, and operational risk.
- Resolve near-term constraints and authorize significant break-in work, schedule changes, equipment releases, high-risk repairs, contractor use, overtime, or maintenance deferrals by weighing safety, production impact, resource availability, and delegated authority.
- Coordinate equipment access, return-to-service requirements, and environmental actions through weekly and monthly reviews with Operations and other responsible functions.
- Control near-term spending by authorizing expenditures within delegated authority, escalating exceptions, and reviewing overtime, contractor use, parts consumption, component costs, warranty recovery, and repair-versus-replace decisions.
- Correct unfavorable cost or utilization trends by assigning recovery actions, accountable owners, and due dates and tracking progress through weekly and monthly reviews.
- Evaluate departmental performance through weekly and monthly reviews of schedule and preventive maintenance compliance, break-in work, backlog age, rework, repeat failures, availability, labor utilization, overtime, cost variance, and corrective-action closure.
- Ensure safety controls, required inspections, incident reporting, and corrective actions are completed accurately and on time.
- Ensure weekly schedules and the rolling one-month maintenance plan are resource-ready, achieved target, and converted into auditable Daily Shift Plans.
- Verify preventive maintenance compliance, equipment availability, backlog health, repeat failures, rework, and significant downtime meet established targets or have effective corrective actions.
- Verify break-in, deferred, and rescheduled work is accurately documented, reviewed, and reduced where preventable
Qualifications and Skills:- Lead Mobile Maintenance Supervisors, the planning function, and supporting resources across shifts and work areas.
- Able to make and document sound decisions involving schedule commitments, break-in or deferred work, overtime, contractors, equipment release, and resource allocation.
- Coach and hold leaders accountable while applying labor agreements, policies, and performance-management processes consistently.
- Communicate and coordinate effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Safety, Materials Management, contractors, vendors, and union representatives.
- Analyze performance trends, maintain accurate records, use applicable business systems, and intervene decisively when risk is not adequately controlled.
- Knowledge of maintenance work management, including scoping, planning, estimating, resource readiness, scheduling, execution, closeout, feedback, backlog control, and continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of preventive, predictive, corrective, breakdown, component-repair, rebuild, condition-monitoring, reliability, and lifecycle practices.
- MSHA requirements and site controls for workplace examinations, permits, stored-energy isolation, Lockout, Tagout, and Try-out, lifting and rigging, and contractors.
Education & Experience- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Seven years of progressive maintenance experience involving stationary, fixed-plant, industrial mechanical, industrial electrical, instrumentation, power distribution, or closely related heavy-industrial assets.
- Associate or bachelor's degree in diesel technology, mechanical or electrical technology, maintenance management, engineering technology, asset management, business, or a related field preferred.
- Recognized trade qualification or equivalent technical training in diesel, heavy equipment, mechanical, electrical, welding, millwright, or industrial maintenance preferred.
