CHRISTOPHER ASSOWAH
Obuasi
Summary
Experience mining maintenance and engineering professional with 13 years’ experience in fixed plant and mobile equipment maintenance(process plant, underground infrastructure and surface mining operations) management typically in asset management, fleet management, team management, strategist, system efficiency improvement driver and project management lead. I have held management roles in both asset management, project management, engineering operations and engineering technical. This has built in me extensive knowledge in engineering standards, equipment optimization and asset management. Mechanical engineer by profession, holding a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. I also hold governance certificate of competency in engineering manager and engineering superintendent and a member of Ghana institute of engineers. Additionally,a certified project management professional (PMP) from the project management institute. Currently holding the role of Mine Maintenance Superintendent at Newmont Ghana Gold Limited. I have knowledge in the system application product (SAP) as work management tool.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Mine Maintenance Superintendent
Newmont Ghana Limited
02.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Mining
- Ensuring the safety and health of the Mine Maintenance team by reviewing the maintenance operations fatality risk and associated controls for the entire team alignment
- Manage the asset life cycle for both fixed plant and mobile equipment to optimize equipment performance,minimizing costs and driving operational efficiency
- Adherence to corporate and site-specific standards and statutory legislation as applicable to machinery and related work
- Drives the underground maintenance reliability initiatives by reviewing the weekly/monthly top 5 failures and conducting the root cause analysis to address the occurance
- Hire and build a competent team in line with the legislation
- Drives the overall maintenance responsibility for the underground fixed plant and mobile equipment management
- Plans and executes long term strategies that aligns the strategic objective of the company
- Drives continuous improvement within the mobile equipment's and fixed plants by continuously reviewing operational maintenance practices,identifying gabs and closing the gabs through root cause analysis
- Directs the maintenance function in accordance with agreed upon maintenance strategies and work management practices, with an emphasis on planned maintenance and schedule execution
- Develops and Drives the Engineering Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to support operational requirements and establish improvement interventions
- Assess the current maintenance strategies, tactics, and plans for fixed plant and mobile equipment; making recommendations and implementing changes as necessary, implementing industry best practices aligned with reliability centred maintenance, employing RCA and action plans to deliver target equipment availability
- Develop training matrix based on the training needs by holding 1:1 section with the direct supports leading to team mentorship
- Develops the annual operating budgets for the fixed plant and mobile equipment,manages the subsequent budget ownership and responsibility for cost management against targets for the section
- Leading capital replacement, new fleet additions, upgrade and overhaul projects for mobile equipment, including equipment life-cycle analysis, project motivation and execution, and capital budget management
- Management of maintenance workshops, facilities, and tools for the section
- Maintenance personnel management for the section, including hiring, development, and disciplining
- Providing values-based leadership to direct reports and contractor employees, leading by example, building a high-performance culture and team
- Managing service agreements and vendors for specialized contracted maintenance services, and accountable for weekly coordination with account managers of key OEM partners
- Communicate planned maintenance activities, and estimated return to service dates for down equipment with the mine operations department to ensure the long-term viability of the fleet and optimum operational performance
- Effectively communicates and collaborates with department heads, engineers, shift supervisors, direct reports, trainers, safety, and environmental personnel, mine services, etc
- Ensure that safety, environment, and property damage incidents are thoroughly investigated, notification procedures and protocols are followed, and recommendations implemented.Takes corrective actions where necessary to address non-compliance
- Identify, encourage, and manage training requirements/development opportunities for the employees and direct reports
- Work closely with the training, safety, and environmental departments to ensure that training requirements are being met
- Provides effective feedback to direct reports and other assigned personnel on performance and expectations, on a consistent and on-going basis
- Conducts employee reviews in a fair and honest manner and assist direct reports in resolving disputes / concerns, and other employee issues in a timely manner; or submit them to senior management for action
- Provides direction for employees to grow and develop while motivating them to reach their maximum potential
- Encourage employees to be fully engaged and understand how to contribute to the overall success of Newmont
- Make recommendations in relation to measuring and improving production methods, employee, and equipment performance / efficiency, working conditions, and the quality of the work produced
- Manage the implementation and maintenance of all mine infrastructure including crushing plant equipment’s, fridge plant, compressors, crushers, rock breakers, conveyors, primary vent fans, pump stations, scada control systems and underground mobile equipment's
- Mining
- Technical competency
- Hands-on in the maintenance of process plant infrastructure,underground infrastructure and mobile equipment's
- Designs, review and certify all engineering drawings across the process plant,surface operations and underground infrastructure
- Reads and interperates hydraulic/pneumatic/electrical schematic diagrams
- Globally certified project management professional (certified to review and handle all projects)
Engineering Manager
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2021 - 02.2022
- Company Overview: Mining
- Manages the maintenance of all mine infrastructure including process plants equipment’s, fridge plant, compressors, crushers, rock breakers, conveyors, primary vent fans, pump stations, scada control systems, information technology systems, surface and underground mobile equipment's
- Ensuring the safety and health of the Mine Maintenance team by reviewing the maintenance operations fatality risk and associated controls for the entire team alignment
- Drives the mine wide maintenance reliability initiatives by reviewing the weekly/monthly top 5 failures and conducting the root cause analysis to address the occurance
- Manage the asset life cycle for both fixed plant and mobile equipment to optimize equipment performance,minimizing costs and driving operational efficiency
- Adherence to corporate and site-specific standards and statutory legislation as applicable to machinery and related work
- Hire and build a competent team in line with the legislation
- Drives the overall maintenance responsibility for the underground fixed plant and mobile equipment management
- Plans and executes long term strategies that aligns the strategic objective of the company
- Drives continuous improvement within the mobile equipment's and fixed plants by continuously reviewing operational maintenance practices,identifying gabs and closing the gabs through root cause analysis
- Directs the maintenance function in accordance with agreed upon maintenance strategies and work management practices, with an emphasis on planned maintenance and schedule execution
- Develops and Drives the Engineering Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to support operational requirements and establish improvement interventions
- Assess the current maintenance strategies, tactics, and plans for fixed plant and mobile equipment; making recommendations and implementing changes as necessary, implementing industry best practices aligned with reliability centred maintenance, employing RCA and action plans to deliver target equipment availability
- Develop training matrix based on the training needs by holding 1:1 section with the direct supports leading to team mentorship
- Develops the annual operating budgets for the fixed plant and mobile equipment,manages the subsequent budget ownership and responsibility for cost management against targets for the section
- Leading capital replacement, new fleet additions, upgrade and overhaul projects for mobile equipment, including equipment life-cycle analysis, project motivation and execution, and capital budget management
- Management of maintenance workshops, facilities, and tools for the section
- Maintenance personnel management for the section, including hiring, development, and disciplining
- Providing values-based leadership to direct reports and contractor employees, leading by example, building a high-performance culture and team
- Managing service agreements and vendors for specialized contracted maintenance services, and accountable for weekly coordination with account managers of key OEM partners
- Communicate planned maintenance activities, and estimated return to service dates for down equipment with the mine operations department to ensure the long-term viability of the fleet and optimum operational performance
- Effectively communicates and collaborates with department heads, engineers, shift supervisors, direct reports, trainers, safety, and environmental personnel, mine services, etc
- Ensure that safety, environment, and property damage incidents are thoroughly investigated, notification procedures and protocols are followed, and recommendations implemented.Takes corrective actions where necessary to address non-compliance
- Identify, encourage, and manage training requirements/development opportunities for the employees and direct reports
- Work closely with the training, safety, and environmental departments to ensure that training requirements are being met
- Provides effective feedback to direct reports and other assigned personnel on performance and expectations, on a consistent and on-going basis
- Conducts employee reviews in a fair and honest manner and assist direct reports in resolving disputes / concerns, and other employee issues in a timely manner; or submit them to senior management for action
- Provides direction for employees to grow and develop while motivating them to reach their maximum potential
- Encourage employees to be fully engaged and understand how to contribute to the overall success of Newmont
- Make recommendations in relation to measuring and improving production methods, employee, and equipment performance / efficiency, working conditions, and the quality of the work produced
- Mining
- Technical competency
- Hands-on in the maintenance of process plant infrastructure,underground infrastructure and mobile equipment's
- Designs, review and certify all engineering drawings across the process plant,surface operations and underground infrastructure
- Reads and interperates hydraulic/pneumatic/electrical schematic diagrams
- Globally certified project management professional (certified to review and handle all projects)
Maintenance Manager
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Company Overview: Mining
- Ensuring the safety and health of the Mine Maintenance team by reviewing the maintenance operations fatality risk and associated controls for the entire team alignment
- Drives the mine wide maintenance reliability initiatives by reviewing the weekly/monthly top 5 failures and conducting the root cause analysis to address the occurance
- Manage the asset life cycle for both fixed plant and mobile equipment to optimize equipment performance,minimizing costs and driving operational efficiency
- Manages the maintenance of all mine infrastructure including process plants equipment’s, fridge plant, compressors, crushers, rock breakers, conveyors, primary vent fans, pump stations, scada control systems, information technology systems, surface and underground mobile equipment's
- Adherence to corporate and site-specific standards and statutory legislation as applicable to machinery and related work
- Hire and build a competent team in line with the legislation
- Drives the overall maintenance responsibility for the underground fixed plant and mobile equipment management
- Plans and executes long term strategies that aligns the strategic objective of the company
- Drives continuous improvement within the mobile equipment's and fixed plants by continuously reviewing operational maintenance practices,identifying gabs and closing the gabs through root cause analysis
- Directs the maintenance function in accordance with agreed upon maintenance strategies and work management practices, with an emphasis on planned maintenance and schedule execution
- Develops and Drives the Engineering Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to support operational requirements and establish improvement interventions
- Assess the current maintenance strategies, tactics, and plans for fixed plant and mobile equipment; making recommendations and implementing changes as necessary, implementing industry best practices aligned with reliability centred maintenance, employing RCA and action plans to deliver target equipment availability
- Develop training matrix based on the training needs by holding 1:1 section with the direct supports leading to team mentorship
- Develops the annual operating budgets for the fixed plant and mobile equipment,manages the subsequent budget ownership and responsibility for cost management against targets for the section
- Leading capital replacement, new fleet additions, upgrade and overhaul projects for mobile equipment, including equipment life-cycle analysis, project motivation and execution, and capital budget management
- Management of maintenance workshops, facilities, and tools for the section
- Maintenance personnel management for the section, including hiring, development, and disciplining
- Providing values-based leadership to direct reports and contractor employees, leading by example, building a high-performance culture and team
- Managing service agreements and vendors for specialized contracted maintenance services, and accountable for weekly coordination with account managers of key OEM partners
- Communicate planned maintenance activities, and estimated return to service dates for down equipment with the mine operations department to ensure the long-term viability of the fleet and optimum operational performance
- Effectively communicates and collaborates with department heads, engineers, shift supervisors, direct reports, trainers, safety, and environmental personnel, mine services, etc
- Ensure that safety, environment, and property damage incidents are thoroughly investigated, notification procedures and protocols are followed, and recommendations implemented.Takes corrective actions where necessary to address non-compliance
- Identify, encourage, and manage training requirements/development opportunities for the employees and direct reports
- Work closely with the training, safety, and environmental departments to ensure that training requirements are being met
- Provides effective feedback to direct reports and other assigned personnel on performance and expectations, on a consistent and on-going basis
- Conducts employee reviews in a fair and honest manner and assist direct reports in resolving disputes / concerns, and other employee issues in a timely manner; or submit them to senior management for action
- Provides direction for employees to grow and develop while motivating them to reach their maximum potential
- Encourage employees to be fully engaged and understand how to contribute to the overall success of Newmont
- Make recommendations in relation to measuring and improving production methods, employee, and equipment performance / efficiency, working conditions, and the quality of the work produced
- Mining
- Technical competency
- Hands-on in the maintenance of process plant infrastructure,underground infrastructure and mobile equipment's
- Designs, review and certify all engineering drawings across the process plant,surface operations and underground infrastructure
- Reads and interperates hydraulic/pneumatic/electrical schematic diagrams
- Globally certified project management professional (certified to review and handle all projects)
Engineering Superintendent– HME/LVM/Underground
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
02.2019 - 10.2019
- Company Overview: Mining
- Mining
Engineering Supervisor
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Company Overview: Mining
- Mining
Reliability Superintendent
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2014 - 12.2014
- Company Overview: Mining
- Mining
Engineering Superintendent-Underground Production and Drilling Rigs
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
02.2012 - 12.2013
- Company Overview: Mining
- Mining
Engineering Superintendent
Mining and Building Construction Ltd
02.2010 - 01.2012
Lubricant Engineer
Shell Ghana Limited
02.2009 - 01.2010
Engineering Superintendent
Mining and Building Construction Ltd
02.2007 - 01.2009
Operations Manager
Y.N.O Company Limited
05.2000 - 02.2003
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Cape Coast Polytechnic
07.1999 - 04.2000
Education
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Project Management Institute (PMI)
10.2024
Msc Mechanical Engineering -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
Ghana09.2020
Competency Certificate -
Minerals commission –Inspectorate Division
06.2015
Competency Certificate -
Minerals commission –Inspectorate Division
03.2013
Competency Certificate -
Minerals commission –Inspectorate Division
06.2012
Bsc Mechanical Engineering -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
Ghana09.2007
HND Mechanical Engineering -
Cape Coast Technical University
Cape Coast, Ghana08.1999
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint Proficiency
- Microsoft Project
- Outlook
Affiliations
Ghana Institute of Engineers
Accomplishments
- Lead in the refurbishment of the process plant (completed on schedule and cost)
- Lead in the commissioning and handing over C150 crusher as part of the process plant upgrades.
- Lead in the commissioning and handing over CIL circuits as part of the process plant upgrade.
- Eliminated the milling and crushing circuit challenges through the root cause analysis and implementation of recommendations.
- Lead in the commissioning and handing of ten (10) surface rigs and twenty (20) surface caterpillar dump trucks.
- Lead in the commissioning and handing over of two (2) primary vent fans (350 cubic meter per seconds axial flow fans) as part of ventilation improvement.
- Lead in the commissioning and handing over a fridge plant 14 mega watt capacity as part of ventilation improvement.
- Lead in the commissioning and handing over new underground pump station capable of delivering 120 litres per second of water to surface.
- Lead in the commissioning into operations sandvik th660i (6), th320(5), jumbos (4), cable bolter (3), service equipment’s (normets (4)) and light duty vehicles (30)
- Lead in the installation, commissioning and handing over of underground MRH 20 rock breaker and material handling units (conveyors, chutes, power pack and loading flasks).
- Lead in the installation, commissioning and handing over of the paste fill plant with a capacity 4000 tonnes per day paste to underground.
- Lead in the vertical material transport upgrade, commissioning and handing over of the rock winder with the duty cycle of 20 skips per hour.
- Lead in the upgrade, commissioning and handing over of both Maryanne and man winder.
- Lead in the assembling and installation of underground mine conveyance taking into accounts regulatory compliance.
- Lead in the assembling, installation and commissioning of 100 tonnes batching plant taking into consideration regulatory requirements.
- Lead in the dismantling, refurbishing, assembling and installation of 150 tonnes mine weighing bridge taking into accounts regulatory compliance.
- Designed and implemented stage pumping facility to discharge underground water to surface at a depth of 5100 feet below surface.
- Lead in driving underground/process plant infrastructure maintenance and operational works in accordance with statutory requirements and OEM safety equipment requirements.
- Lead in promoting preventive maintenance by motivating personnel to plan and prepare effective work plans and schedules in conjunction with centralized planning team.
- Lead in the development and implementation of key equipment performance indicators (KPI) in line with operational requirements for all underground infrastructures.
- Lead in driving department compliance with the requirement of environment, safety & health, Government of Ghana and the company policy.
- Lead in the Provision of strategic direction, leadership and manages mine maintenance department goals and objectives.
- Lead in the creation and implementation of policies and procedures that promotes projects, programs and culture of accountability, driving continuous improvement in the areas of safety, environment and production.
- Lead in the development of underground/surface mine maintenance budgets and perform capital evaluation of projects.
- Lead in the development and implementation of equipment checklist for compliance audit for all surface and underground infrastructures.
- Lead in the development and reviewing safe operating procedures and emergency procedures for the surface and underground engineering departments to ensure safe operating environments.
Languages
- Twi
- English
References
- Nuhhu Billa Malik, Engineering Manager, Future Global Resources Limited, 0244383972, anuhhu-billa@fgr-bp.com
- Frey Awie, Head of Operations, Anglo Gold Ashanti Obuasi, 0027784577175, AFrey@anglogoldashanti.com
Hobbies and Interests
- Football
- Table Tennis
Personal Information
- Nationality: Ghanaian
- Marital Status: Married
Trainingprograms
- 10/12/2016, Pump efficiency and reliability certificate
- 01/24/2015, Hazard and risk management (11) certificate
- 03/02/2015, Diamond drill equipment product training certificate, Obuasi-Ghana
- 05/09/2015, Management and Leadership certificate, Obuasi - Ghana
- 01/2008, Advance Hydraulic Training Certificate, Obuasi-Ghana
- 02/2008, Maintenance and repairs of diesel engines certificate, Obuasi - Ghana
- 11/2015, First Aid Certificate, AGA Obuasi Mine
Timeline
Mine Maintenance Superintendent
Newmont Ghana Limited
02.2022 - Current
Engineering Manager
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2021 - 02.2022
Maintenance Manager
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2020 - 12.2020
Engineering Superintendent– HME/LVM/Underground
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
02.2019 - 10.2019
Engineering Supervisor
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2015 - 01.2019
Reliability Superintendent
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
01.2014 - 12.2014
Engineering Superintendent-Underground Production and Drilling Rigs
Anglo Gold Ashanti Ghana
02.2012 - 12.2013
Engineering Superintendent
Mining and Building Construction Ltd
02.2010 - 01.2012
Lubricant Engineer
Shell Ghana Limited
02.2009 - 01.2010
Engineering Superintendent
Mining and Building Construction Ltd
02.2007 - 01.2009
Operations Manager
Y.N.O Company Limited
05.2000 - 02.2003
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Cape Coast Polytechnic
07.1999 - 04.2000
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Msc Mechanical Engineering -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
Competency Certificate -
Minerals commission –Inspectorate Division
Competency Certificate -
Minerals commission –Inspectorate Division
Competency Certificate -
Minerals commission –Inspectorate Division
Bsc Mechanical Engineering -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
HND Mechanical Engineering -
Cape Coast Technical University
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