EDDY WANJE TSUMA
MOMBASA
Summary
Results-oriented Asset Integrity Manager with strong experience across the mining and logistics sectors, specializing in reliability engineering, equipment integrity, and maintenance optimization. Skilled in developing preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, conducting risk-based inspections, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Adept at managing both heavy mining machinery and large fleet operations, improving asset availability, and reducing unplanned downtime. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, enhance maintenance planning efficiency, and support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. Results-oriented Asset Integrity Manager with strong experience in the mining and logistics sectors. Ensures operational reliability and safety of fleet operations through proactive asset integrity programs. Develops and implements preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, leading cross-functional teams to enhance asset availability and reduce downtime.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Asset Integrity Manager
OML Africa Logistics
Nakuru County
10.2025 - Current
- Ensure operational reliability and safety of MAN truck fleet through proactive asset integrity programs
- Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to reduce breakdowns and downtime
- Monitor fleet condition using telematics and inspection data to identify and address potential failures early
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) on truck and component failures and implement corrective actions
- Manage compliance with transport safety regulations, vehicle inspections, and environmental standards
- Maintain risk registers and conduct risk assessments focused on critical truck systems and components
- Oversee contractor and vendor performance to ensure quality maintenance and repair services
- Track and report fleet performance metrics such as MTBF, MTTR, and availability to senior management
- Utilize CMMS systems (Fleet wave) to manage maintenance schedules, work orders, and asset history
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by integrating digital tools and optimizing maintenance processes
- Collaborate with MAN technical support and suppliers for warranty claims and technical troubleshooting
- Promote a culture of safety and operational excellence among drivers and maintenance teams
- Successfully reduced fleet downtime by implementing predictive maintenance and condition monitoring programs
- Improved overall truck availability through optimization of maintenance schedules and faster repair processes
- Led root cause analysis initiatives that minimized repeat breakdowns of critical truck components
- Ensured full compliance with regulatory vehicle inspections and safety audits over multiple years
Maintenance Planning Superintendent
Base Titanium Limited
Kwale
03.2018 - 03.2025
- Lead maintenance planning and scheduling for minerals sands operations, including wet concentrator, mineral separation plant, and heavy mobile equipment
- Develop and manage long-term shutdown, medium-term, and weekly maintenance plans aligned with production and asset management strategies
- Plan preventive and predictive maintenance for large slurry pumps (up to 20/18), focusing on wear management and reliability improvement
- Oversee maintenance planning for mineral separation equipment, including spirals, magnetic and electrostatic separators, and associated systems
- Plan maintenance activities for vibrating screen feeders, conveyors, thickeners, solution pumps, and hydraulic systems
- Integrate maintenance planning for heavy mobile equipment in line with OEM requirements to optimize fleet availability and lifecycle costs
- Lead major shutdowns and statutory maintenance events, including scope definition, resource leveling, contractor coordination, and critical path scheduling
- Ensure maintenance plans include detailed job scopes, labor estimates, tooling, spares, isolations, lifting requirements, and safety controls
- Maintain and improve CMMS data quality, including asset hierarchies, maintenance strategies, BOMs, and work order standards
- Analyze maintenance KPIs, backlog, and failure data to drive continuous improvement and reduce unplanned downtime
- Collaborate closely with operations, reliability, engineering, and supply chain teams to maximize plant and equipment availability
- Ensure compliance with site safety standards, statutory requirements, and environmental obligations across all planned maintenance activities
- Increased equipment uptime through the implementation of a preventive maintenance strategy.
- Successfully implemented a new CMMS system that improved work order management and increased maintenance efficiency.
Maintenance Planner
Base Titanium Limited
Kwale
10.2013 - 02.2018
- Develop and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance plans for slurry pumps (up to 20/18), solution pumps, vibrating screens/feeders, conveyors, hydraulic pumps, and thickener mechanisms
- Plan major overhauls, wet-end change-outs, and liner replacements for high-capacity slurry pumping systems
- Prepare detailed job plans including task sequences, labor requirements, tools, lifting equipment, and isolation/LOTO requirements
- Create and manage work orders in the CMMS (Pronto Xi), ensuring accurate equipment histories, failure codes, and maintenance records
- Coordinate maintenance schedules with production to minimize downtime and optimize plant availability
- Identify critical spares for pumps, screens, conveyors, hydraulic components, and thickener drives, and support inventory optimization
- Estimate labor hours, materials, and costs for planned maintenance and shutdown activities
- Plan and support plant shutdowns, major pump change-outs, conveyor belt replacements, and thickener maintenance campaigns
- Analyze equipment failure trends (e.g. pump wear rates, screen media life, hydraulic failures) and recommend reliability improvements
- Liaise with maintenance supervisors, reliability engineers, and OEMs to ensure correct maintenance strategies and work scopes
- Ensure maintenance plans comply with safety, environmental, and statutory requirements specific to mining operations
- Support condition monitoring programs such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, and thickness testing for wear components
- Review completed work orders to improve future job plans, durations, and material forecasts
- Assist in continuous improvement initiatives aimed at reducing maintenance costs and improving plant reliability
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical & Production Engineering
Moi University
Eldoret, Kenya12.2012
Skills
- Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
- Preventive & Predictive Maintenance
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Asset Management
- CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)
- Project Management
- Team Leadership & Supervision
- Budget Management & Cost Control
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Safety & Compliance (OSHA, ISO)
- Continuous Improvement (Lean, Six Sigma)
- Vendor/Contractor Management
- Environmental Management systems ISO 14001:2015
- Advanced CMMS (PRONTO XI) skills
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Project Management Software (MS Project)
- Reliability and Maintenance Analysis Tools (RCM)
- Proficiency in using CAT Service Information Service (SIS) in parts identification & ordering
- Equipment maintenance
Certification
- Certified Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Professional – Road to Reliability Academy
- Six Sigma White Belt – The council of lean six sigma Certification
- OSHA Mining Supervisor S123 -OSHA Australia pty ltd.
- Graduate Mechanical Engineer-Engineering Board of Kenya
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
http://www.linkedin.com/in/eddy-wanje-00a82449/
References
- Mr. Ali Mulenga, Senior Mechanical Supervisor, Bisha Mining Share Company, ERITREA, +263773533744, ali.mulenga@yahoo.com
- Mr. Kevin Juma, Tailing and mine reclaim Superintendent, ERG Africa, CONGO, +243817048069/+254728121740, tienojuma.k@gmail.com
- Eng. Daniel M. Myatu, Engineer, P.O. BOX 585-80400, UKUNDA, KENYA, aniel.myatu@gmail.com, anielmyatu@des.or.ke +254722323981
Timeline
Asset Integrity Manager
OML Africa Logistics
10.2025 - Current
Maintenance Planning Superintendent
Base Titanium Limited
03.2018 - 03.2025
Maintenance Planner
Base Titanium Limited
10.2013 - 02.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical & Production Engineering
Moi University