Engineering Manager

• Ensure maximum efficient operations of equipment and machinery, as well as the care of plant and support equipment, through the direction of a technical support team made up of foreman, technicians, and artisans.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure alignment of all work processes to the required quality standards.
• Proactively identify continual improvement strategies.
• Action agreed quality initiatives ensuring that they are aligned to tasks/ processes/ systems.
• Manage capital expenditure and lead projects across the business.
• Develop and implement strategies to improve engineering services, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Manage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within the budget.
• Continuously strive to save costs.
• Provide leadership to the team, defining objectives to be achieved by the department.
• Deploy people management processes workforce planning, recruitment, and selection, learning and development, performance management, career and succession planning and employee relations etc. effectively, in line with organisational policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Manage the working environment and ensure it contributes to improving staff morale and increasing productivity.
• Design and review operation’s organisational structure to support operational plans and strategy, in collaboration with HR.
• Oversee and manage the implementation of maintenance and preventative maintenance programmes.
• Ensures equipment and machinery compliance with production procedures and processes specifications related to mechanical, machinery, instrumental and electrical or civil works.
• Ensures plant operates cost effectively with minimum downtime.
• Enforce adherence to good manufacturing principles in line with standard operating procedures.
• Act as the legally responsible engineer for the area of responsibility (GMR2.1).
• Keep up to date with legislative changes in relation to food safety and processing methods.
• Ensure insurance requirements are met regarding machinery and equipment.
• Keep up to date with environmental laws (safety, health, and environment) and implement changes arising.
• Enforce safety practices by ensuring adherence to the Occupational Health and Safety Act
• Responsible for implementing recommendations because of audit findings/outcomes and identify further audit requirements.
• Adhere to and meet all relevant safety targets and measurements within the area of responsibility.
• Monitor any trends in food and operational safety compliance issues and proactively address to resolve.
• Actively address all customer and supplier concerns.
• Adhere to, and lead in the compliance of all Environmental, Health and Safety and all other applicable regulatory statutes, and all other safety and quality systems

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric
• A Bachelor’s Degree/B Tech Degree in either Mechanical /Electrical Engineering/Industrial Engineering
• Government Competency Certificate (GCC) is a must
• 5 years’ experience preferably within the FMCG or plant environment
• Previous experience in Maintenance Planning
• GMR2 Appointment

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of FMCG Manufacturing environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Computer literate
• Excellent problem-solving
• Strong Analytical and Technical skills
• Numerical abilities
• Planning and Organizing skills
• Good project management skills
• Proven successful track record of managing a maintenance department