Maintenance Manager

SUMMARY:
Our client manufactures and distributes a wide range of beverages, including carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, mixers, and still beverages.

POSITION INFO:
The Purpose of the Role:

This role will take accountability for managing operational projects within the maintenance space, ensuring Infrastructure maintenance initiatives are carried out successfully within agreed timeframes, cost and scope. They will also manage ad hoc maintenance requests, ensuring issues are addressed within agreed SLA's.


Role: Maintenance Manager

Location: Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Industry: Manufacturing - Bottling


Operations

Accountable for maintaining quality, standards, service and desired outputs within inter-related functional areas of responsibility. May be responsible for ensuring the adherence of others to a set framework of policies and procedures. This role will work with various concrete variables, requiring an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning inter-related functional processes within a multi-procedural environment.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must have Grade 12, Matric or NQF4 equivalent qualification.
• Bachelors Degree (3-4 years) / NQF level 7 - Bachelor Science: Engineering (Essential)
• FMCG bottling experience with a min of 3-4 years leading maintenance teams (bottling preferred)
• Lean manufacturing experience (preferred)
• Leadership Capability
• MS Excel; SAP; MS PowerPoint; MS Word; E Mail
• Clear criminal record

• Detailed technical explanation of products, services or systems to internal or external customers or clients

• Proactive identification of functional problems that do not have predetermined guidelines, routines or procedures for solution, determine cause and impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on previous experience and an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.

• Groups of individuals at a senior management level inside the organization

• Conducts team building exercises or events
• Provides team-based rewards and performance measures
• Develops a team charter and guidelines boundaries with other teams or business units
• Provides role clarity and defines boundaries with other teams or business units
• Clarifies assignments and accountabilities within the team

• Manages time effectively, ensuring effective completion of tasks under stressful deadlines.
• Able to prioritize activities and resources, ensuring that results are achieved effectively.
• Able to evaluate progress and make appropriate adjustments to initial plans, ensuring a successful outcome.

• Able to communicate and gain team commitment to a vision of what is to be achieved.
• Delegates fully and creates opportunities which help others to develop their potential.
• Identifies inequalities of opportunity within the workplace and takes steps to address them.
• Inspires and empowers others to overcome difficulties and achieve goals.
• Nurtures strong team identity and pride.

• Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved
• Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, “best practice” companies, customers, peers, subordinates, etc.
• Finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes
• Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements

• Able to gather information from a variety of sources.
• Understands cause and effect relationships within data and interprets this to make competing, holistic decisions
• Develops alternatives before making complex decisions
• Looks for the most innovative, efficient and value adding solution when making a decision
• Makes decisions in time and forecasts when decisions need to be made
• Formulates a “big picture” understanding of the near-term impact of decisions (including the time and resources required to implement decision)
• Evaluates the longer term business impact of decisions
• Takes initiative when making decisions

• Manage operational projects within the maintenance space ensuring Infrastructure maintenance initiatives are carried out successfully within agreed timeframes, cost and scope.

• Manage all maintenance and related activities to ensure optimal levels of plant and equipment availability
• Ensure all equipment and safety standards are maintained
• Manage ad hoc maintenance requests, ensuring issues are addressed within agreed SLA's
• Effectively manage relationships with contractors and suppliers
• Provide expert advice and help efficiently resolve maintenance queries

• Actively participate in operational planning and budgeting processes
• Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices, processes and systems
• Ensure adherence to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and controls
• Control cost and take the necessary action to mitigate any financial risks or non-compliance

• Staff shall adhere to all Food Safety Policies and PRP’s and shall adhere to and enforce all food safety requirements at all times
• Staff shall adhere to Health, Safety & Environmental Policies and PRP’s and shall adhere to and enforce all Health and Safety requirements at all times
• Visitor and Contractor Policy – staff shall ensure that visitors or contractors entering the facility are signed in, escorted and wear PPE, are aware of the hygiene policies and do not smoke, eat or drink inside the facility
• Code of Practice – staff shall maintain high levels of personal hygiene in accordance with the code of conduct
• Handwashing Procedure – Ensuring staff are cleaning and sanitizing hands efficiently before handling the product.
• Physical Contamination Control Policy and Procedure – Staff shall be aware of the potential of physical product contamination. Staff is aware of control measures to prevent physical contamination.
• Safety, Health and Environment Policy – Staff take reasonable measures to ensure health and safety hazards do not occur. Should an accident occur, staff shall be aware of the procedure of reporting the incident.
• First Aid Policy – Staff are aware of the first aider on site. Staff is trained to report injuries and illness to supervisors/first aiders.
• Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures
• Maintains expected performance standards
• Enforce compliance with relevant legislative and statutory requirements
• Enforce GMP’s and conduct themselves in a manner conducive with food safety practices
• Attend Training and enforce learnings from the training for Quality, Food Safety and Health & Safety that been prescribed for them
• Be vigilant of food defense and food fraud risks
• Maintain a high level of housekeeping within the work environment