Maintenance Manager

SUMMARY:
Make a career move to lead the safe and cost-effective execution of Maintenance and Project work in order to improve availability and reliability of plant and equipment, within this listed South African manufacturer.

POSITION INFO:
Minimum Job Requirements:

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical).
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Management of a Maintenance department.

• Maintenance Management:
  • Develop the Maintenance Strategy and ensure implementation.
  • Provide leadership and manage the Maintenance function and teams.
  • Analyse and interpret:
    • Planned Maintenance Reports.
    • Breakdown Reports (Manufacturing downtime, etc.).
  • Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault-finding) and identify opportunities to modify, upgrade, improve or replace equipment and spares.
• Maintenance Planning:
  • Compile and manage the Preventive Maintenance Programme according to the maintenance requirements.
• Maintenance Process (Scheduled):
  • Approve Stores requisition for spares and consumables.
• Engineering Projects:
  • Project Initiation:
    • Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control.
    • Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or subproject and monitor and control actual cost against budget.
  • Project Planning:
    • Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.
    • Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.
  • Project Management:
    • Manage implementation of Engineering projects.
    • Support the project environment and activities to deliver project objectives.
    • Contribute to the management of project risk.
    • Identify, suggest and implement corrective actions to improve quality of project work.
    • Evaluate and improve the Project team's performance.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Keep up to date with latest developments/technologies in Maintenance.
  • Benchmark Maintenance practices against Best Practices.
  • Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions.
• Reporting:
  • Analyse Maintenance Reports and identify opportunities for improvements
• Staff Management:
• • Participate in the implementation and utilisation of equity related processes.
  • Compile and update Performance Contracts and Individual Development Plans
  • Facilitate individual career path planning.
  • Conduct Performance Reviews and manage sub-standard performance.