Maintenance Manager

MUST COME FROM AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING (NON NEG)

Develop the Maintenance strategy and ensure implementation.

Ensure health and safety policies are complied with

Provide leadership and manage the maintenance function and teams.

Analyse and interpret Planned Maintenance Reports (Hours per department, hours per Artisan, etc.)

Developing maintenance procedures and ensuring implementation

Analyse and interpret breakdown reports (Manufacturing downtime, top-10, etc.)

Manage relationships with contractors and service providers

Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault finding) and identify opportunities to modify, upgrade, improve or replace equipment and spares.

Keep maintenance logs and report on daily activities

Maintenance Planning

Compile and manage the Preventative Maintenance Programme according to the maintenance requirements for machines and equipment.

Maintenance Process

Approve Stores requisition for spares and consumables

Engineering Projects

Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control.

Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project, monitor and control actual cost against budget.

Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.

Plan and oversee all repair and installation activities

Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.

Monitor equipment inventory and place orders when necessary

Manage implementation of Engineering Projects

Monitor expenses and control the budget for maintenance

Support the project environment and activities to deliver project objectives.

Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise.

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.

Checking electrical and hydraulic systems of buildings to ensure functionality

Benchmark Maintenance practices against Best Practices.

Identify areas of improvement.

Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions

Diploma or degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Minimum 3 years in a similar role