Maintenance Specialist

SUMMARY:
Is your passion in maintenance?
Can you supervise the safe and cost-effective execution of Maintenance work in order to improve availability and reliability of plant and equipment?
If so, read on:

POSITION INFO:
We Need:

• National Senior Certificate, essential.
• Trade Tested Toolmaker or Millwright, essential.
• Completed 4 year apprenticeship, essential.
• Must have Automotive/Heavy Engineering experience.
• Minimum 7 years post Apprenticeship years’ experience, preferable from the Automotive industry.
• Must have supervisory experience.
• PLC and project management experience, essential.

• Maintenance Management:
  • Determine resources (labour and materials).
  • Analyse and interpret Planned Maintenance and Breakdown reports.
  • Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault-finding).
  • Maintain register of all electrical hardware on site and backups of all installed software.
• Maintenance Planning:
  • Compile and supervise the Preventive Maintenance Programme.
  • Maintain and update the Preventive Maintenance tasks lists and Critical Spares and Spares lists.
• Maintenance Process:
  • Scheduled:
    • Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
    • Approve Stores requisition for spares and consumables.
  • Breakdown:
    • Supervise the carrying out of breakdown repairs.
    • Inform/advise Management of any breakdowns.
• 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 sub project 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.
    • Contribute to the management of project risk.
    • Supervise a Project team of a technical project to deliver project objectives.
    • Provide assistance in implementing and assuring project work meets quality requirements.
  • Project Administration:
    • Implement project administration processes.
    • Plan, organise and support project meetings and workshops.
    • Fulfil procurement activities and supervise procurement administration.
    • Provide procurement administration support to a project.
    • Conduct project documentation management to support project processes.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Keep up to date with latest developments/technologies in Maintenance.
  • Identify areas for improvement.
  • Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions.
• Reporting:
  • Analyse Maintenance reports and identify opportunities for improvements.
• Staff Supervision:
  • Conduct outcomes-based assessments.
  • Obtain approval for and recruit & select employees.