Senior Maintenance and Fleet Manager

Job Title

Maintenance Manager

Location

Johannesburg, South Africa

Department

Maintenance

Reporting Line

DMCC - Group Operations Manager

Job Description

Main Purpose

• To manage the maintenance of a fleet of 300 trucks and ensure they are processed as planned by ensuring availability and preconized conditions of trucks and, trailers.
• Lead and embrace all maintenance department

Key responsibilities:

• Improve fleet availability and reliability. Align fleet availability and reliability according with the operation needs
• To manage all maintenance costs and to lead corrective actions on deviations against budget. Correct deviations from budget based on the analysis of the cost structure; i) materials, ii) outside services providers, iii) tools and iv) labor.
• Ensure the lowest total cost of maintenance, so that is reflected in a lower TCO of equipment/components, to sustain equipment performance over the assets’ lifecycle.
• Continuous improvement activities control derived from performance analysis (KPIs analysis, CPK analysis), proactive tasks effectiveness assessment and from root cause analysis to overcome bad actors’ performance.
• To Implement Standard Maintenance Processes
  • To determine proactive maintenance tasks effectiveness and schedule compliance.
  • To evaluate (technically and economically) the need to continue repairing or buy a new one (equipment /component).
  • To define the criticality of the equipment and components, as well as the criticality of spare parts; in order to define maintenance strategy and prioritize the planning and scheduling tasks.
  • To control the WO backlog on a weekly basis to ensure that schedule includes up-dated priority work. (Backlog measured in man-hours and in WO numbers).
  • To control the Annual Maintenance Plan and the Annual Maintenance Budget.
  • To control recording events and failures, its occurrence in time and duration, and failure modes associated, so that allows the

determination of "bad actors" in the performance of equipment.