Tooling & Maintenance Specialist

Recruiter:

SHARON NUROCK RECRUITMENT CC

Job Ref:

DUR002484/SN

Date posted:

Friday, August 19, 2022

Location:

Durban, South Africa

Salary:

R600 000

JOB SUMMARY:
Our client, a national manufacturing company, currently seeks your tooling and maintenance expertise to supervise the safe and cost-effective execution of maintenance work in order to improve availability and reliability of plant and equipment.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Person:

Minimum Matric Certificate.
Must be a Trade Tested Millwright / Fitter / Electrician.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role pref. in the automotive industry.
Supervisory experience essential.
PLC and project management experience.

Key Performance Areas:

Tooling Engineering:

Supervise the work unit to achieve work unit objectives.
Supervise and manage Tooling Workshop.
Read and understand customer drawings to design required tools.
Manufacture tools in-house and make arrangements to outsource complex tools.
Manage Tool modifications as per Engineering changes.
Manage tool maintenance and technical support.
Inspect and sign off overseas manufactured tools.
Manage the Tooling Workshop for all legal and safety compliance.

Maintenance Management:

Supervise and manage Plant Maintenance department.
Determine resources (labour and materials) required and allocate overtime work.
Analyse and interpret Planned Maintenance reports (hours per department, hours per Artisan, etc.).
Analyse and interpret Breakdown reports (Manufacturing downtime, top-10, etc.).
Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault finding) and identify opportunities to modify, upgrade, improve or replace equipment and spares.
Maintain and register all electrical hardware on site and back-ups of all installed software.

Maintenance Planning:

Compile and supervise the Preventive Maintenance & Tooling Programme according to the maintenance requirements for machines and equipment.
Maintain and update the Preventive Maintenance tasks, 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;
- Escalate to next level if it cannot be resolved successfully;
- Inform or advise Management of any breakdowns of a serious nature or where any potential equipment failure is imminent.

Engineering Projects:

Project Initiation:
- Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control;
- Participate in the estimation and prepare cost budget for a project or sub-project and monitor & 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 within own field of expertise;
- Supervise 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.

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