Maintenance Supervisor

**Minimum requirements**:

- National Diploma or BTech or Trade Test (10 years experience) coupled with at least +5 years of FMCG working experience.
- Minimum 5+ years in a senior artisan leadership role for a team of artisans.****

**Knowledge and skills**:

- The Company's quality and health and safety procedures.
- Operational procedures.
- Relevant statutory regulations.
- Mills, pressure vessels, cookers, dryers, and ovens
- Boilers, condensate systems, Compressors, and chillers
- Pumps (Centrifugal, screw or mono, Diaphragm, Peristaltic, gear).
- Gearboxes (Types: concentric, parallel, right angle, shaft mount).
- Fans: (Types: Blower, Extraction, ID & FD)
- Conveyor belt systems (Types: Belt & Screw)
- Piping systems associated with equipment such as valves, flanges, and gaskets. (Steam and Water)
- Boilers (Gas fired)
- Receivers (Air)
- Roller ironers: Rollers, chains, bearings, piping, heating systems
- Dryers: Piping systems, Radiators
- Focus on results through manual dexterity, attention to detail, customer focus, quality and safety awareness, managing work, planning and organizing, decision-making, and building partnerships.
- Express potential through adaptability, initiating action, applied / continuous learning, stress tolerance, and work standards.
- Interact effectively through effective communication and building working relationships.
- Achieve goals by contributing to team success, inspiring others to action, following up, developing others by sharing knowledge and expertise, and meeting participation.
- Read and interpret technical diagrams, schematics, drawings, and blueprints.
- Lead and mentor fellow teammates
- Manage a team as required in the execution of work as per the agreed schedule
- Training of fellow teammates
- Perform any other duties relating to mechanical maintenance as required.
- Good Housekeeping: Ensuring the workplace is kept and left clean at all times

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensures that preventative maintenance, breakdown repairs, and construction are accomplished according to schedule by:

- Planning, assembling, installing, testing, and maintaining Mechanical, equipment, appliances, fixtures, etc.
- Maintenance of Cookers, Dryers, Flaking mills, and toasting ovens
- Maintenance of utility equipment (Boilers, Compressors, Chillers, and Dust plant) experience
- Effluent plant maintenance
- Steam and condensate system experience.
- Conditional monitoring experience
- Diagnosing malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and systems by using the correct tools.
- Inspecting Mechanical systems and continuity of drawings, equipment, and fixtures, using relevant testing devices.
- Using correct tools.
- Identifies opportunities for equipment improvement
- Develops and modifies planned maintenance tasks to ensure maximum equipment reliability
- Technical report writing of failures occurred, projects, and investigations.
- Ensure all assigned preventative maintenance tasks are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
- Perform standby duties and attend odd hours breakdowns.
- Project planning, execution, and commissioning.
- Compiles / completes all relevant documentation, such as purchasing requisitions, job cards, drawings, and forms.
- Reports all breakdowns timeously.
- Analyses problems, provide relevant advice, and suggests solutions based on engineering and factory information.
- Participates in CAPAs and Root cause analysis
- Orders spare by using SAP.
- Continuously performs repairs effectively, through physical observation of function upon completion.
- Coaches operators, apprentices, interns, and artisans.
- Maintains the ISO 9002 system related to calibration.