Hod - Maintenance

**RCL Foods** is recruiting for a driven, highly energized and Operational focused **HOD - Maintenance **within the baking business unit.

This role will be based in **Pietermaritzburg **and reporting to the Operations Executive.

This role is a **Permanent role.**

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Maintenance**
- Make recommendations on new machinery and equipment for capital expenditure.
- Establish minimum critical spare stock levels to ensure it is maintained and well managed within departments. Spare parts for different machineries to be utilized within budget.
- Manage Sunshine engineering team and maintenance projects and ensure on time delivery of projects.
- Ensure preventative and scheduled maintenance schedules are in place and actioned.
- Monthly review of job cards.
- Ensure plant uptime targets are set and met.
- Measure and report on machine utilisation and costs.
- Establish a capex replacement/plant upgrade policy metrics.
- Prepare annual budget prior to start of new financial year.
- Ensure daily floor walks are conducted and preventative maintenance is identified and incorporated into the planned maintenance schedule.
- Work with HOD Production to identify improvements to be made on machinery to improve production efficiencies

**Utilities Monitoring**
- Monitor the consumption patterns, activities and or costs
- Continuously come up with initiatives to address all the inefficiencies within the utility spectrum.

**Labour**
- Ensure appropriate staff level and training programmes to meet business requirements.
- Ensure that labour cost is effectively and efficiently managed, aligned to budget.
- Review planned labour hours against actual labour hours.
- Review outsourced labour hours monthly.
- Make recommendations to achieve savings in labour costs.
- Ensure that staff are certified and approved on TracTech monthly.
- Ensure monthly payroll is approved.

**Quality, Health and Food Safety**
- Ensure and maintain audit compliance with Occupational Health and Safety and Safety Audit.
- Ensure that the plant is audit ready every day.
- Ensure all machinery equipment IOD ‘s are investigated within 48 hours of the incident and corrective actions taken and implemented within timelines appropriate to the severity.
- Work with H&S managers to ensure OSH requirements are implemented timeously.

**Legal Compliance**
- Ensure that all legislative and industry standards are achieved, and timeous action is taken where required to ensure that there are no areas of non-compliance within maintenance.
- Ensure all electrical equipment and installations are maintained or installed in accordance with statutory requirements and business needs.
- Implement maintenance occupational health and safety compliance with all relevant legal requirements.
- Ensure all building and equipment utilization is in accordance with risk, security, safety, health, HACCP and ISO22000, 45000 and 18000 standards.
- Monitor and verify contractor compliance with the OSHACT and authorize access for complying contractors to site.
- Ensure that all the statutories are maintained as per the relevant OHSA regulation. Pressure vessels, lifting equipment, machine guarding and that a safe working environment is maintained at all the time.
- Find opportunities to implement better working practices regarding ISO, environmental, health and safety.

**Leadership
- Conduct weekly meetings with teams.
- Promote harmonious relationships with staff.
- Identify training and development needs.
- Provide on the job training.
- Conduct succession planning programme.
- Ensure the maintenance staff reflects the company image.
- Ensure team is motivated.
- Performance manage subordinates.
- Ensure effective and efficient communication with line managers.
- Ensure effective commination with team members.
- Ensure effective communication with suppliers.
- Effectively cooperate with all departments in particular HOD Production.
- Correspond with other departments to correct errors.
- Drive the culture and vision of the Company.
- Reward and recognise star performers.

**Reporting/Budgets**
- Ensure effective and accurate reporting on JDE/ERP
- Review and report on monthly expenses relative to budget.
- Review and contribute to monthly GM reports.
- Compile monthly reports.
- Complete budgets and forecasts for GM approval. Track same monthly expenditure.
- Work with HOD Commercial to identify improvements so that maintenance reporting can be derived from JDE

**Special Projects**
- Partake in departmental ad hoc special assignments or tasks.
- Obtain relevant desired results for any ad hoc projects having prioritised it with other regular activities.
- Initiate personal growth and development.
- Ensure that you actively participate to successfully comply with the plan of action identified in your performance appraisal and any training initiatives you attend.
- Compliance with all company policies and procedures
- Act in the best interests of the company a