Workshop Foreman

**RCL Foods** is recruiting for a driven, highly energized and people-orientated **Workshop Foreman** within the baking business unit.

This role will be based in **Pietermaritzburg** and reporting to the Maintenance Manager.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Transactional Duties**
- Create spares list per machine and ensure up to date at all times
- Ensure all breakdowns recorded timeously and reported to Production Manager
- Develop planned maintenance schedule, ensuring machinery runs efficiently with no down time
- Establish minimum stock levels on critical spares and ensure maintained by department
- Ensure job cards are attended to timeously and sign off once job is complete
- Ensure timeous resolution on facility maintenance
- Prepare annual budget prior to start of new financial year
- Monitor expenses against budget and report on deviations
- Ensure cost efficiency with regards to expenditure
- Submit weekly breakdown report to Management
- Prepare and present monthly KPI report for maintenance in management meeting
- Follow-up on outstanding deliveries
- Ensure that more than one quote is obtained
- Ensure that checklists are updated to meet requirements
- Ensure that TracTec is up to date
- Ensure that PO ‘s, invoices and delivery notes are processed timeously
- Verify and approve data sheets
- Update SOP ‘s and ensure same is distribute to staff
- Ensure that the usage of water, paraffin and electricity is within the budgeted units.
- Effective communication with production on status of repairs and planned maintenance.

**Special Projects**
- Complete project plan, including timelines and budget
- Obtain approval from HOD-Maintenence and General Manager
- Manage contractors on site
- Report on deviances from project plan and revise plan where necessary

**Continuous Improvement**
- Work with Production Manager and Maintenance HOD to identify improvements to be made on machinery to improve production efficiencies
- Monitor life cycle of machinery through record keeping and advise Production Manager when replacement is necessary of part or all of a machine
- Conduct root cause analysis on breakdowns to minimize recurrence of problem
Implement process change or modification to prevent further problems, improve efficiencies and minimize unnecessary cost

**People Management**
- Take disciplinary action when breach of procedure or company rules
- Leave management and planning
- Ensure rosters in place for team
- Conduct formal performance reviews twice yearly
- Ensure maintenance team has full productivity
- Address development areas through appropriate training/coaching interventions
- Continuous training and development of maintenance team
- Delegate tasks to team in terms of plan and priority and follow up
- Provide job specs and participate in interviews of new employees
- Ensure continuous mentoring of staff

**General**
- Ensure daily floor walks are conducted and preventative maintenance is identified and incorporated into the planned maintenance schedule
- Ensuring adherence to health and safety and food safety regulations
- Conduct weekly meetings with maintenance team and set daily and weekly objectives for them, ensuring full productivity
- Maintain good relationships with suppliers and customers

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Education**
- Grade 12
- Trade Tested Artisan/Time served Artisan or Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering

**Skills**
- Ability to read, write, understand and communicate in English.
- Good numeracy
- Managerial Skills
- Intermediate Microsoft Office
- Mechanical/Electrical Skills

**Experience**
- Minimum 5 year’s practical experience as an artisan
- A further 3 years’ experience in a maintenance managerial role, preferably from a bakery background
- Previous experience using an ERP system