Mechanical Superintendent

Continuously improve plant reliability
- Execute maintenance strategies
- Provide input to structured Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Ensure reliability data is captured timeously
- Execute repair procedures
- Manage and execute shutdown tasks
- Execute statutory inspections and follow up work
- Assist in fixed cost budget forecasting
- Manage maintenance execution team.
- Directly supervise contractors.
- Ensure that improvements, modifications, upgrades and inspections to process equipment are completed to set quality and legislative standards.
- Ensure that maintenance activities are completed within set quality and legislative standards.
- Provide input to update specifications, drawings and safe work procedures.
- Inspect and approves all work done to engineering design code and OHS Act standard and requirements.
- Modify existing equipment, machines or processes to improve product quality, reliability, reduce cost or increase capacity by following MOC process.
- Visit vendors for inspections and approval of work done according to engineering design, code and OHS Act standard and requirements.
- Witness repairs to critical equipment and perform testing of new equipment as needed
- Manage the execution and over inspection of welding/repair procedures.
- Use and maintain data in the SAP PM system
- Expert knowledge in maintenance of plant equipment
- Interpret codes, regulations and standards and ensure compliance

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Matric / Grade 12.
- Degree or National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or NQF equivalent.
- Professional registration with ECSA preferred.
- Working towards GCC.
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years’ relevant experience.
- Prior experience working with a CMMS, SAP PM is highly preferred.
- High competency in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite.