Maintenance Supervisor

Brits

South Africa

Operations: Manufacturing, Production, Maintenance, Utilities

MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR
Location: Animal Nutrition, Brits Premix Plant, North West, South Africa

**Primary role**:
Responsible for installation, maintenance, safe operation, and repair of all electrical and mechanical equipment in the Plant as required, supporting current assembly operations.

**Responsibilities**:

- Planning of annual maintenance schedule and capital approved new projects
- Review and perform annual, monthly & weekly scheduled maintenance plans for all plant equipment and machinary
- Liaise with operations manager on availability of plant & equipment for planned maintenance
- Ensure ad hoc maintenance is performed on workshop buildings & equipment to minimise breakdowns
- Allocate job cards in consultation with Operations Manager & Shift Supervisor
- Provide budgeting input to Operations Manager
- Sourcing & Purchasing of parts to prevent and minimise downtime
- Active involvement in annual maintenance budget preparation
- Continues Plant improvement/refurbishment
- Coaching of correct equipment / machinery use & maintenance
- Enforce Occupational Health & Safety within team
- Execute station training and task observations as per predetermined schedule
- Management of staff (immediate reports)
- Identify and address non-compliance based on the instructions and suggest corrective actions
- Raise the awareness of employees to risks relating to products, equipment etc.
- Identify areas/actions that my contribute to safety risks
- Understand, adhere to & maintain all relevant SHEQ documents & enforced services. Update & maintain all records & statistics. Complete all checklists & inspection lists of equipment at regular intervals.
- Participate in “Safety Audit” according to the ADM’s Safety Policy.
- Participate “Quarterly Safety meetings” at the team level according to the ADM’s safety policy.

**Qualifications**:

- N3
- Millwright preferred
- Artisan Trade Certificate - Diesel Mechanic, Fitter & Turner
- Drivers’ license: Code 08, Code 11 recommended
- Knowledge
- In Depth knowledge in working with and maintenance of mixers, conveyer systems, load cells, pneumatics, and other machinery
- Basic PLC fault finding
- Skills & Attributes
- Rigour
- Good interpersonal skills
- Proactive
- Analytical mind / global view
- Functional authority
- Administratively precise
- Initiative
- Good work ethics
- Production and output orientated
- Attention to detail

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and value diversity at our company.

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**Ref ID**

LI-VC1