Maintenance Foreman

My client near Pietermaritzburg is currently looking or a Maintenance Foreman reporting to the Mechanical Maintenance Engineer.

**KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS**
- Supervise maintenance employees in the Mechanical discipline to achieve maximum plant availability and equipment capacity (Maintenance Excellence)
- Drive implementation of the (iAMP) to ensure company is the best producer
- Ensure implementation of preventative / reactive maintenance initiatives and plans to reduce costs and
- downtime
- Identify L&D needs within the team and manage training through business partnership
- Optimise maintenance performance, by holding team accountable to achieve the highest standards of efficiencies, quality and agreed/required standards of maintenance
- Promote a culture of consistently assessing risks and drive continuous improvement throughout operations
- Adhere to and promote SHERQ & Food Safety standards
- Plan and supervise the daily work and performance of each employee on assigned shift, organize schedules,and assign work activity to achieve team and company objectives safely
- Together with the teams, achieve shift, daily, weekly, monthly and off-crop shutdown targets ensuring that tasks are prioritised and planned in a logical, systematic and cost effective way to optimise profitability
- Develop budget for discipline with Maintenance Head, finance business partner, and optimization engineer
- Manage costs and budgets effectively
- Monitor performance and support and advise teams in solving problems and/or taking corrective action
- Monitor standards for setting, operating and maintaining equipment and ensure instructions are adhered to
- Manage iAMP policy adherence to practices amongst maintenance teams
- Manage work quality to reduce rework and increase plant reliability
- Ensure equipment maintenance and reliability for respective area and ensure maintenance plans are aligned
- Ensure continuous improvement by implementing functional best practices and conducting physical inspections
- Work with Optimisation and Production team to solve problems and promote cross functional engagement & teamwork
- Ensure Plant, Equipment and BOM information and WO’s are captured accurately within Maximo
- Provide teams with necessary tools and equipment to perform work effectively
- Ensure technical and maintenance reporting (From Maximo) is compliant with company policy and procedures
- Manage and maintain key engineering activities guided by the Group technical risk guidelines
- Monitor performance and take corrective action where required
- Provide input into best practices, frameworks and minimum standards within function through Head Office platform, and provide additional opportunities for problem identification and knowledge sharing
- Identify and monitor KPIs to track performance and flag any issues
- Promote and adhere to procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**
- Matric
- National Trade Test or Diploma in Mechanical
- 5+ years’ experience in a maintenance environment including supervisory roles
- Experience in heavy industry
- Experience in Back End maintenance will be beneficial
- Supervisory experience will be beneficial
- Must be computer literate
- Able to work methodically and systematically in a Sugar Mill environment.
- Familiarity with systems (Maximo, Tranquillity, Kronos etc.) would be an advantage & strong leadership skills

Application Question(s):

- Have you work in a heavy industry before?
- Have you work at a sugar mill before?
- Do you have a National Trade Test or Diploma in Mechanical?
- Have you got supervision experience?

**Education**:

- High School (matric) (required)

**Experience**:

- maintenance: 5 years (required)