Maintenance Manager

1 month ago

East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa Bushveld Minerals Full time
About the Role

The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the safe and reliable operation of all plant and machinery, safeguarding employees against harm, and ensuring availability for production. This role involves managing the planning, coordination, leadership, and control of resources within the engineering sections to minimize unplanned stoppages. The role holder will carry a legal appointment as the GMR (2.1) for the site.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure adherence to safety procedures and PPE requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with organisational and legislation safety requirements by maintaining appropriate practices, standards and procedures.
  • Ensure identification and stopping of unsafe work practices.
  • Report any safety related issues, incidents and accidents.
  • Ensure good safety performance.
  • Ensure all legal appointments are in place.
Budget Control
  • Control the budget and expenditure.
  • Manage engineering resources.
  • Develop and contribute to the establishment of budgets for the section.
  • Continuously explore opportunities to reduce costs.
Strategic Direction
  • Provide strategic direction for his/her section – considering the impact of 2 -5 years ahead. This includes proposals with respect to capital replacement and maintenance strategy.
  • Oversee the innovation, design and implementation of change initiatives.
  • Ensure high quality of maintenance output and meet plant availability targets.
  • Reduce unplanned outages through effective preventative maintenance practices.
  • Ensure the continuous improvement of engineering processes.
Policies & Procedures
  • Ensure the development and implementation of relevant policies and procedures for engineering processes.
  • Ensure the execution of standards for engineering.
  • Ensure compliance with Group policies, standards and procedures.
Work Processes and Procedures
  • Ensure effective and efficient execution of the work management process.
  • Ensure alignment of all processes.
  • Establish and implement management control and procedures that would the performance of critical issues such as availability, reliability maintenance workload, compliance, planning effectiveness, ratio of planned vs unplanned work, works orders backlog, etc.
  • Ensure that all required procedures and systems to monitor, manage and control the performance standards and targets of the engineering department are implemented.
Systems, Reporting and Production
  • Ensure effective administration of the relevant systems.
  • Compile, submit and present relevant reports as and when required.
  • Ensure that proper change management standards are followed.
  • Ensure effective and efficient maintenance and production meetings are taking place.
  • Communicate strategic decisions to subordinates.
  • Monitor plant and machinery performance against targets.
  • Implement sound maintenance plans.
  • Monitor and control the progress on related projects.
  • Keep accurate records maintenance activities with particular attention to statutory inspections.
  • Ensuring that the maintenance management system is functional and kept updated.
Equipment, Resources and Costs
  • Plan capital, and control budget and expenditure.
  • Monitor plant and machinery performance against targets.
  • Ensure the management of engineering resources.
  • Continuously seek cost saving initiatives.
  • Continuously seek improved technology to promote better production.
  • Continuously ensure improvement of equipment reliability – including project planning and delivery of reliability improvement projects.
  • Ensure availability of utilities such as electricity, water and compressed air.
  • Optimise water and energy consumption.
  • Track the success of solutions that are implemented.
  • Manage the development and optimisation of maintenance strategies.
  • Investigate systems for improving efficiency, safety and reliability.
  • Manage non-conformances.
  • Conduct technical and process audits around maintenance, compliance, standards and procedures.
Compliance and Improvement
  • Implement effective systems and ensure compliance with audits.
  • Implement business improvement projects and initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant legislation with focus on OHS Act and Regulations.
Manage Labour
  • Manage labour and report all movements to the human resources department.
  • Manage overtime.
Personnel Management
  • Manage the team and manage their performance (including provision of training where required).
  • Ensure effective discipline and compliance with the Company's disciplinary code.
  • Ensure the team has clear expectations and schedules to work according to.
  • Build competencies through support, on-the-job coaching and participation in training and development initiatives.
General
  • Perform all duties instructed/required by the Plant manager which might not be related to job functions – provided that it is safe to do so.
  • Ensure adherence to health, safety, environment, risk and security regulations.
  • Ensure that good housekeeping is maintained.
  • Supporting the Business Unit with problem solving projects, shutdowns and breakdowns.
  • Co-ordinating projects, repair and maintenance.
About You

Essential:

  • BTech (Mechanical)
  • Meets OHS Act Competency requirements for GMR 2.1 appointment for 2MVA plant
  • Valid driver's license and own transport
  • Computer literacy (MS Office Suite)
  • 5 years' experience in leading maintenance teams at a factory
  • Have a good knowledge of Safety, Health, Environment and Quality systems and legislation.
  • Good knowledge of maintenance principles and practices
  • Proven record of previous Supervisory management positions in an industrial environment.
  • Proven record for problem solving skills in a heavy industrial Environment
  • Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving problems and making decisions.
  • Understanding of basic Financial systems

Desirable:

  • BSc.Eng / BEng Mechanical
  • ECSA registration
  • GCC (Government Certificate of Competency - Mechanical) is preferable
  • Formal supervisory/leadership training
  • Knowledgeable in preventative and autonomous maintenance standards
  • Project management experience
  • Experience in WCM
  • Proficiency in MS Projects
  • Experience in CMMS systems
  • Proficiency in developing budgets

Please note the following:

Preference will be given to HDSA candidates. Only applications from candidates who meet the minimum qualifications will be considered. Correspondence will only be entered with candidates who have been short-listed. If you have not received a reply within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

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