Maintenance Manager

**Maintenance Manager (FMCG Food Processing)**

**Reporting To**: Factory Manager

**Location**: City Deep, JHB South

**Salary**: R900K Negotiable

**EE**: Open to All
**Maintenance Manager at a food processing plant in City Deep.**
- This is a position for a dynamic individual who is very hands-on and can motivate and manage a team.
- An Engineering qualification will be preferable.
- Experience in automation of a production facility is essential.

**Responsibilities associated with this role include, but are not limited to the following**:

- Management of the maintenance team to ensure appropriate use of resources for all operations. Planning and scheduling of maintenance works to ensure maximum operational efficiency and minimize plant downtime.
- Ensure all maintenance operations are conducted in a safe and controlled manner with particular emphasis on Health and Safety, Food Safety, Hygiene, and Environmental standards.
- Promote a food safety culture.
- Maintain plant safety compliance, safe standards of maintenance work, equipment upkeep, and coordinate safe systems of work in relation to permits as required by the company and regulatory authorities.
- Management of maintenance budgets and daily maintenance costs.
- Management of utilities including water and electricity in line with company’s cost saving initiatives.
- Management of suppliers to ensure cost effective and timely delivery of spares and services and to ensure work is carried out to the highest standard.
- Manage preventive maintenance system to deliver an effective planned maintenance programme that maximises equipment availability and leverages maintenance best practices.
- Advise on new projects and support overall project execution with a focus on safety, schedule, and budget adherence while complying with good engineering practices, company policies, regulations, and codes.
- Be actively involved in lean initiatives to drive efficiencies.
- Management of spare parts, stock control, and maintenance stores purchasing.
- Set up of central stores.
- Participate in Manufacturing/Operations meetings as required.
- Facilitate regular meetings and transparent communication with site health & safety team, site engineering, and site facilities teams.
- Member of the HACCP team.
- Ensure that the highest levels of service, quality and workmanship are maintained and all required training needs for the function are met through continued team up-skilling
- People management (recruitment in line with talent strategy, identify and develop talent, develop career progression pathways (e.g., apprenticeship programmes)
- Taking on the role as GMR2 for the site.

**EXPERIENCE**:

- Relevant 5 years’ experience in a similar role
- Relevant supervisory management experience
- Experience in equipment automation
- Must hold appropriate educational qualifications combined with relevant automation experience
- Engineering qualification will be highly advantageous
- Experience in Lean Manufacturing will be highly advantageous
- Strong business knowledge and ability to work with various departments within the organisation.
- Capex project management experience
- Project management skills/disciplines

**FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Equivalent of NQF Level 6 qualification
- A working knowledge of industrial refrigeration (ammonia) is preferred.
- An engineering qualification will be highly advantageous
- A relevant Bachelors’ degree will be advantageous

**SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE**
- Possess clear ability to work within the team.
- Computer literate Skills/Attributes
- Excellent Communicator with strong interpersonal skills
- Highly motivated and organised with the ability to perform well in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Ability to manage and motivate the maintenance team while building good working relationships across all functions
- Hands-on approach to problem solving
- Is approachable and enthusiastic.
- Is strategic and continuously looking for ways to improve how things are done.
- Customer and results focused and be highly committed to providing an excellent standard of service.
- Ability to use own initiative.
- Accountability