Maintenance Coordinator

**Job Advert Summary**:
Feltex is seeking an experienced Maintenance Coordinator to oversee and coordinate the effective upkeep, repair, and optimisation of plant equipment and facilities. The successful incumbent will be responsible for ensuring reliable plant operations through scheduled maintenance, prompt response to breakdowns, adherence to safety standards, tool & equipment procurement and accurate maintenance reporting.

This role plays a key part in supporting operational efficiency by minimising downtime, managing maintenance schedules, monitoring performance, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The Maintenance Coordinator will also guide the maintenance team, collaborate closely with Maintenance Specialist, production and plant leadership, and ensure that maintenance practices align with organisational objectives.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Grade 12
- National Diploma or Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Minimum 2 years’ working experience in a maintenance role
- Knowledge of the Automotive Industry will be highly advantageous

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Equipment and Maintenance Activities**:

- Track and analyse machine performance
- Purchasing of maintenance spares / consumables, stock items, machinery, tools and other orders with accredited suppliers at the best possible price and best delivery time
- Implement maintenance strategies
- Control critical spares inventory
- Compile corrective action report for machine breakdown
- Assist in machine breakdowns
- Matches delivery note from supplier against invoice
- Updating PM checks
- Update daily management boards
- Participate in Annual and weekly Safety, Financial audits.
- Create preventative maintenance plan for all plant assets
- Running/Responsible for Maintenance Connection Systems
- Ensures that material handling equipment in workshop is maintained in safe working order
- Arranging Load testing yearly and maintenance on all forklifts in plant when needed & repairs and maintenance on all forklifts
- Arranging 3montly and yearly inspections of all lifting equipment - cranes, slings, racking, pallet jacks and so forth - and all repairs & maintenance on lifting equipment
- Keeping lifting equipment, forklift files up to date and for Audit purposes
- Create and maintain a maintenance schedule for all the machines.

**Stock Control**:

- Takes stock of all finished maintenance spares on monthly basis
- Assisting with stock take when needed on monthly basis
- Booking out of stock and processing on maintenance sheet and submitting to finance
- Reconciles stock count with computer stock balances
- Controlling of stock in stores
- Ensure that FIFO principles are adhered to
- Ensures that material and spares are stacked safely and according to safety regulation

**Time & Attendance**:

- Records time and attendance, if required
- Checking and submitting time sheets for contractors (10 employees)
- Checking exceptions and approving of hours on SACO for wages maintenance employees
- Submit hours to wage department & Adorp Blu
- Checking, Process & submitting of maintenance staff salary staff overtime & petrol claims to Payroll

**SHE**:

- Ensures housekeeping and safety rules are adhered to
- Assisting with purchasing of plant PPE
- Assisting with issuing of PPE to employees
- Assist in Audits

**Finance**:

- Maintaining Maintenance expenditure sheet with daily spend for all departments updated daily or when purchase orders are raised - on EXCEL sheet
- Monthly Maintenance Accruals for all departments on spend sheet - submit to March
- Month end reports done on Maintenance expenditure and submitting to Kirsten and Finance department
- Opening of New vendor suppliers - loading of documents on share point - Local, Overseas & One time

**Maintenance Connection**:

- Analyse Maintenance Reports and identify opportunities for improvements