Engineering Manager

Bidvestfacilitiesmanagement; Gauteng; On-site; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company seeks an Engineering Manager to oversee operations and maintenance processes in Gauteng. In this role, you will improve service quality, manage employees, and ensure compliance with various statutes. Ideal candidates will have a technical engineering degree and extensive experience in maintenance engineering.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years’ experience in a Technical Engineering environment.
• More than 5 years in Maintenance Engineering and Facilities Management.
• Strong report writing and monitoring equipment skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage operations and maintenance planning and monitoring daily.
• Develop and implement maintenance engineering approaches for cost reduction.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and site procedures.

Skills

Staff Management

Operational Efficiency

Energy Management

Problem Solving

Education

B Technical degree/Bsc Engineering Degree

GCC – Government Certificate of Competency

Grade 12

Job description

Brief description of Role:
To support the Operations Executive. The Engineering Manager shall continuously work on the improvement of service quality, rationalisation of services, efficiencies and effectiveness of maintenance strategies and repairs, manage the operations employees, budget etc

Key Performance Areas:

• Operations planning and monitoring. Daily
• Maintenance planning and monitoring. Daily
• Long range maintenance planning, capital replacement planning. As required
• Disaster recovery concept planning and management. As required
• Optimisation of plant and operation. As required
• Continuous optimisation. Daily
• Energy Management, Energy saving proposals. Daily
• Evaluation of equipment status. As required
• Adjustment of operation and maintenance strategy according condition of equipment, to meet SLA with the technologies, to meet value preservation rate of the client. As required
• Optimisation of material management, spare part management. Daily
• Planning of operation and staff according the complexity of buildings and user demands. Daily
• Develop proposals for improvement (service, organisation, processes, modification of systems, etc.) As required
• Consulting to client`s FM team. As required
• Ongoing quality management (internal audits to verify service quality and other contractual obligations, correctness of invoicing according contract and pricing concept). Daily
• Ensure and document operational know how and experience on plant and equipment. Daily
• Root cause analysis of failures, reoccurring incidents, etc. As required
• Creation of transparency of service delivery at each site. Daily
• Creation and documentation of job specifications, risk assessments, method statements and measurable delivery standards. As required
• Creation of work plans, workflows, staffing and schedules according the quality management system of the client ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001. As required
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable statutory requirements, legislation and site operating procedures. Daily
• Management of sub-contractors process to ensure compliance with all applicable statutory requirements, legislation and site operating procedures. As required
• Attend meetings. As required
• Ensure at any given time that information requested from any of our customers is submitted by their required date unless otherwise agreed to. As required
• Ensure a person is identified every 2 months and expose that person to your work for 1 week in the 2 month period and ensure the person signs off on what was learnt in each session. Every 2 months
• Perform job/PDMS evaluations on each team leader at least once in each quarter. 3 Monthly
• Populate and submit the monthly report within the first 2 working days of each month. Monthly
• Complete performance contracts, reviews and marking as per the dates stipulated by Bidvest. As required
• Take the necessary disciplinary action against employees who don’t adhere to Bidvest’s policies and procedures. As required
• Develop, implement and drive a maintenance engineering approach through optimisation and innovation which adds value to the customer through the reduction of costs, higher efficiency levels and market leading practices. Daily
• Assessment and training of employee’s with a view of defining and addressing the learning and development gaps. Yearly
• Self-development. As required
• Recruit, select and retain talent that builds on diversity as a strength. As required
• Entrenchment of the RITCH Values within the team. Daily
• Development, planning and implementation of re-commissioning initiatives. As required
• Lead and inspire employees with a mindset to facilitate the development of skills within BMW. Daily

Minimum Requirements:

• B Technical degree/Bsc Engineering Degree (Electrical or Mechanical) with good commercial knowledge
• GCC – Government Certificate of Competency is a requirement
• Grade 12
• Code 08
• At least 8 years’ experience working with in a Technical Engineering environment
• Appropriate competence with over 5 in a Maintenance Engineering and Facilities Management
• Proven staff management skills.
• Ability to deliver precise and concise reports.
• Good knowledge of monitoring and operating equipment in a production environment.