Engineering Manager: Asset Reliability & Maintenance

Permanent; Durban; On-site; ZAR 1,400,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading industrial operation seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across engineering, maintenance and asset reliability within a Lubricants Manufacturing Plant. The role focuses on keeping assets safe, reliable, efficient and fit for purpose while fostering a proactive engineering culture.

The successful candidate will drive strategy, manage budgets, CAPEX and governance, and lead multidisciplinary teams to optimise asset lifecycle and plant

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering.
• 10–15 years' engineering and maintenance experience in manufacturing, FMCG, chemical, refinery, lubricants or industrial processing environments.
• Minimum 5 years' experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and maintenance teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the Engineering, Maintenance & Asset Reliability Strategy.
• Lead multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and reliability functions.
• Drive preventative, predictive and reliability-centred maintenance programmes.
• Improve plant availability, OEE and MTBF while reducing unplanned downtime.
• Establish effective maintenance planning, backlog management and shutdown strategies.
• Lead root-cause analysis to eliminate recurring equipment failures.
• Manage engineering budgets and drive maintenance cost and asset lifecycle optimisation.
• Oversee CAPEX, engineering projects and capital investment from scope through to delivery.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, engineering standards and technical governance.
• Manage engineering contractors, suppliers and external service providers.
• Develop engineering capability, competency plans and high-performing technical teams.
• Partner with Operations, SHEQ, Supply Chain and other functions to support production objectives.
• Drive engineering-related continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Asset management

Engineering strategy

Reliability

Preventative maintenance

Predictive maintenance

Maintenance planning

Shutdowns

CAPEX

Cost optimisation

Technical governance

Contractor management

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering

Job description

A leading industrial operation seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across engineering, maintenance and asset reliability within a Lubricants Manufacturing Plant. The role focuses on keeping assets safe, reliable, efficient and fit for purpose while fostering a proactive engineering culture.

The successful candidate will drive strategy, manage budgets, CAPEX and governance, and lead multidisciplinary teams to optimise asset lifecycle and plant