General Manager - Plant Engineering & Facilities (Automotive)

Staff Solutions; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Staff Solutions is seeking a senior maintenance/engineering professional to drive reliability across equipment, systems and facilities. You will lead root cause analysis, implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs, and manage planning, scheduling and contractor coordination to ensure uninterrupted production.

The role requires extensive experience in mechanical and electrical engineering within a manufacturing setting, with focus on safety, compliance and cost control.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Minimum 5 years' experience leading maintenance, reliability, plant engineering or asset management teams.
• Experience with presses, automated lines, welding systems, conveyors, robotics, utilities and high-uptime production environments.

Responsibilities

• Improve equipment availability and reliability.
• Lead root cause failure analysis and corrective actions for equipment failures.
• Develop and sustain preventative and predictive maintenance systems.
• Manage maintenance resources and planning/scheduling.
• Ensure repairs restore equipment to approved standard.

Skills

RCM

Preventive Maintenance

Root Cause Analysis

Maintenance Planning

Shutdown Planning

Critical Spares

Asset Lifecycle

Machinery Safety

Contractor Management

Budget Control

Education

Grade 12

NQF 7 in Mechanical/Electrical/Mechatronics/Industrial Eng

BSc/BEng Mechanical or Electrical Eng

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Asset Reliability

• Improve equipment availability and reliability.
• Reduce repeat breakdowns and chronic equipment losses.
• Improve MTBF and reduce MTTR.
• Lead root cause failure analysis and corrective actions for equipment failures.

Maintenance Management

• Develop and sustain preventative and predictive maintenance systems.
• Improve maintenance planning, scheduling and work completion discipline.
• Manage maintenance resources and maintenance priorities.
• Ensure repairs restore equipment to approved standard.

Facilities, Utilities and Infrastructure

• Buildings, utilities, compressed air, electrical reticulation, water systems, plant services and related infrastructure.
• Ensure facilities and utilities do not interrupt or limit production.
• Maintain an infrastructure risk register and improvement plan. Ensure repairs restore equipment to approved standard.

Engineering Compliance

• Act as the GMR 2.1 (meeting the legal competency and appointment requirements).
• Ensure statutory inspections and machinery-related compliance are controlled.
• Maintain safe systems of work for engineering and maintenance activities.
• Ensure engineering risks are visible and managed.

Engineering Capability

• Develop the maintenance team’s technical and leadership capability.
• Establish maintenance standards, work quality expectations and knowledge retention systems.
• Manage contractors and specialist service providers effectively.

Internal matrix customers

• All Company Members including Management.

External Customers

• Contractors and service providers
• Equipment and technology vendors
• Regulatory Authorities
• Local Government and Municipalities
• Utility Providers

Internal Customers

• Production
• Executive Leadership Team
• Support Structures

Job Requirements

Technical skills and specialist knowledge

• Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
• Preventative and predictive maintenance
• Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Maintenance planning and scheduling
• Shutdown planning and execution
• Critical spares management
• Asset lifecycle management
• Engineering compliance and machinery safety
• Contractor management
• Maintenance budget control

Experience

• Minimum 10 years' engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Minimum 5 years' experience leading maintenance, reliability, plant engineering or asset management teams.
• Proven experience implementing or improving preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, planned maintenance and breakdown response systems.
• Experience leading artisans, technicians, contractors and technical teams.
• Experience with legal compliance, machinery safety, engineering risk controls and statutory inspection discipline.
• Experience with maintenance budgeting, critical spares, shutdown planning and contractor management
• Experience with presses, automated lines, welding systems, conveyors, robotics, utilities and high-uptime production environments.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 (Critical)
• NQF 7 in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent recognised engineering qualification
• BSc/ Beng Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

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