Hod Maintenance

Permanent; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxion Maintenance Johannesburg seeks a Senior Millwright to lead a skilled maintenance team at our Gauteng plant. The ideal candidate is a qualified Millwright with Haas Machinery experience and a proven supervisory track record.

You will oversee planned maintenance, manage budgets and spares, coordinate external contractors, enforce safety standards, and drive continuous improvement across maintenance, planning and safety processes.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondences.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organisations.

Responsibilities

• Control expenditure within the approved budget for plant repairs and building maintenance.
• Ensure daily job/time sheets are submitted timeously.
• Capture completed job cards on a daily basis. Submits daily attendance register and pay queries relating to time keeping.
• Raise purchase requisitions with the correct authorization before official HL orders are produced.
• Liaise with external contractors and ensure safety and housekeeping standards are upheld.

Skills

Safety documents reading

Write routine reports

Public speaking

Arithmetic

Data interpretation

Troubleshooting

Interpreting instructions

English communication

Education

ND Mechanical

Job description

Senior Millwright

Haas Machinery experience

Qualified tradesman (Millwright)

Preferably minimum ND Mechanical.

Sound supervisory experience.

Supervisory/HSE Certificates.

Minimum of 5 years Supervisory experience, managing a Team of Artisans.

Administrative:

• Control expenditure within the approved budget for plant repairs and building maintenance.


• Ensure daily job/time sheets are submitted timeously.


• Capture completed job cards on a daily basis. Submits daily attendance register and pay queries relating to time keeping. Files copies of attendance registers and pay queries.


• Informs security through written passes before contractors enter premises.


• Complete accident reports for WCA when necessary.


• Raise purchase requisitions with the correct authorization before official HL orders are produced.


• Ensure critical spares are mad stock items.


• Complete insurance claims due to unforeseen machine breakdowns.


• Ensure all purchased goods correspond to supplier tax invoice.

Quality:

• Ensure safety regulations are upheld by subordinates.


• Responsible for enforcing housekeeping and requirements as per OSHACT.


• Attend Health and Safety meetings and addresses maintenance related concerns raised by the health and safety representatives.

Other:

• Liaise with external contractors.

Supervise employees:

• Supervise maintenance employees.


• Assigns work to subordinates and instructs subordinates on actions to take in order to achieve high degree of resourcefulness and ingenuity.


• Ensures subordinates are equipped with the proper safety equipment to perform their functions/tasks.


• Motivate subordinates in order to achieve maximum productivity.


• Resolve grievances that may arise within the maintenance department


• Ensure consistent application of the Code of Conduct.


• Liaise with HR with regards to disciplinary corrective action to be taken if or when required.


• Communicate and enforce company policies and procedures to hourly paid employees.


• Identify training and on-the-job training needs for subordinates in conjunction with the Training Department.


• Arrange for replacements by liaising with HR department.

Planning:

• Responsible for planned preventative and predictive maintenance.


• Plan maintenance needs according to production requirements.


• Prioritize work daily.

Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.


• Ability to write routine reports and correspondences.


• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organisations.


• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.


• Ability to compute rate, ratio, percentages and to draw and interpret bar graphs.


• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardisations exist.


• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Job Competencies:

• Achieving results


• Communication


• Initiative & Energy


• Living the Maxion Values


• Planning & Organizing


• Coaching & Development Others


• Collaboration & Teamwork


• Effective Decision-making


• Influencing


• Business Acumen


• Change and Innovation


• Customer Focus


• Management Maturity


• Oral and written communication skills in English language


• Leadership skills with the ability to lead remote and cross-functional teams


• Organizational agility


• Negotiation skills


• Analytical skills


• Presentation skills


• Project management skills

HOD Maintenance Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA