HOD Maintenance

MECS Africa; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 520,000 - 740,000; Full time

Job summary

MECS Africa is seeking a Senior Millwright with Haas Machinery experience to lead a team of artisans in maintenance and repairs. The role requires a qualified Millwright tradesman with supervisory credentials and a minimum of five years in a leadership position.

The role emphasizes planning, safety compliance, and coordination with HR and external contractors to ensure efficient plant maintenance and minimal downtime.

Qualifications

• Qualified tradesman (Millwright).
• Haas Machinery experience.
• Sound supervisory experience.
• Minimum of 5 years supervisory experience managing a team of artisans.
• Supervisory/HSE certificates.
• Preferably ND Mechanical.

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 daily and manage attendance/pay queries.
• Liaise with external contractors and HR for replacements.
• Plan preventive and predictive maintenance; prioritize daily work.
• Enforce safety regulations and housekeeping per OSHACT.
• Supervise maintenance employees and ensure proper safety equipment is used.
• Attend safety meetings and address maintenance-related concerns.

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 standardizations 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