Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Express Employment Professionals; Mokopane; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Oils and Proteins industry seeks a Maintenance and Reliability Manager to improve plant reliability and efficiency while managing maintenance operations. This role offers the opportunity to lead a team, implement reliability engineering tools, and contribute to cultural change focused on performance efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in maintenance roles with 2 years in a supervisory capacity.
• Experience in Food / Feed manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve preventive maintenance programs.
• Use reliability engineering tools to improve asset health.
• Oversee maintenance activities to minimize production disruption.

Skills

Leadership

Predictive Maintenance

Continuous Improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree or National Diploma in mechanical engineering

Job description

Our client in the Oils and Proteins industry requires the service of suitably qualified, well-motivated and results driven candidate to appoint in the above-mentioned vacant position.

Purpose of the Role :

The Maintenance and Reliability Manager will manage the maintenance of company assets within all applicable laws and procedures while achieving maximum plant reliability and availability performance and lowest overall costs through high maintenance efficiency. In this role, you will provide leadership, technical knowledge, and collaboration with operations to ensure integration of maintenance services in the attainment of short- and long-term facility and group objectives. You will champion a cultural change focused on increasing plant reliability and performance efficiency, while minimizing unscheduled plant interruptions and reducing scheduled downtime using continuous improvement tools to optimize the company's physical assets, processes, and strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or National Diploma in mechanical engineering with 5 years’ experience.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Management role.
• Experience managing multiple crafts (predictive maintenance and planning MRO stocks, etc.)
• GCC Factories.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.
• 2 years of supervisory experience.
• Food / Feed manufacturing experience is preferred, solvent based vegetable oil extraction experience is a plus.

Duties

• Develop and improve preventive maintenance programs.
• Use reliability engineering tools to improve asset health and operational reliability.
• Coordinate and integrates with other plant functions to provide support.
• Ensure work is performed following safety guidelines to ensure health and wellbeing of employees.
• Comply with food safety requirements.
• Resolve maintenance priorities based on established plans and assigns tasks.
• Oversee maintenance activities to ensure that disruption to production is minimized.
• Lead and develop a team, coach, and make decisions related to talent management, hiring, performance, and disciplinary actions.
• Serve as a member of the plant leadership team.