Maintenance and Reliability Manager-Limpopo

Oxyon People Solutions; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in Polokwane is seeking a Maintenance and Reliability Manager. The role involves managing maintenance activities, ensuring high plant reliability, and leading a team focused on continuous improvement. Ideal candidates will have a degree in mechanical engineering and significant experience in maintenance and management. This position offers the opportunity to play a crucial role in enhancing plant performance while adhering to safety standards.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in maintenance with a focus on reliability.
• Minimum of 4 years in a management role.
• Experience in food/feed manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve preventive maintenance programs.
• Use reliability engineering tools for asset health.
• Coordinate with plant functions for operational support.
• Ensure compliance with food safety requirements.
• Oversee maintenance to minimize production disruption.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability engineering

Preventive maintenance

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree or National Diploma in mechanical engineering

Job description

Overview

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.
• Other duties as assigned.