Maintenance Foreman

Neptune; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bakery company in Sandton is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to lead and supervise the bakery maintenance team. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, driving continuous improvement in maintenance processes, and developing team capacity. Ideal candidates will possess strong supervisory and analytical skills, and a results-driven mindset. This role offers an opportunity to impact maintenance excellence in a renowned company.

Qualifications

• Proven supervisory experience leading maintenance teams.
• Skills in continuous improvement and process optimization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the bakery maintenance team on site.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and food safety standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in maintenance processes.

Skills

Supervisory skills

Continuous improvement skills

Stakeholder management skills

Analytical thinking and problem solving

Fault finding and failure analysis

Maintenance Management best practices

Teamwork

Accountability

Sense of urgency results orientation

Respect

Job description

Overview

Purpose of the job :

To lead and supervise the bakery maintenance team responsible for asset care through preventative and corrective maintenance on site according to Premier quality and safety standards. (The Premier way).

Responsibilities

• To ensure optimal plant asset management
• Ensure high performance culture in the maintenance team
• To ensure full statutory and regulatory compliance to all health and safety and food safety requirements
• To ensure continuous improvement of the maintenance process and function
• To complete training and development and stand in for the Maintenance manager as needed to build capacity in the succession pipeline for this role.

Job Related Competencies (knowledge, skills and attributes)

• Supervisory skills
• Continuous improvement skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Fault finding, failure analysis skills
• Maintenance Management best practices
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Sense of urgency / results orientation
• Respect