Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager
Updated June 2023

Job Purpose
This role will take accountability for managing operational projects within the maintenance space, ensuring Infrastructure maintenance initiatives are carried out successfully within agreed timeframes, cost and scope. They will also manage ad hoc maintenance requests, ensuring issues are addressed within agreed SLA's.

Key Accountabilities and Outputs

1. Manage Operational Projects: Ensure Infrastructure maintenance initiatives are carried out successfully within agreed timeframes, cost and scope.
2. Maintenance Management: Manage all maintenance and related activities to ensure optimal levels of plant and equipment availability.
3. Ensure all equipment and safety standards are maintained.
4. Manage ad hoc maintenance requests, ensuring issues are addressed within agreed SLA's.
5. Effectively manage relationships with contractors and suppliers.
6. Provide expert advice and help efficiently resolve maintenance queries.
7. General Operational and Financial Management: Actively participate in operational planning and budgeting processes.
8. Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices, processes and systems.
9. Ensure adherence to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and controls.
10. Control cost and take necessary action to mitigate any financial risks or non-compliance.

Adherence to Health, Safety, Food and Environmental Standards

1. Staff shall adhere to all Food Safety Policies and PRP’s and shall enforce all food safety requirements at all times.
2. Staff shall adhere to Health, Safety & Environmental Policies and PRP’s and shall enforce all Health and Safety requirements at all times.
3. Ensure that visitors or contractors entering the facility are signed in, escorted and wear PPE, are aware of the hygiene policies and do not smoke, eat or drink inside the facility.
4. Maintain high levels of personal hygiene in accordance with the code of conduct.
5. Ensure staff are cleaning and sanitizing hands efficiently before handling the product.
6. Be aware of the potential of physical product contamination and control measures to prevent it.
7. Take reasonable measures to ensure health and safety hazards do not occur and report incidents properly.
8. Be aware of the first aider on site and report injuries and illness to supervisors/first aiders.

Qualifications and Experience

1. Bachelors Degree (3-4 years) / NQF level 7 BScience: Engineering (Essential).
2. FMCG bottling experience with a minimum of 3-4 years leading maintenance teams (bottling preferred).
3. Lean manufacturing experience (preferred).
4. Leadership Capability.
5. Proficiency in MS Excel, SAP, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and Email.

Key Qualities

1. Communication: Provide detailed technical explanations of products, services, or systems to internal or external customers or clients.
2. Problem Solving: Proactively identify functional problems and determine the best alternative to solve them based on previous experience.
3. Project Management: Conduct team building exercises, provide team-based rewards and performance measures, and clarify assignments and accountabilities within the team.
4. Planning and Organising: Manage time effectively, prioritise activities and resources, and evaluate progress to ensure successful outcomes.
5. Leadership: Communicate a vision to gain team commitment, delegate effectively, and inspire team members.
6. Continuous Improvement: Seek out sources of information and find ways to adapt improvement ideas to work processes.
7. Judgment and Decision Making: Gather information from various sources, understand cause and effect relationships, and formulate a big picture understanding of decisions.