Maintenance Manager

A leading food company situated in Pietermaritzburg, KZN is urgently seeking the expertise of an experienced Maintenance Manager to join their team.

Responsibilities

Maintenance Scheduling :

• Do planned maintenance scheduling, update schedules and sign off on completed schedules
• Conduct plant inspections, and issue unplanned maintenance schedules
• Issue job cards and maintenance schedules
• Approval of all engineering spares, within budget
• Ensure quality maintenance is done on maintenance day
• Understand the plant needs and do CAPEX budget planning (5 year plan)
• Complete and submit CPAEX motivations as per company requirements

People Management :

• Promote a high performance culture
• Engage regularly with employees through invocoms, union engagements
• Identify and develop Talent and competency gap closing actions
• Ensure training is undertaken as per PDP’s
• Ensure workplace discipline and manage ER issues in line with company policies and procedures

Health, Safety and Environment :

• Ensure and maintain safe working conditions for employees and equipment based on risk assessments and compliance with OHSAct
• Instill an environmentally conscious mindset within the manufacturing environment (H2O, noise pollution, utilities, landfill)

Audits :

• Engineering audit

Finance :

• Understand cost drivers
• Develop cost saving strategies
• Understand Cost Per Loaf (CPL), difference between budget and actual, and develop plan of action to recover
• Manage stock movement procedure, book out spares on job cards only, conduct stock takes
• Accurate and timely reporting (Supply Chain, environmental, scorecard)

Electrical and Mechanical Operation :

• Ensure specialised equipment is operating correctly (scaling weights, water and dough temperatures, mixer energy watt hour calibrations)
• Ensure adherence to process SOP’s

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (BSc Eng., B-Tech / Elec / Mech), N6 Dip (mech / Elec), T4 (National Higher Dip Mech / Elec), S4 (National Dip Mech / Elec)
• MDP / MAP / PMD / MBA will be highly advantageous

You are also welcome to contact Rebecca or Nehelene on 021 551 8638.

Please note that correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates for this position. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.