Maintenance Manager

Hire Resolve; Pietermaritzburg; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the food sector is seeking a skilled Maintenance Manager to oversee maintenance operations in Pietermaritzburg. This role demands expertise in maintenance scheduling, people management, and compliance with health and safety standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong educational background in engineering and a passion for fostering a high-performance culture. Join a dynamic team and contribute to maintaining the efficiency and safety of operations in a thriving manufacturing environment. If you are ready to take on this challenge and make a significant impact, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent required.
• Experience in maintenance scheduling and people management is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct planned maintenance scheduling and manage job cards.
• Promote a high-performance culture and manage employee training.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Maintenance Scheduling

People Management

Health and Safety Compliance

Cost Management

Electrical and Mechanical Operations

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

MDP / MAP / PMD / MBA

Job description

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.