Maintenance & Reliability Transformation Lead

Manpower Group; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Manpower Group in South Africa seeks a Senior Maintenance leader to transform the maintenance function from reactive to proactive, predictive, and reliability-centred within a highly regulated manufacturing environment.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team across dairy processing plants, manage CapEx and automation initiatives, ensure OHS and HACCP compliance, and drive continuous improvement and cost efficiencies in maintenance operations.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years' experience in maintenance within manufacturing or FMCG environments.
• At least 5 years in a senior or leadership role.
• Proven track record managing large-scale plants or multi-site operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive long-term maintenance strategy.
• Drive proactive, predictive, and reliability-centred maintenance practices (TPM).
• Oversee CapEx planning and execution for plant upgrades and automation initiatives.
• Ensure reliability and availability of dairy processing systems and utilities.
• Monitor KPIs such as OEE, downtime, MTBF, MTTR.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary maintenance and engineering team.
• Ensure compliance with OHS Act and food safety standards (HACCP, ISO 22000).
• Champion zero-harm safety culture and audit readiness.
• Support sustainability and energy/water efficiency initiatives.
• Provide strategic reporting to senior leadership.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Lean Six Sigma

Stakeholder management

CMMS

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial Engineering

GCC Factories advantageous

Maintenance management certification

Job description

Manpower Group in South Africa seeks a Senior Maintenance leader to transform the maintenance function from reactive to proactive, predictive, and reliability-centred within a highly regulated manufacturing environment.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team across dairy processing plants, manage CapEx and automation initiatives, ensure OHS and HACCP compliance, and drive continuous improvement and cost efficiencies in maintenance operations.