Manager Maintenance Engineering.REG BLM.Maintenance (Technical)(G53101)

Airports Company South Africa; Vrystaat; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Airports Company South Africa is seeking a seasoned professional to oversee technical compliance, contract governance, and maintenance management across airport infrastructure. You will lead safety audits, manage budgets, forecast cash flow, and coordinate with engineers and operations to ensure availability and reliability of critical assets.

The role requires a B-Tech or BSc in Engineering, 7+ years in an engineering/building environment, and 3+ years in management.

Qualifications

• BTech Engineering or BSc Mechanical is essential.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical compliance audits.
• Adhere to relevant statutory/legislative regulations, SOPs, standards, policies and practices.
• Ensure compliance to relevant statutory/legislative regulations, SOPs, standards, policies and practices.
• Sign off section 37.2 in contract document.
• Ensure maintenance contracts are in place.
• Manage governance and provide input into contract specifications.
• Ensure effective contract management and that work is executed in accordance with contract (time frame, SLA, Scope, quality, budget, contractors).
• Forecast and review cash flow monthly.
• Determine project costs (feasibility).
• Compile, manage and account for budgets.
• Review SLA and performance of infrastructure.
• Participate in commissioning/decommissioning of plants.
• Review infrastructure availability and take action as required.
• Monitor technical systems and dispatch alarms/faults.
• Perform inspections for safety and serviceability.
• Manage dispatch of calls to maintenance.
• Manage maintenance scheduling and related processes.
• Manage call response times and call quality.
• Plan and forecast corrective and preventive maintenance.
• Update maintenance schedules as needed.
• Coordinate scope of work with relevant parties.
• Communicate maintenance schedules to operations/engineering.
• Update work orders and maintenance asset register.
• Generate work requests/work orders for maintenance.
• Review and advise on plans from Engineers.
• Ensure maintenance and operations activities are carried out.
• Drive team performance within policies and procedures.
• Training and development of staff.
• Participate in people development initiatives.
• Plan, schedule and supervise subordinate activities.
• Initiate procurement processes to ensure continuity of contracts.
• Manage scope and relevance of scope.
• Manage maintenance CAPEX projects.
• Identify maintenance and continuous improvement projects.
• Review technical reports and make recommendations.
• Compile project scope and objectives for governing body approval.
• Report on infrastructure availability.
• Report on call statistics and reasons within IMC.
• Highlight variances vs benchmarks for availability.
• Build and maintain internal/external relationships; take remedial actions as needed.
• Provide technical support to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with internal/external stakeholders on project impacts.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Leadership

Analytical Thinking

Problem Solving

Report Writing

Planning and Organising

Communication

Negotiation

Contract Management

Project Management

MS Office

Engineering principles

Education

B-Tech Engineering/BSC Mechanical

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be reporting to the Local Airport Manager, and will be responsible but not limited to the following:

• Perform technical compliance audits.
• Adhere to relevant statutory/legislative regulations, SOP's, operational standards, policies and practices.
• Ensure compliance to relevant statutory/legislative regulations, SOP's, operational standards, policies and practices.
• Sign off section 37.2 in contract document.
• Ensure ACSA maintenance contracts are in place.
• Manage overall governance and provide input into contract specifications.
• Ensure effective and compliant contract management and that work is executed in accordance with contract (time frame, SLA, Scope, quality, budget, contractors).
• Forecast and review cash flow on a monthly basis.
• Determine project costs (part of feasibility study).
• Compile, manage and account for relevant budgets according to business requirements and specifications.
• Review SLA tracking the performance of the infrastructure within the environment.
• Participate in commissioning and decommissioning of plants.
• Review infrastructure availability and initiate action if required.
• Monitor technical systems and dispatch alarms and faults to relevant departments.
• Perform inspections to ensure state of the infrastructure is safe for use and serviceable.
• Manage the dispatching of calls of affected infrastructure to first line maintenance support.
• Manage programme of scheduled maintenance and related processes including assets management, scheduling and work coordination.
• Manage call response times and review quality of calls when needed.
• Plan and forecast corrective and preventative maintenance according to resources and spares availability.
• Provide input into update of maintenance schedules by observing shortfalls.
• Obtain input from relevant parties on related scope of work and implement accordingly.
• Communicate maintenance schedules to operations and engineering through maintenance and planning meetings.
• Update and change work order in terms of business maintenance within the system.
• Update and maintain maintenance asset register.
• Ensure work requests and work orders are generated for maintenance activities.
• Review and advice the maintenance or operations plans submitted by Engineers.
• Ensure that maintenance and operational activities are being carried out.
• Accountable for operational team performance through effective management within policies and procedures to ensure achievement of standards/objectives.
• Training and Development of staff.
• Participate in people development initiatives such as performance management, succession planning, talent management etc. to ensure team performance meet required standards.
• Plan, schedule and supervise / co-ordinate subordinate activities within processes or services to achieve efficiency and quality goals.
• Ensure that procurement processes are started within sufficient time to ensure continuity of contracts.
• Management of scope compilation and relevance of scope.
• Manage maintenance CAPEX projects in line with set standards.
• Initiate and identify maintenance- and continuous improvement projects.
• Review technical reports relating to service ability of infrastructure and make recommendations or decisions within delegation authority.
• Compile a report outlining scope of projects and project objectives and submit for approval to governing body.
• Reporting on the availability of infrastructure.
• Reporting on call statistics and reasons within IMC.
• Highlight variances according to benchmarks with regards to infrastructure availability.
• Build, support and maintain healthy diverse internal (peers, unions, team) as well as external (service providers etc.) relationships and implement remedial actions were required to ensure achievement of organisational goals.
• Provide relevant and specialised technical support in area of expertise to relevant stakeholders to ensure achievement of objectives.
• Coordinate and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders with regards to impact of project activities.

Technical Skills And Experience

• B-Tech Engineering/BSC Mechanical – Essential
• Engineering/Building environment – Operational experience – 7 years - Essential
• Engineering – Management experience – 3 years – Essential
• MS Office - Essential

Competencies

• Business Acumen
• Leadership
• Analytical Thinking
• Problem solving
• Report writing
• Planning and Organising
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Interpersonal skills
• Contract Management
• Applicable Legislation, Company Policies and Procedures
• Project Management
• Knowledge of Engineering principles

Application and Enquiries

Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide proof of their qualifications, NQF level and credits, and must be eligible for Top Security Clearance within 3 months of appointment.

Positions will be filled in line with Airports Company South Africa’s values and Employment Equity Policy and Plan.

Should you not hear from us within 30 days of your application, consider your application unsuccessful.