Senior Maintenance Engineering Lead

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

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.