Job Description

Job Summary Minimum Job Requirements:

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical).
• Minimum 10 years' experience in Management of a Maintenance department.

Key Performance Areas:
Report to the Plant Manager:

• Maintenance Management:

• Develop the Maintenance Strategy and ensure implementation.
• Provide leadership and manage the Maintenance function and teams.
• Analyse and interpret:

• Planned Maintenance Reports.
• Breakdown Reports (Manufacturing downtime, etc.).
• Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault-finding) and identify opportunities to modify, upgrade, improve or replace equipment and spares.
• Maintenance Planning:

• Compile and manage the Preventive Maintenance Programme according to the maintenance requirements.
• Maintenance Process (Scheduled):

• Approve Stores requisition for spares and consumables.
• Engineering Projects:

• Project Initiation:

• Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control.
• Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or subproject and monitor and control actual cost against budget.
• Project Planning:

• Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.
• Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.
• Project Management:

• Manage implementation of Engineering projects.
• Support the project environment and activities to deliver project objectives.
• Contribute to the management of project risk.
• Identify, suggest and implement corrective actions to improve quality of project work.
• Evaluate and improve the Project team's performance.
• Continuous Improvement:

• Keep up to date with latest developments/technologies in Maintenance.
• Benchmark Maintenance practices against Best Practices.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions.
• Reporting:

• Analyse Maintenance Reports and identify opportunities for improvements
• Staff Management:

• Participate in the implementation and utilisation of equity related processes.
• Compile and update Performance Contracts and Individual Development Plans
• Facilitate individual career path planning.
• Conduct Performance Reviews and manage sub-standard performance.

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