Maintenance Manager I Eastern Cape

Maintenance Manager I Eastern Cape

Engineering & Technical ~ Artisans
Eastern Cape

Maintenance Manager – Eastern Cape
 
Client based in Eastern Cape that provides a wide product range to the Steel industry is looking for a Maintenance Manager to manage and Coordinate the maintenance activities to improve reliability and performance.
 
Duties and Responsibilities:
    • Ensure compliance to safety, health, environmental, quality policies, and standards
    • Plan, organise, lead and control maintenance work activities in both mechanical and electrical fields
    • Achieve and sustain equipment reliability levels to achieve OEE objectives
    • Project planning and execution
    • Responsible for planned and unplanned maintenance on machines
    • Assemble, install, repair, and maintain machinery and equipment as required and as per OEM standards
    • Optimise planned maintenance inspection cards to be predictive and preventative
    • Management of sub-contractors including their safety and quality of work
    • Training
    • Develop team members with respect to equipment specifications, operating standards, and fault-finding
    • Develop tools / systems / processes to improve knowledge and skills transfer
    • Manage and assess the performance of individual team members
    • Continuous Improvement
    • Optimise production and maintenance processes to improve productivity and reliability
    • Root Cause Analysis of factors causing poor machine performance
    • Key KPI’s –Machine availability, break down performance, OEE, cost, continuous improvement  
 
Requirements:
    • Qualified Technician N.Dip
    • Qualified Artisan
    • Minimum 7 Years with relevant work experience
    • Preferably in a management role
    • Preference for electrical experience and qualification
    • Computer Literacy- SAP, Microsoft suite and MS Projects
    • Metal processing plant experience would be an advantage
    • Working in a team environment
    • Must have the ability to lead and organise during a machine repair or installation
    • Apply general rules, mathematical methods, information, and machine manuals
    • Sound knowledge of a maintenance and production environment
    • Good client relations, communication skills including verbal aptitude
    • Must have the capacity to work with cognitive concepts
    • Have specific knowledge/experience to enhance machine performance.
    • Must be able to perform tasks required physically
    • Visualize the invisible such as electrical and hydraulic circuits
    • Able to orientate, have physical endurance, hearing sensitivity, depth perception and colour matching
    • The capacity for working with numbers and numerical/mathematical concepts
    • Effective transfer of knowledge and skills to subordinates and colleagues Take responsibility and make things happen