Johannesburg: Maintenance Manager – Oil Industry – R750K/yr – R700K/yr posted by Hire Resolve

About the Role

Hire Resolve’s client in the Oil Industry is seeking an experienced Maintenance Manager to join their team in Gauteng. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing plant maintenance, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and implementing quality management systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible Plant Maintenance.
• Minimize breakdowns.
• Reduce downtime & maintenance costs and increase plant availability.
• Ensure plant is safe and operating at all times.
• Maintain a neat and tidy workshop.
• Implement health and safety requirements.
• Take responsibility for the condition and availability of all equipment.
• Ensure that all Employer Representative assigned duties are implemented within the scope of this JD and the appointment in terms of section 16(2) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 85 of 1993 (OSH Act).
• Communicate the company’s commitment to quality as per the latest version of ISO 9001.
• Conduct daily site inspections.
• Manage daily check lists of equipment.
• Drafts and manage scheduled maintenance program.
• Schedule and manage list of maintenance program for critical equipments components: Boiler, Pressure vessels, Compressor.
• Respond swiftly with purpose to breakdowns.
• File and assign all job requests.
• Ensure job cards are assigned to current department /division.
• Maintain the right parts, tools and spares in store.
• Conduct monthly stock take.
• Manage breakdowns – no loss of production hours.
• Critical checks for jobs outstanding.
• Update job schedule daily.
• Work closely with internal teams by providing maintenance support and information.
• Understand working-in and building teams (as a competency) and be active in forming part of these teams.
• Manage staff.
• Manage staff assigned to positions – this includes daily meetings, support and supervision of staff on assigned jobs; ensuring that the correct PPE is utilised; daily inspection of staff appearance ensuring they are neat and tidy; holding weekly tool box inspections and talks as well as the signing and balancing off on working hours; ensuring the correct in-house and external training is given to the staff, and also ensure quarterly appraisals are held.
• Set staff objectives, managed it through appraisal system and ensure the Lab(s) are correctly staffed to execute work within company standards.
• Ensure that the quality management system conforms to the requirements of the latest version of ISO 9001, in your area of responsibility.
• Ensure that your processes are delivering their intended outputs.
• Reporting on the performance of the quality management system and on opportunities for improvement, applicable to your area of responsibility, to top management.
• Ensure the promotion of customer focus.
• Ensure that the integrity of the quality management system is maintained when changes are made within your area of responsibility.
• Ensure the provision and maintenance of systems of work, Equipment and machinery that are safe and without risks to health.
• Taking steps to eliminate or mitigate any hazard or potential hazard to the safety or health of employees, before resorting to personal protective equipment.
• Making arrangements for ensuring, the safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the handling, storage and transport of articles.
• Establishing what hazards to the health and safety of persons are attached to any work which is performed, Equipment or machinery which is used in the business, and further establish what precautionary measure should be taken with respect to such work, Equipment or machinery in order to protect the health and safety of persons.
• Providing information, instructions, training and supervision as may be necessary to ensure, the health and safety at work of the employees.
• As far as reasonably practicable, not permitting any employee to do any work or to produce, process, use handle, store or transport any article or to operate any Equipment or machinery, unless the precautionary measures to address hazards, have been taken.
• Ensuring that the requirements of the OSH Act are complied with by every person working under your control.
• Enforcing measures as may be necessary in the interest of health and safety.

Requirements

• Matric and related Engineering qualification preferred.
• 5+ years experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively with staff.
• Ability to give and follow up on instructions given to staff.
• Demonstrate proactive thinking skills and ability to make decisions.
• Ability to proactively manage and monitor processes and monitor them with procedures on site.
• Prioritize, follow up and measure.
• Good Leadership Skills.
• Supervisory role, must be able to manage / supervise.
• Needs to be a team player.
• Knows when to discipline and when to motivate staff.
• Results-orientated, with a high drive to meet their personal objectives and standards of excellence.
• Can handle difficult situations and people with diplomacy and tact.
• Leads by example, and guides the performance of others.
• Analytical: organized, planful, logical, clear-thinking, orderly.
• Inquisitive: curios, asks questions, probes deeply, alert, interested in surrounding world.
• Systematic: connects ideas, process orientated, intuitive.

Qualifications

No formal education or certifications mentioned.