Durban: Maintenance Specialist

We Need: National Senior Certificate, essential. Trade Tested Toolmaker or Millwright, essential. Completed 4 year apprenticeship, essential. Must have Automotive/Heavy Engineering experience. Minimum 7 years post Apprenticeship years experience, preferable from the Automotive industry. Must have supervisory experience. PLC and project management experience, essential. What you will do: Report to the Technical Manager: Maintenance Management: Determine resources (labour and materials). Analyse and interpret Planned Maintenance and Breakdown reports. Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault-finding). Maintain register of all electrical hardware on site and backups of all installed software. Maintenance Planning: Compile and supervise the Preventive Maintenance Programme. Maintain and update the Preventive Maintenance tasks lists and Critical Spares and Spares lists. Maintenance Process: Scheduled: Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work. Approve Stores requisition for spares and consumables. Breakdown: Supervise the carrying out of breakdown repairs. Inform/advise Management of any breakdowns. 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 sub project 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. Contribute to the management of project risk. Supervise a Project team of a technical project to deliver project objectives. Provide assistance in implementing and assuring project work meets quality requirements. Project Administration: Implement project administration processes. Plan, organise and support project meetings and workshops. Fulfil procurement activities and supervise procurement administration. Provide procurement administration support to a project. Conduct project documentation management to support project processes. Continuous Improvement: Keep up to date with latest developments/technologies in Maintenance. Identify areas for improvement. Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions. Reporting: Analyse Maintenance reports and identify opportunities for improvements. Staff Supervision: Conduct outcomes-based assessments. Obtain approval for and recruit & select employees.