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Durban: Maintenance Manager posted by Tower Group

Durban: Maintenance Manager posted by Tower Group

Posted on 2025-07-04 00:00:00

Employer Tower Group
Category Other Motoring
Location Kwazulu-Natal  / Durban

Job Summary

Our client, a leader in the automotive manufacturing industry is seeking a highly experienced Maintenance Manager.

MINIMUM REQUUIREMENTS

  • Grade 12
  • Degree or Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
  • 10 years experience in management of a maintenance department
  • Proven track record of discipline

MAIN JOB FUNCTIONS

  • Develop the Maintenance Strategy and ensure implementation
  • Provide leadership and manage the Maintenance Function and Teams
  • Analyse and interpret Planned Maintenance Reports (Hours per department, hours per Artisan, etc.)
  • Analyse and interpret Breakdown Reports (Manufacturing downtime, top-10, etc.)
  • Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault finding) and identify opportunities to modify, upgrade, improve or replace equipment and spares
  • Compile and manage the Preventive Maintenance Programme according to the maintenance requirements for machines and equipment
  • Approve Stores Requisition for spares and consumables

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 Project
  • Support the project environment and activities to deliver project objectives
  • Contribute to the management of project risk within own field of expertise
  • Identify, suggest and implement corrective actions to improve quality of project work
  • Evaluate and improve the project team’s performance
  • Keep up to date with latest developments/technologies in Maintenance
  • Benchmark Maintenance practices against Best Practices
  • Identify areas for improvement
  • Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions
  • Analyse Maintenance Reports and identify opportunities for improvements
  • Ensure an enabling climate/culture
  • Participate in the implementation and utilisation of equity related processes
  • Compile and update Performance Contracts and Individual Development Plans and facilitate individual career path planning
  • Conduct Performance Reviews and manage sub-standard performance

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Durban: Maintenance Manager posted by Tower Group

Durban: Maintenance Manager posted by Tower Group

Posted on 2025-07-04 00:00:00

Employer Tower Group
Category Automotive Service
Location Kwazulu-Natal  / Durban

Job Summary

Job purpose:

To co-ordinate and manage all maintenance activities to ensure safe and smooth servicing of customers needs in line with agreed objectives and time-lines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop and implement and manage a preventive and predictive maintenance (PM & PdM) strategy for all equipment.
Management of preventative maintenance system to ensure maximum machine uptime
Manage and control opex and capex budget within limits, including managing purchases of anything needed. Budget covers repairs and maintenance, production consumables, repairs and maintenance of vehicles (forklifts) and capex for machinery, refurbishments and facilities
Maintain a critical spare parts inventory to reduce machine/equipment downtime
Ensure a philosophy of safety first (anzen) is built into all maintenance activities.
Ensure the availability and efficient running of machines (robotic welding machines, hydraulic & mechanical presses, compressors, chillers, DG sets, HVAC systems) and other utility equipment to ensure minimise or unplanned downtime.
Analyse daily downtimes and discuss workplan and recurring issues to be rectified from the previous shift.
Implement measures to prevent downtimes / breakdowns / delays, analyse root causes and implement counter-measures to ensure problems do not recur.
Drive Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), and Lean Maintenance practices.
Liaise with Quality to fix machine defects and to implement counter-measures to prevent quality-related defects.
Liaise with Production and Production Control (Logistics) to plan major maintenance jobs to be done within the next weeks, including weekend work. This includes getting items refurbished to be installed on production lines, ensuring the availability of parts, machinery and machinery spares, ensuring jobs are completed to specification and once completed, ensuring machines are ready to go back into production.
Participate in safety walks and ensure adherence to all safety, risk, regulatory, legal and industry requirements. (lifting equipment, pressure vessels, boilers, and hazardous area safety. )
Drive adherence to scheduled legal and compliance training for the department, including statutory inspections for machinery and ensuring compliance to OHSA.
Ensure contractors safety files are submitted and up-to-date and that anyone who comes on site has been safety-inducted. Ensure the right work permits have been issued.
Work with Quality to manage quality audits against the ISO standard.
Manage contractors to ensure work is done correctly before sign-off.
Apply kaizen mindset to identify opportunities to improve systems and processes.

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TECHNICAL PRE-REQUISITE

Knowledge of the automotive / manufacturing industry
Good level of technical competence on automated machines (PLCs, drives, presses and similar)
Intermediate PLC programming skills is essential, preferably with exposure to SQL and database systems
Basic business and financial acumen with exposure to budgeting
People management and understanding
Safety first, LEAN and process mindset
Sound systems knowledge, including sound knowledge of the full MS Office suite
Knowledge of spot and arc (assembly) Welding
knowledge of press and weld automotive robotics

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION
Mechanical / electrical degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION
Mechanical Engineering degree

EXPERIENCE

8 – 10 years general maintenance experience in an automotive environment including 5 years in a supervisory / management role
Press, weld experience would be an advantage

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