A leading food company situated in Pietermaritzburg, KZN is urgently seeking the expertise of an experienced Maintenance Manager to join their team.

Responsibilities

Maintenance Scheduling:

• Do planned maintenance scheduling, update schedules and sign off on completed schedules
• Conduct plant inspections, and issue unplanned maintenance schedules
• Issue job cards and maintenance schedules
• Approval of all engineering spares, within budget
• Ensure quality maintenance is done on maintenance day

CAPEX budgets:

• Understand the plant needs and do CAPEX budget planning (5 year plan)
• Complete and submit CPAEX motivations as per company requirements

People Management:

• Promote a high performance culture
• Engage regularly with employees through invocoms, union engagements
• Identify and develop Talent and competency gap closing actions
• Ensure training is undertaken as per PDPs
• Ensure workplace discipline and manage ER issues in line with company policies and procedures

Health, Safety and Environment: 

• Ensure and maintain safe working conditions for employees and equipment based on risk assessments and compliance with OHSAct
• Instill an environmentally conscious mindset within the manufacturing environment (H2O, noise pollution, utilities, landfill)

Audits:

• Engineering audit
• Risk audit
• Environmental audit (ISO 14001)
• DQS audit
• BMR audit

Finance:

• Understand cost drivers
• Develop cost saving strategies
• Understand Cost Per Loaf (CPL), difference between budget and actual, and develop plan of action to recover
• Manage stock movement procedure, book out spares on job cards only, conduct stock takes
• Accurate and timely reporting (Supply Chain, environmental, scorecard)

Electrical and mechanical operation:

• Ensure specialised equipment is operating correctly (scaling weights, water and dough temperatures, mixer energy watt hour calibrations)
• Ensure adherence to process SOPs

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree(BSc Eng., B-Tech/Elec/Mech), N6 Dip(mech/Elec),T4 (National Higher Dip Mech/Elec Eng.), S4 (National Dip Mech/Elec Eng.)
• MDP/MAP/PMD/MBA will be highly advantageous

If you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by either filling in the online application form or emailing your CV to *****@*****.co.za

You are also welcome to contact Rebecca or Nehelene on (***)***-****.

Please note that correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates for this position. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.