The Key Purpose of this role is to Co-ordinate, coach and control the activities of the maintenance teams in the production environment and
to provide specialist technical advice to ensure maximum equipment availability.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and monitored team goals
• Maintain machines & repairs breakdowns
• Support and coaching team members, SKAP Assessments to team members
• Enforce and maintain safe work areas
• Delegate and monitor work activities
• Manage continuous improvement projects
• Solve situational problems
• Conduct audits
• Manage personal development and performance.
• Prepares the ZBB/VIC Maintenance budget
• Identifies CAPEX UPP opportunities that need to be addressed
• Develops artisans and machine specialist. Ensure that development plan is in place.

Maintain a safe and healthy working environment

• Implement and comply with safety, health and environmental legislation procedures.
• Maintain safety and 5S Standards
• Identification and closure of unsafe practices through SIO's
• Safety inspections conducted
• Safe maintenance practices audited
• Adherence to PPE policies
• Maintenance tools are in good working order

Plant reliability

• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
• Plan and prepare the job
• Carry out repairs / maintenance
• Continuously improve (optimize) plant, process equipment and systems
• Operate plant and process equipment
• Effective process controls are in place
• Packaging Efficiencies

People

• 1 on 1’s Completed
• SKAP Managed
• Recruitment management.
• Engagement survey result review.

Problem Solving

• S Plan participation
• Conduct Loss and Waste analysis for top 3 Machine
• Ensure that artisan workstations are aligned to address the identified problem areas

Plant Performance

• Product Quality
• Maintenance KPI's and PI's
• Autonomous Operations implement and sustain as per plan
• GOP Compliance
• VPO implementation
• ZBB /VIC Maintenance Budget
• Prepares the allocated area ZBB /VIC Maintenance budget
• Complies to approved budget
• Highlights risk areas ahead of time

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Ability to manage a maintenance department.
• Mental alertness.
• Analytical and evaluations skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Articulate communication.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• People handling ability.
• Accuracy, judgement, decisiveness and persuasiveness.
• Work organization and drive.
• Motivational and developmental skills.
• Enforce required standards

Minimum Requirements:

• Machine Specialist (Mechanical)
• FTC or Diploma in Mechanical engineering
• BSc in Mechanical Engineering.
• 2-3 Years Mechanical Planning experience required

• Develop and monitor team goals.
• Support and coach team members.
• Conduct SKAP assessments for team members.
• Delegate and monitor work activities.
• Manage personal development and performance.
• Complete one-on-one meetings.
• Manage SKAP processes.
• Support recruitment management.
• Review engagement survey results.
• Develop artisans and machine specialists.
• Ensure development plans are in place.
• Maintain machines and repair breakdowns.
• Locate plant, equipment, spares, and relevant documentation or systems.
• Plan and prepare maintenance jobs.
• Carry out repairs and maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance tools are in good working order.
• Continuously improve and optimize plant, process equipment, and systems.
• Operate plant and process equipment where required.
• Ensure effective process controls are in place.
• Enforce and maintain safe work areas.
• Maintain a safe and healthy working environment.
• Implement and comply with safety, health, and environmental legislation and procedures.
• Maintain safety and 5S standards.
• Identify and close unsafe practices through SIOs.
• Conduct safety inspections.
• Audit safe maintenance practices.
• Ensure adherence to PPE policies.
• Manage continuous improvement projects.
• Solve situational problems.
• Conduct audits.
• Participate in S Plan activities.
• Conduct loss and waste analysis for the top three machines.
• Ensure artisan workstations are aligned to address identified problem areas.
• Improve plant reliability.
• Support packaging efficiencies.
• Monitor plant performance.
• Support product quality.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs and PIs.
• Implement and sustain autonomous operations according to plan.
• Ensure GOP compliance.
• Support VPO implementation.
• Prepare the ZBB/VIC maintenance budget.
• Prepare the allocated area ZBB/VIC maintenance budget.
• Comply with the approved budget.
• Highlight risk areas ahead of time.
• Identify CAPEX UPP opportunities that need to be addressed.

• Ability to manage a maintenance department.
• Mental alertness.
• Analytical and evaluation skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Articulate communication.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• People-handling ability.
• Accuracy, judgement, decisiveness, and persuasiveness.
• Work organization and drive.
• Motivational and developmental skills.
• Ability to enforce required standards.

• Machine Specialist qualification or experience in Mechanical.
• FTC or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
• BSc in Mechanical Engineering.