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 (optimise) 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 organisation 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 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.
• 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
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
• Plan and prepare the job
• Carry out repairs / maintenance
• Continuously improve (optimise) plant, process equipment and systems
• Operate plant and process equipment
• Effective process controls are in place
• Packaging Efficiencies
• 1 on 1’s Completed
• SKAP Managed
• Recruitment management.
• Engagement survey result review.
• S Plan participation
• Conduct Loss and Waste analysis for top 3 Machine
• Ensure that artisan workstations are aligned to address the identified problem areas
• Product Quality
• Maintenance KPI’s and PI’s
• Autonomous Operations implement and sustain as per plan
• GOP Compliance
• VPO implementation
• Prepares the allocated area ZBB /VIC Maintenance budget
• Complies to approved budget
• Highlights risk areas ahead of time
• Enforce required standards

• 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 organisation and drive.
• Motivational and developmental skills.

• Machine Specialist (Mechanical)
• FTC or Diploma in Mechanical engineering
• BSc in Mechanical Engineering.