Area Maintenance Supervisor - Cornubia at CHEP

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Develop and manage a robust preventive maintenance program to ensure timely and effective maintenance, reducing equipment downtime and improving overall plant efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, actively enforcing corporate Zero Harm policies and conducting regular safety checks on equipment and building services.
• Implement process reliability systems and lead continuous improvement initiatives aimed at achieving equipment reliability and efficiency targets.
• Manage the procurement, inventory, and budget control of spare parts and consumables, ensuring effective stock management to support maintenance activities.
• Lead and support capital expenditure projects related to equipment upgrades, new installations, and plant improvements, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Monitor and optimize the use of utilities such as electricity, gas, and water, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.
• Ensure plant compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate standards through regular safety audits, equipment testing, and asset management processes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the maintenance team, ensuring adequate staffing, training, and performance management to meet the operational needs of the plant.
• The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all Pallet, RPC and Container plants and equipment in the region is optimally planned, procured, installed and maintained according to all corporate and legislative requirements. Ensuring that all plant, tools and equipment at all times delivers optimal production under the safest conditions and maintaining minimal machine down time. The incumbent will be responsible for adhering to and maintaining all company, legislative and regulatory safe work requirements and practices.
• He/She will be required to cost and time estimates of the planned maintenance work and prepare applicable technical documentation to promote quality and defect-free maintenance work.

People and Safety

• Promotes and fosters the CHEP culture of Zero Harm
• Maintains the corporate safety strategy in all plants
• Manages and controls Operational and Engineering strategic goals and objectives
• Recruits, motivates and develops subordinate staff which includes succession planning.
• Uses effective people management and communication skills
• Ensures that good communications, sound relationships are maintained
• Assists and prepares for GAP, SEMP and Environmental audits by assisting and ensuring that the region is compliant to the set of requirements.

Cost and Metrics

• Drives efficiencies throughout the plant in order to reduce cost.
• Ensures that all plants in the region deliver optimum production through their plant and equipment
• Proposes and presents projects and plans for new plant installations and replacements through effective cost saving initiatives
• Drives ‘over time’ down and reduces plant ‘down time’ that are caused by maintenance
• Reports monthly to Management on all maintenance costs, expenses and overtime
• Assists in vendor creation and getting the best service out of our current vendors.
• Assists in developing and implementing SLA’s for contract suppliers
• Responsible for the up-keep and accuracy of equipment maintenance history and job records database
• Perform root cause analysis and conduct investigations
• Schedule maintenance work into production plans

Stock Management

• Assists plants in managing stores and maintenance stocks efficiently.
• Ensures that the plants are efficiently and effectively stocked with the necessary tools and equipment to support the PMS programme

Quality

• Ensures that the minimum quality standards are maintained
• Sets high standards on equipment received and ensures that all equipment delivers desired results in volume and quality.

Plant and Property Maintenance

• Ensures overall compliance to all CHEP Operational SOP’s as well as local laws which includes LRA, BCEA, EE, OSH Act
• Ensures that all plants in the region have a controlled preventative maintenance plan in place.
• Promotes and manages the safe, efficient and effective use of all plant and equipment.
• Ensures that all breakdowns are attended to immediately
• Assists in the Designs, Installations and Commissioning of new plants.
• Plans for expansion
• Is an expert on the PMS (Plant Maintenance System) for SAP

Operational Systems

• Ensures that all legal and statutory requirements (such as labour legislation) as well as Company policies and procedures applicable to the Operations function are implemented
• Ensures efficient and effective operating methods (i.e. for inspection, repair, manufacture, etc.) are developed and maintained to achieve productivity, quality and cost targets.
• Ensures that purchasing systems are applied in line with best practice.

General

• Ensures the effective management of planned maintenance for all plants
• Ensures the adequate security and control of all Company assets in the Region
• Develop and maintains effective relationships with suppliers.
• Ensures that all products and services meets Customer satisfaction

Key Requirements

• Millwright with N5/N6 qualification.
• 5-10 years’ experience in the mechanical and electrical fields. 
• Experience to the design and implementation of PMS through SAP
• 2+ years of supervisory experience