Area Manager Mechanical at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job:

• To cost effectively ensure the availability and integrity of safe and reliable assets to production.
• Effective maintenance of the plant to ensure availability and reliability of the plant equipment and facilities, through coordinated preventative and corrective maintenance activities and systems.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure equipment availability to meet the production plan
• Establish and report on agreed performance criteria.
• Ensures that self and team meet targets, due dates and quality standards.
• Ensure financial discipline and governance in the department. Continuously optimize maintenance activities.
• Ensure equipment availability agreed upon supports the production plan.
• Compile annual maintenance budget. Compile annual long-term maintenance budget. Control cost to ensure the maintenance budget is achieved within budget.
• Manage operations risks by making sure that all hazards are identified, analysed and mitigated to acceptable levels.
• Manage, revise and improvement of Asset Management standards for maintenance.
• Manage asset life cycle and plans.
• Maintain assets within agreed operations envelope conditions and set standards.
• Input into 5 year rolling capital plan.
• Liaison with technology license holder.
• Identification of technical problems/opportunities.
• Benchmarking for optimal solutions and practices.
• Participating in plant design for maintainability and operability and excepting equipment after installation.
• Effective Shut down management.
• Management of standards and procedures.
• Translate and cascade operational goals and long-term plans through effective two-way communication in the organisation.
• Demonstrate One Sasol behaviour – ensure area under control is managed to the benefit to the larger Sasol value chain.
• Manage multi-level interfaces and integrate effectively.
• Interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage operations knowledge by transforming, packaging, transferring and maintaining operations knowledge.
• Ensure development of team to deliver a high quality maintenance service.
• Effective leadership to ensure team engagement to meet targets.
• Lead in continuous performance improvements within his/hers areas of responsibilities, including Health Safety and Environment
• Ensure that vision, values and business direction are embraced by the team.
• Review performance regularly and give recognition where it is due and deal with performance issues
• Ensure proper talent management in area of responsibility. Ensure that self and team achieve development objectives.
• Communicate and execute change and improvement effectively. Capacity building within the mechanical maintenance team.
• Ensure that the general maintenance plan fits into the production plan. Develop annual work and project plans
• Review/ Implement maintenance plans on non-statutory equipment. Ensure that plans are executed and team objectives are achieved consistently in a safe work environment.
• Build effective working relationships with mangers, peers, team members, customers and suppliers.
• Understand customer needs and suppliers contributions to drive operational results in the best interest of the company.

Formal Education

• B.Eng /B.Sc. Eng. /B.Sc. (Hons)/B.Sc./B. Tech (Eng.) (must)

Min Experience: 6 - 11 years relevant experience

Competencies

• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Total Quality Management: The strategy for continuously improving the quality of process output, based on five fundamental principles of Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Measurement, Total Involvement and Systematic Support.

Closing Date: 9th, July 2022