Engineering Manager at MECS (Pty) Ltd

• A leading industrial operation is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across engineering, maintenance and asset reliability within a Lubricants Manufacturing Plant.
• This is a key leadership position responsible for ensuring the plant's assets remain safe, reliable, efficient and fit for purpose, while driving a proactive engineering culture and continuous improvement across the operation.

Key Responsibilities
The Engineering Manager will:

• Develop and implement the Engineering, Maintenance & Asset Reliability Strategy
• Lead multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and reliability functions
• Drive preventative, predictive and reliability-centred maintenance programmes
• Improve plant availability, OEE and MTBF while reducing unplanned downtime
• Establish effective maintenance planning, backlog management and shutdown strategies
• Lead root-cause analysis and ensure recurring equipment failures are permanently eliminated
• Manage engineering budgets and drive maintenance cost and asset lifecycle optimisation
• Oversee CAPEX, engineering projects and capital investment from scope through to delivery
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, engineering standards and technical governance
• Manage engineering contractors, suppliers and external service providers
• Develop engineering capability, competency plans and high-performing technical teams
• Partner closely with Operations, SHEQ, Supply Chain and other business functions to support production objectives
• Drive engineering-related continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering
• 10–15 years' engineering and maintenance experience within a manufacturing, FMCG, chemical, refinery, lubricants or industrial processing environment, with a minimum of 5 years' experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and maintenance teams.