Engineering Superintendent x2 - Mechanical or Electrical at RCL Foods

• The Engineering Superintendent is responsible for managing and overseeing all engineering operations, maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives within the manufacturing or production facility. This role ensures that all equipment, processes, and systems are operating efficiently and safely while meeting production targets. The Engineering Superintendent plays a critical leadership role, coordinating between engineering teams, production, and other departments to ensure smooth operations and compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Minimum Requirements    

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical)
• Advanced qualifications or certifications in FMCG operations or maintenance management are a plus
• Completed or studying towards a GCC will be advantageous

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Maintenance and Equipment Reliability:
• Oversee the maintenance and reliability of all equipment and machinery in the production plant to minimize downtime and ensure optimal performance.
• Implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Ensure quick and effective response to equipment breakdowns and production stoppages.
• Team Leadership:
• Lead and manage a team of engineers, maintenance personnel, and technical staff.
• Train, mentor, and develop the technical skills of the team.
• Assign tasks and ensure that the engineering team delivers on their objectives in line with production needs.
• Management of the Engineering team with regards to HR and IR
• Management of the day to day activities and out puts of all team members across 3 shifts.
• Train and mentor his/her team to improve performance and reduce down
• Utilize skills matrix to assess capability gaps within the maintenance team and to develop a training plan in conjunction with HR development specialist to address skills
• Process Optimization:
• Identify opportunities for improving plant operations, equipment efficiency, and energy usage to drive cost savings and enhance production capabilities.
• Lead engineering initiatives focused on continuous improvement, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Collaborate with production teams to optimize production line performance.
• Project Management:
• Manage capital projects, including the installation of new machinery, equipment upgrades, and plant expansions.
• Develop project schedules, allocate resources, and monitor progress to ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Work closely with contractors, vendors, and external stakeholders to ensure project goals are met.
• Budgets and Cost Control
• Develop and manage the engineering and maintenance department’s budget.
• Monitor and control costs related to equipment repairs, energy consumption, spare parts, and capital projects.
• Recommend cost-saving measures without compromising on safety or performance.
• Management of the maintenance spend against budget through daily review of budget vs. actual financial
• Provide input to the Plant Engineer to co-create and commit to an appropriate an engineering budget during the annual budgeting
• Authorise stores requisitions and provide initial sign off of invoices prior to submission to plant
• Work with the Plant engineer and planner to ensure accurate
• Co-ordinate and sign off on the electricians’ submission of all required documentation to the engineering planner for inclusion in engineering information systems. (On-key). Ensures that engineering staff, keep time cards and other routine records.
• Organises meetings with engineering staff, prepares inspection reports and action the non-conformances.
• Ensure that all maintenance Certificate of Compliance issued and action according to the scheduled plan and that action and task lists are recorded by the
• Planned Maintenance
• Utilise skill matrix to assess the applicability of assignments based on individual skill sets.
• Planning and management of all planned maintenance, preventative schedules, work requests, in conjunction with the inputs received from the asset care
• Determines material, equipment, and supplies to be used and ensure that these are ordered and available at the work site, in conjunction with the input of the asset care planner.
• Plan and manage weekend mechanical maintenance tasks and projects, based on the priority listing from the asset care
• Uses planned maintenance schedules to co-ordinates daily activities of artisans, machine operators and
• Ensures the neatness of the
• Develops a daily work schedule for all activities to be performed to ensure the smooth operation of the maintenance team, minimise downtime and overtime taking food safety imperatives into
• Supervises and assigns maintenance work to contractors on a daily basis, ensuring clear allocation of responsibility and
• Control daily job cards, by issuing to employees, receive back completed ones and verify work is done
• Project Management
• Gives input to the Plant and Project Engineer on the feasibility of projects by analysing technology, resources needs and market demands to ensure that project is feasible.
• Works with the Project Engineer to ensure that the requirements of internal customers are met and to prepare accurate project specification for implementation of
• Ensure necessary manpower is available to smoothly implement projects on time and within the agreed
• Repairs and Renovations
• Coordinates renovations of existing equipment and the construction of new facilities
• Coordinates and inspects major contract work in area of
• Safety and Security
• Ensures engineering staff follow safety rules and regulations as per organisation’s safety
• Ensure that security access points to the premises and BMS system are in good working
• Reporting theft and dangers on the
• Ensures safety equipment is in good working
• Ensure that all staff is working according to safety regulations and ensure the enforcement of food safety
• Stores machinery and equipment in accordance with operating procedures during the execution of their daily
• Stock Control
• Controls the distribution of equipment and supplies amongst artisans.
• Assist on Bi-annual basis to verify the correctness of engineering stock levels and advise on correction where
• Management of Safety Health Environment and Quality (SHEQ)
• Ensure engineering solutions align with quality control standards in the FMCG sector.
• Support production by ensuring that all equipment and processes are optimized to meet product quality specifications.
• Ensure all engineering activities comply with local, national, and industry-specific safety and environmental regulations.
• Implement and enforce safety standards to create a safe working environment for all personnel.
• Conduct safety audits, risk assessments, and investigations into accidents or incidents to prevent future occurrences.
• Guides team to ensure that all legislative standards are achieved and in time and action is taken where required to ensure that there are no areas of noncompliance).
• Responsible for health and safety with regards to all equipment to ensure a safe environment to operate and work on for all
• Follows up on requirements for compliance ensuring that it is continuously maintained and adhered
• Measure and manage sustainability practices within area of
• Maintain and implement Food safety
• Governance
• Ensure that Rainbow ethical standards and the requirements of the RPM are adhered
• Report and or escalate any areas of non- compliance