General Manager (Heavy Engineering – Workshops & Site) - Roodepoort at MECS (Pty) Ltd

• The General Manager turns a multi-sector order book into delivery, cash, people and a workshop that can stand a factory assessment.
• The Members will set direction and the GM will take make sure this is adhered to.

Reports to Members / Directors
Direct reports Engineering Manager, Quality Manager, Production Manager, and project / commercial leads as appointed
Scope Company-wide. All sectors, all projects, workshop and site.
Employment Permanent, full time. After-hours cover for breakdowns, outages and client escalations.

Minimum requirements

• Degree or national diploma in engineering, operations or equivalent, plus a real workshop or multi-project industrial background.
• Pr Eng / Pr Tech Eng, MBA or equivalent operations qualification.
• P&L ownership in a repair, OEM-support or multi-contract engineering business.
• Ten years in industrial / engineering operations, of which five are running people, plant and money — not only a single project.
• Evidence of delivery across more than one sector. A one-plant career will struggle here.
• Comfortable with NEC / FIDIC / client-works-instruction environments, factory assessments and tender personnel evidence.
• Valid driver’s licence. Prepared to travel to sites, plants and partner factories.

Accountabilities
Business and commercial

• Own operational performance across workshop and projects: output, margin, cash, claims, retention and warranty exposure.
• Keep the monthly director pack honest: portfolio status, exceptions, decisions required, invoicing and procurement — not a status read-out.
• Protect payment: valid invoices, activity completion, bonds, retention and late-payment follow-up.
• Approve overtime, subcontract and major buy-in against load and cash, not habit.

Delivery across sectors

• Balance power, rail, mining, water, industrial and workshop work so one contract does not starve the others.
• Make sure committed lead times, site dates and outage windows are real before they leave the building.
• Escalate programme, quality or commercial risk early. Informal WhatsApp updates do not replace formal reports.

People and legal

• Build and hold the structure in this pack. Vacancies, acting arrangements and agency briefs sit with the GM.
• OHS Act accountability for the workshop and for work under YNF control on client sites. Legal appointments current.
• Industrial relations, discipline and a floor culture that survives a walk-through.

Clients and partners

• Be the senior face for utilities, mines, rail, municipalities, OEMs and JV partners.
• Do not let YNF be mistaken for an OEM where it is the commercial or delivery lead. Keep partner roles clean.

Authority

• Day-to-day operational authority within board-approved limits.
• Hire, discipline and exit in the agreed structure, subject to Member sign-off on executive posts.
• Stop a job that is unsafe, unpaid, or off the approved technical / quality path.