Maintenance Engineer X2 at Sappi

We’re on the lookout for an experienced Maintenance Engineer to supply competent and cost-effective maintenance and engineering support, service, advice, solutions and techniques to maximise plant production in a safe, and legally compliant.
As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Ensure the maintenance team’s compliance to all SHEQ policies, procedures, best practices and work instructions.
• Support ISO9000 (Quality Management System), ISO14001 (Environmental Management Standards), ISO50001 (Energy Management System) and OHSAS18000 (Health and Safety Management System) for engineering in the section.
• Actively drive the use of plant reliability monitoring techniques to ensure proactive maintenance and reducing unplanned downtime.
• Manage equipment uptime through fast response and repairs of plant breakdowns.
• Monitor frequency and modes of equipment failures, breakdowns, accidents and overtime. Drive root cause analysis. Suggest changes to processes and equipment to prevent recurrence.
• Manage projects for equipment renewals and capital projects on time and within budget.
• Participate in daily production multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings to agree on work focus areas and to resolve plant problems as part of the team.
• Recommend what work should be outsourced to third party maintenance contractors and what can be done in-house.
• Conduct studies on new equipment, perform equipment inspections at vendor sites and interact with other industry players to determine whether the equipment would be suited for use in Sappi.
• Participate in the maintenance budgeting process on an annual basis. Provide input on the requirements for the section under control.
• Monitor actual expenses against budget on a monthly basis. Explain over or under spend to the Engineering Manager.
• Continuously identify cost effective design or plant changes that could improve equipment and operational costs in the long term.
• Lead a small maintenance team.

What are we looking for?

• B Tech or BSc/BEng in Mechanical or Electrical engineering.
• Government Certificate of Competency (Factories) would be an advantage.
• 5 years’ maintenance experience in heavy industry.
• Some supervision experience would be an advantage.