Maintenance Foreman - Rustenburg at RCL Foods

Job Description    
RCL FOODS, Chicken Division is seeking to employ an experienced and skilled Maintenance Foreman. This position will provide hands on expertise and leadership of the Electrical engineering staff, operators and maintenance assistants, ensuring the proactive maintenance, repair, and service of equipment. The role will be based in Rustenburg and report to the Maintenance Manager.

Minimum Requirements    

• Qualified Electrical Artisan with at least 5 Years experience
• N3 or relevant diploma with Red Seal Trade test.
• Excellent understanding of Electrical connections
• Experience working in Poultry (Advantageous).

Duties & Responsibilities    

Team Leadership

• Management of the Electrical team with regards to HR and IR issues.
• Management of the day to day activities and out puts of all team members.
• Train and mentor his/her team to improve performance and reduce down time.
• Be available on call out and work on weekends or when necessary to ensure optimal performance of team and effective maintenance of equipment.

Budgets and Administration

• Management of the maintenance spend against budget through daily review of budget vs. actual financial reports.
• Provide input to the Maintenance Manager to co-create and commit to an appropriate an engineering budget during the annual budgeting process.
• Work with the Maintenance Manager and planner to ensure accurate reporting.
• 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 planner.

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 planner.
• 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 maintenance tasks and projects, based on the priority listing from the asset care plan.
• Uses planned maintenance schedules to co-ordinates daily activities of artisans, machine operators and assistants.
• Ensures the neatness of the workshop.
• 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 consideration.
• Supervises and assigns maintenance work to contractors on a daily basis, ensuring clear allocation of responsibility and accountability.
• Control daily job cards, by issuing to employees, receive back completed ones and verify work is done satisfactorily.

Project Management

• Gives input to the Maintenance Manager on the feasibility of projects by analysing technology, resources needs and market demands to ensure that project is feasible.
• Works with the Maintenance Manager to ensure that the requirements of internal customers are met and to prepare accurate project specification for implementation of projects.
• Ensure necessary manpower is available to smoothly implement projects on time and within the agreed budget.

Repairs and Renovations

• Coordinates renovations of existing equipment and the construction of new facilities
• Coordinates and inspects major contract work in area of responsibility.

Closing Date: 10th, May 2022