Maintenance Manager at GWK Beperk/Limited

Role Purpose

The position as Maintenance Manager in Modder River, Northern-Cape is vacant

The ideal candidate will be constantly assessing the systems in place to ensure that they are both safe and operating efficiently. This candidate will be comfortable managing a team and conducting analysis in order to highlight areas for improvement. This candidate should also be comfortable ensuring necessary utilities are working correctly and possess strong organizational skills in order to keep track of multiple projects at once. 

Responsibilities

• Check quality standards and functionality of services and machines regularly
• Escalate any problems early and schedule repairs in order to minimize loss to business
• Conduct regular assessments and trainings to ensure safety of employees
• Analyze processes to ensure efficient functioning and perform analysis to make adjustments
• Adhere to the Health and Safety Act
• Budget control of plant maintenance
• Work according to national Transformers quality standards, follow procedures and instructions
• Responsible for electric and mechanical breakdowns
• Preventative maintenance on machines, equipment and new installations, ensuring that 100% uptime of factory equipment is available to production through preventative and corrective maintenance
• Fault Finding, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC);
• Performing administrative tasks, developing and implementation of maintenance plan.

Requirements

• National Diploma in Engineering or related field
• Electrical / Mechanical Red Seal Trade / National Diploma Mechanical / Electrical Engineering
• 5 years supervisory experience with heavy machinery, production / packaging lines or related fields
• Minimum of 10 Years’ Experience in a Mill / Factory Maintenance environment.
• Strong critical thinking and organizational skills
• Ability to identify and solve inefficiencies in processes