Maintenance Manager at Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd

Purpose of the job:

Responsible to lead and manage the site maintenance team responsible to maintain all bakery assets utilizing the Premier maintenance systems within budget whilst adhering and complying to all legal requirements, also ensuring a high performance culture. (The Premier way).

What will you do:

• Ensure high performance culture and teamwork in the maintenance team by:
• building and motivating capability though competency-based selection
• training and development, coaching, mentoring, performance management
• effective communications
• leading and participating in Invocoms and/ meetings
• ensuring a conducive and safe working environment in line with Premier way.
• To ensure adherence to preventative maintenance plan and system by the maintenance team as per Premier procedures and standards in collaboration with the bakery manager.
• To ensure full statutory compliance to all health and safety, food safety and OSHACT requirements in line with Premier standards and SOP’s by ensuring training of relevant persons, audits and corrective action of all findings.
• To ensure baking process delivers quality products within specifications in collaboration with the production manager by:
• ensuring adherence to baking equipment parameters
• monitoring baking process
• Identifying exceptions and variations
• Performing route cause to address and correct them.
• To support cost effective operations by identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, increased efficiencies, cost saving or quality improvements in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders through regular benchmarking and identification of best practises.
• To procure, manage and control essential spares, stock, consumables and tools in line with budget and lead team requirements in order minimise down time and support continuous bakery operations.
• To plan and organise resources to support the execution of preventative maintenance, breakdowns, support for projects, inspections and audits and day to day operations in line with budget and targets for the team.

Skills / Knowledge:

• Bakery process quality requirements and standards
• Management and leadership principles and practices
• Function of Raw materials and quality especially flour
• Food Safety
• Financial acumen to support planning, budgeting and cost controls
• Performance management principles
• Disciplinary and grievance management process requirements

Experience & Qualification:

• Qualified Artisan (Electrician/ Millwright)
• N4 in Electrical Engineering
• Chamber of Baking process certificate
• N6 Electrical Engineering (dependent on statutory plant specific requirements)
• Maintenance Manager at a Bakery 5-7 year
• Mechanical Engineering experience 3-5 years
• Working with plant related PLC and robotics 3-5 years
• MS Office skills
• Planning and organizing skills
• Asset management system (eg C-works, Pragma)
• Budgeting and cost control
• Project management
• Lean Six sigma or related