Senior Maintenance Engineer - Shalaamboot at Sappi

As a Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• All statutory requirements in the section in accordance with the OHS Act.
• Support ISO9020 (Quality Management System), ISO14001 (Environmental Management Standards), ISO50001 (Energy Management System), ), ISO 55001, (Asset Management System) and OHSAS18000 (Health and Safety Management System) for engineering in the section.
• Ensure compliance of contractors to all SHEQ policies, procedures, best practices and work instructions by performing walkabouts and inspections as well as checking their safety files.
• Actively drive the use of plant reliability monitoring techniques to ensure proactive maintenance and eliminate unplanned downtime.
• Manage equipment uptime through fast response and repairs of plant breakdowns.
• Monitor frequency and modes of equipment failures, breakdowns, accidents and overtime.
• Manage projects for equipment renewals and capital projects on time and within budget for a whole plant or machine.
• Log all activities using the SAP system and use system reports for upwards reporting and monitoring.
• Participate in thorough and evidence-based Root Cause Analyses in the plant. Call for support from the Lean and/or specialist Engineers for complex cases.
• Ensure that equipment Quality Control Plans (QCPs) meet Sappi standards and are in place where appropriate. Develop and review QCPs for new equipment and when an RCA identifies a weakness ensuring that all the engineering disciplines are considered.
• Manage all shut equipment requirements such as labour, spares reservations, scaffold, and crane requirements, etc. to ensure that these resources are available at the start of the shut and that the shut is executed according to objectives and standards.
• Develop shut plans for monthly, quarterly and annual shuts as required.
• Participate in the commissioning of new and decommissioning of old equipment within the section according to sound engineering practices for all specific engineering disciplines.
• Participate to contract negotiations for engineering contracts as a technical specialist.
• Manage capital projects for equipment on time and within budget.
• Participate in the maintenance and operational budgeting and forecasting process on an annual basis.
• Manage overtime in the department within legislative (BCEA) and budgetary requirements whilst ensuring availability of sufficient manpower resources.
• Negotiates pricing and orders with various suppliers in consultation with the Procurement Department.
• Monitor the plant's maintenance expenses on a weekly and monthly basis and analyse over or under spend.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly maintenance reports using system and qualitative data.
• Oversee the recruitment, recognition, performance management, remuneration, development and discipline of the section’s maintenance and production teams.

What are we looking for? 

• BSc/BEng/BTech/Advance Diploma in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 to 10 years’ experience as an Electrical/ Mechanical Engineer in a heavy industry/manufacturing environment.   
• Government Certificate of Competency would be advantageous. (Factories).
• 5 years’ experience managing multidiscipline maintenance teams in a section/area.
• MDP or equivalent would be advantageous.