Senior Manager: Water Services Asset at Amatola Water

Requirements

• Relevant Engineering degree (Mechanical/Civil) – NQF 7
• Registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (i.e., Professional Engineer)/PrTech
• At least 10 years management experience in general maintenance and engineering design
• 5 years’ experience in Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM)
• Sound knowledge of the implementation and management of an IMS system
• Sound knowledge of asset management
• Valid unendorsed drivers’ licence

Preferred Qualifications:

• Post graduate qualification in Mechanical/ Civil Engineering - NQF 8
• Government Certificate of Competencies (Factories) as per Commission of Examiners in terms of regulations E5 (2) of the regulation published under Government Notice R.929 of 28 June 1963

Key Outputs:
Reporting to the Executive Manager: Operations, the appointee will:

• Direct the maintenance of plant, equipment, buildings and property within the operational regions
• Assign major repairs and maintenance to all equipment, buildings and facilities by daily liaison with the Senior Technicians to ensure optimum efficiency
• Liaise with contractors and service providers for specialised maintenance services
• Direct the planned maintenance system to ensure optimum efficiency of all equipment, plant and buildings within the operational regions
• Oversee the execution of specialised allocated work by visiting works, providing high-level technical expertise and assessing the quality of completed work
• Ensure the design of new schedules for plant not included in a planned maintenance system to ensure optimum efficiency of all equipment
• Provide technical and engineering support to the organisation
• Provide technical and engineering support to the Operations, Planning and Development Divisions
• Review and maintain design applications and software of the Operations Division in conjunction with others
• Control specialised material requirements of maintenance within the operational regions
• Oversee stock levels of specialised spares and equipment to minimise plant outage time
• Ensure that accurate stock control measures are applied in order to minimise wasteful expenditure
• Ensure all operations meet the statutory requirements to minimise accidents and incidents by monitoring of an adequate safety regime within the operational regions
• Ensure that all statutory requirements are implemented and executed as defined in the OHSACT 85 of 1993 by performing the GMR 2.1 functions for the 16.1 appointee
• Ensure all Amatola Water staff are adequately trained with respect to applicable safety regulations
• Control the Financial Resources of the operational regions
• Oversee prioritisation of major projects and refurbishments to ensure correct work allocation
• Prepare and motivate with MANCO the annual OPEX and CAPEX budgets for accurate cost control
• Oversee Human Resources within the operational regions
• Manpower planning in order to ensure correct staff compliments within regions
• Appraise and counsel staff as required for increased performance outputs

Other requirements needed:

• Computer literacy
• Good dam safety knowledge