Senior Millwright - JHB at Danone

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Quality

• Ensure adherence to quality standards, procedures, policies and practices
• Ensure that all breakdowns and preventative maintenance and/or scheduled maintenance activities are carried out to high standards of workmanship
• Adhere to HACCP and CIP protocols
• Monitor and ensure compliance with housekeeping standards: ensure that work areas and machinery is kept clean at all times
• 100 % adherence to all DPM’s for allocated area

Costs

• Ensure that breakdowns are attended to timeously, thereby reducing production downtime.
• Minimize stoppages and increase plant availability by implementing plant maintenance strategies.
• Ensure that maintenance tasks are executed within budget (i.e., reduce spare parts consumption where possible and attempt to curtail costs associated with breakdowns)
• Adhere to finance related policies, procedures and controls
• Continuously identify cost effect ways of delivering world class service, identify cost saving initiatives and recommend improvements
• Lead maintenance specific problem solving initiatives
• Ensure critical spare parts available per designated area

Delivery

• Proactively implement the maintenance plan.
• Report on the efficiency of the maintenance plan and suggest improvements where possible
• Support the Millwright when conducting preventative maintenance tasks and fixing breakdowns. 
• Monitor the performance of team members to ensure that breakdown and scheduled maintenance is executed  within the agreed time frame
• Monitor the packaging / processing areas (from a maintenance viewpoint) to ensure smooth operation at all times
• Liaise with stores to ensure that all spare parts are available to execute the maintenance plan.
• Monitor, measure and trend maintenance related production downtime. Use this information to improve maintenance service to the factory.
• Assist in assembling, commissioning and decommissioning lines
• Uphold Good Manufacturing Practice principles.
• Monitor and ensure that all CUTE/Shopware documentation is completed accurately
• Ensure adherence to DAMAWY procedures and process
• Complete all required documentation as required (maintenance, safety, quality, etc.)
• Attend department required meetings
• Adhere to escalation procedure

Team Management/Morale

• Motivate, engage, inspire team members: encourage team members to strive for excellence in all that they do
• Coach and guide team members on maintenance related activities and problem solving techniques
• Be the custodian of the company values and CODE
• Monitor KPIs and lead initiatives aimed at achieving targets set
• Take responsibility for your own learning and development (subject to budgetary constraints) and performance

Environment

• Ensure adherence to the environment policies, procedures and standards

Safety

• Ensure that employees are properly trained on safe work procedures.
• Manage and monitor adherence to safety regulations, procedures and policies
• Identify, manage and report safety hazards
• Execute safety incident/accident investigations as required
• Participate in safety dialogues as per guidelines
• Participate in safety audits and action plan implementation as and when required
• Ensure compliance with LOTO procedures

Qualification(s) & Experience:

• N3/N4, Qualified Millwright
• 5 - 10 years’ maintenance experience within a FMCG environment, Processing, Utilities and Packaging experience would be an advantage. Leadership experience/People Management Exposed to technical root cause analysis methodologies.