Maintenance Manager Job Creighton South Africa,Maintenance/Cleaning

Location: Creighton

Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

Lead the implementation of process reliability (PR) systems to improve the performance of production equipment, ensuring alignment with operational targets.

Manage and maintain plant-wide preventive maintenance systems, promoting best practices and sharing knowledge with other plants to optimize maintenance programs.

Lead technical improvement initiatives, including automation enhancements, equipment capacity upgrades, and the replacement or installation of new machinery to support operational efficiency.

Develop and execute technical skill enhancement programs for plant inspection and repair teams, facilitating the continuous improvement of technical capabilities and ensuring alignment with safety standards.

Oversee and drive building and facilities upgrades, ensuring projects are executed efficiently and in alignment with safety and regulatory standards.

Collaborate with the Engineering team to manage and implement technical improvement projects, ensuring successful execution and alignment with strategic goals.

Analyze annual maintenance costs to understand the total lifecycle cost of equipment, optimizing resource allocation and budgeting for future projects.

Ensure a proactive safety culture by enforcing compliance with health and safety standards, and driving continuous improvement in safety performance across the plant.

Position Purpose

The Maintenance Manager is accountable for ensuring plant equipment is safe to operate, prioritising a zero-harm environment while ensuring optimal equipment reliability. The Maintenance Manager will oversee all installations, repairs and upkeep operations for the mill’s facilities, equipment and houses with their primary goal being to ensure that the facility is safe, functional and operating at peak efficiency while minimizing downtime through proactive planning.

The Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance department, vehicle workshop, building and cleaning teams.

Key Accountabilities

1. Safety Culture

Promote a safety culture and drive safety compliance within the team

Ensure the entire sawmill plant and facilities complies with the Brambles global safety standards

Enforce all ZERO HARM policies and practices to ensure the mill achieves zero injuries.

Ensure all plant equipment complies with safety and industry standards and regulations

Ensure that all company Standard Operating Procedures are being followed Promotes and manage the safe, efficient, and effective use of all plant equipment

Conduct regular safety inspections, audits, and risk assessments on machinery and facilities to identify and mitigate / resolve hazards

Uphold all GAP/ Couch Positive requirements within the maintenance department

2. Strategic Planning:

Develop maintenance strategy for Weatherboard

Develop, implement, and monitor Preventive Maintenance (PM) schedules that prioritize safe operating conditions, minimize unexpected and hazardous breakdowns, and increases equipment efficiency and lifespan.

Develop and implement a job card and planning system to ensure jobs are planned and executed timeously.

Manage a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to track work orders.

Effectively plan upgrades, replacements, and decommissioning of plant equipment.

Track plant equipment conditions and maintenance history and develop and manage a maintenance budget for maintaining plant equipment and the site facilities to the highest standard.

3. Operations:

Plan, organize, lead and control the day-to-day activities in the maintenance department.

Develop maintenance standard work for routine maintenance activities, ensuring the most efficient, consistent, and safe method for performing maintenance tasks, minimizing human error and variability.

Ensures that all breakdowns are attended to immediately and resolved within the shortest possible times to ensure minimal plant down time

Work closely with production teams to improve mechanical reliability, changeover performance and operating efficiency.

Implement and maintain a maintenance tracker to identify recurring maintenance

related problems and develop solutions to eliminate or minimise recurring maintenance related…