Site Engineering Manager - Metal Industries

Our client, a metal industries manufacturer on the East Rand, is looking for an energetic, experienced Site Mechanical Engineering Manager to manage the maintenance department including but not limited to daily preventative maintenance, maintenance utilities including maintenance and scheduled/unscheduled maintenance repair functions to planned and or regular schedules. The successful candidate will also conduct special inspections on all work carried out by maintenance personnel including local projects. Responsibilities include energy conservation and cost containment.

The potential candidate must deliver best in class service to support the business needs and continuously improve manufacturing efficiency, reduce cost and maintain compliance of all assets with applicable legal and or company standards. The potential candidate needs to lead a team of maintenance staff, skilled and unskilled.



Responsibilities:

Repairs and Maintenance:

Manage all areas of Repairs and Maintenance (subject matter, organizational and administrative) to optimum use of personnel and means available.

Achieve maximum plant availability and reliability.

Apply best practice and continuous improvement programs.

Ensure production plant "customer" service and compliance with production plant requirements in all areas of site maintenance and engineering.

Establish and maintain contact with the relevant authorities pertaining to Environment, Safety, machinery regulations.

Provide leadership to site maintenance team, assessing, coaching, motivating and qualifying staff. Be the contact person for external parties with regard to technical issues.

Ensure compliance to EHS standards such as ISO, and any related standards. Fulfil project engineer tasks and activities as per specifications.

Projects and Capex Planning:

Coordinate Projects and Capex Planning for the site short and long-term.

Ensure compliance of plant and assets with local regulation and norms as well as internal guidelines and best practices.

Implement and apply engineering structure and procedures compliant with standards of global engineering and best practices.

Coordinate Projects and Capex planning for the site - Producing and coordinating Capex plan for site (5y plan, SAP).

Ensure the commissioning and handover of assigned projects to production. Execute maintenance planning strategy according to factory lifecycle.

Responsible for the operation, maintenance and continuous improvement of machinery, all maintenance utilities and energy supply.

Ensure continuous improvement to achieve higher plant availability and reliability.

Controls and Budgets:

Ensure the Repairs and Maintenance

Manage technical services to achieve maximum plant reliability and availability at best cost. Draft, controls and manage budget for the cost centre in your scope of responsib