Technical Manager

Our client is searching for a Technical Manager to join their team in Springs. 

Job Purpose

• Lead the Technical team in ensuring efficient asset lifecycle management i.e. purchasing correct equipment, operating as per standards, maintenance, repair, replacement, problem solving to achieve safety, quality, asset availability and reliability goals.

Key Responsibilities

Health and Safety

• Ensure employee safety is number one priority throughout the plant with zero onsite fatality rate and achieving Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) targets
• Ensure compliance to legal and statutory requirements (GMR 2.1)
  
  • Plant, Equipment and employee safety
• Practice and work according to safety standards and regulations
• Drive behavioural based safety
• Drive risk identification and mitigation

Operational performance

• Drive team to provide hands-on technical expertise, continuous improvement, improvement projects,\ maintenance, support on conversions
• Focus on reducing electrical and mechanical breakdowns, including plant services, and reduce overall unplanned downtime
• Conduct 5 WHYs, RCAs or other problem-solving techniques to ensure the problems are resolved at the source and do not reoccur, ensure actions are implemented and sustainable
• Support focused improvement (FI) foundation and drive actions from gap analysis

Overhead costs

• Manage maintenance budget/costs
• Drive initiatives to reduce maintenance and overtime costs
• Manage contractor and external service provider costs

Asset Management (AM)

• Manage assets throughout the asset lifecycle – procuring of equipment, installation, commissioning, operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, disposal
• Drive AM KPIs - Unplanned downtime, MTTR, MTBF, asset availability, schedule attainment, backlog count, AM maturity score
• Oversee the Identification and mitigation of risks around assets – safety risk, business interruption, reduced performance

Operational Excellence

• Lead the identification of risks to improve performance.
• Monitor team performance and progress against plan, taking corrective action where necessary.
• Provide feedback to team members and coach where necessary. Ensure unacceptable performance is dealt with effectively and timeously and that good performance is recognised.
• Set up formal team structures for problem solving
• Ensure application of visual management practices for effective team updates
• Apply Leading and Managing Change (LMC) process to ensure stakeholders buy-in for necessary improvements
• Drive and encourage the team to apply the Foundation Practices, ensure adherence to st
  
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