Job Description
Maintenance Manager - Buns and Rolls Business (Pretoria)
Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for operational excellence and a strong background in Engineering? RCL Foods is seeking a Maintenance Manager to oversee the day-to-day maintenance operations at our Bread Buns and Rolls Business Unit located in Pretoria.
Purpose of the role:
To manage the maintenance activities of a bakery to maximize equipment availability, performance and quality of products at the lowest cost in accordance with strict safety, health, environmental, food safety and risk requirements.
To manage the facility maintenance requirements at two distribution depots.
To lead the maintenance team.
Duties & Responsibilities
- GMR2.1 responsibility and accountability
- To develop and manage a planned preventative maintenance system (PPM) and to ensure all work requests are completed safely, cost-effectively, on time, and to a satisfactory standard, by thorough auditing and action close-out.
- To promote health, safety and environmental awareness of employees and contractors.
- Ensure compliance to all company policies, procedures and guidelines with respect to food safety, risk, health, safety and the environment.
- To ensure appropriate risk assessments are undertaken to identify operational risks and to provide a robust framework within which the risks can be mitigated, and the residual risks can be managed to provide a safe and effective working environment.
- Undertake food safety auditing and improve effectiveness of pre-requisite programmes.
- Participate in Food Safety and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) teams.
- To provide a service that ensures all mechanical and electrical equipment is running optimally and that all departmental service level agreements (SLA's) and KPI's are met.
- To react in a timely manner in response to breakdowns.
- To ensure that the plant is available for production as per the production plan.
- To maximise the availability of all mechanical and electrical equipment through continuous improvement and to improve equipment efficiencies and reduce costs through Kaizens and other initiatives.
- To liaise with contractors or external suppliers and clearly communicate company safety, technical and contractual requirements and standards.
- To ensure adequate resources, equipment and people are in place to meet operational needs; including management of the store, scheduling of shift patterns for the team and purchasing equipment so that spare equipment levels are met and maintained.
- Create and manage engineering and facilities budgets for the site for both capital expenditure (Capex) and operational expenditure (Opex).
- Produce weekly reports covering metrics and performance of the bakery and direct maintenance team.
- Line management of all maintenance personnel on site including meetings/reviews, time and attendance, overtime and absenteeism.
- Recruit, train and develop all maintenance personnel.
- Report and advise the senior management team on all related maintenance issues.
- Ensure continuous improvement in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Assist in defining the annual plant objectives and build departmental key performance areas in support of these objectives.
- Prepare and collate the annual departmental budget.
- Set and share maintenance department long, medium and short term goals and objectives in line with the bakery objectives.
- Define, follow up and optimise maintenance expenses.
- Manage the performance of the maintenance department including effective use of key performance indicators.
- Ensure adoption and adherence to standards, norms and best practices.
- To ensure that employee and labour relations are healthy and to seek to minimise the impact of manufacturing on the environment.
- Create and maintain a motivated work environment within the maintenance department.
- Build skill development programs for maintenance personnel and evaluate the results.
- Ensure regulatory compliance of maintenance activities.
- Inform the broader maintenance community about local best-practices, difficulties and results.
- Contribute to the achievement of production, quality, environment, reliability and utilization targets.
- Contribute to the inception, acceptance and integration of new equipment and installations.
- Validate work requests.
- Propose and plan maintenance shutdowns and major repair work.
- Propose and support project identification work for the multi-year investment plan.
- Develop, train, audit, and maintain effective Standard Operating Practices and Safe Work Procedures.
- Undertake regular Planned Job Observations to minimize operational risks.
- Champion departmental continuous improvement initiatives.
- To be on standby 24 hours a day.
- Perform any other reasonable tasks when requested by the General Manager.
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum N4 certificate with a trade test as a Millwright or Electrician, N6 certificate preferred.
- A wireman’s license will be advantageous.
- Valid driver’s licence.
- Must understand ladder/STL and gate logic and be able to interpret control system drawings.
- A certificate of competence in FSSC22000 will be advantageous.
- A relevant and recent PLC course will be advantageous.
- 5 years hands-on experience as a Maintenance Manager in a Bakery or FMCG environment with complex and yield-sensitive manufacturing equipment that operates on a continuous basis, 7 days a week.
- A strong operating knowledge and demonstrated capability in both planned preventative maintenance systems and in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measurement systems gained over a period of at least 3 years.
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