Engineering Manager

My client is currently looking for a suitably qualified person for the position of Engineering Manager in the Manufacturing Department. This position reports to the Factory Manager. The successful incumbent will provide direction, technical guidance, and leadership in maintenance to ensure maximum plant availability and design capacity. The incumbent will be expected to lead and embed the company's maintenance to ensure best class producer.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Contribute to the development of maintenance philosophy, plans, goals and KPI’s where required.
• Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviours, including managing consequences where required.
• Oversee planning and execution of maintenance activities, boiler operations, and front-end operations to ensure safety, efficiency, quality control, budgetary control, service, and cost-effective management of resources.
• Together with the teams, achieve shift, daily, weekly, monthly maintenance targets against business/operational goals and objectives by ensuring that tasks are prioritized and planned in a logical, systematic, and cost-effective way to optimize profitability.
• Drive reliability by making informed trade-offs and driving initiatives that will deliver the greatest possible output and quality levels in line with objectives.
• Report on performance in line with KPIs as well as key adverse or positive developments to Factory Head.
• Develop and manage all maintenance budgets, liaising with finance business partner and optimisation team in line with company timetable, with the objective to optimise maintenance costs. Ensure that each area of the plant is maintained, continuously improving the equipment maintenance strategies, to achieve maximum mechanical availability and equipment capacity cost-effectively.
• Ensure the maintenance teams fully leverage available support from within the factory and company (HO and other countries) across all disciplines.
• Identify off-crop & stop day work and oversee planning, scheduling, implementation, and progress monitoring of maintenance activities.
• Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks, and minimum standards for all aspects of planned maintenance as guided by the company programme.
• Management and execution of technical standards, MOPS, TOPS, process specifications, best practices, and policies.
• Identify areas where maintenance, equipment performance, and quality management can be improved and manage the implementation of systems and processes to make improvements.
• Establish and lead a problem-solving approach throughout the function and cross-function to identify and address problems and improvement opportunities. Develop capability on the job and hold teams accountable for performance.
• Manage the implementation of effective risk mitigation measures to reduce quality incidents to zero major or repeat findings during audits and inspections.
• Identify areas where quality, safety, and food safety management can be improved and manage the implementation of systems and processes to make improvements.
• Set direction, implement, and monitor effective team communication processes (e.g., between operations and maintenance teams, team alignment processes, etc.) to drive best maintenance practices to support stable operations and sustained reliability performance.
• Lead and execute the company programme, agreed preventative/preemptive maintenance processes, and CMMS practices on site.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with key maintenance & engineering service providers.
• Monitor, manage, and provide evidence of equipment technical risk compliance through robust governance processes to maintain adherence to group risk and assurance standards and requirements.
• Ensure maintenance reporting is compliant with company policy and procedure.
• Provide input into business cases for key capital projects and support delivery, ensuring required economic and desired outcomes are delivered on.
• Identify and monitor KPIs to track performance and flag any issues.
• Promote and adhere to company procedures, policies, and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC).

MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENT AREAS

• Degree or equivalent in Electrical / Mechanical Engineering (GCC required).
• 8+ years experience in manufacturing machinery maintenance.
• Gov’t Certificate of Competence (GCC) - Factories.
• Continuous improvement knowledge and experience.
• Familiarity with Illovo systems would be an advantage (Maximo) / SAP.
• Key Culture Attributes: Demonstrates the importance of safety, quality & teamwork; effectively leads and communicates because our people matter.