Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

At RCL FOODS we see and do things differently, we think bigger, work smarter and as a team collectively work towards achieving our purpose, to Grow What Matters!

As a leading player in the Food Manufacturing industry, we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products and making a positive impact. We are seeking a talented and dynamic Maintenance Engineer to join our PIES operating unit in Krugersdorp. This role reports into the Engineering Manager. This position will provide hands-on expertise and leadership of the engineering staff which includes senior artisans, artisans and artisan assistants to ensure proactive maintenance, repair, and service of equipment.

Duties & Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Management of the Engineering team with regards to HR and IR issues.
• Management of the day to day activities and out puts of all team members across 3 shifts.
• Train and mentor his/her team to improve performance and reduce down time.
• Utilize skills matrix to assess capability gaps within the maintenance team and to develop a training plan in conjunction with HR development specialist to address skills gaps.
• Be available on call out and work on weekends or when necessary to ensure optimal performance of team and effective maintenance of equipment.
• Organizes daily meetings with engineering staff and prepares inspection reports
• Manages the maintenance staff to facilitate attainment of KPI’s, and monitor performance of individuals in attaining KPI’s and institutes corrective action where necessary.
• Drives company culture and morale within the team.
• Partners with HR to recruit the staff who are technically capable and fit in with company culture to ensure that engineering team have the correct resources to maintain the facility.
• Supports and advises engineering staff and operations on the execution of their tasks
• Plan and manage leave roster and register.
• Performs work inspections and checks for completeness of tasks and compliance with legislation, SHEQ and in-house maintenance procedures.
• Maintain discipline and standards in area of responsibility.
• Act in the engineering manager role from time to time

Budgets and Administration

• Management of the maintenance spend against budget through daily review of budget vs. actual financial reports.
• Provide input to the engineering manager to co-create and commit to an appropriate engineering budget during the annual budgeting process.
• Authorize stores requisitions and provide sign off of invoices prior to submission for goods receipting.
• Work with the senior artisans and maintenance planner to ensure accurate reporting.
• Co-ordinate and sign off on the team’s submission of all required documentation to the engineering planner for inclusion in engineering information systems (On-key).
• Ensures that engineering staff execute, completes and submits the documentation for routine inspections.
• Organizes meetings with engineering staff, prepares inspection reports and action the non-conformances.
• Ensure that all maintenance Certificate of Compliance issued and action according to the scheduled plan and that action and task lists are recorded by the planner.

Planned Maintenance

• Utilize skill matrix to assess the applicability of assignments based on individual skill sets.
• Planning and management of all planned maintenance, preventative schedules, work requests, in conjunction with the inputs received from the maintenance planner.
• Determines material, equipment, and supplies to be used and ensure that these are ordered and available at the work site, in conjunction with the input of the maintenance planner.
• Plan and manage weekend mechanical maintenance tasks and projects, based on the priority listing from the maintenance plan.
• Uses planned maintenance schedules to co-ordinates daily activities artisans and assistants through the senior artisans.
• Ensures the neatness of the workshop.
• Develops a daily work schedule for all activities to be performed to ensure the smooth operation of the maintenance team, minimize downtime and overtime taking food safety imperatives into consideration.
• Supervises and assigns maintenance work to contractors on a daily basis, ensuring clear allocation of responsibility and accountability.
• Control daily job cards, by issuing to employees, receive back completed ones and verify work is done satisfactorily.

Project Management

• Gives input to the engineering manager on the feasibility of projects by analyzing technology, resources needs and market demands to ensure that project is feasible.
• Works with the Continuous improvement specialist to ensure that the requirements of internal customers are met and to prepare accurate project specification for implementation of projects.
• Ensure necessary manpower is available to smoothly implement projects on time and within the agreed budget.

Repairs and Renovations

• Coordinates renovations of existing equipment and the construction of newfacilities
• Coordinates and inspects major contract work in area of responsibility.

Safety and Security

• Ensures engineering staff follow safety rules and regulations as per organization’s safety plan.
• Ensure that security access points to the premises and BMS system are in good working condition.
• Reporting theft and dangers on the premises.
• Ensures safety equipment is in good working order.
• Ensure that all staff is working according to safety regulations and ensure the enforcement of food safety requirements.
• Stores machinery and equipment in accordance with operating procedures during the execution of their daily tasks.

Stock Control

• Controls the distribution of equipment and supplies amongst artisans.
• Ensure that non-stock items are sourced and ordered according to BOP’s and RPM.
• Assist on bi-annual basis to verify the correctness of engineering stock levels and advise on correction where needed.

Management of Safety Health Environment and Quality (SHEQ)

• Guides team to ensure that all legislative standards are achieved and in time and action is taken where required to ensure that there are no areas of noncompliance).
• Responsible for health and safety with regards to all equipment to ensure a safe environment to operate and work on for all staff.
• Follows up on requirements for compliance ensuring that it is continuously maintained and adhered to.
• Measure and manage sustainability practices within area of responsibility.
• Maintain and implement Food safety standards.Governance

• Ensure correct following of the procure to pay process.
• Report and or escalate any areas of non- compliance appropriately.

Information and Data Management

• Ensure team members accurately and regularly captures data onto the information System to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making

Minimum Requirements

• National Diploma in electrical/mechanical engineering or equivalent
• B-Tech or equivalent advantageous
• Trade test advantageous
• Experience working with lean manufacturing principles
• Minimum 5 years experience in a supervisory role within the engineering field
• FMCG work experience of 5 years and above advantageous