Maintenance Supervisor

• Commitment to work towards professional accreditation with an industry related body.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience in a manufacturing environment or similar role
• Ability to design processes and layouts.
• Understanding of production costs to include waste, downtime, scrap and re-work.
• Work under minimal supervision with frequent work reviews
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing processes
• Excellent understanding of engineering, scientific and other technical information
• Understand lean manufacturing.
• Uses basic concepts and techniques of the profession.
• Understanding of Health and Safety practices
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure/cost of poor quality

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all manufacturing equipment is set up and produces product according to established Quality Control specifications and standards.
• Lead the execution of preventative maintenance, breakdowns, plant uptime and Safety projects
• Ensure any statutory legislation and/or quality system requirements are adhered to with regards to process changes and equipment modifications
• Continually monitor in-process quality, addressing issues as needed.
• Manage critical spares
• Cost control
• Audits
• Filing and document control
• Analysis of recurring breakdowns
• Job Cards
• Ensure that all existing and new equipment and processes are operated in compliance with all current Quality Control, Health and Safety and Environmental legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all equipment is maintained as assigned, and in accordance with requirements detailed on the appropriate schedule/plan or work instruction, ensuring the minimization of downtime within planned costs for repair and spares.
• Support the installation and validation of new equipment and technology and ensure a smooth and acceptable transfer to production.
• Undertake special projects and contribute to continuous improvement activities as required.
• Support and participate in process improvement activities.
• Reporting and provide information to line management.
• Achieve goals within budget.
• Plan projects or subtasks so that they may be tracked in line with budget and agreed timeframes.
• Be aware and work to achieve the section Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions.
• Undertake continuous training and development.
• Participate in root cause analysis and resolution of problems.
• Agree and comply with the approach to be taken for assigned tasks.
• Train and mentor apprentices and less experienced technicians
• Support training needed of the department and provide expertise to apprentices and trainees
• Provide a communication point for the team and provide a proactive feedback process between the technicians and management.
• Assist with visiting specialist engineers when necessary.
• Work, liaise and utilize good effective communication with a range of internal departments, external suppliers, service providers and customers.
• Ensure that contractors are utilized in accordance with the Company procedures.