JOB PURPOSE
Manage plant-wide maintenance and capital investment programmes, maximizing asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides long-range planning for the plant and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.
- Develops implements and oversees predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programmes.
- Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and fault-diagnosis of equipment and processes.
- Coaches and develops all maintenance technicians, creating individual training and development plans
- Continually reviews the effectiveness of the service, ensuring that cost controls are maintained and internal customer expectations are managed
- Ensure support & cover for the site is maintained through the maintenance team.
- Manage and control all site maintenance and engineering activities.
- Drive and support process improvement activities in the pursuit of excellence.
- Work with the Site Leadership Team to ensure that the level of service meets the business needs, developing long-term plans as required
- Ensure that all plant and equipment is regularly inspected in order to meet current Health, Safety and Environmental standards, insurance requirements and legislative compliance
- Develop a high-performance maintenance team, where individuals take responsibility for:
- o Following safe-working practices
- o Improving the performance of their designated machines
- o Managing one or more functions of the maintenance department
- o Maintaining good working relationships with machine operators
- o Accurate reporting of interventions and other activities
- - Recruit and manage individual performance through formal performance review and one-to-one coaching
- - Support each member of the team in his/her ongoing personal development
- o Multi-skills
- o Machine-specific technical know-how
- o Problem-solving skills
- - Develop and implement a cost-effective maintenance programme comprising:
- o Planned, preventive maintenance
- o Predictive and condition-based maintenance
- o Targeted refurbishment programmes
- o Prioritised work-to lists and opportunistic maintenance
- Create an environment of Continuous Improvement where machine downtime and machine-related quality defects reduce with time, embracing the appropriate improvement tools eg.
- Pareto analysis
- FMEA and RCFA
- CMMS
- Develop and manage a cost-effective spare-parts holding
- Support the TPM programme, in particular giving support where needed
- Report machine and departmental performance through agreed KPIs
- Manage projects and ensure that all machine modifications are controlled
- Meet current legislative requirements and best installation practices
- Risk assessed for human, product and equipment impacts
- Relevant documentation is updated, spare-parts holding modified, training provided
- Control expenditure within agreed budgets and provide ongoing, accurate forecast
- Manage site contractors to ensure that safe working practices are applied and that work is completed within the agreed timescales and cost.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Achieve departmental KPI’s
- Constantly strive to reduce downtime to agreed levels
- Meet and maintain customer requirements in terms of quality and output
- Compliance with all company’s quality standards
- Adherence to the company’s health safety & environment standards (HASAWA Act)
- Maintain a good overall condition of work area through routine maintenance
- Accurate & efficient control of components including filing and good housekeeping practices
- Cost Saving
- Department housekeeping improvement – 5s continuous
- Training attendance
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
MANAGEMENT
Maintenance Department
SUPERVISORY
Manager
BUDGETARY
Maintenance dept
HEALTH & SAFETY
Managerial
CUSTOMERS
Internal & External
3RD PARTIES
Auditors as required
SKILLS/QUALS
- Graduate or HND in an Engineering discipline
- Have management/supervisory experience in a maintenance or engineering function
- Proven experience in project management
- Track record of improving processes and goal achievement
- Demonstrates strong communication skills and team leadership ability
- Has high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills
- Experience of modern maintenance practices including Reliability Centred Maintenance, use of CMMS, spare parts management, modification and documentation control
- Able to demonstrate effective maintenance resource planning and scheduling
- A good understanding of, Continuous Improvement /Six-sigma/Lean Manufacturing ideals and systems is desirable
- Health and Safety qualification or experience
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
- Sense of urgency
- Energy and drive
- High standards, compliance mentality
- Analytical thinking
- People development
- Results focussed
- Positive attitude and commitment
- Ability to apply good practice and common sense in a people management environment
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to influence others and generate new ideas
- Effective problem-solving and decision making
- Forward thinking, innovative and able to see the ‘bigger picture’