Job Title: Maintenance Manager
Introduction
Our client operating in the tea production sector is looking for a Maintenance Manager responsible for the management of the mechanical workshop, productivity improvement & ensure high standards of machinery maintenance in the factory are achieved.
Qualifications & Experience Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering or related field
- Having at least 4 Years’ experience in a similar role.
- Manufacturing Performance Management
- Quality Assurance
- Human Factors – technical and human capabilities
Accountabilities
- Carries out regular/routine inspections and maintenance of the machinery in the factory.
- Train & develop all staff in the Workshop and operators on machine operations.
- Ensures that the Workshop’s expenditure controls are in place.
- Prepare and implement Machinery Maintenance Schedule for the all-factory machinery and utilities.
- Maintain Inventory and asset register for the all-factory machinery
- Ensures that all relevant legal & other safety requirements (mechanical) are complied with within the factory.
- Supports installation of new processes & machinery at the factory.
- Takes charge of machinery modification and supports the implementation of WCM in the factory.
- Responsible for the implementation of all company policies and procedures in the Workshop
- Takes charge of engineering requirements & maintenance of utility services.
- Deliver the business targets aligned with the Company Strategy
Production and planning
- To carry out regular inspections of the company transport fleet vehicles.
- To implement Company policies and WCM in the Workshop.
- Prepares and avails transport fleet for statutory inspection and calibration for legal compliance and safety integrity.
- Schedules and implements preventive maintenance for all the fleet and service equipment.
- Implements Workshop machinery procedures and SOPS and ensures compliance by the team.
- Implement Good Manufacturing practices in the service bay.
- Monitor equipment key performance indicators for efficient operations; generate periodic reports.
- Verify and consolidate daily, weekly, and monthly administrative returns.
- Keep and ensure the accuracy of documentation for all machinery in the Workshop.
- Communicates upwards/downwards/peers in the Workshop to ensure a smooth flow of information.
- Prepare vehicles/equipment for periodic statutory inspections.
- Initiates and implements improvements in the Workshop machinery in liaison with the line Manager.
- Undertake other responsibilities as may be assigned by the line manager.
Quality
- Implements Quality and Consumer Safety Management System in the factory.
- Takes responsibility for maintaining, availing, and setting the service and transport fleet to the required standard to support the delivery of quality made tea.
- Implements the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) in the transport fleets.
- Initiates and implements quality improvements in machinery operations.
Assets and Stocks
- Updates asset inventory records for the section.
- Maintain Machinery Inventory for all factory equipment.
- Prepares and avails machinery and equipment for statutory inspection and calibration for legal compliance and safety integrity.
- Monitor and validate equipment-related stock movements in conjunction with the store clerk and factory management.
- Responsible for the utilization of assets at the Workshop.
- Flag up redundant/obsolete assets to the manager for disposal.
- Ensure the day-to-day operation and smooth delivery of service machinery (transport fleet, water pumps, tractors, grass-cutting equipment) in the factory and villages.
- Monitor fleet/equipment key performance indicators for efficient operation; generate periodic reports.
Projects
- Carries out the implementation of WCM in the maintenance operations.
- Takes charge of fleet/ equipment modification.
- Carries out implementation of projects, in liaison with the line manager.
- Keep abreast with all new technology covering tea making, market, packing, maintenance, transport, and energy usage and make proposals for implementation where appropriate.
- Participate in factory trials and implement actions.
- Implementation and follow-up on improvement ideas on the shop floor.
- Implement a contractor Management system in the service bay in line with company-set standards.
Finance, logistics, and supplies
- To ensure that the maintenance expenditure and operational controls are in place.
- Requisitions and verifies the quality of spares and materials ordered for the factory as per technical specifications.
- Submits inputs into annual revenue & capital budgets.
- Provides technical specifications for the procurement of all stock e.g. spare parts.
- Carries out cost management and ensures effective controls.
- Provides inputs for capital expenditure proposals related to the Workshop equipment and fleet.
- Provide input into the monthly accounts review and implements agreed actions.
- Implement an effective procurement tracking system in the Workshop.
- People
- To train & develop all staff and ensure good industrial relations in the workshop section.
- Plans, allocates, and supervises the work of the workshop maintenance teams.
- Plans, allocates and supervises duties to the maintenance team.
- Train & develop all personnel in the Workshop and production operators on process equipment management and safe operating procedures.
- Handles employee industrial relations and maintains discipline in the workshop in conjunction with the line manager.
- Implements employee establishment in the workshop.
- Implement agreed welfare programs and attend planned meetings ensuring completion of agreed actions.
- Responsible for the workshop team and ensures that agreed work plan targets and standards are implemented.
- Provide input and participate in the modular training of factory employees.
Safety, Health, Environment, RA
- Authorizes issues and closes permits to work certificates in line with company policies for tasks related to the workshop.
- Implements standard operating procedures and specific work instructions and proposes reviews.
- Prepares all the fleets and service equipment to meet all the safety and environmental requirements.
- Implement service equipment guarding to meet business standards.
- Coordinate implementation of safe operating procedures and specific work instructions and ensure compliance and collate proposals for reviews for the service equipment and fleet.
- Maintains the workshop personnel reward/disciplinary and safety data in liaison with the factory manager.
- Implement safe travel guidelines and policies in the factory and the adjacent units.
How to Apply:
If you believe you can cleanly state your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role above, please submit your CV using this link below
https://qsourcingservtec.applytojob.com/apply/PU6ZGFSKTD/QSSRMMMAINTENANCE-MANAGER
Note: DeadlineThe deadline locations is not later than 5:00 pm, May 28th, 2023
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Q-SOURCING SERVTEC IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ANY SOLICITATION WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION
