Engineering Manager
Edge Executives Alberton
Engineering Manager
Location: South AfricaType: Permanent | Engineering & Facilities Management
Optimise. Lead. Deliver excellence.
This is a senior operations role for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead customised solutions, continuous improvement, and maintenance strategies within a complex environment. If you excel at optimisation, planning, and inspiring teams — this is your chance to drive efficiency and innovation.
About the Role
You’ll support operations at a strategic and daily level — overseeing planning, monitoring, plant optimisation, risk management, compliance, and disaster recovery. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team, manage contractors, and develop robust maintenance frameworks that meet SLA requirements and deliver measurable value.
What You’ll Do- Plan and monitor operations, maintenance, and long-range capital replacements
- Drive continuous plant optimisation and energy management
- Manage compliance, disaster recovery, and risk assessments
- Develop improvement proposals for services, systems, and processes
- Oversee material and spare part management to ensure efficiency
- Conduct quality management audits and ensure service transparency
- Manage subcontractors, statutory requirements, and site procedures
- Lead and mentor teams, identify development needs, and build talent pipelines
- Perform root cause analyses and implement performance improvements
- BTech or BSc Engineering (Electrical/Mechanical) with sound commercial knowledge
- Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) highly desirable
- Minimum 5 years’ experience with similar systems in a production environment
- Proven staff leadership and performance management skills
- Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies, risk management, and SLA optimisation
- High resilience, initiative, and results orientation
- Good understanding of ISO 9001, OHSA, and environmental legislation
- High-performing plant operations and optimised equipment lifespan
- Effective cost reduction and efficiency gains through innovation
- Strong, compliant maintenance frameworks aligned to industry standards
- A motivated, skilled team delivering continuous improvement
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