Maintenance Specialist

We Need:

• National Senior Certificate, essential.
• Trade Tested Toolmaker or Millwright, essential.
• Completed 4 year apprenticeship, essential.
• Must have Automotive/Heavy Engineering experience.
• Minimum 7 years post Apprenticeship years’ experience, preferable from the Automotive industry.
• Must have supervisory experience.
• PLC and project management experience, essential.

Report to the Technical Manager:

• Maintenance Management:
• Determine resources (labour and materials).
• Analyse and interpret Planned Maintenance and Breakdown reports.
• Diagnose plant and equipment problems (fault-finding).
• Maintain register of all electrical hardware on site and backups of all installed software.
• Maintenance Planning:
• Compile and supervise the Preventive Maintenance Programme.
• Maintain and update the Preventive Maintenance tasks lists and Critical Spares and Spares lists.
• Maintenance Process:
• Scheduled:
• Receive Maintenance Schedules, interpret instructions and plan maintenance and repair work.
• Approve Stores requisition for spares and consumables.
• Breakdown:
• Supervise the carrying out of breakdown repairs.
• Inform/advise Management of any breakdowns.
• Engineering Projects:
• Project Initiation:
• Contribute to project initiation, scope definition and scope change control.
• Participate in the estimation and preparation of cost budget for a project or sub project and monitor and control actual cost against budget.
• Project Planning:
• Schedule project activities to facilitate effective project execution.
• Monitor, evaluate and communicate project schedules.
• Project Management:
• Manage implementation of Engineering Projects.
• Contribute to the management of project risk.
• Supervise a Project team of a technical project to deliver project objectives.
• Provide assistance in implementing and assuring project work meets quality requirements.
• Project Administration:
• Implement project administration processes.
• Plan, organise and support project meetings and workshops.
• Fulfil procurement activities and supervise procurement administration.
• Provide procurement administration support to a project.
• Conduct project documentation management to support project processes.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Keep up to date with latest developments/technologies in Maintenance.
• Identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement interventions.
• Reporting:
• Analyse Maintenance reports and identify opportunities for improvements.
• Staff Supervision:
• Conduct outcomes-based assessments.
• Obtain approval for and recruit & select employees.