Maintenance Specialist, Durban

Minimum Job Requirements

National Senior Certificate, essential.

Trade tested Millwright / Fitter / Electrician, essential.

Minimum 5 years’ experience, referable from the Automotive industry.

Must have supervisory experience.

PLC and project management experience, essential.

Key Performance Areas 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.

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