Description:
Job Purpose: -To lead and manage the maintenance function within the food production plant by effectively coordinating resources, ensuring the reliability and availability of equipment, and driving continuous improvement through preventative maintenance, compliance, and safety practices. The Maintenance Foreman is responsible for overseeing maintenance activities, optimising team performance, managing budgets and reporting, ensuring effective use of maintenance systems (DMS, Syspro), and supporting CAPEX projects to enhance operational efficiency and productivity.
Key Responsibilities: -
Management and coordination of resources, including materials, tools, and manpower, to optimize operations Ensure proper storage and inventory management of all spare parts and components Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities, repairs, inspections, and equipment modifications Generate reports on maintenance performance, safety incidents and project status Conduct inspections and functional tests on maintenance systems to verify compliance with quality standards and operational requirements Review work to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to establish procedures Oversee the execution of routine preventative maintenance tasks on all equipment and systems to ensure reliability and solutions Liaise with other departments and management to ensure seamless execution of tasks and address electrical issues Communicate effectively with team members, providing clear instructions and facilitating open communication Manage the departmental performance objectives through identifying training needs within the team and provide training, coaching, and mentoring to enhance technical skills and knowledge Measure efficiency of the team members/ reportees on an on-going basis to ensure that targets and objectives are met Ensure strict adherence to safety protocols, regulations, and best practices in electrical operations Ensure the following: machine availability and reliability as per set standard; condition monitoring of all machines and the completion of all related documentation is done, capturing all maintenance documents and maintain records; compliance and effectiveness of the planned maintenance system, etc Develop and control profits, plans and budget. Reporting weekly and monthly on equipment efficiencies and adherence to maintain budget and maintenance plan Coordinate plant activities through planning with departmental managers to ensure that total manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner Manage and coordinate all required tasks to ensure our asset management (DMS) and financial management systems (Syspro) relating to but not limited to the maintenance department is executed and adhered to as per the comp
26 Apr 2025;
from:
gumtree.co.za