General Manager - Plant Engineering & Facilities (Automotive)

Key Responsibilities:
Asset Reliability

• Improve equipment availability and reliability.
• Reduce repeat breakdowns and chronic equipment losses.
• Improve MTBF and reduce MTTR.
• Lead root cause failure analysis and corrective actions for equipment failures.

Maintenance Management

• Develop and sustain preventative and predictive maintenance systems.
• Improve maintenance planning, scheduling and work completion discipline.
• Manage maintenance resources and maintenance priorities.
• Ensure repairs restore equipment to approved standard.

Facilities, Utilities and Infrastructure

• Buildings, utilities, compressed air, electrical reticulation, water systems, plant services and related infrastructure.
• Ensure facilities and utilities do not interrupt or limit production.
• Maintain an infrastructure risk register and improvement plan. Ensure repairs restore equipment to approved standard.

Engineering Compliance

• Act as the GMR 2.1 (meeting the legal competency and appointment requirements).
• Ensure statutory inspections and machinery-related compliance are controlled.
• Maintain safe systems of work for engineering and maintenance activities.
• Ensure engineering risks are visible and managed.

Engineering Capability

• Develop the maintenance teams technical and leadership capability.
• Establish maintenance standards, work quality expectations and knowledge retention systems.
• Manage contractors and specialist service providers effectively.

Internal matrix customers:

• All Company Members including Management.

External Customers:

• Contractors and service providers
• Equipment and technology vendors
• Regulatory Authorities
• Local Government and Municipalities
• Utility Providers

Internal Customers:

• Production
• Executive Leadership Team
• Support Structures

Job Requirements
Technical skills and specialist knowledge:

• Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
• Preventative and predictive maintenance
• Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Maintenance planning and scheduling
• Shutdown planning and execution
• Critical spares management
• Asset lifecycle management
• Engineering compliance and machinery safety
• Contractor management
• Maintenance budget control

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Minimum 5 years experience leading maintenance, reliability, plant engineering or asset management teams.
• Proven experience implementing or improving preventative maintenance, predictive maintenance, planned maintenance and breakdown response systems.
• Experience leading artisans, technicians, contractors and technical teams.
• Experience with legal compliance, machinery safety, engineering risk controls and statutory inspection discipline.
• Experience with maintenance budgeting, critical spares, shutdown planning and contractor management
• Experience with presses, automated lines, welding systems, conveyors, robotics, utilities and high-uptime production environments.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 (Critical)
• NQF 7 in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent recognised engineering qualification
• BSc/ Beng Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

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