General Manager - Plant Engineering and Facilities
Are you a senior engineering professional with strong experience in plant engineering, maintenance and reliability within a manufacturing or industrial environment?
Our client is looking for a General Manager: Plant Engineering & Facilities to lead the reliability, maintenance, facilities and engineering compliance functions within a manufacturing environment.
This is a senior operational leadership role suited to a practical engineering leader who can build effective systems, develop technical teams and ensure that plant, equipment, infrastructure and utilities support safe, stable and reliable production.
Key Responsibilities
Asset Reliability
Facilities, Utilities & Infrastructure
Engineering Compliance
Engineering Capability
Requirements
Qualifications
Grade 12.
NQF 7 in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent recognised engineering qualification.
BSc/BEng in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
GCC Factories.
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 and improving preventative, predictive and planned maintenance systems.
Experience leading artisans, technicians, contractors and technical teams.
Strong experience in engineering compliance, machinery safety, risk controls and statutory inspections.
Experience with maintenance budgets, critical spares, shutdown planning and contractor management.
Exposure to presses, automated lines, welding systems, conveyors, robotics, utilities and high-uptime production environments.
Technical Expertise
The successful candidate should have strong knowledge of:
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)
Preventative & 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
If you are an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about reliability, continuous improvement and building high-performing technical teams, we would like to hear from you.
Should you not receive a response within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.