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.

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