The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring the safe, compliant, efficient and sustainable assets condition to allow production and business supply.

Key Accountabilities (not limited to):
• Plans, prioritises, schedules, and manages all maintenance activities, planned maintenance programmes, shut-downs, or emergency repairs to rectify break-downs and malfunctions and minimise business disruptions.
• Manages all technical maintenance and repair work to be performed by the employees of the maintenance department, plans the work, providing assignments and tasks, and arranging the activities.
• Troubleshoots any mechanical, electrical and technical control of production equipment, utility equipment, and refrigerating systems and in offices and warehouses,
• Prepares preventive maintenance schedules and carries out inspections in the context of preventive and corrective maintenance/overhaul, so that the technical underperforming conditions are timely identified and corrective actions can be taken
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new equipment, tools and processes in maintenance and production in order to enhance the capabilities of production and/or maintenance.
• Roll out best practices of Maintenance (TPM, AM, PM, …)
• Ensures compliance with all operating, safety, quality, risk and health regulations.

Required Academic Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
• Advanced Technical qualification, Minimum – Diploma – Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years experience working in Engineering role within manufacturing organisation
• Experience of managing a small team
• Demonstrable problem solving skills
• Thorough knowledge of regulations concerning all relevant regulations
• Solution oriented and pragmatic
• Ability to communicate at all levels

Preferable
• Lean/Operational Excellence experience