Maintenance Manager

POSITION DETAILS:

Position Title:

Maintenance Manager - AVON

Reports to:

Plant Managers

Department:

Maintenance

Closing Date

28 March 2025

1.  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Day to day efficient planning and management of all plant maintenance activities through a team of site based staff according to good utility practice, dispatch instructions, the company rules and procedures, OEM guidelines, legal, environmental, contractual and other requirements;
• Lead a team of maintenance engineers and technicians. Exercise complete administrative control of maintenance team. Set individual and departmental objective,
• Oversee planning process for daily activities and coordinate with operations department,
• Develop short and long term maintenance strategy for the plant.
• Develop and implement preventative and corrective maintenance program;
• Drive use of Maximo asset management system for Preventative and corrective maintenance program;
• Ensure the maintenance department staff is selected, mobilized and maintained as required;
• Liaise with and provide support to local site based LTMC resident engineer(s) for day to day activities. Follow up on the activities long term maintenance contracts.
• Promote safety culture, ensuring that all activities are carried out safely with proper hazard analysis and risk mitigation procedures in place.
• Ensure that the plant meets safety, availability, reliability, efficiency, generation and budget target;
• Ensures reporting as per contractual and business requirement;
• Responsible for the maintenance QA/QC and local root cause analysis program;
• Comply and input to the safe systems of work through a computerised management program;
• Establish, implement and monitor the adherence to maintenance procedures and routines;
• Develop, achieve and report maintenance KPI’s and objectives;
• Efficient management of resources, supplies and consumables while controlling the risks to the business;
• Key role in management of the plant maintenance contracts,
• Prepare, control, analyse and report on the yearly and long term budget and business plan for the maintenance dept. to the various stakeholders through reporting KPI’s;
• Ensure reporting to all stakeholders as required;
• Coordinate maintenance activities with Administration, Operation, Finance, and SHEQ
• Establish and facilitate training programs for maintenance team development and competence within the maintenance department;
• Ensure skills transfer and the development of capable staff within the maintenance department
• Execute scheduled outages through effective resource allocation.
• Organize performance evaluation and succession planning for key staff in the maintenance department;
• Adhere and participate in establishing, implementing and executing Quality, Health, Safety and Environment policies and standards;
• Maintain high standards of management, ethics and leadership;
• Continuously improve systems and procedures
• Ensure compliance to change management procedure.
• Suggest plant upgrade and modification proposals.
• Produce, evaluate, analyze and transmit to relevant functions pertinent reports, relating to cost, progress on maintenance activities on the plant.

2.  QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Essential Qualifications:

• An accredited Mechanical/Electrical/I&C Engineering degree
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) preferable, or must be willing to obtain once in the role.  
• Demonstrated competence at engineering level supported by relevant education and training

Experience:

• At least 10 year experience in the maintenance of a large power plant
• Knowledge and experience of Gas Turbine maintenance schedule, v94.2 units preferred.
• Leading and managing people
• Use of safe systems of work
• Use of computerized management system
• Engineering concepts and principles
• Interaction with Purchasing, Finance and Accounting, Maintenance, Administration
• Budget control and reporting

Skills:

Behavioral:

• Ability to transfer skills and mentor staff
• Drive to achieve results through himself and others
• Ability to build and work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary staff
• Ability to work together with the other departments in order to achieve the best result for the company
• Take ownership
• Maintains high ethics standard
• Motivation and leadership of team and individual team members
• Respects the others as well as the cultural diversity
• Seek, organize and exchange information for decision making  and problem solving
• Ability to create a climate of open communication on personal and professional issues
• Ability to work autonomously, prioritizing tasks and activities in line with business objectives
• Quality and environmental awareness and managing according to quality standards and procedures
• Innovation, vision, creativity, taking initiative, problem solving and decision making
• A pro-active approach to planning and decision making
• Ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders

Language:

• English Language: excellent communication skills both written and verbal;
• Any other African language is an advantage

IT:

• Computer literate: must have a high degree of skill in Business Computing Applications such as Databases, Word Processors, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint and Enterprise Resource Planning applications (Maximo/SAP or equivalent);