Site Engineer

SUMMARY:
Join a well-known FMCG Manufacturing group in their Pretoria Plant as a Maintenance Engineer (Gauteng).

POSITION INFO:
The Engineer will be responsible for directing the smooth operation of the plant. Plan and coordinate activities concerned with the design, construction, modification, and maintenance of equipment and machinery.

Responsibilities:

• Drive compliance by ensuring that equipment and machinery comply with the relevant legislation and that plant personnel fulfil their safety obligations.
• Risk assessments: In order to provide a safe and healthy work environment. This includes fulfilling GMR2.1 duties as stipulated in the OHS Act.
• Control and manage the maintenance budgets.
• Implement, improve and execute the maintenance strategy, objectives and tactics in respect of the available resources to ensure optimum performance and the reliability of the plants.
• Drive effective maintenance through root-cause failure analyses on critical equipment and/or system failures and recommend corrective measures to prevent recurrences.
• Responsible for the accuracy of equipment database, bills of material and the asset register to ensure good data integrity and availability of equipment and/or spares.
• Manage the engineering discipline & interaction with the Operations Department to optimize processes and improve systems with the purpose of optimizing efficiencies.

• Matric and a completed National Diploma/BTech/BSc in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering
• Trade Test would be advantageous
• 5+ years’ experience as Plant Engineer/ Engineering Manager in FMCG
• Proven track record of leading a site as Plant Engineer
• Computer literacy (MS Office - Advanced)
• Working knowledge of ERP systems
• Project management skills