Methods Manager at Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc

Job Description   
The Methods Department is looking for an enthusiastic and structured individual to join the Maintenance Team. We are particularly interested in people with experience at a senior level that can organize and manage the department’s human, financial and material resources to optimize the quality of its services and its technical and economic performance, ensure optimum equipment availability and performance in the short, medium and long term at minimum cost, implement and develop the Lafarge maintenance functions and mindset and also contribute to the overall performance improvement of the plant, ensuring coordination and cooperation between departments.

Duties & Responsibilities   
• To contribute to the development of the true safety and environmental culture through clear and technical related expertise
• Promote the maintenance management system, ensuring application of maintenance procedures, methods and best practices
• Ensure planning and scheduling of maintenance operations, looking for the optimum use of resources, equipment availability and maintenance cost
• Through the reliability Committee, drive cross functional analysis of incidents and maintenance performance, implementing the action plans to improve both reliability and maintenance practices
• Assist the maintenance management to prepare the maintenance budget and perform monthly gap analysis (actual vs. budget)
• Ensure good working conditions and safety for maintenance operations
• With the assistance of the head of mechanical/electrical departments, schedule and prepare weekly mechanical and electrical maintenance programmes
• With the assistance of the maintenance Manager schedule and prepare major shutdowns ensuring co-ordination with other departments
• Look for the best optimization of maintenance operations according to availability of equipment and workforce
• Maintain and update the preventive maintenance program and its master plan (especially inspection and lubrication programs), ensuring quality and relevance as well as its implementation
• Ensure the utilization of feedback from inspection as the driver for maintenance operations
• Collect and handle all the work requests and check for accuracy of technical information
• Manage maintenance work order backlog
• Ensure quality of technical specifications for spares and sub-contracted work
• Keep library updated and ensure equipment documentation is permanently updated “as built”
• Assist the Maintenance Manager with the preparation of the budget (on-going and major operations) ensuring technical justification for maintenance major operations
• Perform monthly gap analysis of maintenance budget and performance indicators
• Analyse and propose solutions on recurring problems of equipment reliability or problems concerning safety and work conditions, within the framework of the Reliability Committee
• Ensure that the maintenance practices comply with Quality Insurance Standards
• Contribute to the development of working methods and definition of procedures and ensure their implementation
• Participate in investment plans
• Manage his team, define the missions and objectives, carry out their performance reviews, promote the quality of the work, motivate his personnel, and facilitate communication and relationships (regular departmental meetings, reports to the hierarchy)
Ensure the permanent update of the personal skills, develop and implement a training plan for his team

Essential & Desirable Skills   
• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
• MBA or Masters level qualification will be an advantage
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in cement making industries
• Strong technical knowledge of cement manufacturing equipment
• Technical knowledge of preventive, predictive and systematic maintenance (databases, Maximo, JDE)
• Local Safety rules and regulations
• Knowledge of quality management methods (ISO 9001:2000)
• Knowledge of cement process is desirable
• Knowledge of best practices on Inspection, Planning and Lubrication
• Good aptitude for organization and communication
• Initiative and innovative
• Analytical capacity
• Leadership in managing projects
• Result driven (reliability, cost)
• Accuracy and precision
• People management skills