Assistant Maintenance Manager - Plastics at Vuzela Consulting

Activity: Injection Moulding
Reporting Line: Maintenance Manager, Operations Manager.
Interaction: Production Dept., Machine Operators, Maintenance Dept.

Job Summary

• Assist the Maintenance manager in the maintenance of production machines, buildings and accessories, plant’s Electrical, Mechanical, Hydraulic, and Facility Maintenance activities to ensure a safe and profitable facility.
• Coordinate and assist day to day activities within the Maintenance department including breakdowns, preventive and predictive maintenance and projects.

Job Description

• Minimize downtime through analysis, corrective action, training, team building, and process improvements. Develop and enforce plant and departmental policies and procedures. Assist in managing capital expenditure projects.
• All activities must be carried out in line with best global manufacturing and accepted engineering standards
• Analyse situations accurately and adopt an effective course of action.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance programs that will help in reducing overall unplanned down time and increase overall equipment reliability
• Promote plant goals such as Safety, Quality, and Production.
• Monitor, track, and analyse production efficiencies in Manufacturing.
• Direct capital program for the facility, including costing, justifying where applicable, procurement, installation, cost control and as required
• Coordinate and assist in all new installations and machine/facility rebuilding or repair as per accepted engineering standard
• Delegate daily work assignments.
• Meet operational needs and requirements within budget.
• Plan and organize work to meet schedules and timelines in an environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Develops or revises standard operational procedures and implement agreed SOP’s in compliance with standards and procedures
• Assist with implementation of safety equipment for plant equipment and compliance of plant and equipment with safety requirements.
• Assure new equipment reviews are conducted on all new and modified equipment
• Continuously improve reliability
• Assist with engineering store controls
• Additional duties as defined by management

Person Specification
Qualification:

• Mechanical/Electrical Engineering degree or HND
• 10 – 15 years post NYSC qualification.
• Experience in Injection plastic manufacturing environment
• Result oriented and able to handle multiple projects.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Must have vast hands on experience
• knowledge of injection moulding machines including Hydraulic main and control systems, Mechanical, Electrical, and PLC
• Must possess good communications skills, both written and oral.Strong attention to detail
• Strong analytical, numerical, statistical, computer, and reasoning skills.
• Excellent MS Office experience.
• Demonstrates organizational and team building skills.
• Strong presentation skills.