Maintenance Team Lead

JOB PURPOSE

Manage plant-wide maintenance and capital investment programmes, maximizing asset reliability, uptime, and cost effectiveness with available resources.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Provides long-range planning for the plant and equipment needs including capital and major repairs.
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• Develops implements and oversees predictive, preventative and corrective maintenance programmes.
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• Uses other maintenance disciplines in the development and application of reliability engineering, root-cause analysis and fault-diagnosis of equipment and processes.
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• Coaches and develops all maintenance technicians, creating individual training and development plans
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• Continually reviews the effectiveness of the service, ensuring that cost controls are maintained and internal customer expectations are managed
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• Ensure support & cover for the site is maintained through the maintenance team.
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• Manage and control all site maintenance and engineering activities.
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• Drive and support process improvement activities in the pursuit of excellence.
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• Work with the Site Leadership Team to ensure that the level of service meets the business needs, developing long-term plans as required
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• Ensure that all plant and equipment is regularly inspected in order to meet current Health, Safety and Environmental standards, insurance requirements and legislative compliance
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• Develop a high-performance maintenance team, where individuals take responsibility for:
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• o Following safe-working practices
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• o Improving the performance of their designated machines
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• o Managing one or more functions of the maintenance department
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• o Maintaining good working relationships with machine operators
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• o Accurate reporting of interventions and other activities
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• - Recruit and manage individual performance through formal performance review and one-to-one coaching
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• - Support each member of the team in his/her ongoing personal development
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• o Multi-skills
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• o Machine-specific technical know-how
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• o Problem-solving skills
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• - Develop and implement a cost-effective maintenance programme comprising:
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• o Planned, preventive maintenance
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• o Predictive and condition-based maintenance
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• o Targeted refurbishment programmes
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• o Prioritised work-to lists and opportunistic maintenance
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• Create an environment of Continuous Improvement where machine downtime and machine-related quality defects reduce with time, embracing the appropriate improvement tools eg.
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• Pareto analysis
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• FMEA and RCFA
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• CMMS
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• Develop and manage a cost-effective spare-parts holding
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• Support the TPM programme, in particular giving support where needed
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• Report machine and departmental performance through agreed KPIs
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• Manage projects and ensure that all machine modifications are controlled
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• Meet current legislative requirements and best installation practices
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• Risk assessed for human, product and equipment impacts
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• Relevant documentation is updated, spare-parts holding modified, training provided
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• Control expenditure within agreed budgets and provide ongoing, accurate forecast
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• Manage site contractors to ensure that safe working practices are applied and that work is completed within the agreed timescales and cost.
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PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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• Achieve departmental KPI’s
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• Constantly strive to reduce downtime to agreed levels
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• Meet and maintain customer requirements in terms of quality and output
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• Compliance with all company’s quality standards
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• Adherence to the company’s health safety & environment standards (HASAWA Act)
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• Maintain a good overall condition of work area through routine maintenance
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• Accurate & efficient control of components including filing and good housekeeping practices
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• Cost Saving
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• Department housekeeping improvement – 5s continuous
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• Training attendance
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GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

MANAGEMENT

Maintenance Department

SUPERVISORY

Manager

BUDGETARY

Maintenance dept

HEALTH & SAFETY

Managerial

CUSTOMERS

Internal & External

3RD PARTIES

Auditors as required

SKILLS/QUALS

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• Graduate or HND in an Engineering discipline
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• Have management/supervisory experience in a maintenance or engineering function
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• Proven experience in project management
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• Track record of improving processes and goal achievement
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• Demonstrates strong communication skills and team leadership ability
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• Has high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills
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• Experience of modern maintenance practices including Reliability Centred Maintenance, use of CMMS, spare parts management, modification and documentation control
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• Able to demonstrate effective maintenance resource planning and scheduling
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• A good understanding of, Continuous Improvement /Six-sigma/Lean Manufacturing ideals and systems is desirable
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• Health and Safety qualification or experience
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INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

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• Sense of urgency
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• Energy and drive
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• High standards, compliance mentality
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• Analytical thinking
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• People development
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• Results focussed
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• Positive attitude and commitment
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• Ability to apply good practice and common sense in a people management environment
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• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
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• Ability to influence others and generate new ideas
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• Effective problem-solving and decision making
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• Forward thinking, innovative and able to see the ‘bigger picture’
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