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Foods and Beverages : Maintenance Manager From 2025-10 To Current
Duties
- Lead all aspects of maintenance operations, ensuring efficient, safe, and cost-effective upkeep of buildings, equipment, fleet, and infrastructure.
- Develop and execute preventive maintenance programs to reduce equipment failures and extend asset lifespan.
- Oversee corrective maintenance activities to ensure rapid repair of breakdowns with minimal impact on operations.
- Manage the maintenance budget by allocating resources strategically and ensuring adherence to financial goals.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of maintenance technicians, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Negotiate and manage relationships with contractors and vendors to secure high-quality service and competitive pricing.
- Enforce compliance with SHEQ regulations and relevant legal standards across all maintenance activities.
- Maintain up-to-date asset records, including performance data, maintenance history, and lifecycle costs, using CMMS tools.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives that enhance equipment reliability and reduce operational costs.
- Oversee maintenance-related projects, ensuring completion on time, within budget, and according to quality standards.
- Use CMMS, Microsoft Office Suite, and data analytics tools to plan, monitor, and report on maintenance performance.
- Coordinate closely with other departments to align maintenance strategies with production and operational needs.
- Apply strong organizational and planning skills to drive efficiency and long-term asset performance.
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Chemical : Maintenance Supervisor From 2021-01 To 2025-09
Duties
- Planning, control, and management of operations/maintenance activity.
- Ensure effective execution of operations/maintenance activities.
- Ensure maximum task quality and efficiency, and overall effective use of equipment.
- Manage and control costs.
- During emergency situations, evaluate the abnormalities and take corrective action as to avoid downtime, equipment damage and/or SHERQ incidents.
- Ensure own team adhere to operational/maintenance procedures and for people and plant.
- Ensure maintenance planning is scheduled optimally to maximize production output.
- Take action on first occurrence performance problems, misconduct, disciplinary and grievance cases.
- Manage performance of own team.
- Ensure sensitization to diversity in the workplace.
- Get results through empowering others to act.
- Enable artisans to achieve competence for career progression.
- Coaching and technical training of own staff.
- Accountable for practical "declaration of competence" of employees to operate the plant.
- Ensures team motivation and team wellness.
- Lives company values and ensures compliance of team to the values.
- Facilitate effective Communication up and down from management and within own and other stakeholder teams.
- Participate in selection of staff by being an active member on recruitment panels.
- Ensure standard operating procedures are applied.
- Ensure compliance to Process Safety Management. Manage certain start-up and shutdown tasks.
- Participate in potential deviation analysis (PDA), root cause analysis (RCA) and risk assessments.
- Manage execution of work permit system. Conduct Task Risk Assessments and ensure that team conducts.
- Ensure compliance to relevant Sasol procedure, policies, legislation, and business processes. Manages Behaviour based safety program.
- Ensure adherence to SHERQ legal standards and implement SHERQ processes for own area of responsibility.
- Ensure that MOC process is followed, and that modified plant/maintenance procedures are implemented by artisans.
- Ensure resources are available on site.
- Understands customer requirement and ensures product/service meets customer requirements.
- Ensure smooth transition of work from own shift to next shift.
- Effective interaction with supporting activities.
- Identifies and supports inter-dependencies with own and other departments within the value chain. Give input into how to improve overall
- Equipment Effectiveness for the plant.
- Continuously applies new ideas/work methods to improve results.
- Deals with human resistance to change in own area. Provide information/assist with projects with technical/support functions.
- Avail staff for training and development required due to the change initiative.
- Ensure implementation of organisational change initiatives within own team.
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Chemical : Mechanical Technician From 2014-11 To 2020-12
Duties
- Conduct a technical review of equipment and develop maintenance strategies.
- Independently gather information, evaluate data, and implement improvement initiatives.
- Develop suitable technical proposals based on practical and theoretical knowledge.
- Investigate and apply problem-solving techniques to understand the functional failure modes and root causes of breakdowns. Determine and implement suitable corrective actions to prevent repeat failures.
- Actively participates in discussions and failure analyses with basic suggestions for improvements.
- Do basic plant troubleshooting.
- Design, implement, and manage maintenance and renewal projects per Company's Small Project Methodology.
- Maintain reliability, integrity, and availability of mechanical equipment.
- Provides innovative solutions and suggestions and contributes to new concepts in the functional discipline.
- Applies analytical techniques (e.g., PDA, RCA, fishbone diagram, and Fault Finding).
- Preparations and involvement during the holistic audit to ensure the healthy performance of the equipment.
- Participation during the Risk-based Inspection study for mechanical equipment.
- Organize, plan, and execute a test run.
- Makes optimization recommendations.
- Do economic evaluations of small projects and capital applications.
- Applies MOC procedures.
- Take leadership in respect of major technical decisions in specific work environments.
- Demonstrate effective listening and communication skills when dealing with managers, colleagues, and service providers.
- Always demonstrate safety consciousness.
- Ensure that work, projects, and turnarounds are executed with zero harm to people, plants, or the environment.
- Apply and comply with all legal and company policies, procedures, standards, and methods
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Supplier of excellent minerals solutions, including pumps, valves, hydrocyclones, wear-resistant linings : Senior / CNC Operator, Setter and Programmer From 2013-11 To 2014-10
Duties
- Machine components to drawing specification within the required standard time
- Work with tolerance of 12 microns
- Set and operate specified machine and sign first off components
- Maintain 100% quality throughput
- Maintain 5S housekeeping and safety on machines
- Maintain a safe working environment
- CNC horizontal and vertical borer (3-5 axis) and CNC lathe
- Able to read and alter off sets on CNC program
- Able to identify inserts and troubleshoot where necessary
- Use of measuring instruments – outside and inside mics, Vernier’s, telescopic gauges, thread and blade mics, bore mics, thread gauges
- Hard part machining
- Required to alternate on a three-shift working strategy
- Adhere to all HSE and housekeeping requirements
- Always adhere to Duty of Care Policy
- Fanuc control on FEMCO setting, programming and operating
- Siemens cnc
Manufacturer of small- and medium-calibre ammunition, brass products, detonics, power cartridges and mining drill-bits : Toolmaker/Machinist From 2007-03 To 2013-10
Duties
- Assembling, fitting and repairing press tools
- Following engineering drawings to measure and mark out the design for the tool
- Using hand tools such as files, hacksaws and grinders
- Using machinery such as lathes, drill presses, milling machines and surface grinders to cut and shape the tools
- Using precision measurement instruments such as micrometres, gauges, Vernier callipers to check the tool’s dimension
- Monitoring the tools used on the manufacturing line to ensure efficient run rates and identify necessary repairs or possible improvements
- Design jigs & fixtures for use as work aids in the fabrication of parts or products
- Attending machine breakdowns to identify the root cause and solve the problem
- Assisting in tool maintenance
- Ensure compliance to all company and group policies & procedures
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Steel : Toolmaker (Qualified June 2006) From 2002-01 To 2007-02
Duties
- Set-up and operate various machining equipment such as manual and CNC lathes, milling, surface grinders, spark eroding, jet sparking etc., in order to machine components to precise customer specifications.
- Attend on-site apprenticeship classes in addition to on-the-job learning while performing responsibilities on the shop floor, including die maintenance and die assembly responsibilities.
- Repairing, and troubleshooting press tools and plastic injection molding tools, supporting the tool room during die sets, and collecting and analyzing data to improve part processing and quality.
- Operating toolroom equipment, hand tools, machinery in a safe manner at all times.
- Supports tryout and make ready to run production after corrections to tools and dies.
- Uses statistical process control (SPC), gauge checks, quality control to determine dimensional integrity for tooling and/or die adjustments and submit document results to appropriate personnel.
- Updates and maintains engineering and toolroom records for future references.
- Practices good housekeeping requirements throughout the facility.
- Designing of jigs & fixtures (four months) as instructed by design office manager.
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