Plant Technical Manager
With over forty years of experience in food production, DewFresh Products Limited has a long-standing reputation as a quality producer of meat products with its esteemed retail and catering clientele. In view of the recent growth in business activity, the company is seeking to engage a full-time Plant Technical Manager.
Reporting directly to the Director of Operations, key duties and responsibilities include:
- Manage the correct operational execution of preventive, predictive, corrective and compliance maintenance of the Company.
- Supervision of various installations and commissioning of plant machinery.
- Ensure that the necessary troubleshooting of ad-hoc malfunctions is done in a systemized fashion and in a timely manner.
- Manage the execution of risk and root cause assessments following incidents, inspections or other observations.
- Leading and managing the Maintenance team with the right coordination and delegation of all tasks mostly pertaining to first-level support and preventive maintenance.
- Devise and implement a Maintenance Reporting system where all internal customers’ requests are logged.
- Full monitoring of the Building Management system.
- Develop a systemized yearly preventive maintenance plan and ensure that is being executed.
- Develop SOPs and Work Instructions whilst ensuring that they are all adhered by the Maintenance team.
- Full responsibility of the health and safety function, ensuring proper action on safety issues and promoting safety culture throughout the company.
- Drive and support the necessary operational communication to ensure efficient operations and the relevant feedback to stakeholders
- Manage technical escalations, and deviations where necessary and in agreement with the relevant HODs and the agreed recovery processes.
- Ensure optimum utilization of available resources in various maintenance works.
- Explore and recommend innovative methods, based on best practices, in order to bring about cost-effective solutions.
The ideal candidate must ideally possess:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferably with a warrant.
- At least 5 years of relevant leadership experience in a similar environment in particular within the FMCG sector and in industrial refrigeration.
- Excellent decision-making skills in fast-changing and complex environments, and capable of dealing with uncertainties.
- Be proactive in detecting any predictable irregular circumstances and able to rectify accordingly with well-placed contingency plans.
- Strongly results-orientated with a corresponding sense of responsibility; directs work and ensures accountability.
- Be computer literate and fluent in both written and verbal English.
Shortlisted candidates might be asked for favourable reference letters by the selection board.