Plant Engineer - East London-Eastern Cape
An automotive manufacturing company in East London is looking for a plant engineer with 6 - 10 years plant engineering experience. To ensure maximum uptime of plant and equipment and services with effective costing and compliance. Preferably GMR (2) appointments with Government Certificate of Competency (Factories) - Electrical, with all safety regulations of BVR plants.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Coordinate the activities of all manufacturing services and maintenance at BVR facility.
- Ensure the achievement of the overall objectives of manufacturing services and maintenance of BVR facilities.
- Project management including but not limited to the commissioning of new equipment.
- Preparation and management of annual budgets.
- Implementation and management of a structured planned maintenance system.
- Management of contractors.
- Formulate and manage a five (5) year rolling capital and maintenance plan in line with the manufacturing strategy.
- Ensure breakdown presence on the floor to understand the root cause of the downtimes and implement corrective actions as necessary.
- All GMR (2) responsibilities including root cause analyses and investigation of incidents.
- Ensure compliance with the relevant legislation including environmental and local by-laws.
- Compliance with the Health & Safety including OSH Act and statutory requirements.
- Participate in the implementation of the energy management system according to ISO 50001.
- Participation in the definition of new energy-related corporate goals and the program of actions.
- Co-ordination of the local energy projects.
- Implementation of cost down projects.
- Evaluation of staff key performance areas (KPIs).
- Responsible for Security Services.
Minimum Requirements
- 6 - 10 years plant engineering related experience.
- Degree/Diploma in Electrical Engineering.
- Government Certificate of Competency (Factories) – Electrical.
- Project management skills. Advantageous: JDE.
- Previous GMR (2) Appointment and Responsibility.
- Advantageous: Project management qualification and Certified Energy Manager certification.
- Sound knowledge of MS office applications (Excel, Word, Power-point and Projects).
