Are you a senior engineering professional with strong experience in plant engineering, maintenance and reliability within a manufacturing or industrial environment?

Our client is looking for a General Manager: Plant Engineering & Facilities to lead the reliability, maintenance, facilities and engineering compliance functions within a manufacturing environment.

This is a senior operational leadership role suited to a practical engineering leader who can build effective systems, develop technical teams and ensure that plant, equipment, infrastructure and utilities support safe, stable and reliable production.

Key Responsibilities

• Asset Reliability

• Facilities, Utilities & Infrastructure

• Engineering Compliance

• Engineering Capability

Requirements

Qualifications

• Grade 12.

• NQF 7 in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent recognised engineering qualification.

• BSc/BEng in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.

• GCC Factories.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years' engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.

• Minimum 5 years' experience leading maintenance, reliability, plant engineering or asset management teams.

• Proven experience implementing and improving preventative, predictive and planned maintenance systems.

• Experience leading artisans, technicians, contractors and technical teams.

• Strong experience in engineering compliance, machinery safety, risk controls and statutory inspections.

• Experience with maintenance budgets, critical spares, shutdown planning and contractor management.

• Exposure to presses, automated lines, welding systems, conveyors, robotics, utilities and high-uptime production environments.

Technical Expertise

The successful candidate should have strong knowledge of:

• Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)

• Preventative & predictive maintenance

• Root Cause Failure Analysis

• Maintenance planning and scheduling

• Shutdown planning and execution

• Critical spares management

• Asset lifecycle management

• Engineering compliance and machinery safety

• Contractor management

• Maintenance budget control

If you are an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about reliability, continuous improvement and building high-performing technical teams, we would like to hear from you.

Should you not receive a response within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.