Maintenance Manager | Secunda | Permanent

Own the reliability of a busy hospitality complex where downtime isn’t an option. Lead a multi-skilled team that keeps critical services running safely, efficiently, and predictably.

This role leads the Maintenance function, balancing reactive response with disciplined planned preventative maintenance across operational equipment and facilities infrastructure. You will build and drive planned schedules, oversee execution, and ensure work is completed on time and to standard. You’ll also partner closely with operations to improve asset life, control cost, and maintain a high-quality guest experience.

Our client is a well-established, high-footfall entertainment and accommodation destination with complex building services and a strong focus on safety, compliance, and service standards.

What You’ll Do

• Lead day-to-day maintenance delivery across the complex, including water, drainage, electricity, gas, and air conditioning

• Drive planned preventative maintenance and ensure schedules are created, communicated, and adhered to

• Manage HVAC and refrigeration maintenance, breakdown response, and general repairs

• Coordinate and monitor contractor work on site, ensuring quality, compliance, and correct documentation

• Conduct inspections of buildings and grounds to ensure compliance with building regulations and occupational health and safety requirements

• Supervise, direct, and develop maintenance staff, including rosters and standby cover

• Deliver energy-saving initiatives and support continuous improvement and profit/cost improvement plans

• Manage departmental budgeting, analyse monthly financials, and implement cost-saving initiatives without compromising standards

• Ensure the facility management system is controlled and used effectively, with regular reporting

• Participate in operations development meetings and resolve guest-related queries/complaints efficiently

What You Bring

• Matric, plus a technical qualification or apprenticeship (relevant manufacturing/engineering degree advantageous)

• Minimum 5 years’ artisan experience and 5 years’ management/supervisory experience

• Strong planning, scheduling, and organisational capability across multi-trade environments

• Sound financial acumen with confidence in budget control and monthly cost analysis

• Working knowledge of contractor management, compliance inspections, and OHS requirements

• Clear communication, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead through urgency and change

• Experience in a casino/hotel environment is advantageous

• Employment equity will be considered in line with South African legislation

What Success Looks Like

• Planned maintenance is embedded, schedules are met, and repeat breakdowns reduce over time

• Critical services (reticulation, HVAC, refrigeration) remain stable with measurable uptime improvements

• Contractors deliver to standard, with compliant paperwork and proactive performance management

• Budgets are controlled, waste is reduced, and energy-saving initiatives show tangible results

• The team is visible, responsive, well-rostered, and steadily developing capability and accountability

• Guests experience minimal disruption, with issues resolved quickly and professionally