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Join Lactalis at our plant in Eastern Cape Port Elizabeth Plant and take on the challenge of managing our Technical department. Successful candidates need to have at least 5 years' relevant experience within maintenance environment, must be able to demonstrate knowledge in PLC, SCADA, supplier and strong people management experience, be fluent in English and be computer literate
Duties & Responsibilities
- Day to day job planning and scheduling
- Managed and controlled budgets of the department
- Support and actively drive overall cost of manufacturing reduction
- Help build strong sustainable, preventative and breakdown maintenance competence.
- Responsible for all maintenance of machines to ISO and HACCP standards
- Update all logbooks and keep records on all plant equipment
- Schedule planning of the Plant equipment and update according to the Pragma system
- Uphold safety procedures
- Maintain section targets and improve targets of Plant KPA
- Control of spares availability, budget etc
- Responsible for Project installation work
- Responsible for all Technical Documentation and drawings of the plant
- Manage and control time and attendance of staff reporting to you
- Manage the development of high-performance teams in utilities, processing, and packaging areas.
- Support plant SHER drive
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Required Skills
- Mechanical/electrical or industrial Engineering degree or N6/T4
- At least 5 years of post-graduate or post-qualification job experience in a maintenance environment
- At least 5 years of experience in a maintenance management environment
- At least 3 years of experience in an FMCG environment
- Experience in PLC & SCADA will be advantageous
- Good planning and organising skills is essential
- Good communication skills
- Willing to work long hours, weekends, and public holidays
- Valid code EB driver’s license
- Computer literate with sound knowledge of MS Office and Control Instruments
- Sound knowledge of Coal / HFO boilers, Air compressors, NH3 refrigeration, dairy processing and filling & packaging machinery.
- Water treatment experience.
- Reverse osmosis water treatment plants
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