- South Africa
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Manufacturing
- Reference: 50513
Vacancy Details
Employer: SAPPI
* Participatig in developing and executing the mill's Maintenance and Improvement strategy, ensuring equipment is available, reliable and efficient.
* Completing effective shut planning and execution including coordination of multidisciplinary annual maintenance shuts.
* Managing and maintaining all engineering installations in the area of responsibility assigned to you.
* Developing and maintaining relevant mill documents and standards, specifications and procedures that ensure compliance with maintenance best practices and engineering standards and specifications.
* Planning and implementing predictive and planned maintenance techniques.
* Identifying, motivating and justifying capital expenditure projects for new plant or machinery upgrades.
* Overseeing the development of equipment and process specifications and approve changes in the design of the plant.
* Accountable for the commissioning of new and decommissioning of old equipment.
* Accountable for contract management including contract negotiations for major engineering contracts in addition to determining when engineering services should be outsourced.
* Ensuring a safe and healthy work environment through complaince to legal regulations and mill procedures.
* Direct maintenance, engineering and project team members in terms of performance management, talent management, goal alignment, career development and learning in areas of responsibility
* Compiling and implementing annual maintenance and fixed costs budgets and participate in long-term financial business plans in order to execute the maintenance and improvement strategy. What are we looking for?
* NQF level 8 qualification (4-year Engineering Bachelors degree / Related equivalent) coupled with a relevant management qualification at NQF level 6
* Government Certificate of Competence (Factories)
* Registration as a professional engineer would be considered advantageous
* 8 – 10 years of relevant experience in a heavy industry environment with proven people management experience
* Experience in the Pulp and Paper Industry experience would be advantageous What’s in it for you?
* Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
* Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
* Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
* Market leading leave benefits.
* Employee wellbeing benefits. If you are resilient and energetic and looking for a new challenge at competitive market rates, click on apply now to put your name in the talent pool. TALENT POOL: This means that your application will go into a talent pool to be considered for future vacancies that become available.
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About SAPPI
Sappi was formed in South Africa in 1936 to serve South African consumers with locally produced paper.
We have a tradition of innovating and developing new products to meet local demand for newsprint, uncoated graphic and business papers, packaging and speciality papers used and protect our customers’ products especially in the agricultural sector and speciality papers used in the convenience food, confectionery, cosmetic and luxury markets, and tissue products for household, medical and industrial use in the Southern Africa region.
We are also the world's largest manufacturer of dissolving wood pulp (DWP), which are used worldwide by converters to create viscose fibre for fashionable clothing and textiles, acetate tow, pharmaceutical products as well as a wide range of consumer and household products. Almost all of the production of our mills in South Africa is exported.
Our headquarters in Johannesburg (South Africa), manages the sub-divisions of Sappi Forests, Sappi Paper and Paper Packaging, and Sappi Specialised Cellulose. A number of regional functions like finance, human resources, sales and marketing, technical and engineering as well as board functions are also based there.
We are looking for people with the right attributes
Whether you’re mild or wild at heart, you could have what it takes to work in forestry.
We’re looking for people who...
Are hardworking, passionate, and professional;
Share our ambitions to be the benchmark in forestry;
Will take well-considered risks to grow the value of our business and returns for our shareholders; and Own their work and have pride in it.
Like a blank sheet of paper, a career at Sappi offers infinite possibilities. There has never been a better time to build a career at Sappi.
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