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Maintenance Supervisor

  • Port Elizabeth
  • Salary: (Negotiable)
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: Manufacturing
  • Reference: 79089

Apply before Mar 21 2026 | 27 Days left

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Unique Personnel

Job Purpose

To control factory maintenance operations and resources to contribute to the delivery of production targets and the optimal standards of final product quality in a safe and efficient manner.  

 
Key Performance Areas

Ensures effective reactive, predictive and preventative maintenance are performed on all plant / infrastructure / equipment as required, to limit potential failure and optimise production processes.  
Coordinates first line maintenance to restrict or prevent plant / equipment downtime.
Raises job cards for all maintenance work required, ensure work permits are included (work permits for “hot work”, vessel entry and elevated work to be escalated to Manager for approval).
Drives and participates in all fault analysis on equipment failure i.e. Root Cause Analysis – 5 WHY, 8D, etc.
Approves all job cards after maintenance work is completed successfully.
Ensures that equipment and work areas are safe, maintained by Operators, and that housekeeping principles are adhered to at all times.  
Preventative maintenance conducted as per schedule.
Plant / equipment downtime prevented or minimized.
Equipment failures monitored and rectified in a timely manner.
Plant shutdowns coordinated – feedback provided and received.
Job cards issued and work permits adequately escalated to Manager for approval.
Safety and housekeeping standards complied with.
Written reports submitted to Manager

 
Compliance

Operates within controls and procedures in order to ensure the integrity of company.
Identifies and reports risks or areas of concern to management within own department and area of responsibility.
Ensures compliance with all relevant regulations and procedures to prevent fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure.
Strictly adheres to, complies with and assumes responsibility for enforcing Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, regulation toward minimizing risk, exposure, incidents or damage to the organisation and environment in any form or manner. • Compliance with applicable regulations and procedures.
Risks reported to Manager.
Availability of documentation and records.
Cost and expenditure monitored – waste minimized.
SHE practices complied with.
Incident reports.

 
Customer Service

Maintains effective working relationships with customers (both internal and external) towards rendering highest quality of services.
Represents company in meetings with relevant stakeholders.
Identifies and solves problems creatively whilst demonstrating a high level of integrity in line with company core values.  Client / Customer / Employee satisfaction index.
Comebacks / discrepancies minimized.
Compliance with applicable regulations and procedures.

Candidate Requirements

QualificationsCertificate in Technical discipline or Maintenance-related fields (NQF 5).Trade Test (NQF 5).Certificate in First Line Management (FLMP) (NQF 5).
ExperienceUp to 5 years’ experience in Maintenance operations in a Manufacturing environment of which:1 to 2 years should be at Supervisory level.Up to 3 years’ experience in working Shifts.
Technical Competencies(Knowledge/Systems/Legislation)Computer Literacy (MS Office Suite; SAP; ERP and other job-specific software systems).In-depth knowledge of maintenance practices, procedures and processes.Sound understanding of compliance with applicable legislation, safety and other related manufacturing regulations.
 

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