Job Responsibilities:
Maintenance Planning and Execution:
- Handle all maintenance planning and execution functions in manufacturing plants, equipment, utilities, and facilities, ensuring compliance with ISO standards.
- Oversee installation, commissioning, operations, and maintenance activities
Plant Operations and Process Improvement:
- Establish, plan, and optimize plant operations, identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives and activities.
- Lead innovation management efforts and direct initiatives to create value internally (operations efficiency/productivity) and externally with contractors/clients.
Effectiveness and Efficiency Monitoring:
- Measure and monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of operational and maintenance processes.
- Provide advice on areas of improvement both internally and externally.
Maintenance Efficiency Drivers:
- Identify, plan, develop, recommend, and execute key maintenance efficiency drivers.
- Support the establishment and optimization of day-to-day operational activities, including planning, directing, and overseeing maintenance operational policies, rules, and strategies.
Maintenance Procedures and Quality Management:
- Develop and execute maintenance procedures and processes to support Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Production Practices (GPP), and the quality management system.
- Develop maintenance systems and strategies to drive a LEAN manufacturing and improvement culture, aiming to exceed customer expectations, reduce cycle time, and improve quality outcomes.
Quality and Preventive Maintenance:
- Implement a proactive Quality by Design approach to all manufacturing and maintenance processes, services, and premises.
- Implement preventive maintenance systems and controls throughout the value chain to avoid problems and variability.
Team Coordination and Development:
- Train, supervise, and coordinate an effective maintenance team, working cross-functionally with all departments.
- Implement tools, protocols, and reports to document maintenance activities thoroughly.
Overall Equipment Efficiency:
- Ensure the availability, reliability, and efficiency of plant and equipment by focusing on overall equipment efficiency.
- Develop cost-saving proposals, conduct maintenance and operational costing and efficiency analysis.
Preventive Maintenance and Scheduling:
- Formulate and establish a preventive maintenance master plan for all plant, equipment, utilities, and systems.
- Schedule, coordinate, and control all maintenance activities to ensure effective planning and execution.
Maintenance Procedures and Software:
- Improve maintenance procedures and enhance the effectiveness of maintenance activities.
- Establish standard operating procedures, documentation, and work instructions related to maintenance functions.
- Utilize maintenance management software to optimize maintenance processes.
Equipment Reliability and Monitoring:
- Reduce equipment breakdowns, extend equipment life span, and improve overall equipment efficiency.
- Conduct routine checks and monitoring of equipment, track anomalies, and control process parameters accordingly.
Progressive Maintenance Outlook:
- Foster a progressive outlook in the maintenance department, adopting the latest techniques and advancements in production and maintenance technology.
- Strive to reduce or eliminate breakdowns and implement measures to keep pace with technology advancements.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic, or Mechatronic Engineering with a specialization in project planning.
- Minimum of 5 years of continuous experience as a maintenance/engineering planner in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge and experience in maintenance planning and execution, including installation, commissioning, operations, and maintenance of manufacturing plants, equipment, utilities, and facilities.
- Proven ability to establish, plan, and optimize plant operations and drive process improvement initiatives.
- Proficiency in developing and executing maintenance procedures to support quality management systems and regulatory requirements.
- Candidates must reside in Kenya and be eligible to work in the country.
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