Plant Engineer; FMCG Meat​/Food Processing

Responsibilities

• Drive the daily / weekly maintenance planning process for the plant – prioritising, scheduling and allocation of tasks to different discipline of the engineering department, with the assistance of the planner.
• Drive and delivery the agreed strategy to reduce plant down time and improve efficiencies of machines and lines.
• Responsible for health and safety with regards to all equipment and plant to ensure a safe environment to operate and work on for all staff.
• Strategize capex focus to reduce plant down time and improve efficiencies of machines and lines.
• Ensure that health and safety requirements as per the Rainbow standard are adhere to with regards to specifying new equipment. Process change control documentation with regards to all equipment and plant changes with proven records for audit purposes.
• Manage and control the fixed asset register and insure that it is updated as per policy and depreciation is in line with group standards.
• In sure that all project work in plant is carried out and completed to the highest level of trade‑man ship quality and to safe food requirements.
• Develop and implement an effective planned preventative maintenance system for the Coastal depots facilities as well as oversee major repairs of breakdowns thus minimising R&M costs in the region.
• Ensure all buildings and accessories are utilised into risk, security, safety, health, HACCP AND ISO
  22000, 14000, 18000.
• Ensure all electrical equipment and installations are maintained or installed in accordance with statutory requirements and business needs.
• Oversee repairs and maintenance on all other utilities.
• Optimise efficiencies and utilisation of assets in the region with the objective of minimising the costs per unit.
• Drive sustainable maintenance practices throughout the plant.
• Management of all planned maintenance, preventative schedules, work requests and break downs, with support from planner and Maintenance Foreman.
• Ensure that all are working according to safety regulations and ensure the enforcement of food safety requirements.
• Manage costs to ensure lowest cost production and the optimal utilisation of assets.
• Report to engineering manager on a weekly basis on actual KPI’s versus budget and work with team to address and areas of non conformance or concern proactively and timeously.
• Report on and manage all input costs and manage any over or under spend appropriately to ensure that issue are escalated before significant financial loss occurs.
• Authorises plant engineering expenses within level of authority and monitor spending activity within teams to ensure compliance to financial and ethical standards.
• Implements and encourages cost cutting initiatives within the team where these do not impact on long term business sustainability.
• Work with the processing Engineering manager to allocating spend to areas of high priority within the plant.