Role Overview
As a member of our maintenance team, you will champion a culture of safety, quality, and operational excellence. You will supervise, resource, and inspire a skilled maintenance team to maximise site equipment availability safely and efficiently while driving cost-effective solutions. By managing daily workflows, tracking critical KPIs, and coordinating with external partners, you will ensure our production facility operates at peak efficiency.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- 100% Planned maintenance adherence to plan.
- Continuous reduction in production downtime hours.
- 75% + of equipment repairs completed within 4 hours.
- 100% health & safety compliance.
Principal Accountabilities
Champion safety & quality.
Maximise efficiency by deploying safe, effective, and cost-efficient maintenance methods to ensure maximum equipment availability for production.
Support the maintenance team in achieving the department KPI's.
Team Leadership & Communication
- Conduct daily team meetings to gather data, address concerns, and keep performance visuals up to date.
- Communicate company updates, safety briefings, and critical team talks effectively.
- Coordinate and maintain shift schedules to ensuring department coverage to support the sites production hours.
- Provide seamless shift handovers and log critical updates.
Workflow & Resource Management
- Triage incoming Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) work orders to assign labour for reactive and planned tasks optimising the resource available.
- Review CMMS work orders with maintenance technicians, ensuring they have the tools and support to be effective in their roles.
- Partner with Value Stream contacts to co-ordinate planned downtime maintenance windows, providing advanced notice and reminders.
- Provide updates on work orders.
- Attend daily Tier meetings, reporting on equipment unplanned repair status, planned activities and tracking action items.
Technical Oversight & Continuous Improvement
- Perform hands-on maintenance duties matching your technical expertise when required.
- Assist the Equipment Performance team in breakdown investigations to identify permanent fixes and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Champion and participate in lean manufacturing and continuous improvement activities.
Supplier Partnership
- Coordinate and oversee external supplier visits for planned and reactive tasks, ensuring health and safety compliance through effective contractor management.
- Support the team in the procurement and tracking of maintenance and repair parts.
- Liaise with a variety of service and technical support suppliers to achieve equipment repairs and improvements.
