Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Grade:  P6

 

Purpose of the Role:

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the role is accountable for leading the asset care function with a view to achieving required asset performance, and doing so cost effectively and with minimal risks. The incumbent will define the long-term strategy, plans and objectives and ensure that the required capacity, capability and resources are available to execute these plans safely and within legal requirements, while driving a culture of high performance and continuous improvement The successful candidate will have a demonstrable track record of leading engineering teams successfully and achieving anticipated asset care outcomes in a manufacturing environment

 

Key Performance Areas:

• Make the following leadership contribution:
  • Enable employees to achieve desired outcomes
  • Build and maintain the team’s capacity and capability to perform as expected
  • Hold employees accountable for performing and behaving in line with expectations
• Make the following direct contribution:
  • Establish and implement asset care plans and budgets, including
    • Annual asset care maintenance and improvement plans
    • Long term asset management plans for key assets
    • Annual opex and capex budgets
    • Compile and update a 3 -5 year rolling capex budget
    • Identify opportunities for reducing unnecessary costs
    • Asset care KPIs and targets
  • Establish asset care systems, policies, procedures, standards, facilities, tools and material
    • Enforce the required quality standards to ensure precision asset care
    • Conduct regular audits to ensure adherence to policies, procedures, and standards
    • Ensure the adequacy of facilities for engineering teams to do their jobs
    • Ensure that sufficient spares of the right quality are available for effective asset care
  • Ensure compliance with EHS and other regulations and standards
    • Ensure compliance with relevant internal policies and procedures
    • Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance with regulations and standards
    • Ensure that all statutory inspections are done on time and that the necessary records are kept
    • Establish a safety culture within the organisation
    • Identify and communicate other applicable regulations and standards
    • Ensure that all systems and processes are aligned to regulations and standards
    • Ensure that proper financial controls are in place according to internal finance and audit requirements

 

 

 

• Manage and lead the engineering department
  • Ensure that the engineering has a full complement of competent individuals across levels
  • Clarify roles and responsibilities for the team in line with business requirements
  • Implement performance management in line with the company process, including implementing actions to achieve targets and improve performance as necessary
  • Coach and mentor direct reports to address capability and competence gaps
  • Ensure that engineering people leaders coach and mentor their direct reports to address capability and competence gaps
  • Determine engineering activities which should be outsourced, and develop a business case for management approval
• Drive continuous improvement
  • Ensure asset reliability and performance, including improvement over time
  • Monitor asset performance health from available data
  • Compile a business case for asset replacement/upgrades based on LCC calculations
  • Optimise spares holding to ensure availability of critical assets
  • Support RCA and Defect Elimination and ensure follow through on actions
  • Assess all asset related risks and provide technical input into the company’s risk register
• Management reporting in line with requirements
  • Provide reports showing accurate feedback on engineering/technical performance, costs and risks
• Stakeholders’ liaison
  • Liaise with appropriate internal stakeholders to advance the requirements of the engineering team and enable performance, e.g. production, EHS, procurement, finance, recruitment, training, etc.
  • Liaise with engineering suppliers to optimise their performance
  • Engage with regulators on compliance matters as necessary

 

Qualifications & Experience:

• Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent
• 8 years engineering experience
• 5 years project management experience
• 5 years maintenance management experience
• Manufacturing/heavy industry experience
• Glass manufacturing experience will be an advantage
• 5 years leadership experience
• GCC

 

Capabilities & Attributes:

• Strong Leadership Capability
• Asset management best practices, including plan development and implementation
• Maintenance planning and knowledge of CMMS, preferably JDE
• In depth knowledge and application of EHS regulations and standards
• Budgeting principles and practices
• Asset care policies, procedures and standards development
• Risk management
• Good communication (verbal and written)
• Information management
• Problem solving
• Quality orientation
• Drive to achieve
• Organised self-­ starter
• Detail orientation
• Planning and prioritising

 

Additional Information:

 

• Consideration will be given to Isanti’s EE goals
• Appointment is subject to qualifications and integrity checks
• If you don’t hear from us a month after the closing date, please assume your application was unsuccessful

 

To Apply:

 

Please submit applications: https://isantiglass.com/careers/

 

 

Closing Date: 20 December 2024