Plant Shift Co-Ordinator (Engineering / Co-Ordinator / Manufacturing) – Uitenhage, South Africa

Reference Number: LBG005

Job Description:

A well-established global market leader in the tire and rubber industry is seeking to employ a Plant Shift Coordinator to join the Uitenhage team. The primary role of the Shift Maintenance Co-Ordinator is to manage the shift engineering activities onsite to ensure safe work activities and efficient resolution of machine breakdowns, in order to maximize plant efficiencies on shift. The incumbent will be reporting to the Reliability Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for preventative maintenance activities

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Managing the Safety of all engineering activities on shift. Primary contact for any engineering incidents taken place on-shift.
• Assume the people leader role to manage Artisans on shift to ensure maximum efficiency of available resources.
• Co-Ordination of all engineering breakdowns on shift. Will be the first point of call for breakdowns on shift plant wide. Management of breakdown in terms of resource allocation, technical guidance, and support.
• Ensure that all artisan checklists are completed and executed to correct standard. Any deviation to standard should be escalated to the relevant specialists.
• Root Cause analyses to be initiated as per RCFA escalation process, responsible to ensure that all RCFA's raised on shift be completed within 48hours.
• Responsible for ensuring that sufficient resources are available on shift and to call out relief cover if required.
• Responsible for performing analysis on large job to determine which parts to be required and ensuring that parts are available from either internal or external sources.
• Responsible for the creation of emergency requisitions on shift for any parts not available in stores, as well as the follow up to ensure that quotes and signatures are received, and ER process is closed out within 48hours.
• Arrange for any special tools or equipment to be available to perform the required job.
• Follow-up of unavailable spares identified by utilizing the Yl process on SAP.
• Responsible for following breakdown escalation process and ensuring that all relevant personnel are notified of any major breakdown as well as start-up times.
• Responsible for ensuring that artisans perform pre-PM inspections for upcoming PM, and responsible for relaying information to respective PM planner.
• Responsible for ensuring that WPO standards are maintained in Engineering workshops and toolboxes by performing regular audits on shift.
• Artisan tool inspections
• Responsible to ensuring that all machine downtime information is entered SAP downtime and that Mll vs SAP downtime variance in not greater than 1% per shift.
• Responsible for ensuring that Time & Attendance data is input into the system on shift or the information is relayed to the respective Planner/specialist to correct.
• Ensuring that All PO board RE information is updated daily on shift.
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Requirements:

• National Diploma in Engineering/N4 with Trade
• A minimum of 10 years maintenance experience
• Preferably experience in managing people
• Computer literacy
• Pneumatic and Hydraulic experience
• Proficiency in problem solving and root cause analysis
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Innovation, Flexible self-starter with the ability to work under pressure and meet stringent deadlines with minimum supervision
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If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to Leroy Gona at [email protected]

Please visit www.caglobalint.com for more exciting opportunities.

Leroy Gona

Recruitment Consultant

CA Global Finance

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.

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