As Maintenance Supervisor, you will be responsible to supervise, plan, schedule, perform and direct all day-to-day maintenance activities (Operational Support, Breakdown maintenance, Preventive maintenance & corrective maintenance) of Material Handling Equipment & Material Handling System to meet operational needs and all other activities performed within the relevant section. The job holder shall be responsible for safety of the team, monitoring & controlling maintenance jobs through detailed inspections of the work carried out, ensuring equipment serviceability ,cost effectiveness and maintenance quality.
In this role, you will:
• Plan
- Ensures daily work plans are in place to enable the execution of all planned and scheduled maintenance jobs, and that sufficient material and manpower resources are available to address unplanned breakdown repair jobs.
• Deploy
- Allocates material and manpower resources in accordance with the work plan to ensure that technician teams are effectively utilized to attend to all planned and unplanned maintenance jobs.
• Lead
- Ensures all maintained equipment meet standards for operability and safety and ensures compliance with general safety procedures in order to prevent personal injury or damage to equipment during maintenance and other technical activities.
• Execute
- Maintains a detailed log of all faults reported on various equipment, corrective actions taken, job durations involved and spares used, in order to provide data for the Maintenance Management System (MMS). This is to assist the Service Delivery Officer or Service Delivery Manager in evaluating the progress of ongoing workshop activities.
- Continuously suggests and seeks approval for corrective maintenance improvements, modifications to the existing maintenance systems and equipment in order to improve their performance, increase life of equipment, prevent recurrent failure and reduce maintenance costs.
- Maintains close liaison and communication with the Service Delivery Officer or Service Delivery Manager with respect forecasting future spare part and material requirements in order to minimize stock-out situations.
- Ensures all work is undertaken only when the proper safety precautions are in place. This includes pre and post job safety procedures, personal protective equipment and the right work environment for the job.
- Conducts technical investigations in response to incidents involving equipment, identify root causes propose mitigations and corrective actions as appropriate.
- Ensures compliance to all relevant safety policies, procedures and controls across the department to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance and a responsible environmental attitude.
- Supports Service Delivery Officer/ Service Delivery manager to conduct regular safety briefings, while intervening when there is risk exposure, role model safe behaviours and follows up on corrective actions