Engineering Manager

About this role

Transnet is looking for an Engineering Manager for its Port Terminals operation in Saldanha. The post leads the reliability, maintenance planning and engineering services section, which keeps port equipment safe, working and available.

What you’ll do

• Set up and carry out the plans for maintenance planning, scheduling, tracking and reporting, including shutdowns and refurbishments.
• Manage the budget, including forecasting, cost control and cost savings.
• Build and maintain the systems that support weekly, monthly and yearly maintenance plans, and the KPIs used to measure them.
• Lead your team: set performance scorecards, coach staff and support their development and growth plans.
• Run root-cause failure analysis and maintenance audits, both internal and external.
• Manage maintenance contracts and make sure legal appointments and statutory compliance (including Occupational Health and Safety Act requirements) are in place.

What you need

• A BSc, BEng, BTech or National Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation or Industrial Engineering or Technology.
• 8 to 10 years of experience as a Maintenance Planning Supervisor or Superintendent, or in reliability management or engineering.
• Experience in outage, turnaround or shutdown work in a heavy mechanical environment.
• Registration with ECSA (advantageous).
• Certified Reliability Engineer or Leader (advantageous).
• Certificate in Maintenance Practice or Maintenance Management (advantageous).
• Advanced Certificate in Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (advantageous).
• Management Development Programme (MDP) or a management or business qualification (advantageous).
• Advanced skills in SAP PM, SAP Finance (budgeting), SAP MM and MS Project, plus strong MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills.
• Working knowledge of CMMS, root-cause analysis, reliability centred maintenance and the OSH Act.

Is this job for you?

This job suits an experienced engineer who has moved into planning or management. You should be comfortable leading a team, setting budgets and working with SAP. You should also be good at spotting problems early and turning them into a plan.

Tips before you apply

• Have your engineering qualification, ECSA registration (if you hold it) and any maintenance certificates ready as certified copies.
• Put your years in planning, reliability and shutdown work at the top of your CV, with dates and the size of the plants or teams you managed.
• Give concrete examples of budget control, KPI improvements or shutdowns you delivered, and name the SAP modules you have used.

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