Senior Maintenance Manager

Job Description Summary:

 Role and Major Responsibilities of Position:

Maintenance Planning

• Drives planning maintenance activities (Electrical, mechanical, instruments and analyzers) within the plant.
• Facilitate Problem solving, report on repeat failures and initiate corrective and preventative actions.
• Drives planning of long-term plant shutdowns and track and update progress on execution.
• Develop and review maintenance packages for the plant and issue recommendations where required.
• Budget control, report weekly on shortfalls and forecasts for the next month.
• Assign jobs to contractors and drive completion
• Develop tender documents for projects within maintenance teams
• Provide technical support service
• Development and review of team goals
• Making sure there is continuous improvement in asset care

Maintenance Execution

• Driving RCA for all reoccurring failures and failures with a duration of 2 hours or more.
• Contractor accreditation and performance management of contractor services
• Systems in place for operational, routine maintenance
• Reporting daily plant downtime.
• Tracking and reporting of engineering KPI’s.
• Provide support to the project team – reviewing and signing off proposed changes.
• Driving sustainability agenda – Utilities usages
• Driving daily execution of preventative and planned maintenance.
• Organization support structure in place for internal and external services
• Identification of training matrix
• Identification and implementation of territory rollout maintenance programmes
• Identification and implementation of national maintenance/engineering initiatives

Reliability Engineering

• Analyze equipment or system performance data to identify failure patterns.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement corrective actions.
• Develop and execute reliability test plans and reliability assessments.
• Implement reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, maintenance, or software teams to improve system reliability.
• Track reliability metrics and prepare performance reports.
• Ensure compliance with safety and reliability standards
• Drive implementation of TPM for the site.

Financial

• Compile and motivate area budget for the following financial year.
• System in place for budgeting expenditure control, reporting and decision making
• Identification of cost expenditures for the purpose of trend analysis
• Budget support to business streams
• Reduction of maintenance costs – Opex.
• Reduction of stores’ spares value.
• Initiate and drive execution of productive initiatives withing maintenance team

Project Management

• Operational as per project plan.
• Successful management of approved Funds with no over-expenditure
• Successful Handover of Projects and “backup” support
• Design documented, meets requirements of customer/client
• No Claims or Legal Action instigated against the Company.
• Compliance with Company policies
• Project resources required to perform the work.
• Employment contracts are in place.
• Performance managed in line with contract.

QSE Compliance

• Drive site machine safeguarding compliance with zero deviation
• Ensures maintenance activities are executed within guidelines of KORE processes and procedures.
• Ensures adherence to GMP standards
• Limited/Zero Environmental Impact
• Timeous response to HSE incidents
• Drives execution of sustainability initiatives within maintenance teams.

Shutdown Management

• Manage and lead area teams to meet the targets set.
• Ensure the area work scope is fully met to the agreed schedule.
• To ensure before shutdown that job-packs are fully complete and satisfactory, and inspection and test are specified
• Hold daily meetings with his team to determine the day’s targets and prepare the work co-ordination for the following day. Report outcomes to the Turnaround Manager.
• Be proactive in the resolution of technical and material problems with the respective Engineers/Managers.
• Attend and report to a daily management control meeting.
• To appraise the work to be carried out 3 to 4 days ahead of schedule.
• Ensure all area control systems are adhered to.
• Ensure the area team makes safety its first priority.
• Monitor the performance of personnel under your control.
• Ensure the work is completed to acceptable standards and participate fully in the punch listing activities.
• Produce report for Engineering Director upon completion of the shutdown, capturing lessons learnt.

Systems & Procedures

• Systems, policies procedures in place to implement an asset management strategy
• Performance Indicators - Planning, Workload, Cost, Effectiveness
• Identification of performance gaps and developing execution improvement plans
• Identification and tracking of equipment for SAP AM & PM system integration
• System planning, scheduling of maintenance activities and the quality control thereof

Technical

• Implement breakdown, preventive, condition-based maintenance - Trend analysis
• Coordinate Engineering & Maintenance standards

• Work procedures available for critical maintenance applications

Minimum Requirements for Position:

• Degree in Engineering or a relevant field.
• More than 8 Years proven experience in engineering and maintenance within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of legal standards and maintenance best practices.
• Excellent leadership, project management, and organizational skills.
• Expertise in SAP maintenance module or similar maintenance management systems.
• Experience in recruiting and leading a technical team.
• Commitment to health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Enjoy a multi-disciplined environment with varying degrees of difficulty.
• Sound interpersonal skills and the ability to lead, motivate and produce results through people.
• Stress management
• Being a good communicator
• Administration & organization
• Networking
• A proven track record in project management would be a definite advantage.

Skills:

Location(s):

Eswatini

City/Cities:

Manzini

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

September 25, 2026

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.