About this role
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.