SECTION MANAGER, MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE

Job Purpose

Supervise and directing the maintenance team and ensuring machine maintenance executed promptly and coordinating with production team and fulfilling the production line requirements.

Key Accountability Areas

Planning:

• Schedule preventive maintenance according to manufacturer requirements.
• Plan necessary spare parts and machine maintenance.
• Manage manpower, including vacation schedules, shift schedules, and preventive maintenance schedules.
• Assign manpower to the appropriate departments.

Execution and Supervision:

• Monitor technicians and their conduct, reporting any irregularities to the department manager.
• Ensure proper machine maintenance and smooth operations.
• Assist technicians in resolving major breakdowns.
• Provide technical training for newly installed and existing machines.
• Suggest or implement modifications to improve machine efficiency.
• Assist the manager with the installation of new machines.
• Control spare parts inventory.
• Ensure the mechanical team wears proper PPE.
• Monitor and implement MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) to reduce breakdown time.
• Allocate work judiciously and boost departmental employee morale and motivation.
• Take on additional responsibilities as required by the organization.
• Have knowledge of machine handling and services.

Coordination:

• Work closely with the production team to ensure production flows smoothly and efficiently.
• Coordinate with the purchase team to maintain optimal spares availability.
• Collaborate with all department staff for efficient plant operations.
• Work with contractors to ensure proper execution of tasks.
• Coordinate with ER and HR departments to arrange manpower as needed.

Training:

• Provide timely training for technicians and foremen.
• Organize training sessions from machine suppliers for all technicians and foremen.

Compliance:

• Ensure all IMS requirements are met.
• Implement and follow safety procedures within the department.
• Maintain and monitor the proper functioning of safety equipment in the workplace.

Analysis and Achievements:

• Maintain maintenance records, history cards, and machine drawings.
• Prepare achievement reports.
• Analyze actual breakdowns and spare parts consumption versus targets and address repetitive breakdowns.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze repetitive breakdowns to plan for reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) and increasing MTBF.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies