Maintenance Manager
- Location
- Pretoria, Gauteng
- Minimum qualification
- Diploma
- Closing date
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In brief
**Overview** This role involves managing the plant maintenance function to ensure the reliability, availability, and continuous improvement of plant assets and engineering services. It provides technical leadership, drives maintenance strategies and risk mitigation, and supports operational decision-making for safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations that meet production and business performance targets. RCL FOODS is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Maintenance Manager to join their baking business unit in Pretoria. **What you will do** * Lead the planning, scheduling and execution of preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance activities to maximise asset availability and minimise production downtime. * Coordinate shutdowns, major repairs, equipment overhauls and the timely completion of critical maintenance work. * Drive equipment reliability, availability and performance through monitoring, root cause analysis, corrective actions and predictive maintenance initiatives. * Identify, mitigate and prevent recurring equipment failures and operational risks. * Drive compliance with health, safety, environmental and legal requirements across all maintenance activities. * Promote safe working practices, enforce adherence to site safety standards and maintain statutory inspections and compliance records. * Lead, coach and develop maintenance teams by setting clear performance expectations, managing employee performance and succession planning, and fostering a culture of ownership, teamwork, safety and continuous improvement. * Identify and address technical and leadership development requirements. * Develop and control maintenance operating and capital budgets while optimising labour, contractor, spare parts and repair costs. * Manage critical spare parts, inventory strategies and capital expenditure planning to support operational reliability and asset sustainability. * Manage contractor and supplier performance to ensure adherence to safety, quality, cost and service delivery requirements. * Evaluate service providers and verify the quality and completion of contracted work. * Champion the effective use of maintenance systems and the integrity of maintenance records, technical documentation and asset data. * Drive continuous improvement, reliability and equipment modernisation initiatives through collaboration with Production, Engineering and other stakeholders to enhance plant performance and maintainability. * Balance operational requirements with equipment reliability, asset integrity and safe maintenance practices. * Develop and implement long-term maintenance and asset reliability strategies. * Assess asset condition and lifecycle requirements, recommending refurbishment, replacement or upgrade solutions to mitigate reliability and obsolescence risks. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Must have a Trade in Mechanical/Electrical. * Must have a N6 in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Diploma in Engineering, NQF Level 7 Advanced Diplomas or Bachelor’s Degrees. * GCC factories advantageous. * Must have 6 years experience. **Who should apply** A highly skilled and experienced Maintenance Manager with a Mechanical/Electrical Trade and an N6 or Diploma/Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (NQF Level 7 or higher). Candidates should have at least 6 years of experience, with a GCC Factories being an advantageous qualification. **Deadline** 16th October, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/maintenance-manager-rcl-foods-4 Source: myjobmag
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