Maintenance Manager
Country Bird Holdings Ltd (CBH) · Free State
Posted 4 November 2026
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- NUTRI Feeds is one of the leaders in the manufacturing of animal feed in South Africa. We are also a world player and the first choice in animal feeds for pigs, sheep, poultry, dairy, and beef cattle. The following position exists in our division in Viljoenskroon:
- The incumbent will be responsible for the effective utilisation of all resources in the engineering/maintenance department to improve plant availability and to increase machine performance and quality at the lowest possible cost.
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 (Matric)/ N4
- Qualified Artisan
- A tertiary qualification will be an added advantage
- 2 years' relevant experience managing / supervising engineering department
- At least 4 years' experience as a qualified
- 3 years of experience in FMCG or related fields
- Computer Literate
Duties and Responsibilities
- Participate with appointment and evaluation of staff
- Assess training needs
- Draft development plan
- Perform bi-annual employee performance appraisals.
- Follow company policy on discipline
- Communicate strategies / targets with sub-ordinates
- Approval or rejection of overtime
- Ensure compliance to Pragma
- Perform annual maintenance audits to identify gaps
- Take full ownership of Pragma
- Planned Maintenance:
- Develop and introduce new maintenance strategies / tasks
- Determine frequencies and schedule maintenance tasks
- Unplanned Maintenance:
- Conduct root cause analysis
- Implement strategy to reduce unplanned downtime
- Ensure compliance to materials manager
- Ensure critical spares are available
- Ensure effective purchase of spares
- Take part in official weekly and monthly stock counts.
- Coordinate and resolve all material variances on stock sheets.Assist GMR2:1 as GMR2:7
- Identify and assess all machine safety risks
- Participate in the safety committee
- Conduct daily analysis of results on Pragma
- Implement initiative to improve maintenance performance
- Monitor and control engineering expenses:
- Authorized overtime
- Spares
- Consumables
- Electricity accounts
- Maintain machine / equipment catalogues
- Sign off job cards and conduct spot checks
- Draft annual maintenance budget
- Authorize time sheet, leave, etc
Deadline:10th November,2026