Maintenance & Facility Manager at ReelFruit

ReelFruit, founded in 2012, is the market leader in the healthy snack category, pioneering the introduction of healthy dried fruit as a snack in the Nigerian market. The company was founded on a mission to build a scalable agribusiness to add value to raw materials locally and produce, package and distribute locally made snacks that could sit on any shelf in the world!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maintenance & Facility Manager

Location: Abeokuta, Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Maintenance & Facility Manager is responsible for coordinating the Facility and Maintenance (People, assets, Facility, Processes, and Systems) to achieve the required standard of machine reliability, availability, and continuous production and also provide specialist and technical advice to ensure maximum equipment availability.

Responsibilities
Plant Reliability:

• Create maintenance schedules and improve machines’ reliability and availability for production with quality standards, and labor utilization throughout the facility.
• Ensure delivery of daily planned output
• Deliver according to SOP
• Budget and manage manufacturing cost structures by developing and maintaining operational expenses within budget allowance {production, maintenance & energy usage cost per tons to benchmarks, and investigate cost-reduction measures i.e. waste reduction initiatives}

Manage Assets, Processes, and Systems:

• Asset register updated
• Spare stock levels maintained
• Schedule revision audited
• Maintenance planning and execution
• Liaise with original equipment manufacturers {OEMs} Ensure conformance to specs and SOPs
• Ensure maintenance integrity
• Optimize process capability
• Lead facility and equipment projects
• Plan, direct, and coordinate all manufacturing operations of machinery
• Support maintenance integrity

Maintenance Records and Report Management:

• Ensure records are detailed and updated
• Ensure data integrity
• Ensure the reporting standards and integrity

Equipment & Cost Management:

• Production plant availability & reliability
• Asset management indicators {Generators & Machines}
• Maintenance cost per yield output to benchmarks
• Utilities cost per yield output to benchmarks

Health, Safety, and Environment:

• Enforce compliance with PPE policies
• Enforce General housekeeping
• Identification of unsafe practices
• Enforce safety inspections conducted and audited
• Enforce safe maintenance practices audited
• Enforce compliance with SHEQ {safety health environment & quality} systems requirements

People:

• Develop staff on-the-job technical skills
• Execute planned job rotation
• Create alternates for all critical roles
• Build team spirit
• Manage Staff Performance
• Give weekly/monthly staff feedback
• Document /or follow SOP/ Recipe

Requirements

• HND / B.Sc Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a manufacturing industry on similar role
• Leadership and teamwork
• Crisis management
• Knowledge of plant operations & maintenance management and reporting
• Maintenance management systems & standards.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills
• Understanding of the principles and practices of The TPM {Total productive management}

Application Closing Date
16th February, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online