Diesel Mechanic - Transport (Maintenance) Manager (Delmas)

SUMMARY:
Responsible for the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair and/or installation of facility machinery or equipment, fleet vehicles or equipment and properties.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills required. This is normally acquired through a high school diploma or equivalent. 
• Red seal qualified diesel mechanic. 
• 6-10 Years’ diesel mechanic experience within a crane lifting and transportation environment combined. 
• 6-10 Years’ proven track record in cylinder, hydraulics, pneumatics and crane repair management. 
• 6-10 Years’ proven track record in senior management position within similar environment. 
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints and schematics.
• 3-5 Years’ budget management experience. 
• Advanced organizational, inter-personal and planning skills. 
• Advanced leadership and employee communication skills. 
• Advanced reading, writing and arithmetic skills required. 
• Computer literacy Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint proficient. 
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.   
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to interpret miscellaneous drawings and schematics. 
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. 
• Ability to deal with problems. 
• Valid South African driver’s license. 
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands

• Manage the install, repair, maintain and service facility machinery equipment etc. such as but not limited to overhead cranes, plasma machine, interior and exterior saw (workshop), generator etc. 
• Perform preventative and predictive maintenance planning and implementation on facility machinery as follows but not limited to i.e.  cranes, forklifts, generators, interior and exterior saw (workshop), welding machines, croppers, compressors, spray pumps, hoses, small trailers, oil and re stores, ladders, chains, trucks, trailers, bakkies etc. 
• Overall diesel usage, planning, reporting and refill management. 
• General employee management including project support employee coordination and time management i.e. crane operators, cranes on site arrivals and removal, containers etc. 
• Overall fleet management. 
• Overall budget management combined with strategic market review of comparative part pricing structures. 
• General maintenance management of Steel structures and gardens. 
• General maintenance management at CEO, MD and/or Director’s properties. 
• Manage troubleshooting and repair schedules of overall facility machinery. 
• Write and maintain standard operating procedures (SOP’s). 
• Manage daily maintenance and repair logs of fleet and machinery aligned with job card planning and allocation. 
• Communication with subordinates. 
• Managing cleaning and maintaining of work area and company vehicles. 
• Managing equipment when not in use decommissioning planning.

POSITION INFO:
Kindly apply if you meet the minimum requirements. Should you not hear back from us within 2 weeks consider your application as unsuccessful.