Maintenance Coordinator

SUMMARY:
Ensuring Infrastructure maintenance tasks are carried out successfully within agreed timeframes.

POSITION INFO:

MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR
Operations
Accountable for quality, standards, service and desired outputs within inter-related functional areas of
responsibility. May be responsible for work of others. This role will work with various closely related concrete
variables, requiring an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning inter-related functional
processes.

Job Purpose
This role will be responsible for effectively coordinating maintenance initiatives, ensuring Infrastructure
maintenance tasks are carried out successfully within agreed timeframes, cost and scope. The role will also
manage ad hoc maintenance requests, ensuring issues are adressed within agreed SLA's.

Key Accountabilities and Outputs

Coordinate Maintenance Initiatives
 Coordinate maintenance requirements, ensuring Infrastructure maintenance tasks are carried out
successfully within agreed timeframes, cost, quality parameters and scope.
Maintenance Coordination and Monitoring
 Coordinate and track all on site maintenance and related activities to ensure optimal levels of plant
and equipment availability
 Ensure all equipment and safety standards are maintained
 Manage ad hoc maintenance requests, ensuring issues are adressed within agreed SLA's
 Effectively manage relationships with contractors and suppliers
 Provide expert advice and help effeciently resolve maintenance queries
General Operational Contributions
 Ensure Adherence to all applicable Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Standards
 Actively participate in operational planning and reporting processes
 Drive continuous improvement through streamlining and optimising relevant operational practices,
processes and tools
 Adhere to operational and financial frameworks of practices, processes, standards and controls
 Control cost and take the necessary action to mitigate any financial risks or non-compliance
Adherence to the Quality, Food Safety, Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
 Adherence to Standards: Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and
Environmental policies and standards.
 Enforcement: Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times
to guarantee a secure work environment.
 Personal Hygiene: Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization's code of conduct.
 Contamination Control: Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and
implement control measures to prevent it.

 Health and Safety Measures: Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards.
Follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents.
 Knowledge and Compliance: Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes,
and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP's
(Good Manufacturing Practices).
 Training: Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to
Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety.
 Housekeeping: Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness within the work environment.

Qualifications and Experience
 Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7 (Essential)
 Upto 4 years experience (Operational Execution)
 MS Excel; MS Word; SAP; E Mail; MS PowerPoint

Key Qualities
Communication
 Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks
Problem Solving
 Proactive identification of functional problems related to a specific process or policy, determine cause
and impact, and choose the best alternative to solve the problem based on guidelines provided and
an understanding of the theory or practices underpinning the problem.
Relationships Maintained
 Others in own work area

Behavioural Competencies
Planning and Organising
 Manages time effectively, ensuring effective completion of tasks under stressful deadlines.
 Able to prioritise activities and resources, ensuring that results are achieved effectively.
 Able to evaluate progress and make appropriate adjustments to initial plans, ensuring a successful
outcome.
Judgment and Decision Making
 Able to gather information from a variety of sources.
 Understands cause and effect relationships within data and interprets this to make competing,
holistic decisions
 Develops alternatives before making complex decisions
 Looks for the most innovative, efficient and value adding solution when making a decision
 Makes decisions in time and forecasts when decisions need to be made
 Formulates a "big picture" understanding of the near-term impact of decisions (including the time
and resources required to implement decision)
 Evaluates the longer term business impact of decisions
 Takes initiative when making decisions
Continuous Improvement
 Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved
 Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, "best practice" companies, customers,
peers, subordinates, etc