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October 18, 2024

Philip Morris International

Johannesburg

FULL TIME


Maintenance Lead (Utilities)

Join us as a Utilities Maintenance Lead and play a crucial role in our manufacturing operations. This special opportunity will let you apply your technical expertise and leadership skills to maintain high maintenance standards and ensure smooth operations. You'll closely collaborate with the Factory Service Manager to prevent breakdowns, plan maintenance, oversee utilities, and manage maintenance costs, all while promoting continuous improvement.


Your Day to Day



Sustainability

  • Ensure compliance with all PMI and legal standards, policies, and guidelines related to Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability to prevent personnel, asset, or societal loss.
  • Promote an interdependent and clear safety culture, encouraging a preventive/predictive approach in line with manufacturing standards.


Quality

  • Contribute to daily planning, share ideas for maintenance tasks during scheduled downtime, and discuss strategies for handling repair and maintenance costs.
  • Ensure that Reapplication Management & Kaizens are completed in accordance with QMS requirements as a technical expert.
  • Participate as a technical expert in problem-solving processes to resolve quality issues.
  • Ensure that each modification to the process guarantees the quality of the product.
  • Provide guidance in problem-solving activities, mentoring on standard tools to resolve line-related issues with materials and processes.
  • Propose and implement efficient maintenance standards from a quality perspective.
  • Ensure self and team capabilities are aligned with global manufacturing standards for autonomous/self-sufficient teams.


Delivery

  • Lead the scheduling and participate in the execution of regular planned downtime in compliance with maintenance tasks.
  • Review, prioritize, and manage 24-hour work notifications and backlog work orders to meet business results.
  • Ensure technical documentation and spare parts are up-to-date and available.
  • Participate in the development and review of the line(s) annual maintenance plan.
  • Collect feedback to advance and enhance maintenance strategies.
  • Own Breakdown Elimination, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling, and Maintenance Cost Management DMSs. Co-own Defect Handling to integrate into the scheduling board


Cost Management

  • Contribute to the development, completion, and review of the 90-day master plan to improve machine performance by minimizing scheduled and unscheduled downtime.
  • Prepare monthly and yearly Loss Analysis for Repair and Maintenance costs, propose and monitor budgets and RFs.
  • Support the team's growth in preventive/predictive techniques, technical competence, and technical fixing through mentorship and practical training.


Morale

  • Support and validate Kaizens raised by teams by completing appropriate risk assessments as a technical expert.
  • Mentor the autonomous/self-sufficient team to build technical capabilities on equipment.
  • Communicate timely on loss elimination priorities, plans, and responsibilities to ensure multi-functional alignment.
  • Share knowledge and methods to encourage and champion benchmarking, reapplication, and continuous improvement.
  • Take ownership of your own training plan and align with the requirements set forth in the Qualification Matrix.
  • Act as a Pillar Member of the assigned pillar.


Who We’re Looking For


  • Minimum National Diploma in Engineering
  • Millwright trade test qualification with strong Electrical Heavy current is advantageous
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in the Utilities environment
  • Exposure to continuous improvement tools is advantageous
  • Proven track record in people coordination/management activities is an asset.
  • Solid computer skills in Microsoft
  • Proficiency in critical metric tracking and monitoring, Maintenance systems, SAP, as well as Budgeting and cost control.


What We Offer

Our success depends on our dedicated employees who come to work here every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:
  • Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment, and explore.
  • Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
  • Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provide endless opportunities to progress.
  • Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

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