Maintenance Manager at Loesche Energy Systems Limited

Loesche Energy Systems Limited is an innovative family-owned machinery and plant engineering company operating worldwide. Loesche Nigeria Ltd. (LNG) was established in 2012 and is based in Lagos.

Loesche Nigeria’s scope of work will include the following activities:

• Preparation and supervision of technical repairs, modifications and upgrades
• Audit of cement plants and grinding terminals
• Operations of grinding terminals and complete cement plants
• Preventive maintenance and planning
• Management of required spare parts
• Recruitment, management and training of employees
• Management of operational stability and improvement-process, product quality, performance
• Ensuring health & safety and environmental regulations

Loesche Nigeria's mission statement is to become a competence carrier for the Nigerian cement industry. It will ultimately be a process and operation-oriented subsidiary for cement plants and grinding technologies. Loesche Nigeria takes over complete responsibility of daily production businesses and ensure long-term added value for our customers through highly capable, efficient, and responsible plant management.

Therefore, LNG is looking to fill following vacancy in Nigeria:

Job Title: Maintenance Manager (m/f)

Keyword: 14LN_04032014
Location: Lagos

Role & Responsibility:

• Lead and guide all mechanical and electrical maintenance activities at the plant site including safety, costs, environmental aspects and equipment reliability
• Ensure high standards in the provision of maintenance services in alignment with best maintenance practices
• Ensure optimal availability and maintenance of all equipment for achieving the plant’s production targets
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance plans and strategies in cooperation with the production department
• Manage and control a maintenance master plan and schedule in cooperation with the Production Manager and the Process Manager
• Plan and coordinate major maintenance shutdowns
• Control the necessary purchasing requisitions for spare parts
• Manage the necessary materials and services for plant development related to maintenance activities
• Manage the inventories related to the maintenance department objectively
• Participate in all CAPEX related meetings to provide inputs to the development of plant’s performance
• Coordinate with the other departments for smooth functioning of the maintenance department to achieve a high customer satisfaction
• Implement recommendations by the Process Manager and Production Manager to achieve optimized processes
• In charge of the achievement of key performance indicators in the field of maintenance, plant availability, equipment reliability, maintenance and inventory costs related agreed targets for the overall plants’ performance
• Prepare and control maintenance budgets and optimize maintenance related costs
• Coordinate and analyse root cause analyses of equipment failure
• Monitor and Increase meantime between failures (MBTF)
• Ensure proper lubrication practices are adhered in plant lubrication
• Provide the necessary guidance to the Mechanical and Electrical Maintenance Managers, Mechanical and Electrical Supervisors to carry out the maintenance processes timely and efficiently
• Safeguard Human resources by adherence to Health & Safety regulations
• Manage the utilization of manpower, mobile equipment and contractors
• Guide maintenance staff by setting clear performance objectives, providing regular feedback and providing development through training
• Identify specific developmental needs and gaps of the maintenance staff
• Train and develop the maintenance staff to provide specific plant knowledge
• Control and guide the daily work
• Ensure a well-organised communication of decisions and current developments
• Implement standardized reporting functions, work instructions for optimising the process chains
• Carry out annual performance reviews of employees
• Continuous reporting to the Plant Manager
• Comply with all relevant company and statutory environmental, health and safety procedures and guidelines

Requirements:

• University degree in mechanical, industrial or electrical engineering
• Several years’ experience in the cement industry as Maintenance Manager
• Profound experience in leading and guiding a maintenance department
• Sound knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance planning and best maintenance practices
• Very good understanding of safety and environmental regulations
• Strategic, organisation and planning skills
• Profound knowledge in cost controlling
• Sound communication skills and outstanding ability to work in a team Very good MS-Office and SAP knowledge
• Business-fluent spoken and written English
• Further languages skills would be an advantage
• Willingness to travel to various locations worldwide for an extended period of time

Application Closing Date
7th April, 2014

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
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