Maintenance Manager at Hello Products Limited

Hello Products is an African Healthcare Company based in Lagos, Nigeria that develops, manufactures and distributes a range of high quality personal and home care brands that support healthier life and safer homes throughout Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maintenance Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Lead a technically thorough team of maintenancecontrollers and technicians to deliver on all Key Business Indicator to ensure line availability and reliability.
• Scoping and delivering cost saving ideas and improvements to manufacturing methodologies within the business.
• Defines root cause and implements solutions to equipment and process related non conformance situations.
• Usestandard manufacturing maintenance, engineering and project management tools and processes to enable special improvement projects to be delivered on time, to cost, to quality to ensure identified benefits are released.
• From hands-on experience and working with Quality Assurance/Productionto helps in defining process equipment requirements and specifications based on process requirements, safety requirements and internal customer needs.
• Assists in determining the budget to support maintenance requirements.
• Proposes and implements formal and On the Job training (OJT) for associates helping to grow them.
• Measures/evaluates equipment efficiencies, downtime and assist in development of maintenance
• Mentors and assists Maintenance Controllersin best practices to develop future successor.
• Collects, assesses, plans, and submits investment needs for production lines and equipment.
• Writes and distributes weekly/monthly maintenance reports to plant management
• Develops and reviews performance plans with direct reports (Maintenance Controller/maintenance technician).
• Assures proper manning is filled to fulfill business objectives.
• Approveall projects expenses, contractfor projects tasks, expenses of direct employees up to approved value.
• Carryout tools and skills gap analysis of DRs and ensures they get the right and correct tools to carry out roles.
• Through a structured performance management, develops and manages Key Business Indicatorwith Direct Report.
• Carrying out monthly performance appraisals for Direct Reportwith feedback sessions.
• Other duties to be specified by superior as the need requires.

Qualifications

• Relevant Engineering Degree or equivalent Diploma (advanced technical degree).
• Minimum of  5 years’ experience in a technical position and demonstrable management abilities.
• Good level of computer literacy.
• Good command of the English language.
• Experience in improvement project management tools like Kaizens, 5Ys, AFF, DMAIC, FITs etc within a demanding manufacturing environment with demonstrable success in delivering to costs, quality and time parameters.
• Proven familiarity with budgeting including R.E procedures.
• Familiarity with the introduction of new lines/ cost reduction initiatives within a manufacturing environment.
• Good understanding and experience of current manufacturing methodologies.
• Understanding of GHK and GMP.

Key Competencies / Skills:
Generic:

• Leadership
• Change Management
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Capability Improvement
• Technical leadership.
• Project management skills.

Functional:

• Negotiation skills.
• People Management Skills.
• Basic Automation Understanding
• Familiarity with CMMS preferably SAP
• Inventory Management Skills
• Hands on Capabilities
• Training Skills for Upgrading Associates
• Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Maintenance ER.

Application Closing Date
22nd January, 2022.