Mechanical Execution Coordinator at Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mechanical Execution Coordinator

Location: Sagamu, Ogun

About the Job

• The Mechanical Execution Coordinator is responsible for ensuring high-quality, safe, and cost-effective execution of mechanical maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability and availability. Support and improve preventive and predictive maintenance practices to enhance plant performance and operational efficiency.

What you'll be doing 

• Communicate clearly on information relating to potentially dangerous situations and get confirmation that they are correctly understood.
• Ensure the use of Personal Protective Equipment among the team.
• Participate in the Plant Improvement Plan (PIP).
• Check for safety and cleanness across plant.
• Coordinate daily, weekly, and shutdown maintenance activities to ensure all mechanical jobs are executed efficiently with execution quality mindset to minimize disruption to production across all shop equipment in the plant.
• Drive technical initiatives that will ensure 100% equipment reliability through proactive maintenance, condition monitoring, and timely intervention.
• Review daily inspection feedback from patrollers/inspectors, prioritize schedule work orders from the CMMS weekly and ensure all tasks are clearly executed weekly to achieve a target of above 90%.
• Ensure availability of manpower, tools, spares, and consumables for the team before job execution and optimization resource utilization across all shops in the plant to avoid idle time.
• Plan and coordinate major shutdowns, ensuring all mechanical activities are scoped, resourced, and completed within schedule and within budget.
• Ensure strict adherence to preventive maintenance schedules weekly in Quarry, Raw Mill, Kiln, Alternative Fuel, Coal, Cement Mill, packing plant, utility shop and continuously improve PM strategies in the plant.
• Lead rapid response to mechanical breakdowns, ensuring root causes are addressed and eliminate recurrence.
• Collaborate with stores and the Mechanical manager to maintain minimum inventory levels on critical spares and eliminate stock-outs.
• Coordinate and supervise external contractors, ensuring compliance with scope, safety standards, and expectations tasks execution quality.
• Ensure all mechanical activities comply with Huaxin HSE standards, including permit-to-work systems, risk assessments, and safe execution practices daily.
• Provide hands-on support and guidance for complex mechanical issues Quarry, Raw Mill, Kiln, Alternative Fuel, Coal, Cement Mill, Packing plant, utility shop daily.
• Identify improvement opportunities using reliability tools Parento, RCA to enhance equipment performance and reduce downtime.
• Track and report key maintenance KPIs such as MTBF, NAI, NSFI, Schedule compliance and Workorder backlog.
• Work closely with mechanical planners across all shops and production coordinators to align maintenance schedules with operational requirements and minimize production losses.
• Ensure all jobs are executed based on approved maintenance procedures.
• Work closely daily with all shop sectional engineer daily and assigned resources on areas of maintenance needs and supervise technicians, craftsmen and ensuring competency, productivity, and continuous team skill development.
• Ensure all required tools, lifting equipment, and special devices are available, inspected, and fit for purpose before execution.
• Monitor maintenance costs, control expenditures on maintenance services, and implement cost-saving initiatives without compromising on equipment reliability.
• Maintain detailed records of maintenance activities, failures, and improvements to support audits and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ postgraduate experience in execution (Mechanical)
• Good knowledge of cement manufacturing processes.
• Good knowledge of safety laws and regulations.
• Good written and verbal communications skills
• Excellent leadership and administrative skills
• Good knowledge of Reliability based maintenance practices.
• Good problem-solving skills through the root cause failure analysis.
• Proficiency in the use of maintenance tools like SAP etc.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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