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Plant Maintenance Manager
Protege Professionals
Lagos, Nigeria
Permanent
Published 2 months ago · Expires 3 weeks from now
Job description
We are looking for a qualified candidate to fill this position.
Position Overview:
- The Plant Maintenance Manager will oversee the maintenance operations of a new highly automated manufacturing facility, ensuring equipment reliability, safety, and operational continuity.
- He will reports to the Director of Operations, Africa, with a dotted reporting line to the Director of Automation for technical alignment.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing automated production systems, including mechanical, electrical and pneumatic components, machine control interfaces and industrial automation environments, excellent leadership and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to build, structure and enable a competent maintenance organisation, and a commitment to ensuring safety, reliability, availability and long-term functionality of the plant.
- Ensure the implementation and sustainability of TPM-based maintenance strategies (AM, TPM, PPM).
- Develop and maintain a skill matrix, identify, develop and improve skills gaps among team members.
- nitially deliver hands-on technical training to the maintenance team and progressively define structure and oversee sustainable training and up skilling programs aligned with plant needs and operational maturity.
- Ensure effective management of engineering spares including critical spare strategy and inventory optimisation. Vendor and contractor management.
- Develop and monitor maintenance budgets, including tracking expenses and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
- Ensure and champion HSE and ISO requirements.
- Develop and implement a maintenance program using the industry's best practices and emerging technologies in maintenance management.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance to ensure the smooth running of the plant. Ensure delivery of weekly maintenance and availability targets/objectives
- Ensure equipment uptime and maximum utilization capacity.
- Evaluate performance against defined KPIs and objectives, providing feedback and coaching as needed.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Facilities Management, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
- Proven experience in maintenance management (minimum 8 years), preferably in an automated manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems.
- Solid technical background in mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems applied to automated production lines.
- Demonstrated experience in plant start-up, ramp-up or stabilization phases, with progressive transition to steady-...