Role and Major Responsibilities of Position:
Maintenance Planning
- Drives planning maintenance activities (Electrical, mechanical, instruments and analyzers) within the plant.
- Facilitate Problem solving, report on repeat failures and initiate corrective and preventative actions.
- Drives planning of long-term plant shutdowns and track and update progress on execution.
- Develop and review maintenance packages for the plant and issue recommendations where required.
- Budget control, report weekly on shortfalls and forecasts for the next month.
- Assign jobs to contractors and drive completion
- Develop tender documents for projects within maintenance teams
- Provide technical support service
- Development and review of team goals
- Making sure there is continuous improvement in asset care
Maintenance Execution
- Driving RCA for all reoccurring failures and failures with a duration of 2 hours or more.
- Contractor accreditation and performance management of contractor services
- Systems in place for operational, routine maintenance
- Reporting daily plant downtime.
- Tracking and reporting of engineering KPI's.
- Provide support to the project team - reviewing and signing off proposed changes.
- Driving sustainability agenda - Utilities usages
- Driving daily execution of preventative and planned maintenance.
- Organization support structure in place for internal and external services
- Identification of training matrix
- Identification and implementation of territory rollout maintenance programmes
- Identification and implementation of national maintenance/engineering initiatives
Reliability Engineering
- Analyze equipment or system performance data to identify failure patterns.
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement corrective actions.
- Develop and execute reliability test plans and reliability assessments.
- Implement reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and predictive maintenance strategies.
- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, maintenance, or software teams to improve system reliability.
- Track reliability metrics and prepare performance reports.
- Ensure compliance with safety and reliability standards
- Drive implementation of TPM for the site.
Financial
- Compile and motivate area budget for the following financial year.
- System in place for budgeting expenditure control, reporting and decision making
- Identification of cost expenditures for the purpose of trend analysis
- Budget support to business streams
- Reduction of maintenance costs - Opex.
- Reduction of stores' spares value.
- Initiate and drive execution of productive initiatives withing maintenance team
Project Management
- Operational as per project plan.
- Successful management of approved Funds with no over-expenditure
- Successful Handover of Projects and 'backup' support
- Design documented, meets requirements of customer/client
- No Claims or Legal Action instigated against the Company.
- Compliance with Company policies
- Project resources required to perform the work.
- Employment contracts are in place.
- Performance managed in line with contract.
QSE Compliance
- Drive site machine safeguarding compliance with zero deviation
- Ensures maintenance activities are executed within guidelines of KORE processes and procedures.
- Ensures adherence to GMP standards
- Limited/Zero Environmental Impact
- Timeous response to HSE incidents
- Drives execution of sustainability initiatives within maintenance teams.
Shutdown Management
- Manage and lead area teams to meet the targets set.
- Ensure the area work scope is fully met to the agreed schedule.
- To ensure before shutdown that job-packs are fully complete and satisfactory, and inspection and test are specified
- Hold daily meetings with his team to determine the day's targets and prepare the work co-ordination for the following day. Report outcomes to the Turnaround Manager.
- Be proactive in the resolution of technical and material problems with the respective Engineers/Managers.
- Attend and report to a daily management control meeting.
- To appraise the work to be carried out 3 to 4 days ahead of schedule.
- Ensure all area control systems are adhered to.
- Ensure the area team makes safety its first priority.
- Monitor the performance of personnel under your control.
- Ensure the work is completed to acceptable standards and participate fully in the punch listing activities.
- Produce report for Engineering Director upon completion of the shutdown, capturing lessons learnt.
Systems & Procedures
- Systems, policies procedures in place to implement an asset management strategy
- Performance Indicators - Planning, Workload, Cost, Effectiveness
- Identification of performance gaps and developing execution improvement plans
- Identification and tracking of equipment for SAP AM & PM system integration
- System planning, scheduling of maintenance activities and the quality control thereof
Technical
- Implement breakdown, preventive, condition-based maintenance - Trend analysis
- Coordinate Engineering & Maintenance standards
- Work procedures available for critical maintenance applications
Minimum Requirements for Position:
- Degree in Engineering or a relevant field.
- More than 8 Years proven experience in engineering and maintenance within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of legal standards and maintenance best practices.
- Excellent leadership, project management, and organizational skills.
- Expertise in SAP maintenance module or similar maintenance management systems.
- Experience in recruiting and leading a technical team.
- Commitment to health, safety, and environmental regulations.
- Enjoy a multi-disciplined environment with varying degrees of difficulty.
- Sound interpersonal skills and the ability to lead, motivate and produce results through people.
- Stress management
- Being a good communicator
- Administration & organization
- Networking
- A proven track record in project management would be a definite advantage.
Location(s):
Eswatini
City/Cities:
Manzini
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date:
September 25, 2026
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what's possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.