Role Overview
Farmer's Choice Limited is looking for a Maintenance Engineer to lead engineering upkeep across its factory, covering mechanical, electrical and refrigeration systems. You will shape maintenance planning, respond to reliability issues and guide a multiskilled team so production equipment performs safely and consistently while costs remain within the approved budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and improve the planned preventive maintenance programme for factory machinery and associated systems.
- Use equipment diagnostics and root-cause analysis to identify recurring faults and prevent avoidable downtime.
- Apply reliability practices to reduce mean time between maintenance and mean time to repair.
- Develop value-engineering improvements that enhance equipment performance and control maintenance expenditure.
- Work with the Chief Engineer to specify, assess and commission new machinery.
- Oversee mechanical, electrical and refrigeration maintenance, ensuring work is carried out safely and reliably.
- Schedule maintenance activities, allocate resources and coordinate work with production requirements.
- Manage the maintenance budget, including spare parts and external service providers.
- Develop technicians’ skills through coaching and training, while promoting safe working practices in line with occupational safety and health requirements.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- At least 15 years of hands-on engineering or maintenance experience in the FMCG industry.
- At least 10 years in a technical leadership position managing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Professional engineering registration or certification is an advantage.
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