
Proven Maintenance Manager with a track record of optimizing plant efficiency and reducing costs at Olam Agri. Skilled in preventive maintenance and project management, I excel in staff leadership and decision-making, ensuring high standards of safety and performance. Achieved significant improvements in machine reliability and operational efficiencies, demonstrating a strong results-focus.
Organize and control all aspects of the maintenance function maintaining all processes and buildings to the required company standards. Key Performance Matrices include
• Optimize utilization of processing and quality resources in the country to derive maximum capacity utilization and efficiencies and to eliminate controllable losses and minimize the impact of non-controllable losses
• Manage external contractors in a cost-effective manner - seek to challenge their costs and performance to ensure cost effective yet quality service. • Through managers, maintain and administer all personnel records and systems relating to employees (excluding records of sickness, absenteeism and holidays, recorded in the General Office). • Maintain and monitor processes in respect of breakdown and performance. (Running hours; kW/t; capacity per hour against set targets. (KPI) React to variances. • Ensure hygiene standards in all areas are maintained to the highest standards at a minimum above those required by BRC. • Through respective managers, ensure the safe keeping of all company agreements, financial instruments etc. • Ensure the Health and Safety of all subordinates within Company guidelines and current legislation.
• Ensure all functional management are aware of the correct codes of practice, both statutory and advisory, that govern accepted standards of safe operation at all premises. Ensure production plant causes the minimum of dust and noise both internally and externally.
• By regular site inspection and training, ensure full employee awareness of safe working practices and their role in maintaining the required standards. (ongoing exercise)
• Through managers identify personnel training needs. Actively promote training and personal development on site. (Costs to be controlled within agreed budgets).
Performed highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility's equipment.
Provided emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performed scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
• Performed simple machinist duties and responsibilities.
• Performed mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting
• Read and interpreted equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
• Diagnosed problems, replaced, or repair parts, test and make adjustments. • Performed regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and plant...
• Reviewed job packs
• Identified any safety issues associated with job end ensured removal/mitigation prior to working
• Executed work as planned
• Recorded technical history as required by workgroup. (Global Reliability Tool (GRT), data sheet, etc.)
• Provided feedback on job pack improvements to Execution FLS
• Requested permits and notified Supervisor if permit cannot be issued within 30 minutes of requested time