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 Manager
Requisition ID: 14041
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time
About the Job
- Ensure completion of mechanical maintenance jobs with the highest level of quality, safety and effectiveness at minimum cost to maximise equipment availability.
- Apply preventive and predictive maintenance practices, and contribute to their improvement.
What you’ll be doing
- Communicate clearly on information relating to potentially dangerous situations and get confirmation that they are correctly understood.
- Make sure that key equipment is working properly.
- Ensure the use of personal protective equipment.
- Is responsible for the execution and the quality of maintenance work to be carried out on mechanical equipment according to planned work orders.
- Responsible for knowledge transfer and developing team members to improve performance.
- Ensure proper day-to-day scheduling of work and necessary resources. Assign and review work to perform with the craftsmen.
- Ensure, upon completion of repairs, that equipment is in good operating condition, ready to meet operational requirements, fully inspected, tested, clean, and safe.
- Ensure and control the quality of maintenance jobs done by subcontractors.
- Provide reporting on repair jobs, including consumption of materials, specific tools, man-hours and skills, and fill equipment history files.
- Ensure completion of major operations within schedule (yearly overhaul).
- Contribute in his field to the development of working methods and definition of procedures and ensure their implementation.
- Keep him/her informed of general plant practices so as to ensure “on-call” duty.
- Contribute to root cause analysis.
- Participate in the Plant Improvement Plan (PIP).
- Check for safety and cleanliness in the workplace
Who you’ll be working with:
- Direct Reports
- Mechanical Engineers
- Workshop Team
- Mechanical Supervisors.
- Craftsmen.
What we are looking for
- Minimum 5 years’ postgraduate experience in execution (Mechanical)
- Proficiency in the use of maintenance tools like SAP, etc.
- Good knowledge of cement manufacturing processes.
- Good knowledge of safety laws and regulations.
- Good written and verbal communications skills
- Good knowledge of reliability-based maintenance practices.
- Good problem-solving skills through the root cause failure analysis.
Application Closing Date
Not specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online