Refrigeration Engineer
- Eastern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
A minimum of 10 years post-qualification hands-on ammonia refrigeration plant engineering experience.
At least 5 years of experience managing a large-scale refrigeration plant in an FMCG environment.
Category C Ammonia safe handling.Job Duties:Refrigeration Plant - Hardware & Operation:
- Maintain refrigeration equipment and peripherals to ensure greater than 97% plant availability.
- Responsible for maintaining sufficient stock back-up of critical hardware.
- Develop, install, and refine existing hardware installations to improve reliability and functionality.
- Maintain regular contact with suppliers/OEMs to ensure hardware remains current.
- Plan scheduled maintenance with the Production Manager to minimize plant downtime.
- Perform scheduled maintenance on equipment and update maintenance schedules.
- Report weekly on completed, pending, and outstanding maintenance.
- Ensure plant operation is conducted for maximum efficiency.
- Actively ensure all schedules and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are in place.
- Drive adherence to manufacturer's service schedules to maintain full warranty cover and achieve cost savings.
- Establish sound discipline and control around the order, receipt, and issuing of all engineering inventory.
- Constantly review and update critical spares inventory for all key equipment, considering lead time, availability, cost, and cost of downtime.
- Drive statutory compliance.
- Immediately stop any dangerous acts and address any equipment posing a risk to personnel.
- Ensure all mechanical work, machinery, and processes comply with Food Safety and Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- Enforce internal safety systems, including Lock Out Tag Out (LOTTO), General Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for a food environment, and 100% compliance to the Health & Safety permit system.
- Draw up task clarifications for proposed projects involving changes to plant utilization and/or new equipment.
- Specify scope of work and source quotations from suppliers.
- Forward quotations for approval and liaise with suppliers once order numbers are allocated.
- Train, coach, upgrade, and develop subordinates.
- Maintain open communication channels with subordinates through daily meetings for two-way feedback.
- Drive Human Resource activities to ensure the department is adequately resourced for present and future business requirements.
- Ensure a positive working environment within the refrigeration department.
- Manage the team through proper guidance, supervision, inspection, and discipline.
- Develop and maintain the refrigeration department budget.
- Control expenditure in line with the budget, ensuring all refrigeration expenditure is pre-approved and tracked daily.
- Reduce costs of utilities (water, effluent, electricity, and waste disposal).
- Update asset and equipment data when changes are made.
- Maintain a Technical Library applicable to the Refrigeration Plant.
- Qualified Engineer
- Driven to achieve results and quality
- Strong Leadership skills
- Good analytical skills and ability to take corrective action
- Assertiveness
- Strong interpersonal Skills
- Good adaptive skills
- Good communication skills
- Good investigative skills
- High degree of computer literacy
- Strong Project Management skills
- Building strategic working relationships
- Customer Focus
- Decision making
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