JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Performance Output

The successful candidate, reporting to the Manager Civil Maintenance will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

• Life cycle planning of assets.
• Achieve high level of availability, reliability and operability of infrastructure/assets with minimum cost to contribute to business sustainability and profitability.
• Adhere to relevant statutory/legislative regulations, SOPs, operational standards, policies and practices.
• Ensure that maintenance contracts are aligned to ACSA requirement to comply to stakeholder and related legislative requirements to ensure continuous operations.
• Identify and apply viable technology and strategies to improve equipment efficiencies and lifestyle costing.
• Ensure continuous improvement to various infrastructure in the department to increase equipment reliability and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Keep current with latest equipment, technologies and maintenance methods to ensure best practice.
• Ensure ACSA maintenance contracts are in place.
• Manage overall governance and provide input into contract specifications.
• Ensure effective and compliant contract management and that work is executed in accordance with contract (time frame, SLA, Scope, quality, budget, contractors).
• Forecast and review cash flow on monthly basis.
• Determine project costs (part of feasibility study).
• Execute expenditure approval within DLA.
• Manage stock levels according to minimum quantities advised and order when necessary.
• Review of monthly and quarterly stock counts
• Perform quality inspection on maintenance work done and implement/propose remedial action where necessary.

Technical Skills and Experience

The following skills and experience or the equivalent of such will be required:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years – 480 credits) in engineering/BSc Civil Engineering is Essential
• 6 years operational Engineering (maintenance/ facility maintenance) is essential.
• Professional knowledge of theory and techniques in a specialized field, or knowledge of a number of fields acquired through tertiary education and /or considerable experience.
• Registration as a candidate PrEng will be advantageous.
• Minimum 2 years of consulting/design experience and minimum 2 years in construction experience will be advantageous.
• Structural and pavements engineering will be advantageous.

Competencies

• Communication
• Interpersonal relations
• Commercial Thinking
• Planning and Organising
• Coping with pressure
• Analytical Thinking
• Knowledge of relevant legislation
• Adapting and responding to change
• Sound Engineering Principles
• Project Management