Maintenance Manager – Walvis Bay Salt Holdings

Job Description

Position Purpose & Summary

We are seeking an experienced and strategically minded Maintenance Manager to lead our engineering and maintenance function and drive a significant shift towards proactive, preventative and predictive maintenance.

This is a senior leadership position responsible for maximising the reliability, availability, maintainability and lifecycle performance of the Company’s plant and equipment. The successful candidate will be expected to establish and continuously improve a structured maintenance management system that reduces reactive maintenance, prevents recurring failures and supports consistent production performance.

The role will lead the development and implementation of world-class maintenance practices, including preventative and predictive maintenance programmes, condition monitoring, reliability-centred maintenance, maintenance planning and the effective use of a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS). A key focus will be on using maintenance data, equipment criticality, failure trends and performance metrics to move the organisation from a reactive maintenance environment towards a planned, data-driven and reliability-focused maintenance culture.

The Maintenance Manager will also provide strategic leadership across asset lifecycle management, shutdown and scheduled maintenance, capital projects, engineering governance, contractor management, maintenance budgets and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive preventative, predictive and condition-based maintenance strategy across the operation.
• Establish robust maintenance plans, schedules, standards and systems that improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Drive the effective implementation and utilisation of the CMMS, ensuring accurate asset registers, maintenance history, work orders, spares and maintenance schedules.
• Lead reliability improvement initiatives, including Root Cause Failure Analysis, equipment criticality assessments and Reliability-Centred Maintenance.
• Analyse maintenance data and trends to identify recurring failures, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Improve key maintenance performance indicators including plant availability, reliability, MTBF, MTTR, preventative maintenance compliance and reactive maintenance.
• Lead major shutdowns and scheduled maintenance activities, ensuring effective planning, execution and post-shutdown review.
• Develop asset lifecycle, refurbishment and replacement strategies to optimise the total cost of ownership and useful life of critical assets.
• Provide technical leadership for capital projects and ensure new equipment and assets are effectively incorporated into the maintenance system.
• Lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary maintenance team and build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Manage maintenance OPEX and CAPEX budgets, contractors, resources and cost-control initiatives.

How to Apply

Please refer to the company’s application guidelines.