Maintenance Supervisor / Project Planner at Caterpillar Inc.

Company:

Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar Inc.

Industry: Manufacturing / Production / FMCG

Deadline: Oct 7, 2025

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: Bachelors

Experience:

Province: Gauteng

City:

Field: Engineering / TechnicalĀ , Project Management

Job Summary

  • Monitors and improves the maintenance of the Production Unit by overseeing maintenance staff and equipment; ensures employees comply with safety procedures and standards.

About The Role / What You Will Do

  • Coaching and mentoring teams in order to encourage, motivate, and guide individuals in learning and improving effectiveness.
  • Creating work plans for staff and contractors; reviewing the maintenance work performed by technicians.
  • Making purchasing decisions and recommendations regarding equipment and tools; training the workers periodically on various maintenance processes and techniques.
  • Monitoring the maintenance budget; identifying cost-effective alternatives for current maintenance activities.
  • Tracking daily inventories, inspecting production units for wear and tear; ensuring replacements are made on time.

What You Have – Skills And Experiences

Planning – Tactical, Strategic:

  • Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Conflict Management:

  • Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.

Problem Solving:

  • Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Project Management:

  • Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

Manufacturing Preventive Maintenance:

  • Knowledge of manufacturing equipment and its functioning; ability to conduct Preventive Maintenance at scheduled intervals to determine equipment’s corrective actions and avoid untimely breakdowns.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM):

  • Knowledge of total productive maintenance principles, methods, and processes; ability to maximize machinery effectiveness through active involvement of all supporting departments.

Plant Facilities Management:

  • Knowledge of processes, methodologies and techniques used to manage plant facilities; ability to handle the full spectrum of activities for managing and maintaining physical facilities and infrastructure.

Plant Operation and Maintenance:

  • Knowledge of plant operation principles, methods and processes; ability to handle day-to-day and strategic issues, operational requirements and management of a manufacturing facility.

Additional Information

  • This role requires an in the office 5-day-a-week work schedule.

Deadline: Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Method of Application
Submit your CV and Application on Company Website:

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