Company:
Caterpillar Inc.
Industry: Manufacturing / Production / FMCG
Deadline: Oct 7, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelors
Experience:
Province: Gauteng
City:
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
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This role requires an in the office 5-day-a-week work schedule.
Deadline: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Method of Application
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