مطلوب مدير ميكانيكي – Mechanical Manager للعمل لدى منظمة MAG

The primary responsibilities of the job are:

• Lead the day-to-day and strategic management of MAG mechanical assets and workshop ensuring high standards of performance, safety and optimization of costs.
• Ensuring effective and timely maintenance, servicing and repair of MAG mechanical assets and equipment.
• Developing, implementing and enforcing assets management and to ensure that best practices, policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Managing a team of national mechanics, including delivery of training to national staff in order to strengthen capacity to conduct maintenance, repairs and use of mechanical assets.
• Provide support to maintenance and efficient use of generators at all bases of the program.
• Provide technical support to procurement processes related to machines and workshop repairs, participating in procurement committee meetings and tender evaluation of suppliers.
• Provide health & safety guidelines throughout the post remit, providing safety precautions signage for the workshop and making sure safety protocols are adhered to with toolbox talks held regularly.
• Support standardisation initiatives across mechanical area to support remote operations as well as base locations by reviewing the technical specifications requirements for any new mechanical assets, workshop tools and generators that are fit for purpose.
• Work with Procurement and Logistics Dept to ensure effective management of all spare parts and consumables, managing consumption rates and pro-actively re-supplying fast moving items and key components.
• Develop procedures with TOM on what should be managed internally and externally for mechanical assets, which provides the necessary mechanical support for maintenance, repairs and procurement management of tools and assets needed.
• Assist and support in developing draft country program strategy, plans, proposals and budgets with regards to all mechanical assets, spares and consumables in line with MAG’s mission and mandate.
• Work with the relevant management to develop mechanical asset replacement plan and provide input into the new projects’ development processes. The plan should aim to ensure the sustainability of the mechanical assets available for running the operations, making sure that mechanical assets are disposed of if they represent a safety risk or are beyond economical repair.

Technical Management

• Lead workshop operations to provide timely servicing/repairing of mechanical assets and vehicles, ensuring high standards of safety for staff, assets and MAG properties.
• Supervise and monitor the maintenance, repair and replacement of mechanical assets within the program.
• Ensure all mechanical assets are fully functional throughout the season and where required:
  • Carry out assessments and recommendations for any immediate actions in writing to TOM
  • Provide lessons learned with each incident/accident and breakdown.
  • Conduct full (written) diagnostics at start and end of season.
  • Undertake any repairs at the field site with required support – mechanical, electrical, welding as necessary – to minimize operational downtime.
• Provide technical advice on improvements, which can be made to existing maintenance schedules in keeping with MAG’s operational requirements and ensure/oversee their implementation through ODT.
• Ensure preventive maintenance programs are carried out as per schedule and monitor post repair performance, guaranteeing respect of key manufacturers’ guidelines and ensuring that all elements linked to warranties are factored in and considered.
• Develop and prepare assets for field operations and prepare response plans to support machine breakdown or malfunctions.
• Assist in fuel and lubricant management; Re – order planning, Monthly Consumption review and reporting, advise on bulk fuel storage maintenance needs and frequent calibration.

Managing Mechanical Asset Deployment

• Ensure effective planning for all mechanical asset operations and provide written activity reports where necessary and ensure that adequate spare-parts and consumables are always in place.
• Set realistic performance targets for each type of mechanical asset and work with the TOM to ensure performance and delivery with minimum downtime through the operational year. This includes e.g. considering the weather and seasonal impact in the operational areas avoiding unnecessary downtime.
• Conduct, monitor and supervise mechanical asset inspections, servicing and repairs for all mechanical assets.
• Provide technical advice to the TOM in deploying mechanical assets, to ensure maximum output for each machine in any given situation (season or environment).
• Provide training of mechanical assets to operators’ and revise competencies where necessary to determine adequate technical needs that will lead to proper machine maintenance and efficiency.
• Advise on the asset disposal recommendation based on the age, mechanical state as per manufacturers manual and guidelines.

Capacity Building and HR

• Assess existing technical capacity of the Mechanical team, develop comprehensive training plans in coordination with the HoSS and HR manager and revise these plans annually or when necessary.
• Design, develop, deliver and evaluate the appropriate training programmes for movement planning; safety, security and driver management; and cost management as it relates to fuel, rentals, maintenance & repairs, and insurance.
• Provide input into the recruitment of staff as it relates to the mechanical skill set required.
• Carry out mechanical QA on all mechanics within the program.
• Audit all Health and Safety annually or when necessary, within the realms of your remit.

Data Management and Reporting

• Ensure that the Operators are fully briefed on all mechanical/machine based technical issues and any technical difficulties arising regarding mechanical assets and data collection.
• Oversee the production of weekly/monthly maintenance reports and ensure that they are submitted in a timely manner to programme senior management team.
• Work with Finance and HoSS to monitor Fleet and Mechanical running costs and overall cost structure, aiming to identifying cost-saving initiatives.
• Present to Programme SMT analysis with focus on evaluating the state of the available mechanical assets, identify risks and opportunities, propose initiatives to leadership linked to disposal or replacement of problematic mechanical assets.

Health and Safety

• Proactively identify, escalate and propose mitigation measures for any risks related to use of mechanical assets in complex operating context and volatile security situations.
• Ensure that working conditions of staff working in the mechanic team are respecting critical safety and security standards, with a special focus over the safety within the mechanical workshop.
• Ensure that mechanical asset and operations are limiting as much as possible the environmental impact, including setting up a safe waste management plan through proper disposal system for dangerous/hazardous components such as batteries, waste oils, used components etc.
• Ensure that all mechanical asset incidents are reported in writing in a timely manner, and the information passed to the CD/TOM/HoSS for upward referral to HQ.
• Support investigations when accidents and incidents have occurred, ensuring lesson learnt exercises and ensure a constant improvement of the risk management component of mechanical asset management is adhered to.
• Essential Experience
  • Experience in mechanical assets management, including plant machinery and Tiller and Flail remote platforms.
  • Experience in maintaining wide range of mechanical assets. This includes diagnostics; welding (skilled in welding/arc welding specific, TIG and MIG welding desirable); preventative maintenance; and ability to find creative and safe solutions.
  • Experience of working in a complex operational area and an understanding of the constraints this imposes.
  • Experience of managing and capacity building a team of national staff.

  Essential Skills and Knowledge

  • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritise activities.
  • Developed IT skills, with focus on Microsoft Office Applications and reporting tools.
  • Capacity to monitor and analyse the key data points for management of fleet and mechanical performance, workshop management and
  • The ability to communicate with clarity and credibility on paper and face-to-face.
  • Sound verbal and written English language skills.

  Essential Aptitude

  • Be willing and able to work outside normal office hours (incl. MAG work cycles/weekends/stand downs) to reduce length of breakdown times for mechanical assets.
  • Innovative and proactive with a problem-solving approach where systems can be improved.
  • Team player, with ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels
  • Positive attitude, with a special focus on supporting the team development and achievements
  • Ability to meet deadlines and work calmly under pressure.
  • Ability to handle and prioritise a heavy workload.
  • Interest in and commitment to MAG’s humanitarian and capacity building mandate.
  • Self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic approach to work.

  Qualifications

  • Relevant National – International certification, workshop management, heavy plant machinery management – skill set such as welding, heavy machine repair, maintenance and management.  

  Desirable

  • Previous experience setting up a workshop suitable for maintaining and managing wide range of mechanical assets including the administration.
  • Previous experience in maintaining plant equipment such heavy /light plant machinery prime movers and ancillaries, Industry driven mine clearance machinery.
  • Previous experience in, or exposure to Humanitarian Mine Action.

  GENERAL

  All MAG staff is expected to undertake the following general duties:

• Work towards achieving departmental business plan objectives.
• Work within the framework of MAG’s core values, promoting its ethos and mission statement.
• Work as part of a team and liaise with other departments to ensure effective communications across the organization.
• Ensure familiarity with and adhere to all MAG policies and procedures and Safeguarding framework.
• Ensure confidentiality of information as required by MAG policies and procedures.
• Undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as may be required.
• Aware of gender mainstreaming and ready to participate in gender awareness courses/training
• Able to work in a mixed team
• Responsible for his/her own continuing training to develop his/her skills
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in MAG’s Safeguarding Framework, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with MAG’s work and reporting concerns if they do arise.