Main Purpose:

The primary objective is to improve equipment availability and reliability in alignment with operational needs by increasing Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and decreasing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR). This includes approving the Annual Maintenance Plan and Budget (Opex) while ensuring strict cost control based on the allocated equipment budget. Any budget deviations must be corrected through an in-depth analysis of cost structures, including materials, outside service providers, tools, and labor. A key focus is minimizing maintenance costs to achieve a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for equipment and components, ensuring sustained performance throughout their lifecycle. Additionally, it is crucial to maintain an updated “5-Year Replacement Program” for equipment and components while ensuring full compliance with Puma’s Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Standards. Meeting maintenance goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) is essential, alongside comprehensive reporting. The role also entails delivering an effective and efficient Engineering Management Service by translating needs into functional requirements, technical specifications, project formulation, design, tender formulation, change management, standard setting, and vendor selection. Engineering management must also oversee contractors and engineering staff to ensure compliance with Puma’s standards and policies while driving key performance indicators across all engineering functions. This is necessary to ensure that Retail, Terminal, Mining, and Business-to-Business projects and maintenance programs are executed timely and delivered to the highest workmanship and standards. Lastly, contributing as part of the Management Team to shape the company’s strategic direction and achieve its vision and mission remains a critical responsibility.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

Maintenance

Continuous improvement activities control derived from performance analysis (KPIs analysis), proactive tasks effectiveness assessment and from root cause analysis to overcome “bad-actors” performance.
Maintain an updated program of the turnaround, overhaul and major maintenance of equipment of the facilities.
To Implement the Standard Maintenance Policies and Processes defined by the Global Maintenance department.
To evaluate (technically and economically) the need to continue repairing or buy a new one (equipment /component).
Monthly report of main KPIS, MMTR, MTBF, Maintenance Budget (Actual vs Target).
To control the WO Backlog on a weekly basis to ensure that schedule includes up-dated priority work.
To define the criticality of the equipment and components, as well as the criticality of spare parts; in order to define maintenance strategy and prioritize the planning and scheduling tasks.
To determine proactive maintenance tasks effectiveness.
To approve the Annual Maintenance Plan and the Annual Maintenance Budget. The Annual Maintenance Budget has to prepare using the Zero Based Budget method. (Costing the resources of the Job Packages).
To control the execution of the Annual Maintenance Plan and the Annual Maintenance Budget. (monthly basis).
To control and reduce the level of corrective work, using Failures Analysis and developing actions to address the “bad-actors” of the equipment performance.
To control the contractor performance based on SLA, MTBF and Failure rates.
To control recording events and failures, its occurrence in time and duration, and failure modes associated, so that allows the determination of “bad-actors” in the performance of equipment.
Ensure that local maintenance organizations are sufficiently staffed, trained and aligned with the Puma Maintenance Strategy.
Ensure that local maintenance organizations are understand the roles and responsibilities with reference to the standard job profiles within the organization.
Continuously review and improve maintenance processes with the RMS.

Engineering

Coordinating design consultants, architects’ engineers and quantity surveyors with the compilation of design layouts of projects to ensure conformity with Puma’s standards of quality, design and safety
Providing customer / dealers and staff where applicable of Puma’s specific standards and project requirements.
Monitoring expenditure of sanctioned items against national budget and to compile monthly reports on such expenditure.
Coordinating project definition workshops and design meetings during the currency of the project.
Lead, motivate, communicate, develop, appraise and performance manage engineering staff to ensure they are motivated to achieve best performance in order to meet company’s business needs.
To ensure that all engineering staff and contractors undertake their duties in compliance with company policies and procedures at all times.
To ensure that a safe and healthy work environment exits by adhering to company Environment, Health and Safety policies and ensure compliance with relevant legislations and statutory requirements.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
Lobbying local authorities in respect of fit for purpose legislation and regulation.

Other Responsibilites

To ensure all roles on the maintenance dept. have been performed accordingly, i.e. Maintenance Manager, Scheduler and Supervisor roles.
Responsible for maintenance of records and files essential to meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance-related matters.
To ensure that the Equipment Hierarchy is based on ISO 14224.
To ensure that the Failures codes are based on ISO 14224.

Requirements:

Experience:

University Degree in civil, mechanical engineering or other Engineering discipline. Architect
10+ years of experience, preferably related to project management and maintenance related.
Purchasing experience in an industrial capacity with proven record of contract negotiation.
Experience establishing and promoting best practices to help improve project visibility and predictability.
Previous supervisory and management experience is preferred.

Skills:

Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Project Manager, internet, Excel and Microsoft Office are required.
Financial Acumen is required.
Fully bilingual in English and Spanish
Strong organizational, written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills is required
Knowledge and understanding of project monitoring and reporting systems; practical experience with documentation

Competencies:

Self-starter, creative, and highly motivated individual; ready to work in a challenging work environment.
Effective team building and problem solving abilities.
Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers.
Able to build relationships, develop consensus among key stakeholders, and influence behavior.
Ability to motivate and lead others; high level of commitment to projects even during difficult or uncertain times.
Proven team leadership in a matrix management environment.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Internal – Business Support Managers (Regional, Local), Senior Management, General Managers, Mumbai SSC, Finance, Credit, Operations, Transport, Commercial, Lubricants and IT
External – Translation vendors, Government Agencies and others as required

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