Utilities Engineer

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Manage departmental Budget / Finances
Lead applicable engineering projects by increasing efficient project planning and execution thereof.
Provides input into new equipment / upgrade projects.
Ensure conformance to specifications and standards.
Lead the risk management program, encompassing occupational health, safety and risk management.
Ensure legal compliance in engineering and adherence to legal standards / regulations.
People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment, and team interaction.
Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members.
Conduct regular engineering team goal review sessions.
Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members.
Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team.
Demonstrates conformance to VPO People, Management, and Maintenance pillars.
Project manage Major equipment stoppages.
Expected Standards:
Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
Develop employees
Ensure application documented standards
Develop and update engineering standards through the Zone
Ensures a high quality of workmanship is attained from the maintenance team
Plans in place to implement the various maintenance pillar blocks
Sustain what has been implemented
Optimise use of planned maintenance system
Apply formal failure analysis process
Apply relevant engineering spares strategy