Maintenance Supervisor

Job Purpose: dnata is one of the world's largest air services providers
offering ground handling, cargo, travel, and flight catering services across
five continents. We operate in ‎38 countries and ‎136 airports globally. As a
Maintenance Supervisor, you will be responsible to plan, schedule, direct and
supervise the day to day operations and staff to complete repairs, corrective
and scheduled maintenance of equipment to meet operational needs in line with
the agreed service and safety standards. Responsible for monitoring and
controlling of maintenance jobs through detailed inspections of the work
carried out, ensuring cost effectiveness and quality of maintenance. Job
Outline: Plan - Ensures daily work plans are in place to enable the execution
of all planned and scheduled maintenance jobs, and that sufficient material
and manpower resources are available to address unplanned breakdown repair
jobs. Deploy - Allocates material and manpower resources in accordance with
the work plan to ensure that technician teams are effectively utilized to
attend to all planned and unplanned maintenance jobs. Lead - Ensures all
maintained equipment meet standards for operability and safety and ensures
compliance with general safety procedures in order to prevent personal injury
or damage to equipment during maintenance and other technical activities. -
Supports Technicians in managing repair methodologies, parts selection and
technical diagnosis to ensure individual repairs and maintenance is conducted
safely, efficiently and cost effectively. - Establishes regular two way
communication with teams and shift management to ensure clear understanding of
objectives including daily shift briefings, safety tool box talks, shift hand
overs and new process introduction. - Provides on the job training and support
to guide Technicians on maintenance techniques, fault diagnosis and repair,
uses of different tools and machinery and safe working techniques to ensure
the development of skills, safety, lean and 5S principles at work. This
includes familiarisation for new staff. - Conducts adhoc inspections of
ongoing jobs and regularly validate post-job quality inspections. Execute -
Maintains a detailed log of all faults reported on various equipment,
corrective actions taken, job durations involved and spares used, in order to
provide data for the Maintenance Management System (MMS). This is to assist
the Service Delivery Officer or Service Delivery Manager in evaluating the
progress of ongoing workshop activities. - Continuously suggests and seeks
approval for corrective maintenance improvements, modifications to the
existing maintenance systems and equipment in order to improve their
performance, increase life of equipment, prevent recurrent failure and reduce
maintenance costs. - Maintains close liaison and communication with the
Service Delivery Officer or Service Delivery Manager with respect forecasting
future spare part and material requirements in order to minimize stock-out
situations. - Ensures all work is undertaken only when the proper safety
precautions are in place. This includes pre and post job safety procedures,
personal protective equipment and the right work environment for the job. -
Conducts technical investigations in response to incidents involving
equipment, identify root causes propose mitigations and corrective actions as
appropriate. - Ensures compliance to all relevant safety policies, procedures
and controls across the department to guarantee employee safety, legislative
compliance and a responsible environmental attitude. - Supports Service
Delivery Officer/ Service Delivery manager to conduct regular safety
briefings, while intervening when there is risk exposure, role model safe
behaviours and follows up on corrective actions
Qualifications & Experience: To qualify for the role, you must meet the below.
- Diploma in either Mechanical/Electrical/Electronic or Automobile Engineering
from a reputed Institution Experience. - ‎4-‎6 year's experience in Engineering,
maintenance or workshop team management role - English Level ‎5 - Proficient IT
and Computer Literacy - Advanced Supervisory Skills - Proficient Quality
Orientation Skills - Related Technical Skills in relevant area for example:
Fabrication/Welding/Sheet Metal Works Electrical/Electronics Mechanical
Hydraulics Air-Conditioning and Power Engines Auto-Electrical