Supervisor Value Adding B4 (MTO Group)

Location: South Africa and Western Cape
Sector: General
Contract Type: Permanent

Supervisor Value Adding B4

Company: MTO Group
Job Title: Supervisor Value Adding B4
Department: : Manufacturing
Job Type: Permanent
Reporting To (Position): Reworks Foreman
Job Location: Creighton, KwaZulu-Natal
Salary: To be discussed
Date Posted: 6 July 2026
Closing date for applications: 24 July 2026

• Band: Band 3
• Number of reports: 
  • 5 Direct
  • 25 Indirect
• Position Purpose:
  • The Maintenance Manager is accountable for ensuring plant equipment is safe to operate, prioritising a zero-harm environment while ensuring optimal equipment reliability. The Maintenance Manager will oversee all installations, repairs and upkeep operations for the mill’s facilities, equipment and houses with their primary goal being to ensure that the facility is safe, functional and operating at peak efficiency while minimizing downtime through proactive planning.The Maintenance Manager will lead the maintenance department, vehicle workshop, building and cleaning teams.
• Major/Key Accountabilities:
  
  • 1. Safety Culture:
    • Promote a safety culture and drive safety compliance within the team
    • Ensure the entire sawmill plant and facilities complies with the Brambles global safety standards
    • Enforce all ZERO HARM policies and practices to ensure the mill achieves zero injuries.
    • Ensure all plant equipment complies with safety and industry standards and regulations
    • Ensure that all company Standard Operating Procedures are being followed Promotes and manage the safe, efficient, and effective use of all plant equipment
    • Conduct regular safety inspections, audits, and risk assessments on machinery and facilities to identify and mitigate / resolve hazards
    • Uphold all GAP/ Couch Positive requirements within the maintenance department
  • 2. Strategic Planning:
    • Develop maintenance strategy for Weatherboard
    • Develop, implement, and monitor Preventive Maintenance (PM) schedules that prioritize safe operating conditions, minimize unexpected and hazardous breakdowns, and increases equipment efficiency and lifespan.
    • Develop and implement a job card and planning system to ensure jobs are planned and executed timeously.
    • Manage a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to track work orders.
    • Effectively plan upgrades, replacements, and decommissioning of plant equipment.
    • Track plant equipment conditions and maintenance history and develop and manage a maintenance budget for maintaining plant equipment and the site facilities to the highest standard.
  • 3. Operations:
    • Plan, organize, lead and control the day-to-day activities in the maintenance department.
    • Develop maintenance standard work for routine maintenance activities, ensuring the most efficient, consistent, and safe method for performing maintenance tasks, minimizing human error and variability.
    • Ensures that all breakdowns are attended to immediately and resolved within the shortest possible times to ensure minimal plant down time
    • Work closely with production teams to improve mechanical reliability, changeover performance and operating efficiency.
    • Implement and maintain a maintenance tracker to identify recurring maintenance
    • related problems and develop solutions to eliminate or minimise recurring maintenance related problems
    • Oversee all repairs and installations (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and machinery).
    • Ensure Inspections are carried out and records kept up to date as per the inspection frequency. Record and report information that may impede the operation of the plant
    • Develop and maintain an optimal inventory or maintenance spares
    • Maintain statutory inspections, calibration coordination, maintenance records and asset documentation.
    • Sourcing of maintenance spares and equipment required and prevent runouts
    • Ensure that all quality standards are maintained and recorded. Product produced to comply with the provided specifications
    • Ensure performance targets are achieved and deadlines are achieved
  • 4. Leadership & Team Management
    • Lead, develop, and motivate maintenance team
    • Ensure good communication with direct reports both verbally and written
    • Supervise, train, and mentor a team of Fitters, Electricians, Millwrights, Boilermakers, Diesel Mechanics, Auto Electricians and Cleaners.
    • Allocate workload and ensure that planned jobs are executed in the prescribed time.
    • Conduct performance reviews and ensure the team adheres to safety protocols.
    • Manage a staff compliment of 22 employees
    • Ensure a competent and skilled maintenance team by co-ordinating all training activities by means of an up-to-date skill and training metrics
    • Ensure that the training matrix is up to date and that all job specific training is done.
    • Develop succession planning for critical roles and people leadership roles with the maintenance team
  • 5. Contractor Management:
    • Ensure external contractors compliance with safety policies
    • Ensure external contractors deliver as per scope, budget and timelines
      • Plan and coordinate scheduling of work and site access to minimize operational disruptions while managing technical maintenance tasks.
      • Track external contractor performance
• Measures
  •  LTIFR
  • Plant uptime
  • Mean time between failures
  • Mean time to repair
  • Maintenance spend
  • Job card close-out rate
• Scope:
  • Weatherboard Sawmill (Wet mill, Manufacturing Plant, DWB plant, Saw shop and vehicle workshop)
  • Weatherboard staff accommodation – Houses and compounds
• Authority/ Decision Making:
  • Maintenance scheduling
  • Discipline and counselling of staff
  • Guiding and leading staff
  • Working autonomously or having limited access to immediate manager
  • Recommend, maintain, and improve machinery safety standards
• Challenges:
  • Working autonomously
  • Manages this function and interacts with peers at similar or higher levels
  • Dealing with diverse opinions, perceptions, and attitudes
  • Maintain a high level of internal customer satisfaction
• Key contacts:
  • Internal:
    • Sawmill Manager
    • Wet mill manager
    • Manufacturing plant manager
  • External:
    • Contractors
    • Suppliers
• Qualifications:
  • Essential Qualifications:
    • Matric or Diploma
    • PLC Programming – a nice to have
    • Trade tested Mollwright/Electrician
  • Desirable Qualifications:
    • Knowledge of safety regulations

• Experience:
  • Minimum 8 – 10 years’ experience in a maintenance leadership role, preferably in a sawmill Day shift
  • 10 Years’ experience in preventive maintenance, breakdown analysis and reliability improvement.
  • Conveyer belt experiencing
  • 10 Years Mechanical experience
  • 10 Years Pneumatic experience
  • 10 Years Electrical experience
  • 5 Years’ experience implementing new safety and risk management policies
• Skills and Knowledge:
  • Leadership of maintenance function
  • OHS Act
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Microsoft office
  • Ability to multitask and operate under pressure to meet tight deadlines
  • Negotiation and influencing skills
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Working with teams
  • Strong work ethic
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Problem solving
  • Ability to adapt to changing situations
  • Self-driven and motivated
  • Knowledge of safety policies, procedures and regulation
  • High level of understanding and respect for organizational goals and objectives
  • Ability to transcend personal objectives for organizational success
• Languages:
  • Required:
    • English – Well developed fluency in the spoken language. Excellent writing skills.
  • Desirable:
    • isiZulu – Well developed fluency in the spoken language.
• Competency Success Profile:
  • Critical Competencies for Performance
    Ensure each of the five Brambles Competency Clusters is represented in the profile. There should be no more than 10 competencies in the Success Profile
    

Closing date: 24 July 2026

Manager: Technical D2 (MTO Group)

Location: South Africa and Western Cape
Sector: General
Contract Type: Permanent

Manager: Technical D2

Company: MTO Group
Job Title: Manager: Technical D2
Job Grade: 
Department: Manufacturing
Job Type: Permanent
Reporting To (Position): GM Manufacturing Manager & Engineering Manager
Job Location: Western Cape, South Africa
Salary: To be discussed
Date Posted: 24 June 2026
Closing date for applications: 24 July 2026

POSITION OBJECTIVE

About Us:

We are a leading sustainable forestry and manufacturing enterprise managing thousands of hectares of commercial timber plantations. Our sawmilling operations play a key role in converting this resource into high-quality lumber and other value-added wood products. We are looking for an ambitious Manager: Technical to lead our technical and facilities teams within our manufacturing operations.

The Role:

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with proven experience in engineering, maintenance management, and operational support within a manufacturing or industrial environment. You will be responsible for leading preventative maintenance programmes, overseeing technical teams, and ensuring the reliability, safety, and compliance of machinery, vehicles, plant, buildings, and infrastructure to support efficient and cost-effective operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintenance Leadership: Maintain, drive, supervise and implement the Maintenance Strategy including technical standards, systems and processes.
• Capability Building: Set up guidelines to develop and ensure necessary competencies and skills required by the Manufacturing Technical Department to meet the maintenance challenges of the implementation of new equipment and technology
• Continuous Improvement: Coordinate general maintenance requirements within the maintenance planning system, uptime improvement, and to improve overall reliability and safety of equipment, plant, structures and machinery.
• Statutory Responsibility: All responsibilities under Responsible Person appointment GMR 2(7)
• Regulatory Compliance: Provide direction and support to ensure compliance with relevant legislative specifications and standards

Qualifications and Expertise:

• National Diploma in Engineering Sciences – (Mechanical or electrical).
• More than 6 years’ relevant experience in a similar supervisory/managerial position
• Appointment of GMR 2(7) or GMR 2(1) responsible person (Advantageous)
• Working knowledge of Preventative Maintenance planning systems and spares inventory.
• Knowledge and experience of Sawmilling equipment and processes (Advantageous)
• Knowledge and experience of fixed asset management such as buildings and infrastructure
• Knowledge of biomass and biomass processing and beneficiation processes (Advantageous)
• Working knowledge of vehicle/construction vehicle maintenance.
• Knowledge of engineering principles, practices, and methods.
• Working knowledge of budgets and cost management
• Display ability to ensure growth turnover, by focusing on effective efficiency measurements and control.
• Experience of determining maintenance specifications, quality control of delivered services and Contractor/Supplier management.
• Working knowledge of the general machinery regulations GMR 2.1/2.7
• Working knowledge – environmental management NEMA
• Actively participate in the development of new business opportunities
• Computer Literacy
• Sound labour management and employee development essential.
• Legislation knowledge required:
  • General machinery regulations GMR 2.1
  • Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS Act).
  • National Environmental Management Act (NEMA).
  • Building Regulations

Travel & License

• Valid Driver’s License
• This position may require travel from time to time

Housing – For Discussion

Closing date for applications:  24 July 2026

Filling this position will be completed in terms of the requirements of the Company’s Employment Equity Policy and Plans. If you do not receive a response from us within 21 working days of the closing date, please be advised that your application was unsuccessful.