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This is a senior operations role for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead customised solutions, continuous improvement, and maintenance strategies within a complex environment. If you excel at optimisation, planning, and inspiring teams — this is your chance to drive efficiency and innovation.
About the Role
You’ll support operations at a strategic and daily level — overseeing planning, monitoring, plant optimisation, risk management, compliance, and disaster recovery. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team, manage contractors, and develop robust maintenance frameworks that meet SLA requirements and deliver measurable value.
What You’ll Do
Plan and monitor operations, maintenance, and long-range capital replacements
Drive continuous plant optimisation and energy management
Manage compliance, disaster recovery, and risk assessments
Develop improvement proposals for services, systems, and processes
Oversee material and spare part management to ensure efficiency
Conduct quality management audits and ensure service transparency
Manage subcontractors, statutory requirements, and site procedures
Lead and mentor teams, identify development needs, and build talent pipelines
Perform root cause analyses and implement performance improvements
What You Bring
BTech or BSc Engineering (Electrical / Mechanical) with sound commercial knowledge
Government Certificate of Competency () highly desirable
Minimum 5 years’ experience with similar systems in a production environment
Proven staff leadership and performance management skills
Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies, risk management, and SLA optimisation
High resilience, initiative, and results orientation
Good understanding of ISO 9001, OHSA, and environmental legislation
What Success Looks Like
High-performing plant operations and optimised equipment lifespan
Effective cost reduction and efficiency gains through innovation
Strong, compliant maintenance frameworks aligned to industry standards
A motivated, skilled team delivering continuous improvement
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- Lead engineering and maintenance functions to ensure the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of mining equipment and infrastructure
- Implement and manage asset care strategies to ensure compliance, availability, and performance
- Ensure that all engineering practices adhere to the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) and related regulations
- Hold and manage legal appointments in terms of MHSA requirements
- Oversee capital projects, plant upgrades, and engineering interventions
- Control budgets, reporting, and performance metrics for the engineering function
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in safety, asset performance, and innovation
Minimum Requirements :
- BEng or BSc in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) Mines and Works (Mandatory)
- Minimum 5 years experience in a coal mining environment in a senior engineering or engineering management capacity
- Sound understanding of coal processing, heavy mining equipment, and statutory engineering compliance
- Proven leadership and team management capabilities
Preferred Attributes :
- Results-driven with a strong focus on safety and operational efficiency
- Effective communicator with project and stakeholder management skills
- Exposure to reliability engineering, CMMS, and ISO systems
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in high-pressure environments
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Create a job alert for this searchEngineering Manager • Delmas, South Africa
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- Costing of power generation projects and gas supply and supply chain
- Recruiting and managing engineering staff.
- Costing, layout, and design of new customer sites and Distribution Depots
- Acting as the Health & Safety Officer of the company
Requirements :
- A Degree in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering.
- Management experience of 10 years or more, running and managing projects
- Experience working in the natural gas industry or similar industry.
Engineering Manager • Johannnesburg, South Africa
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SUMMARY:
Are you a qualified Engineering Manager with deep experience in coal mining operations and a GCC Mines & Works certification?
We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established client in the coal mining sector seeking an experienced and driven
Engineering Manager
Recruiter:
Network Recruitment
Job Ref:
NES022297/TSH
Date posted:
Monday, July 14, 2025
Location:
Delmas, South Africa
SUMMARY:
Are you a qualified Engineering Manager with deep experience in coal mining operations and a GCC Mines & Works certification?
We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established client in the coal mining sector seeking an experienced and driven Engineering Manager to lead and manage engineering functions on a large operational coal mine.
POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering and maintenance functions to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of mining equipment and infrastructure
- Implement and manage asset care strategies to ensure compliance, availability, and performance
- Ensure all engineering practices adhere to the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) and related regulations
- Hold and manage legal appointments in terms of MHSA requirements
- Oversee capital projects, plant upgrades, and engineering interventions
- Control budgets, reporting, and performance metrics for the engineering function
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in safety, asset performance, and innovation
- BEng or BSc in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) – Mines and Works (Mandatory)
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a coal mining environment in a senior engineering or engineering management capacity
- Sound understanding of coal processing, heavy mining equipment, and statutory engineering compliance
- Proven leadership and team management capabilities
- Results-driven with a strong focus on safety and operational efficiency
- Effective communicator with project and stakeholder management skills
- Exposure to reliability engineering, CMMS, and ISO systems
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in high-pressure environments
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- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Engineering and Information Technology
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Purpose of the job To manage and lead the provision of engineering services within East Cluster area and to ensure the application of AECI standards and strategy to the delivery of strategic engineering projects, maintenance of plants and equipment, adherence to governance, compliance and statutory requirements, and to provide specialist engineering advice to production, safety and technical
Required outputs: Functional
- Maintenance planning and execution
- Execution of strategic engineering projects and change management
- Develop and track maintenance budget
- People management and development
- Drive management of external contractors and professional services
- Lead efforts to ensure continuous business improvement and technical support
- Ensure compliance with governance and procedures
- Ensure compliance with safety, health and environmental standards
- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries Chemical Manufacturing
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A well-known food manufacturing company in Limpopo is looking for a Engineering Manager to join their team!
Requirements include :
- GCC / National Diploma / Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Minimum of 5 – 8 years experience
- FMCG experience
- Food manufacturing experience advantageous
Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Engineering Manager
Recruiter: Edge Executives
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Date posted: Friday, July 11, 2025
Location: Alberton, South Africa
SUMMARY:POSITION INFO:
Engineering Manager
Location: South Africa
Type: Permanent | Engineering & Facilities Management
Optimise. Lead. Deliver excellence.
This is a senior operations role for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead customised solutions, continuous improvement, and maintenance strategies within a complex environment. If you excel at optimisation, planning, and inspiring teams — this is your chance to drive efficiency and innovation.
About The RoleYou’ll support operations at a strategic and daily level — overseeing planning, monitoring, plant optimisation, risk management, compliance, and disaster recovery. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team, manage contractors, and develop robust maintenance frameworks that meet SLA requirements and deliver measurable value.
What You’ll Do- Plan and monitor operations, maintenance, and long-range capital replacements
- Drive continuous plant optimisation and energy management
- Manage compliance, disaster recovery, and risk assessments
- Develop improvement proposals for services, systems, and processes
- Oversee material and spare part management to ensure efficiency
- Conduct quality management audits and ensure service transparency
- Manage subcontractors, statutory requirements, and site procedures
- Lead and mentor teams, identify development needs, and build talent pipelines
- Perform root cause analyses and implement performance improvements
- BTech or BSc Engineering (Electrical/Mechanical) with sound commercial knowledge
- Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) highly desirable
- Minimum 5 years’ experience with similar systems in a production environment
- Proven staff leadership and performance management skills
- Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies, risk management, and SLA optimisation
- High resilience, initiative, and results orientation
- Good understanding of ISO 9001, OHSA, and environmental legislation
- High-performing plant operations and optimised equipment lifespan
- Effective cost reduction and efficiency gains through innovation
- Strong, compliant maintenance frameworks aligned to industry standards
- A motivated, skilled team delivering continuous improvement
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Engineering Manager
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This is a senior operations role for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead customised solutions, continuous improvement, and maintenance strategies within a complex environment. If you excel at optimisation, planning, and inspiring teams — this is your chance to drive efficiency and innovation.
About the Role
You’ll support operations at a strategic and daily level — overseeing planning, monitoring, plant optimisation, risk management, compliance, and disaster recovery. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team, manage contractors, and develop robust maintenance frameworks that meet SLA requirements and deliver measurable value.
What You’ll Do
Plan and monitor operations, maintenance, and long-range capital replacements
Drive continuous plant optimisation and energy management
Manage compliance, disaster recovery, and risk assessments
Develop improvement proposals for services, systems, and processes
Oversee material and spare part management to ensure efficiency
Conduct quality management audits and ensure service transparency
Manage subcontractors, statutory requirements, and site procedures
Lead and mentor teams, identify development needs, and build talent pipelines
Perform root cause analyses and implement performance improvements
What You Bring
BTech or BSc Engineering (Electrical / Mechanical) with sound commercial knowledge
Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) highly desirable
Minimum 5 years’ experience with similar systems in a production environment
Proven staff leadership and performance management skills
Strong knowledge of maintenance strategies, risk management, and SLA optimisation
High resilience, initiative, and results orientation
Good understanding of ISO 9001, OHSA, and environmental legislation
What Success Looks Like
High-performing plant operations and optimised equipment lifespan
Effective cost reduction and efficiency gains through innovation
Strong, compliant maintenance frameworks aligned to industry standards
A motivated, skilled team delivering continuous improvement
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Why do we need you ?
- Undertaking strategic planning activities with the senior management team and in line with customer and business needs.
- Lead responsibilities for continuous improvement programmes. Create, implement and direct initiatives in line with programme goals and deliverables.
- Ensure safety is at the centre of all site activity whilst demonstrating role model behaviour and leading by example.
- Set Engineering, Maintenance and process targets in line with operations objectives and develop the strategies to achieve these. Implement and manage the processes required to achieve targets.
- Direct activities within the Engineering teams (Tooling, process engineering, maintenance and prototyping) such that they are focused on performance improvement against the agreed KPI’s of the business.
- Lead, implement and drive methodologies that will bring change to the plants performance progressing towards World Class Manufacturing standards.
- Define and manage the skills requirements and subsequent training within Engineering paying attention to Saint-Gobain competency matrix to improve people capability in the plant.
- Responsible for determining the structure and resource requirements of the Engineering and Maintenance departments such that the overall strategy of the plant can be fulfilled.
- As part of managing working capital of the plant and ensuring that the plant continuously run, ensure that you proactively identify critical spares, in line with inventory policy, and ensure that controls are in place to manage the spares appropriately
Is this job for you ?
The ideal candidate must have completed a Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. This role requires at least 10 years’ experience in engineering and maintenance in a manufacturing environment. Must have experience with working with computerised maintenance management systems as well as managing high level project management of large CAPEX investments. Prior experience working on MS Office such as excel would be an advantage, SAP and PLC knowledge is a must.
To make sure nothing is forgotten
In this senior management role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for the Engineering and Maintenance functions of the business and to facilitate the achievement of the business plan. For this role, we require someone who is an accomplished problem-solver, logical, analytical thinker, it will also need strong communication skills and ability to present, coaching influence and persuade at all levels.
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“We value the importance of a diverse workforce as a cornerstone of our business success. Our primary focus in selecting the most suitable candidates for our roles is based on their skills, qualifications, and experience. We wholeheartedly embrace the principle of equal opportunity in our employment processes and are committed to eliminating any unlawful discrimination in our hiring practices”.
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"At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."
Klipboard provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in ERP/SaaS solutions, Klipboard has a wide range of clients includes wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. Klipboard has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America. Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with a focus on C# .NET , PHP , or MAUI to lead one or more squads. You will be responsible for maintaining high coding standards while driving your team to deliver software quickly and efficiently . You will ensure teams have the resources to function at high speeds without sacrificing quality, fostering a culture of optimisation and high performance .
Key Responsibilities
- Hands-on Development:
- Provide expertise on complex issues within the C# .NET, PHP, or MAUI codebase, ensuring quick and efficient resolution.
- Review code to maintain fast delivery cycles and adherence to best practices, optimising performance and scalability.
- Technical Oversight:
- Guide teams in composing efficient software systems and ensure that architectural decisions prioritise speed and scalability.
- Ensure solutions are designed to be delivered rapidly with minimal rework or delays.
- Leadership and Mentorship:
- Foster a high-performance culture by mentoring team members on delivering fast, efficient solutions.
- Promote continuous delivery and optimised workflows to keep teams running at peak efficiency.
- Performance Monitoring:
- Utilise DORA metrics to monitor squad efficiency, with a focus on improving lead time, cycle time, and delivery speed.
- Provide actionable feedback to improve team performance, minimising bottlenecks and delays.
- Resource Management:
- Ensure squads have the resources and tools they need to work efficiently, while eliminating unnecessary roadblocks.
- Coordinate closely with leadership to make sure fast delivery remains a core focus.
- Strategic Communication:
- Communicate progress and performance updates to leadership, ensuring all teams remain efficient and aligned with broader business goals.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure fast decision-making and unblock teams quickly.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- Experience managing teams with hands-on coding responsibilities in C# .NET, PHP, or MAUI environments.
- Proven ability to drive fast, efficient delivery of high-quality software.
- Strong leadership skills and experience in optimising team performance.
- Familiarity with DORA metrics for tracking team efficiency and throughput.
You may also have seen from our recent posts that we are excited to begin sharing our new company name – Klipboard. Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is becoming Klipboard and our new brand is designed to bring together our expertise across distribution, automotive, retail, rental, transport management, manufacturing, and field service management. We have offices based across the world and we are looking for talented individuals to join our growing teams. Due to our growth over the last few years it is an exciting time to join us as we enter our next chapter! At Klipboard we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."
Equal Opportunities
As a global company, we value and respect the diversity of our workforce, aiming to empower everyone to embrace each other's differences. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to our company and culture. We recognize the benefits of a diverse workforce, where creativity and valuing differences enable us all to thrive and sparks innovation.
If you require any help, adjustments and/or support during the interview and offer process then please advise our TA or HR team.
Research shows that women and other underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role unless they meet every listed requirement. However, we recognise that skills and experience come in many forms, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every criterion. If you are passionate about this role and believe you have the right mindset and transferrable skills, we would love to hear from you!
To all recruitment agencies: Klipboard does not accept agency speculative resumes. At present we only accept CV’s from Agencies on our PSL who have been assigned specific position/s. Please do not forward resumes to our careers site or direct to Klipboard employee as this does not constitute an introduction and Klipboard retrospectively will not be liable for any candidate ownership or fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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