Vacant Job Positions at Vuzela Limited

Vuzela Limited is a professional services company with expertise in ISO 9001-2015 Quality Management Systems, and is accredited by Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) as a Management Systems Consultant and Training Organization.

Vuzela Limited is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Title: Assistant Maintenance Manager - Plastics
Location: Lagos
Activity: Injection Moulding
Reporting Line: Maintenance Manager, Operations Manager.
Interaction: Production Dept., Machine Operators, Maintenance Dept.
Job Summary

• Assist the Maintenance manager in the maintenance of production machines, buildings and accessories, plant’s Electrical, Mechanical, Hydraulic, and Facility Maintenance activities to ensure a safe and profitable facility.
• Coordinate and assist day to day activities within the Maintenance department including breakdowns, preventive and predictive maintenance and projects.

• Minimize downtime through analysis, corrective action, training, team building, and process improvements. Develop and enforce plant and departmental policies and procedures. Assist in managing capital expenditure projects.
• All activities must be carried out in line with best global manufacturing and accepted engineering standards
• Analyse situations accurately and adopt an effective course of action.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance programs that will help in reducing overall unplanned down time and increase overall equipment reliability
• Promote plant goals such as Safety, Quality, and Production.
• Monitor, track, and analyse production efficiencies in Manufacturing.
• Direct capital program for the facility, including costing, justifying where applicable, procurement, installation, cost control and as required
• Coordinate and assist in all new installations and machine/facility rebuilding or repair as per accepted engineering standard
• Delegate daily work assignments.
• Meet operational needs and requirements within budget.
• Plan and organize work to meet schedules and timelines in an environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Develops or revises standard operational procedures and implement agreed SOP’s in compliance with standards and procedures
• Assist with implementation of safety equipment for plant equipment and compliance of plant and equipment with safety requirements.
• Assure new equipment reviews are conducted on all new and modified equipment
• Continuously improve reliability
• Assist with engineering store controls
• Additional duties as defined by management

• Mechanical/Electrical Engineering degree or HND
• 10 – 15 years post NYSC qualification.
• Experience in Injection plastic manufacturing environment
• Result oriented and able to handle multiple projects.

• Must have vast hands on experience
• knowledge of injection moulding machines including Hydraulic main and control systems, Mechanical, Electrical, and PLC
• Must possess good communications skills, both written and oral.Strong attention to detail
• Strong analytical, numerical, statistical, computer, and reasoning skills.
• Excellent MS Office experience.
• Demonstrates organizational and team building skills.
• Strong presentation skills.

• To provide overall responsibility in assisting the Production Manager in achieving production targets by managing machine efficiencies, quality, production schedules, solving quality related problems and condition of machines and EHS.
• Assist Production manager to achieve targets. and continuously train employees and maintain a disciplined production department.
• To ensure all machines and equipments are in good condition and is operated effectively to achieve production targets..

• Ensure that all production reports for each machine is completed accurately
• Monitor daily production schedule
• Achieve target based on available capacity.
• Coordinate with all departments
• Manage all quality related problems within accepted time span
• Maintain global best practice in manufacturing and production, while considering quality, and quantity.
• Coordinate Work distribution, allocation, and other activities of subordinates.
• Reviewing workers performance
• Arrange for prompt repairs and routine maintenance of production equipment.
• Producing computerised reports.
• Continuously reduce scrap produced
• Training of personnel

• B.Eng. /B.Tech. in Mechanical/Electrical/ Production Engineering.
• 10 years post graduate qualification with hands on injection moulding production plant and management experience.

• Hands on experience in plastic injection moulding.
• Sound hands on experience and good track record of leading and controlling people
• Excellent organizational skills, excellent communication skills at all levels, managerial skills, and results orientated.
• Good knowledge in injection moulding machines and plastics processing
• Knowledge of different raw materials, machine moulds, production, machine maintenance,
• Good knowledge of global best practice in manufacturing and Production Industry.
• Exposure to Maintenance, Quality , and HSE Standards.
• Advanced computer literacy

• Assist shift maintenance manager in controlling the installation, repair, and upkeep of company’s property, including production machines and accessories.
• This includes mechanical, electrical, and hydraulics.
• All work to be carried out in line with GMP and within accepted engineering standards.

• Oversee and direct maintenance personnel, equipment installation, facilities equipment repair, and preventative maintenance.
• Inspect and evaluate physical plant, grounds, and related equipment.
• Coordinate with contractors to perform activities, repairs, preventive maintenance on building equipment and ground appearance.
• Assist in maintenance goal setting, activity scheduling, work performance and performance management to ensure measurable goals, proper workload distribution, goal satisfaction and effective staff performance management.
• Ensures that periodic preventive maintenance is appropriately scheduled and accomplished and that emergency troubleshooting and maintenance support are readily available as needed.
• To enhance production capacity by overhauling mechanical system for production.
• Inspect and test wiring installations, assemblies, and circuits for resistance factors and for operation , and record results.
• Adjust, repair, or replace electrical or mechanical component parts to correct defects and to ensure conformance to specifications.
• Clean parts, using cleaning solutions, air hoses, and cloths to elongate machine life span.
• Read and interpret schematic drawings, diagrams, blueprints, specifications, work orders, and reports in order to determine materials requirements and assembly instructions.
• Mark and tag components so that stock inventory can be tracked and identified.
• Position, align, and adjust work pieces, mechanical and electrical parts to facilitate wiring and assembly.
• Interact with supervisors or engineers to plan and review work activities, and to resolve production problems.
• Explain assembly procedures or techniques to other workers.
• Knowledge of day-to-day and strategic issues, operational requirements, and management of a manufacturing facility.

• A graduate: HND/BSC in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering with at least 10 years’ hands on experience.

• Good mathematical knowledge
• Widespread experience of working in different types of plants with good manufacturing practise
• In-depth knowledge of repair and maintenance requirements of plant machinery, tools, equipment, and mechanical systems
• Ability to work independently and in a large team of equally skilled individuals
• Proficient in a large number of software and applications used for record maintenance, communication, reporting and programmable logic controller.
• Outstanding skills of communication that enhances the flow of tasks and information across the organization
• In-depth knowledge of hydraulic system in Injection machines