Company Info
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world.
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.
1). Mechanical Planner
Requisition ID: 13859
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time
About the Job
- Improve the efficiency and productivity of own personnel and third party services through a good planning, follow up and optimization of all preventive/corrective maintenance tasks to reach the targets of equipment availability / reliability at the lowest sustainable maintenance cost, in collaboration with all involved departments or sub-departments, following the maintenance guide lines defined by the company.
What you’ll be doing
- The Mechanical Planner is responsible to prepare all planned maintenance that have to be carried out by the Mechanical Execution team, service companies or contractors.
- In that role, the Mechanical Planner will work closely with the inspectors and the execution team on the following tasks and responsibilities in order to reinforce the day-to-day job preparation & planning:
- Planning and scheduling of all preventive maintenance routines in SAP/DMS together with the specific execution responsible. Generation and optimization of the 48/96 weeks workload balancing sheet by department/specialty/technic targeting a good balance during the days of the year.
- Generates the weekly and 13 weeks planning.
- Prioritizes the notifications coming from condition monitoring or others and generates corrective work orders in agreement with the requester
- Leads the preparation and consolidation of the shutdown planning (personal, third parties services, materials, spare parts, equipment, tools, time, critical path) with coordination meetings using MAC guidelines and tools.
- Generates purchase orders as well as third party services contracts for mayor shutdown, assure that spares and services will be delivered on time.
- Control of expenses during planning as well during the execution vs budget and control the inventory level vs guide value
- Assure that special and repetitive jobs come with a standard work order.
- Lead the weekly KPI revision meeting as well as the work planning confirmation for the next week
- Takes care of his own development needs and train maintenance people on planning requirements
- Assure that all work orders have the required H&S information, and that all legal requirements (safety, environmental, maintenance) are in the yearly preventive maintenance plan and are executed.
- Monitor the realization of the plans.
- Follow-up tasks defined in mayor shut-downs in a daily frequency.
- Leads After Action Review for shutdown or mayor repairs
- The Mechanical Planner will be utilized to supervise some jobs and contractors during annual plant
- The list is not exhaustive as planners may be required to perform other functions as may be assigned by the manager.
What we are looking for
- Mechanical Engineering graduate
- 3 – 5 years experience in Mechanical Engineering, including rotating machines, equipment maintenance, condition monitoring, in cement manufacturing company, refinery, power or heavy process plan
- Knowledge of gearboxes, transmissions, hydraulic, pneumatic, welding techniques, lubrication, and mechanical non-destructive testing
- Adequate Knowledge related to equipment function & maintenance (Crusher, Stacker, Reclaimer, Raw mill, Belt Conveyors & Aux. Equipments)
- Good knowledge of Machinery condition Monitoring technologies and maintenance philosophies.
- Ability to trouble shoots the problem and proposed corrective actions.
- Excellent knowledge of vibration analysis, oil analysis, wear measurement, thermography, liquid penetrant, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, radiography, etc
- Good knowledge of RCA methodology and facilitating skills
- CMRP certification will be an added advantage.
Who you’ll be working:
List of direct reports:
- None.
Key Interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
- Inspector
- Lubrication Foreman
- Inventory
- Area Manager
- Shift Leader
- Workshop
- External contractors and suppliers
- Procurement,
- Finance.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Welder
Requisition ID: 13862
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time
About the role
- The role holder is responsible for mechanical maintenance and repairs through fabrication and welding of plant equipment according to maintenance schedules to facilitate smooth operations and ensuring prompt completion and quality of the execution of welding jobs.
What you’ll be doing
- Responsible for the maintenance and well being of all burning/welding equipments.
- Ensure quality welding repairs on plant equipment as per maintenance scheduling and using job plans.
- Monitor the time requirements for each welding job and the optimal manpower and skills necessary for executing jobs.
- Ensure proper housekeeping is done at all times in the welding workshop.
- Ensure that proper welding safety measures are being adhered to at all times by all welding shop personnel.
- Responsible for scheduling inspection/audit of welding tools and machines (including safety welding accessories) and ensuring that they are in optimal condition of safe use.
- Responsible for recording daily welding job activities.
- Ensure proper management of welders working under him.
- Monitor job duration, cost and performance of welders.
- Recommend improvements for cost reductions.
- Respond promptly to emergency welding repair needs.
- Work with the planning in the development of job planning.
- Ensure required item such as chutes, cones, etc are made from sketches and drawings provided by superiors from the draughtsman.
- Specify work procedures, if required.
- Monitor and control overtime of subordinate.
- Ensure safe storage and proper disposal of replaced spares.
- Comply with EMS Mechanical Instrumentation job functions.
- Ensure involvement in the implementation and maintenance of integrated management system in the plant.
What we are looking for
- Other Degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering
- Technical College Diploma, City & Guild
- 5 years’ hands-on experience in a process industry
- Hands-on experience on the welding shop equipment
- Knowledge of work and safety rules and regulations
- Knowledge of relevant welding shop equipment
- Knowledge of engineering drawing
- Knowledge of relevant software.
Who you’ll be working with
Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
- Methods department for preparation, planning and generation of work orders.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Packing Plant Technician I
Requisition ID: 13858
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time
About the role
- Role holder is responsible for coordinating and supervise activities in the Packing Plant for the purpose of loading and dispatching Cement in accordance with loading procedures and according to raised invoices.
- Contribute to the best level of performance of plant’s equipment.
Responsibilities
- Implement Lafarge Safety Rules and Regulation in accordance with the Group HSE Standards and Advisories.
- Carry out equipment energy isolation according to LOTOTO procedures
- Monitors the operations and optimizes all aspects of Rotary packer in compliance with the Company Quality Standards and Requirements.
- Supervise the activities of the Contractors and Lafarge Third Party Operators through proper implementation of Lafarge Contractor Safety Management Standards (CSM)
- Monitor Production activities to comply with Group Environmental Standards and maintain good housekeeping at all time
- Supervises and coordinate packing & loading activities in a safe manner- by ensuring proper packing and loading of cement into trucks, bulk tankers and Jumbo bags by following the SOP to ensure that trucks weight is within the tolerance level on shift basis.
- Identify all faults that occur in the cause of operation in their respective shift, reported to services department concern for necessary action, and followed up for quick intervention
- Carry out daily stock count of cement bagged and empty cement bags on shift basis by generating a report for distribution to Production manager, Inventory Manager, Shift Leader, statistics office and other stakeholders for planning.
- Liaises with Shift Coordinator and other Supervisors on the status of different Cement stocks and the need to accelerate production to meet targets and demands.
- Ensure safe working condition of plant and personnel with implementation of Lafarge safety rules and regulation in accordance with the Group HSE standards and advisories.
Education & Experience
- OND / HND in Sciences or Engineering or Numerate Sciences.
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in a process industry.
Technical Competencies:
- Understand the process involved and effects at each stage in Cement production from the raw material to finished production.
- Ability to interpret and understand laboratory Cement analysis.
- Ability to operate equipment in the section
- Compiles all Packing Plant reports and handles consignment forms plus other related documents.
- High degree of numeric for maintaining Cement packing statistics as well as stocks
- Ability to motivate and maintain
- Good planning skills.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Tack and diplomacy when dealing with customers
- Ability to motivate subordinates in order to achieve required results while maintaining good supervisor-subordinate relationship
- Easy to adopt to new job demands and environment requirements
- Able to work under pressure where necessary in order to produce required results with maximum efficiency.
Managerial Competencies:
- Team leadership skill
- Good aptitude for organization and communication
- Result oriented with high decision making capacity/ self confidence
- High level of initiative
- Ability to multitask effectively
- Good aptitude for field work
- Anticipative.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:
