Senior Mechanic Job TakaTaka Solutions Kiambu, Kenya
Key Responsibilities
- Workshop Leadership: Lead and mentor mechanics, optimizing labor utilization and setting best practices for maintenance and repair tasks.
- Uptime: Ensure 85%+ equipment uptime (for all trucks, wheel loaders, forklifts and company cars/bikes)
- Diagnostics and Troubleshooting: Conduct diagnostic tests and troubleshoot basic equipment failures for trucks and other vehicles.
- Scheduling: Create and use daily and weekly planning for truck maintenance, services and repairs
- Maintenance Execution: Lead team in regular maintenance on machinery and equipment to boost uptime and reliability.
- Maintenance Logs and Documentation: Maintain detailed, organized records of work orders and ensure accurate, chronological tracking in the Vehicle tracker.
- Review Daily Checks: Review daily checks and liaise with logistics manager to plan for maintenance/repair
- Parts and Procurement Coordination: Request and assist (e.g. suppliers) the procurement process, coordinating with the purchasing team to ensure timely parts delivery.
- Store: Coordinate with the store and procurement to ensure spare and consumables being available
- Compliance: Ensure that all equipment is compliance with governmental standards (e.g. NTSA)
- Truck inspection: Ensure that all trucks are taken to inspection when required
- Housekeeping: Ensure proper housekeeping in and around the workshop
- Consultation and Preventive Advice: Advise drivers/ logistics team on proper use and preventive measures to extend equipment life leading to improvements in uptime and fuel/repair costs
- Budget: Give all input required for the workshop budget in liaison with the logistics HOD.
- Maintenance Scheduling:: Ensure adherence to preventive maintenance schedules, weekly schedule for all mechanics
- Automotive Machinery Acquisition: leading the process in the acquisition of company automotive machinery (e.g. trucks, wheel loaders, forklifts, etc)
- Leadership: Providing leadership to the Logistics department in absence of the Logistics HOD.
- Team and Performance Management: Manage the team of mechanics, monitor performance, and implement improvements for efficient operations.
- Equipment Uptime and Reliability: Strategize for longterm to maintain above 95% uptime for all trucks and equipment by enforcing preventive measures and prompt repairs.
- Budget: Lead workshop budget in the company quarterly budget tracker with structured back argumentation. .
Minimum Qualifications.
- Degree/Diploma/ Vocational Training in Automotive engineering.
- Proven experience as Workshop Supervisor or Senior Mechanic for at least 5 years.
- Possess a valid driving license.
- Excellent knowledge of truck systems, machinery and hydraulic, electrical and other systems and their components.
- Ability to follow established procedures and practices and read instruction, blueprints etc.
- A strong commitment to all health and safety guidelines
- Ability, competence and certification to drive trucks up to 10 wheelers.
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