Junior Mechanical Engineer at Reeds Africa Consult

JOB PURPOSE;

The ideal candidate will be responsible for taking lead of our projects and provide day to-day oversight and support all engineering and technical functions in order to achieve project sustainability and success in accordance with defined target, strategies and goal; maintaining product and industry knowledge. He or she will work in a team-oriented environment that accelerates operational efficiency.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare, schedule, monitor and coordinate the assigned mechanical engineering projects.
• Manage the mechanical project resource plan and budget.
• Manage mechanical project issues, risks and actions.
• Assign responsibilities and mentor mechanical project team.
• Implement and manage mechanical project changes and interventions to achieve mechanical project outputs.
• Mechanical project evaluations and assessment of results.
• Perform risk management to minimize mechanical project risks.
• Maintaining a comprehensive preventive maintenance schedule for mechanical projects.
• Allocating duties and supervising maintenance teams
• Diagnosing faults and ensuring timely repairs of the machinery, equipment and its fleet of vehicles
• Requisitioning and verifying of quality spares ordered both for machinery and fleet maintenance
• Writing technical reports on maintenance
• Timely scheduling of statutory maintenance and repairs

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree – Mechanical Engineering
• Previous working experience as a Project Engineer for at least 2 years.
• Valid engineer license
• Hands on experience with design and visualizations software such as AutoCAD
• Any additional Project Management Certifications will be considered an advantage.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Attention to details.
• Proactive problem solver
• Excellent time management skills.