Electrical & Instrumentation Maintenance Manager

The Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading and managing all electrical instrumentation automation and control system maintenance activities across Air Liquide operations to ensure safe reliable compliant and cost-effective plant performance.

The role is accountable for developing and executing maintenance strategies that improve equipment reliability plant availability energy efficiency and operational integrity while ensuring compliance with statutory safety and Air Liquide engineering standards.

The incumbent will lead multidisciplinary maintenance teams and contractors while driving continuous improvement asset integrity digital maintenance practices and operational excellence within industrial gas production filling storage and distribution facilities.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance & Reliability Management

• Lead the execution of preventive predictive corrective and reliability-centered maintenance programs for electrical and instrumentation assets.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of electrical distribution systems PLCs DCS/SCADA systems analyzers instrumentation compressors motors MCCs VSDs transformers and process control systems.
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies to minimize downtime and optimize lifecycle cost of assets.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and failure investigations for recurring equipment failures and plant interruptions.
• Ensure critical spare parts strategies are established and maintained.

Asset Integrity & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable South African regulations including OHSA pressure equipment regulations electrical standards and industrial gas safety requirements.
• Ensure statutory inspections calibrations and testing are completed within required timelines.
• Manage electrical and instrumentation asset integrity programs and technical risk mitigation plans.
• Support Management of Change (MOC) processes for plant modifications and engineering upgrades.
• Maintain compliance with Air Liquide engineering safety and technical standards.

Automation & Control Systems

• Lead maintenance and optimization of automation process control and instrumentation systems.
• Support digital transformation initiatives remote monitoring predictive analytics and smart maintenance technologies.
• Ensure cyber security and integrity of industrial control systems where applicable.
• Coordinate system upgrades software backups and obsolescence management.

Safety Health & Environmental Leadership

• Promote a strong safety culture aligned with Air Liquides safety objectives and Life Saving Rules.
• Ensure safe execution of maintenance activities through risk assessments permit-to-work systems lockout/tagout (LOTO) and contractor safety management.
• Lead incident investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure environmental and energy efficiency considerations are integrated into maintenance activities.

Leadership & People Management

• Lead coach and develop E&I technicians engineers planners and contractors.
• Build technical capability and succession within the maintenance team.
• Drive performance management training and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Foster strong collaboration between operations engineering reliability procurement and SHEQ teams.

Budget & Performance Management

• Develop and manage E&I maintenance budgets and cost control initiatives.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs including MTBF MTTR equipment availability maintenance compliance and energy performance.
• Drive maintenance productivity and optimization initiatives.
• Support shutdown planning and execution activities.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.