Brewing Maintenance Controller - Chamdor Brewery
The South African Breweries SAB · Gauteng
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Key Roles and Responsibilities: Asset Care
- Manages all Brewing maintenance activities and lead a team on day shift
- Diagnoses and interprets problems fault finding to optimize production output and with own team carrying out the plant repairs
- Responsible for the reduction of breakdowns in the Brewing area by analyzing breakdowns, complying with the PM requirements and implementing continuous Improvements
- Reviews and Implements the Planned Maintenance Procedures Daily, Weekly and Monthly Checklists
- Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance, and loop closure implementation effectively
- Participate in executing the department's asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the Brewing department is maintained
- Draws up, coaches and develops the engineering skills of other maintenance and operational staff using OPLs, SOPs and SWIs
- Controls and oversees maintenance cost against available budget.
- Ensures engineering standards applied correctly
- Ensures compliance to Pressure Vessels and Equipment Regulations
- Supports the scoping of CAPEX projects within Brewing Plant
- Maintaining the integrity and security of maintenance management systems
Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Responsible for fault finding and problem solving of engineering/ operational problems by ensuring that the appropriate corrective action regarding any deviation from standards are taken
- Takes responsibility and coach team members to use the 4 phases of problem-solving
- Identifies the major engineering losses in Brewing area and investigates using problem solving methodologies. 5 Why, Stage 1 etc.
- Reviews emergency works orders and initiate investigations and corrective action
- Capability to develop and lead cross functional teams to deliver Business needs
Safety and Hygiene
- Ensures team compliance with acts and procedures
- Maintains 5S and housekeeping standards
- Ensures reporting, investigation, documentation and action of incidents as per the relevant acts and procedures
- Promotes safety awareness
- Ensure compliance with special work permit requirements by own employees and contractors
- Ensure compliance with Dust Explosion prevention and management standards
Administration
- Manages Level 1 & 2 team goals in Brewing area
- Manages team's maintenance performance measures
- Conducts individual and team performance reviews and one on ones. Provides performance feedback
- Leads all VPO initiatives in the department
- Applies and sustains industrial relations initiatives, policies, procedures, agreements & core values
- Performs relevant routines and supervisory walkabouts and checks
Quality
- Ensures that Company Quality Standards and are adhered to in the utilities area
Key Attributes and competencies
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at various levels of the organization
- Previous experience with VPO or other continuous improvement tools would be advantageous
- Ability to prioritize and manage maintenance projects in a Brewing environment
- Good knowledge of sustainable development reporting would be advantageous
- Good all-round knowledge of manufacturing
- Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures
- Desirable, but not essential - Knowledge of Brewing plant or bottling hall production and processes will be an advantage
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum Qualification: BTech in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Minimum 3-5 years' experience in Preventive & Predictive Maintenance concerned with production plant, involved in the day-to-day inspections, preventive & predictive maintenance and repair of machinery