Brewing Maintenance Controller - Chamdor Brewery

The South African Breweries SAB · Gauteng

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End Date: September 19, 2026

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
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