MEO Planner - HQ Sandton
The South African Breweries SAB · Gauteng
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- Creation of baseline consolidated Major Equipment Outage Plan MEO for the BU, using process templates.
- Maintenance of consolidated or master plan for ongoing or cyclic updates to the BOP and BU Leadership.
- Coordination with brewery Technical Services Managers, Section Engineers, Maintenance Planners and Regional Maintenance Coordinators to gather inputs for the plan.
- Effective engagement with Zone SNP, NPD, Projects, ZTEs and RPSS/MUBEX for alignments on Major Equipment Outages MEO plan.
- Liaise with OEM/Contractors for timely machine audits and involvement in maintenance execution.
- Critically evaluate work planned for Major Equipment Outages MEOs. Any work that can be done on a maintenance day is planned accordingly.
- Verify that Major Equipment Outages MEO related invoices are timeously processed for on time payments to avoid stop supply.
- Work with procurement in expediting on time delivery of parts to avoid delays of MEO execution.
- Identify and realize cost savings through initiatives such as spares bundling, schedule optimizations, identifying Alternative Material Manufacturers, Reverse Engineering and Zone Engineering Centre opportunities.
- Conduct planning review meetings with various stakeholders as per GOP and guided by TORs.
- Compute KPIs and publish weekly reports on KPIs as well as progress on MEOP GOP compliance and status.
- Be able to communicate changes made and justify them.
- Monitor the cost of the overhaul plan.
- Track the performance before and after Major Equipment Outages MEO.
- Timeously update the Outage Execution score dashboard in accordance to Safety, Planned vs Actual, Performance, Cost, Plan attainment and GOP Scores.
- Develop maintenance planners on maintenance and Major Equipment Outages.
- MEO planning process as well as conducting training on the process.
- Track the regional strategic spare parts, identify the opportunity to share the regional plant spare parts, reduce risk of the regional inventory.
- Support Zone spares planner on reduction of CWC.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in industrial, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- At least 5 years FMCG or beverages experience in industrial engineering and maintenance
- Is an experienced practitioner of the manufacturing way and VPO
- Familiar with OSHA and plant legislative laws
- Good process knowledge and understanding
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Detail orientated
- Exceptional presentation skills
- Ability to influence those around you
- Quick delivery of agreed actions
- Can effectively and concisely communicate with others
- Proven experience in solving technical problems with pragmatic solutions
- Efficient networker between plant, country and zone
- Ability to Travel as it would be occasional to sites
- Good knowledge of the safety requirements
- Very strong communication skills from executive level through to shop floor
- Strong systemic and strategic thinking balanced with a practical realism
- Strong analytic skills and problem-solving capability tempered with a bias for action
- Ability to influence others and build relationships in all levels of the organization
- Lives out the company values