Packaging Maintenance Controller - Alrode Brewery
The South African Breweries SAB · Gauteng
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Key Role and Responsibilities
Asset care
- Manage all brewing electrical maintenance activities and lead a team of 6 employees across 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
- Review and Implementation of Planned Maintenance Procedures Daily, Weekly and Monthly Checklists
- Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, preventative and predictive maintenance effectively
- Participate in executing the department's asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the brewing department is maintained
- Coaches and develops the engineering skills of other maintenance and operational staff
- Control and oversee maintenance cost against available budget
- Ensure engineering standards applied correctly
- Draws up, Coaches and develops engineering skills to other maintenance and operational staff using OPL and SOPs
- Support Brewing Process Artisans
- Coach Artisans on AWS
Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Responsible for fault-finding and problem solving of engineering/ operational problems in the brewing area by ensuring that the appropriate corrective action regarding any deviation from standards is taken
- Identifies the major engineering losses in brewing area and investigates using problem solving methodologies. 5 Why, Stage 1 etc.
- Review emergency works orders and initiate investigations and corrective action
- Capability to develop and lead cross functional teams to deliver Business needs
Safety and Hygiene
- Ensure team compliance with acts and procedures
- Maintain 5 S and housekeeping standards
- Ensure reporting, investigation, documentation and action of incidents as per the relevant acts and procedures
- Promote safety awareness
- Ensure compliance with special work permit requirements by own employees and contractors
Administration
- Manage Level 1 & 2 team goals in brewing area
- Conduct individual and team performance reviews and one on ones • Provide performance feedback
- Lead all VPO initiatives in the department
- Apply and sustain industrial relations initiatives, policies, procedures, agreements & core values QUALITY
- Ensures that Company Quality Standards and are adhered to in the brewing 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
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum Qualification: National Diploma Mechanical/Electrical/Millwright
- Trade: Fitter and Turner/Millwright/Electrical
- Maintenance Diploma would be advantageous
- 3 -5 years' experience in Preventive, & Predictive Maintenance of concerned with production plant, involved in the day-to-day inspections, preventive & predictive maintenance and repair of machinery