Packaging Maintenance Planner-2
The South African Breweries SAB · Limpopo
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Key Outputs and Responsibilities
Maintenance Planning.
- Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre meeting with a focus on required work, problems to be addressed and resource requirements.
- Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule.
- Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritised and relevant works requests generated.
- Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources.
- Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion.
- Partake in planned maintenance period in support of the maintenance team, assisting with problem solving, work prioritisation and resource re allocation.
- Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems.
- Facilitate and lead the maintenance postmortems and document any problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned.
Problem Solving
- Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve.
- Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to engineer for direction.
- Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request.
- Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA's on request.
Moreover
- Ensure that all legal compliance and safety tasks are carried out on the specific time allocation.
- Ensure that all maintenance KPIs meet the required targets set out by TSM manager.
- Setup weekly/yearly maintenance budget based on the tasks that is being carried out and ensure you are in control of the requested budgets.
- Ensure maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown programs are completed.
- Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards.
- Ensure spares needed to support asset care program are available on time and within costs.
- Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialist's as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations.
- Analyse SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules.
- Coordinate resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown.
- Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions.
Minimum Requirements
- N6/Diploma in Engineering Mechanical/equivalent.
- Trade Tested Mechanical/Electrical/Instrumentation.
- 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience.
- Worked as machine specialist in FMCG for at least 2 years.
- Solid SAP experience.
- PC literate Proficiency in Microsoft Office package.
- Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices.
- In depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes.
- Assertive leadership, good people management.
- Strong diagnostic abilit