Packaging Maintenance Planner-2

The South African Breweries SAB · Limpopo

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End Date: October 28, 2026

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
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