BREWING MACHINE SPECIALIST

The South African Breweries; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Breweries is seeking a skilled maintenance Technician to keep brewing plant equipment in top condition. You will perform inspections, planned and routine maintenance, and running repairs to ensure reliable production and minimal downtime across the brewhouse and bottling halls.

This role requires leadership in a FMCG environment, strong problem-solving and 5S safety compliance. You will work with shift teams, contribute to maintenance planning, and drive continuous

Qualifications

• Min – N6 Technikon qualification and trade test in Electrical/Mechanical/Millwright.
• 3-5 years in a brewing or production environment.
• Leadership experience in FMCG environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational support to shift-based teams during operations.
• Assist as a functional expert in problem solving.
• Provide guidance to shift-based teams and escalate as needed.
• Participate in maintenance planning meetings and clarify work required.
• Carry out planned maintenance and postmortems to feed learning.
• Perform routine maintenance per schedule and use PS techniques for issues.
• Carry out running repairs and assist Shift Artisans; determine corrective actions.
• Apply proper problem-solving approaches and involve additional resources when needed.
• Contribute to improvements by updating SWIs, SOPs and maintenance tasks.

Skills

Management skills

People handling ability

Mental alertness

Analytical

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Education

National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical)

N6 Technikon qualification

Trade test qualification in Electrical/Mechanical or Millwright

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to maintain equipment in an as new condition, assuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment back to inherent condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop closure and provide input into the ZBB maintenance budget. Coaches’ operators in the correct way to operate equipment and perform autonomous operations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving
• This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams

Planned Maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine Maintenance

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate PS techniques

Running Repairs

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per SAP requirements

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or **escalate** to the Engineering Controller for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in FFA’s on request

Improvement

• Improve SWI’s, SOP’s and maintenance tasks on an ongoing basis to ensure that the loop is closed out to prevent issues arising

Housekeeping and Safety

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Management skills
• People handling ability
• Mental alertness, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Conceptual skills
• Engineering Specialist SME
• Subject matter expert

Minimum Requirements:

• Min – N6 Technikon qualification
• Trade test qualification in Electrical, Mechanical or Millwright
• 3 - 5 years in a Brewing or production environment
• 1-3 Years technical mechanical/electrical and brewing/bottling
• Experience in a leadership capacity in a FMCG environment
• National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical)
• Brewing maintenance workshop experience in a brewing plant
• Brewing / Bottling Hall and production experience
• Machine specific experience

Additional Information:

• Band: X

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.