MAINTENANCE CONTROLLER

The South African Breweries; Theewaterskloof Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Band VII

Job summary

The South African Breweries seeks a skilled maintenance planner for our brewing operations in the Western Cape. The role focuses on crafting effective maintenance plans for plant equipment, ensuring spares availability and coordinating outages to minimize downtime.

You will lead a team, work under GOP and VPO principles, and ensure safety standards are met while continuously improving planning processes. Maltings environment experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Tradetested artisan/electrician/millwright or similar is required.
• N6 qualification.
• 3-5 years of management experience in an engineering environment.
• Proven experience in SAP is required.
• Candidates with maltings environment experience are strongly preferred.
• Must have experience leading a team.

Responsibilities

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards.
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation/systems.
• Develop the plan.
• Tags and work airings from inspection tasks are planned to carry out repairs.
• Continuously improve (optimise) plans and look for opportunities to reduce the overall planned maintenance outage, whilst ensuring that all required work is carried, and plant is not placed at risk.
• Communicate effectively in teams and all levels in the plant; contribute to self and team development.
• All work is carried out using the VPO principles.
• Understands, Implements and Complies to the GOP requirements.
• Sustains what has been implemented.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Team leadership

Safety procedures

Education

N6 qualification

Tools

SAP

Industrial automation basics

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?

Key Purpose

of this role is to ensure that effective maintenance plans are in place for the maintenance of applicable equipment, that spares are available for the planned work, resources are available to execute. On the planned maintenance outage, monitor that the plan is effective. Makes recommendations to the maintenance controller, Brewing Area Manager and Brewing Engineer if unforeseen work arises.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
• Develop the plan
• Tags and work airings from inspection tasks are planned to carry out repairs
• Continuously improve (optimise) plans and look for opportunities to reduce the overall planned maintenance outage, whilst ensuring that all required work is carried, and plant is not placed at risk
• Communicate effectively in teams and all levels in the plantContribute to self and team development
• All work is carried out using the VPO principles
• Understands, Implements and Complies to the GOP requirements
• Sustains what has been implemented

Minimum Requirements:

• Tradetested,qualifiedartisan,electrician,millwrightor similar (must have)
• N6 qualification
• 3-5yearsmanagementexperienceinanengineeringenvironment
• ProvenexperienceinSAPisrequired
• Candidateswithexperienceinamaltingsenvironmentarestronglypreferred.
• Musthaveexperienceleadingateam

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

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.