Packaging Maintenance Planner

The South African Breweries; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Breweries (SAB) is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to drive continuous improvement in plant reliability through TPM development and maintenance planning. The role focuses on maintenance scheduling, systems management, and planning, with a strong emphasis on data integrity and problem solving across production and engineering teams.

You will lead scheduled maintenance, participate in system changes, and generate SAP reports for stakeholders while ensuring accurate data capture

Qualifications

• Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent and trade tested.
• 3 to 5 years production engineering experience with 3 years in supervisory level.
• Knowledge of Brewing and Packaging plant will be an advantage.
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft office applications).

Responsibilities

• Generate routine maintenance schedules using the maintenance planning system, including cleaning, lubrication and inspection tasks.
• Allocate resources and generate works orders; communicate schedules to production, engineering and support teams.
• Verify completion of routines and autonomous maintenance; provide feedback on efficiency and non‑compliance.
• Participate in commissioning of new maintenance systems and changes; ensure data integrity and correct system use.
• Plan maintenance work, generate schedules and work orders; produce SAP reports for stakeholders.
• Maintain data accuracy on maintenance systems and analyse data to identify failure modes and root causes.
• Facilitate planned maintenance pre-meetings and reschedule incomplete work; capture information in maintenance systems.
• Lead maintenance post mortems and discuss problems, opportunities and lessons learned.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Problem solving

Data analysis

Supervisory experience

Education

Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical)

Tools

SAP

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 facilitate continuous improvement in plant reliability through TPM development and maintenance / project planning.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintenance Scheduling:

• Using the maintenance planning system, generate the routine maintenance schedules
• This should include required cleaning, lubrication and inspection tasks
• Allocate resources to the schedules and generate works orders where these are indicated
• Communicate the schedules to the production, engineering and other support teams and resolve work and resource allocation problems
• Verify that routine maintenance schedules are being completed and that shift teams are completing autonomous maintenance tasks assigned to them
• Complete all administration and maintenance systems tasks required supporting the management of routine maintenance schedules
• Provide feedback on the efficiency of routine maintenance tasks to the shift and engineering teams, and highlight non-compliance and problems that need to be addressed

Maintenance Systems Management:

• Where necessary, take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current maintenance system
• Manage the maintenance systems, ensuring operational and data integrity and correct use of the system
• Plan required maintenance work using the maintenance system, generating the required schedules and associated works orders
• Generate required maintenance reports, including SAP reports and communicate to key stakeholders
• Capture required data on the maintenance systems
• Data must be verified for accuracy and completeness
• Conduct analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes and root causes of maintenance problems, and to identify problems timeously
• Where analysis of maintenance data indicates a need to carry out work, this information must be communicated to the engineering teamand included in the planned maintenance schedules

Maintenance Planning:

• Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre-meeting
• Work required, problems to be addressed and resource requirements must be discussed
• Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
• Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritized and relevant works requests generated
• Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
• Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources may be required
• Partake in planned maintenance period in support of maintenance team and assist with problem solving, work prioritization and resource re-allocation
• Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from planned maintenanceperiod on the maintenance systems
• Facilitate and lead the maintenance post mortems. Problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned should be discussed

Problem Solving:

• Where problems have occurred during routine and planned maintenance activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or elevate to engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
• Take part, as functional expert, in FFA’s on request

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Proven experience in applying technical knowledge and principles Solid understanding of Brewing principles and processes
• Good all round knowledge of manufacturing and maintenance processes
• Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures

Minimum Requirements:

• Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent and trade tested
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience with 3 years in supervisory level
• Knowledge of Brewing and Packaging plant will be an advantage
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft office applications)

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. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.