Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Engineer

AB InBev Africa; Matatiele; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AB InBev Africa in South Africa seeks a Packaging Engineer to drive asset care, reliability and optimisation in the packaging hall. You will lead a technical team, ensure safety and cost-effective production, and align maintenance plans with production needs for high uptime.

You will develop team goals, oversee training, and implement continuous improvement initiatives while complying with OSH and SAB policies. This is a Packaging Pipeline Advertisement.

Qualifications

• BSc Engineering or equivalent engineering degree.
• Government Certificate of Competence would be highly advantageous.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep asset management expertise.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people.

Responsibilities

• Lead asset care planning and execution for the packaging hall, aligning with engineering team goals.
• Ensure asset care compliance, training, and budget controls within the packaging hall.
• Oversee plant reliability, maintenance planning and data integrity.
• Drive plant optimisation, evaluate improvements and sign off modifications.
• Provide team leadership, performance reviews, and training plans.
• Enforce safety, housekeeping and legal compliance in all tasks.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Analytical ability

Budget management

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

BSc Engineering

Government Certificate of Competence

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 ensure optimum utilization of plant, raw materials and people, to produce quality product at minimum cost which meets customer requirements while complying with legislation.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Asset Care

• Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the packaging hall, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice
• Implement the asset care plan for the packaging hall, ensuring that the engineering team have the required competencies
• Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals Audit compliance to the asset care programme by both the engineering team and the shift base teams
• Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team. Where training needs have been identified, through the training controller, ensure these are addressed
• Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of the packaging hall

Plant Reliability

• Responsible for the overall reliability and up time of the packaging hall
• Lead the engineering team in the provisioning of asset care and engineering support to the shift based production teams
• Verifies that the engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance, and validates quality of work
• Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly, and that data integrity and information accuracy is maintained
• Reviews plant reliability to ensure that equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
• Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that the engineering team is applying the correct problem solving techniques

Plant Optimisation

• Takes part in the Regional and Central Office plant optimisation trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required
• Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant and equipment modifications
• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance and initiates opportunity evaluation
• Analyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to correct root causes
• Takes part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support
• Ensures that continuous improvement is built into engineering team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions

Team Leadership

• Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular engineering team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one on one and performance reviews
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team

Safety and Housekeeping

• Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements when carrying out their tasks
• Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping
• Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive the appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits
• Where unsafe work practice has been identified, the packaging engineer is responsible for correcting this Drive Safety and legal compliance in the Packaging Hall as a 2 (7) appointee

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational, people)
• A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintain inequality
• Mental alertness and analytical ability
• Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance
• Leadership ability (ability to lead planners, controllers and a full engineering team)
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to develop and control budgets
• Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop
• Ability to manage complex projects of significant number
• Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum
• High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree
• Government Certificate of Competence would be highly advantageous
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management
• Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line highly advantageous
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people

Additional Information:

• Band: VI

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in- line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements.

• Please note this is a Packaging Pipeline Advertisement.