Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Maintenance Controller

The South African Breweries; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Breweries is seeking a Maintenance Planner to drive TPM and scheduling in our packaging and manufacturing environment in South Africa. You will generate and manage maintenance plans, coordinate with production, engineering and support teams to ensure reliability and continuous improvement.

Join a team focused on data-driven maintenance, postmortems, and proactive problem solving, with a strong emphasis on safety, SHE policies and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) required.
• 3–5 years production engineering with 3 years supervisory experience.
• Brewing and packaging plant knowledge an advantage.
• PC literate; proficient with office applications.

Responsibilities

• Generate routine maintenance schedules using the maintenance planning system.
• Allocate resources and generate works orders for schedules.
• Communicate schedules to production, engineering and support teams.
• Verify routine maintenance completion and autonomous tasks.
• Provide feedback on efficiency and highlight non-compliance problems.
• Participate in commissioning or changes to maintenance systems.
• Plan maintenance work and generate required reports, including SAP reports.
• Capture and verify data on maintenance systems; analyze failure modes.
• Lead planned maintenance pre- and post-meetings; reschedule unfinished work.

Skills

Technical knowledge

Brewing processes

Manufacturing processes

SHE policies

Education

Diploma in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

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 team and 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 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 may be required
• Partake in planned maintenance period in support of maintenance team and assist with problem solving, work prioritisation and resource re-allocation
• Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
• Facilitate and lead the maintenance postmortems. 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

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.