Packaging Reliability Engineer — Autonomous Ops

The South African Breweries; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Breweries seeks a Maintenance Reliability Specialist to systematically improve equipment reliability across select machine groups and optimise maintenance costs in collaboration with Zone Technical Experts and brewery personnel.

You will lead safety, quality and uptime initiatives, coach artisans and operators, implement autonomous operations, and drive data-driven maintenance plans to support world-class operations. The role is based on site at SAB facilities in South Africa.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical engineering (or equivalent).
• Additional business qualification is preferred.
• Belt qualification and relevant experience.
• 2–3 years FMCG experience in a Controller / Supervisor / Senior Technician role.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, healthy and risk-free working environment for the selected machine group.
• Provide equipment that is safe to operate, compliant to environmental requirements and can deliver products that meet the required quality requirements.
• Support and coaching of artisans and operators to achieve 100% uptime, Zero Safety incidents, Zero Quality incidents, VIC usages like water, energy in control.
• Must understand VPO, how the pillars are interconnected and support the journey to world class operations.
• Drive the implementation of Autonomous Operations through hands-on execution of each of the steps.
• Equipment restored to an “as new” condition, in which initial deterioration is eliminated or controlled.
• Provides a stable platform from which natural deterioration linked failures can be addressed with preventive and predictive maintenance activities.
• Use data driven techniques to sustain and drive systemic improvements in equipment reliability for selected machine group by developing, improving and optimising preventive and predictive maintenance plans.
• Optimised maintenance costs, medium and long term plans and spare parts holding to achieve the agreed ZBB Budget.
• Use data driven techniques to identify, develop, train and assess technical skills interventions to improve skills related performance gaps.
• Improved equipment performance as a result of improved technical skills of relevant personnel.
• Codification of technical knowledge through SOP’s and SWI’s.
• Actively participate in problem solving (5 Why reviews, Abnormality Reports and PDCA/ITF’s) to provide deep technical knowledge to ensure correct root cause identification and that suitable preventive measures are identified and implemented.
• Improved equipment performance through effective implementation of preventive measuresManage machine related projects for selected machine group to improve overall performance (reliability, quality and cost) as agreed with Pack Engineer or ZTE.
• Project completion on time, within budget and according to agreed specification.
• ZBB Maintenance budget compliance for selected machine group.
• Collaboration with ZTE’s, Vendor’s and Reverse Engineering Specialist to deliver KPI’s

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Planning

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical engineering

Additional business qualification

Tools

Belt qualification

Job description

The South African Breweries seeks a Maintenance Reliability Specialist to systematically improve equipment reliability across select machine groups and optimise maintenance costs in collaboration with Zone Technical Experts and brewery personnel.

You will lead safety, quality and uptime initiatives, coach artisans and operators, implement autonomous operations, and drive data-driven maintenance plans to support world-class operations. The role is based on site at SAB facilities in South Africa.