Asset Care Engineer at Distell

Provide focus, strategic direction and technical expertise to the Asset Management to Distell's manufacturing plants to ensure optimal performance efficiency of assets, and ensuring maintenance integrity and reliability.
Develop and manage asset life cycle improvement strategies, and support systems, for Manufacturing (incl. Africa) to optimise Distell's assets.

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to: 

• Implement asset care practices that are prioritised and aligned to the Manufacturing strategy and business plans.
• Analyse efficiency and reliability performance at plant level and develop asset care improvement initiatives to address gaps in consultation with site asset care principles.
• Deliver on all short and long term asset care improvement initiatives and ensure optimum maintenance expenditure and stock holding
• Conduct regular equipment assessments to identify effectives of existing asset care practices.
• Drive engineering stock reduction and support group procurement in developing and implementing efficient engineering procurement.
• Investigate and develop asset care processes to support manufacturing targets, and sustain production capability through optimum asset life.
• Facilitate and ensure that systems are implemented to identify asset reliability risks, and plans to mitigate are implemented.
• Facilitate and ensure that processes are documented with adherence to good governance practices.
• Identify and implement evolving Asset Care technologies to improve asset reliability.
• Develop and implement follow-up RCM improvement phases based maintenance history.
• Manage the integrity of SAP PM system.
• Liaise with OEM regarding maintenance of major CAPEX installations.
• Provide expert technical consultation to site regarding best practices for improvement of production asset efficiency improvement.
• Develop and manage the most effective relationships with the right stakeholders to deliver on strategic priorities
• Coordinate biannual Asset Care forums to enable knowledge sharing between asset care stakeholders
• Develop and implement a structure to manage engineering technical data and standards, and to facilitate knowledge sharing (i.e. intranet forums etc.)
• Facilitate development of new PM functionality and reports
• Drive improvement of the overall skill levels of asset care personnel
• Facilitate and ensure the asset management structures are implemented, by plant to achieve performance objectives, including stock holding.
• Conduct gap analysis and attend coaching and up-skilling activities with managers/engineers/operators/apprentices

The successful candidate must have the following experience/skills:

• 8 Years relevant experience in a similar environment
• Experience in FMCG, alcoholic beverages or soft drinks operations will be highly advantageous
• Project management, Financial analysis, Simulation and Consulting skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Strong analytical abilities
• Good communication ability (presentation, reporting skills)
• Demonstrated track record in multinational operations, engineering, manufacturing and capital projects management leadership in a FMCG industry