The South African Breweries (SAB) is a subsidiary of AB InBev. Founded in 1895, SAB is South Africa’s top brewer and leading distributor of beer.
For more than 120 years SAB has been an integral thread in the social fabric of our country and continues to play a crucial role in the national economy. The company operates seven breweries and 40 depots in Sout...
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The key purpose of this role is s Identifying and delivering initiatives to deliver step change performance improvement and process stability in order to realize true process capability.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the brewing, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice
Implement the asset care plan for the brewing, ensuring 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 program by both the engineering team and shift-based teams
Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team
Where training needs have been identified, through the training specialist, ensure these are addressed • Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of brewing
Responsible for the overall reliability and uptime of brewing plant
Lead the engineering team in the provision of asset care and engineering support to the shift-based production teams
Verifies that 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 maintained
Reviews plant reliability to ensure equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that engineering team is applying the correct problem-solving techniques
Takes part in regional and central office plant optimization trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required
Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant modifications and changes
Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance, and initiates opportunity evaluation
Profile
BSc Engineering or equivalent tertiary education
3-5 years as a Section Engineer ideally in an FMCG company
Experience with modern VPO Maintenance Pillar
Previous exposure in brewing or similar process
Ability to ensure that all equipment and resources are available for an effective maintenance system
Ability to manage and ensure an effective spares stock levels and to ensure that costs are within budget
Ability to ensure that principles of VPO are implemented within brewing department
Ability to ensure that plant start-ups and shut downs are done safely and properly
Knowledge of the OH&S Act and NOSA standards
Ability to effect good HR processes to ensure that people are disciplined, motivated, developed and properly managed to ensure effective team performance
Government Certificate of Competence would be an advantage
Analytical and evaluative skills
Sound interpersonal and communication skills - Articulate
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