Brewing Maintenance Controller at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Asset Care

• Manages all Brewing maintenance activities and lead a team on day shift
• Diagnoses and interprets problems (fault finding) to optimize production output and with own team carrying out the plant repairs.
• Responsible for the reduction of breakdowns in the Brewing area by analyzing breakdowns, complying with the PM requirements and implementing Continuous Improvements
• Reviews and Implements the Planned Maintenance Procedures ( Weekly and Monthly Checklists).
• Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance, and loop closure implementation effectively.
• Participate in executing the department’s asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the Brewing department is maintained.
• Draws up, coaches and develops the engineering skills of other maintenance and operational staff using OPLs, SOPs and SWIs.
• Controls and oversees maintenance cost against available budget.
• Ensures engineering standards applied correctly.
• Ensures compliance to Pressure Vessels and Equipment Regulations.
• Supports the scoping of CAPEX projects within Brewing Plant.
• Maintaining the integrity and security of maintenance management systems.

Problem Solving and Decisions Making

• Responsible for fault finding and problem solving of engineering/ operational problems by ensuring that the appropriate corrective action regarding any deviation from standards are taken
• Takes responsibility and coach team members to use the 4 phases of problem solving
• Identifies the major engineering losses in Brewing area and investigates using problem solving methodologies. (5 Why, Stage 1 etc.)
• Reviews emergency works orders and initiate investigations and corrective action
• Capability to develop and lead cross functional teams to deliver Business needs.

Safety and Hygiene

• Ensures team compliance with acts and procedures
• Maintains 5S and housekeeping standards
• Ensures reporting, investigation, documentation and action of incidents as per the relevant acts and procedures
• Promotes safety awareness
• Ensure compliance with special work permit requirements by own employees and contractors
• Ensure compliance with Dust Explosion prevention and management standards
• Administration

Administration

• Manages Level 1 - 2 team goals in Brewing area
• Manages team’s maintenance performance measures
• Conducts individual and team performance reviews and one on ones. Provides performance feedback
• Leads all VPO initiatives in the department
• Applies and sustains industrial relations initiatives, policies, procedures, agreements core values
• Performs relevant routines and supervisory walkabouts and checks

Quality

• Ensures that Company Quality Standards and are adhered to in the utilities area

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Qualification: BTech in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience in Preventive Predictive Maintenance concerned with production plant, involved in the day to day inspections, preventive predictive maintenance and repair of machinery
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at various levels of the organization
• Previous experience with VPO or other continuous improvement tools would be advantageous
• Ability to prioritize and manage maintenance projects in a Brewing environment
• Good knowledge of sustainable development reporting would be advantageous
• Good all round knowledge of manufacturing
• Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures
• Desirable, but not essential
• Knowledge of Brewing plant or bottling hall production and processes will be an advantage