Condition Monitoring Specialist - Newlands Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The key purpose of this role is to ensure optimal asset performance through loss elimination, risk management, life cycle management and identification, implementation and entrenchment of best practice, ensuring efficient management of the fixed cost maintenance plan for the asset.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

Condition Monitoring Techniques

• Develop and manage Plant footprint to ensure the correct condition monitoring techniques are applied to prevent functional failures
• Apply RCM practices to prevent functional failures (Vibration Spectrum Analyses, Oil Analyses, Thermography, Ultrasonic Analyses)
• Monitor to detect the onset of deterioration and provide a measure of the extent and rate of deterioration
• Incorporate condition monitoring techniques into SIC systems

Maximise Asset Reliability and Availability:

• Deliver JIT approach to maintain assets in Plants according to Condition Monitoring results
• Continually review and optimize predictive maintenance plans to ensure maximum output at minimum cost
• Identify trends in asset performance using RCM analysis and implement solutions to reduce breakdowns and improve machine efficiency by applying predictive maintenance solutions
• Analyse asset performance trends to generate and support preventative and predictive improvement plans
• Monitor reliability indicators based on the condition monitoring report, failure reports and notifications generated
• Monitor adherence to the preventative and predictive maintenance plans; adjust accordingly and take corrective action
• Monitor assets, condition monitoring indicators and take necessary corrective actions
• Prevention of functional failures and avoid the consequences of functional failures

Drive the Resolution of Failures through Structured Problem Solving:

• Evaluate effectiveness of Regional problem solving through the analysis of formal problem-solving documentation
• Facilitate higher level problem solving for assets by applying standard problem-solving tools informed by Loss & Waste and Condition Monitoring analyses

Risk and Life Cycle Management of Assets:

• Identify maintenance risks and address accordingly by applying the correct condition monitoring techniques
• Maintain the maintenance TCO and ensure appropriately prioritised plans to extend equipment life
• Optimise the asset maintenance life cycle cost through life cycle costing analysis
• Reduce life cycle costing by improving asset maintainability

Identify, Implement and Entrench Best Practice

• Implement condition monitoring best practice
• Where best practice is not available, identify and define good condition monitoring practices (benchmarking against similar assets where possible) and implement accordingly
• Identify and eliminate poor maintenance practices
• Ensure adherence to internal and external condition monitoring standards
• Drive efficiency by ensuring that learnings from downtime and condition monitoring findings are replicated across similar asset across the group
• Reduce mean time to repair and secondary breakdowns by ensuring adherence to good engineering and condition monitoring standards

Training and Development

• Train, coach, assess and sign-off MAS’s and PA’s on condition monitoring best practices and standards
• Development of technical standards and work instructions

Projects Delivery

• All new equipment must be included on condition monitoring footprint and the correct techniques must be applied on assets
• Incorporate all new equipment into the Condition Monitoring Footprint
• Apply correct techniques on assets

Profile:

• National Diploma (N6) in Engineering or Maintenance
• Ideally 3 years’ experience packaging production experience and/or VISA Level 2
• Experience in the utilities environment
• SAP PM knowledge
• Computer literate
• Superior decision-making capability
• Strong analytical capabilities and excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in teams