Junior OPS Engineer Metal Forming - (JNR-OPS) at Nampak

Job Description
Main Objectives

• Support the plant with refurbishing of specialized tooling and precision machining. As well as to assisting the plants to identify improvement opportunities to optimize efficiencies. 
• Refurbishments and Rebuilds
• Understand plants tooling refurbishments requirement.
• Draw up and manage the refurbishment schedule
• Prioritize refurbishments depending on urgency and operational requirement
• Ensuring quality refurbishments, carried out on time, in full and according to OEM specification.
• Oversee the tooling flow (correct parts to correct plant).

Output production support

• Advising on tooling set up best practice. 
• Coaching and mentoring teams and providing expert tooling advice.
• Take action to overcome any problems related to the processes
• Conduct trials as required.  Evaluate and report findings.
• Introduce procedures as required to maintain efficiency, quality, performance levels and reduce costs

Focused Improvement

• Communication and feedback on tooling faults found, with potential preventative measures, and improvement opportunities.
• Complaints investigation and follow through. RCA to understand the root cause, corrective and preventative action.
• Assisting the plants to identify improvement opportunities to improve on tooling life and cost saving (e.g. nonadherence to standards and operating practices (e.g. grinding, setting, maintenance set ups).
• Writing SOPs and assist plant to follow SOPs and to save cost in the long run though ideal handling.
• Provide systematic technical support on root cause analysis and problem solving on major/repetitive failures on operations following a structured problem-solving approach (e.g., DMAIC, 5Why)
• Recording and documentation of analysis, improvements, and new standards.
• Quality
• Ensure compliance to all Bevcan - Quality and Food safety policies and procedures in accordance with FSSC 22000 and ISO 9001

Asset Care

• In conjunction with the Plant Personnel, ensure all maintenance procedures are up to date on equipment.
• Assist Plants to investigate and rectify recurring problems through RCA

Manpower training

• Assist in assessing training needs
• Provide coaching support.
• Work with Plant and Bevtech in identifying opportunity for skills development
• Provide guidance to L&D to develop training.
• Develop and produce SOP’s
• Safety

Contribute towards development and updating of Safe Work Procedures.

• Ensure SHEQ and OHSACT compliance and effective risk identification and management through effective use of BBS and safety meetings
• Job Requirements
• Physically fit and healthy to perform physically challenging functions, sometimes for long hours, and under pressure.

Extensive travel around and outside the country to give support to all Bevcan Operations.

Date Needed By
1/10/2022