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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Using the maintenance planning system, generate the routine maintenance schedules
This should include required cleaning, lubrication and inspection tasks
Allocate resources to the schedules and generate works orders where these are indicated
Communicate the schedules to the production, engineering and other support teams and resolve work and resource allocation problems
Verify that routine maintenance schedules are being completed and that shift teams are completing autonomous maintenance tasks assigned to them
Complete all administration and maintenance systems tasks required supporting the management of routine maintenance schedules
Provide feedback on the efficiency of routine maintenance tasks to the shift and engineering teams, and highlight non-compliance and problems that need to be addressed
Order spares for maintenance day execution and follow up
Follow up on outstanding spares if needed
Where necessary, take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current maintenance system
Manage the maintenance systems, ensuring operational and data integrity and correct use of the system
Plan required maintenance work using the maintenance system, generating the required schedules and associated works orders
Generate required maintenance reports, including SAP reports and communicate to key stakeholders
Capture required data on the maintenance systems
Data must be verified for accuracy and completeness
Conduct analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes and root causes of maintenance problems, and to identify problems timeously
Where analysis of maintenance data indicates a need to carry out work, this information must be communicated to the engineering team and included in the planned maintenance schedules
Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre-meeting
Work required, problems to be addressed and resource requirements must be discussed
Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritized, and relevant works requests generated
Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources may be required
Partake in planned maintenance period in support of maintenance team and assist with problem solving, work prioritization and resource re-allocation
Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
Facilitate and lead the maintenance postmortems. Problems encountered, opportunities identified, and lessons learned should be discussed
Where problems have occurred during routine and planned maintenance activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to engineer for direction
Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
Take part, as functional expert, in FFA's on request
Minimum Requirements
Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent
3 to 5 years Production Engineering experience with 3 years in supervisory level
PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft Project/Microsoft Office Applications)
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