Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Controller - Alrode Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles and responsibilities:

Manage Asset Care:

• Lead the development of asset care strategy and plan for the entire Packaging, ensuring adherence to COT principles
• Liaise with Zone around asset care, and take part in regional and central asset care MDT’s
• Through the training controller, ensure development of required asset care competencies within the engineering team
• Provide specialist asset care guidance and advice to engineering and production on asset care management
• Ensure reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) techniques are incorporated into all capital projects
• Perform routine and specific asset care assessments, and communicate findings to key stakeholders
• Address problems with asset care program, and lead the implementation of corrective action
• Manage required asset care systems, and ensure functional and data integrity of information Maintenance System Management
• Where necessary, lead and take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current systems
• Provide training, coaching and mentoring to users of maintenance systems and assist in problem solving
• Ensure, through the training controller, system users have the appropriate training and competencies to utilise the system
• Ensure the functional and data integrity of the maintenance system, and identify and resolve problems
• Conduct routine assessments of the system, and report finding to key stakeholders
• Where assessments highlight problems, the asset care specialist must ensure resolution

Problem Solving:

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problems solving approach to resolve
• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to the engineering controller for direction
• Take part, as a functional specialist, in FFA’s

Packaging Wide Asset Management Strategy Developed:

• Develop and disseminate asset management strategy for the packaging department
• Co-ordinate the implementation of the asset management strategy and monitor the progress of implementation

Asset Management Excellence Led:

• Ensure long term integrity of equipment and systems audit asset management processes
• Audit asset management processes and provide advice and counsel on remedy actions

Specialist Asset Management Support Provided:

• Ensure reliability, availability and maintainability (ram) techniques are incorporated in all capital projects. Participate in design out maintenance (dom) initiatives
• Support local manufacturing opportunities
• Facilitate failure investigations and monitor problem solving processes
• Lead reliability improvement initiatives

Predictive Maintenance Techniques Implemented:

• Predictive maintenance data interpreted, reported and actioned
• Assess, evaluate and introduce new predictive maintenance techniques

Maintenance System Data Audited For Integrity:

• Manage issues emanating from system usage audits
• Compile relevant asset management performance indicator reports
• Support provided to engineering stores and spares initiatives

Minimum requirement: :

• BSc Engineering in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering + Btech or equivalent
• Deep understanding of maintenance field and asset care on FMCG equipment
• Management experience of Mechanical Maintenance Workshop or Machine Stop
• In depth understanding of maintenance related systems, e.g. RCM, TPM (MMS CMT, etc)
• Prior production and engineering experience in a line management position