Maintenance SME at The South African Breweries (SAB)

• The key purpose of this role is to implement policies, tools, techniques, best practices and routines to establish the behaviours necessary to sustain a culture of continuous improvement, maximizing products at a cost that is at world-class levels. 

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible to build and lead the strategy and capability- track quality requirements, certifications and training throughout the Zone.
• Provide input into the development of the 3YP/1YP Zone Maintenance plan.
• Consolidate medium and long-term plans and review preparations for the execution of major maintenance (OH) and downtime.
• Ensure that short-, medium- and long-term maintenance planning are executed correctly.
• Measure the planning and preventive maintenance regarding PIs and according to the corrective actions with the person responsible for the resources of the area for the execution of the maintenance.
• Develop and implement the necessary tools and processes to allow for monitoring/improvement in maintenance strategy.
• Ensures that medium and long-term plans are aligned with Life Cycle budgets.
• Develops and implements reliability engineering techniques such as Distribution Analysis and Probability of Failure.
• Build zone capacity for machine design and component reliability engineering.
• Coordinates the development of specific Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAMS) standards.
• Develop predictive techniques including predictive engineering methodologies.
• Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives.
• Ensure that the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is configured and used correctly.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to foster effective working partnerships.
• Problem solving ability to be able to guide Plants in developing actions plans to improve both KPI performance and VPO means scores.
• Experience in coaching and training and guiding plant leadership teams.
• ABI Principles profile

Minimum Requirements:

• BSC degree Engineering qualification or equivalent.
• 10 years minimum in Project Management and/or Maintenance /Engineering Operations
• High level of SAP system knowledge, specially PM Module.
• Must have experience in effective implementation of  maintenance and management  processes and systems.
• In-depth knowledge of brewing, packaging, utilities and malting processes (one or several).