Major Equipment Outage Planning Manager at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The key purpose of this role is the management of the Centralized Major Equipment Outage Planning team, ensuring coordination and successful execution of the Africa Zone, Annual Maintenance outages, through being the interface between plant, zone, procurement and relevant suppliers and OEM’s.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Own the Centralized Major Equipment Outage Planning for Supply and Vertical operations, putting YoY downtime plans together with a dotted line report to Zone Maintenance Manager.
• Manage the accuracy and alignment of the teams’ MEO plans in different BUs.
• Track & monitor outage execution scores taking into consideration 6 metrics of measure for a successful outage i.e. Safety, Planned Duration vs Actual, Plan Attainment, GOP Score, Performance After Outage (LEF), Cost of MEO. 
• Establish and manage relations with multiple internal role players, Zone Production Planning (WSNP), New Product Development ( NDP), zone maintenance coordinators (ZBS), Zone Project Teams to mitigate risk to supply grid and production plan attainment.
• Provide input into and mitigate risks for S&OP plan as a result of plant major equipment outages. 
• Accountable for the management, control and optimization of engineering spares in the Supply and Verticals plants.
• Control, optimization and standardization of spares parts, naming conventions and supporting breweries to reduce stock value.
• Manage the impact of plan updates on zone supply grid and OEM responsibilities.
• Communicate MEO plans from executive level through to shop floor.
• Ensure compliance measurement to annual MEO Good Operating Practices (GOP).
• Ensure yearly awareness training on MEO GOP and standards.
• Negotiate with, and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to confirm yearly MEO plan inclusive of ZTEs.
• Build partnership with RPSS and MUBEX for equipment and parts sourcing in a cost effective way, identifying AMMs and Reverse Engineering Opportunities.
• Forge relationships with major suppliers and OEMs for on-time delivery of spares parts. 
• Network between countries, plants and zone – from BOPs, Plant Managers, HODs, Section Engineers and Planners.
• Own and manage up to 132 Annual MEO plans per year. (On average 260 weeks of plant downtime pa), with a 30 week planning horizon for each.
• Responsible to ensure good governance and adherence to MEO planning & execution standards.
• Support Zone Maintenance Team & Coordinators on VPO Check to Coach Audits. 
• Develop the team and build pipeline for future planner positions.
• Manage the full People Cycle for the team. 

Profile:

• B.Tech or Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 3 - 5 years FMCG or beverages experience in maintenance systems and MEO Planning.
• Good understanding of Spares Parts Management & Standardization.  
• Is an experienced practitioner of the manufacturing way and VPO.
• Familiar with OSHA and plant legislative laws.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

Ability to Travel:

• Occasional to all sites in Africa Zone

Attributes:

• Good knowledge of the safety requirements.
• Self motivated and detail oriented.
• Efficient networker between countries, plants and zone.
• Very strong leadership capability & communication skills from executive level through to shop floor.
• Strong systemic and strategic thinking balanced with a practical realism.
• Strong analytic skills and problem solving capability tempered with a bias for action.
• Ability to influence others and build relationships in all levels of the organization.
• Lives out the company values.
• Ability to influence others and build relationship in all levels and across multiple cultures in the organization. 

Additional Information:

• Band VI-A
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