MEO Planner at The South African Breweries (SAB)

• The key purpose of this role is to coordinate and ensure the successful execution of the Business Unit Annual Outages. The incumbent, reporting to the Zone Major Equipment Outage Planning Manager, will act as the interface between plant, zone, procurement, and relevant suppliers and OEMs.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creation of baseline consolidated Major Equipment Outage Plan (MEO) for the BU, using process templates.
• Maintenance of consolidated or master plan for ongoing or cyclic updates to the BOP and BU Leadership.
• Coordination with brewery Technical Services Managers, Section Engineers, Maintenance Planners and regional maintenance coordinators to gather inputs for the plan.
• Effective engagement with Zone SNP, NPD, Projects, ZTEs and RPSS/MUBEX for alignments on Major Equipment Outages (MEO) plan.
• Liaise with OEM/Contractors for timely machine audits and involvement in maintenance execution.
• Critically evaluate work planned for Major Equipment Outages (MEO)s. Any work that can be done on a maintenance day is planned accordingly.
• Verify that Major Equipment Outages (MEO) related invoices are timeously processed for on time payments to avoid stop supply.
• Work with procurement in expediting on time delivery of parts to avoid delays of MEO execution.
• Identify and realize cost savings through initiatives such as spares bundling, schedule optimizations, identifying Alternative Material Manufacturers, Reverse Engineering and Zone Engineering Centre opportunities.
• Conduct planning review meetings with various stakeholders as per GOP and guided by TORs.
• Compute KPIs and publish weekly reports on KPIs as well as progress on MEOP GOP compliance and status.
• Be able to communicate changes made and justify them.
• Monitor the cost of the overhaul plan.
• Track the performance before and after Major Equipment Outages (MEO)
• Timeously update the Outage Execution score dashboard in accordance with Safety, Planned vs Actual, Performance, Cost, Plan attainment and GOP Scores.
• Develop maintenance planners on maintenance and Major Equipment Outages (MEO) planning process as well as conducting training on the process.
• Track the regional strategic spare parts, identify the opportunity to share the regional plant spare parts, reduce risk of the regional inventory.
• Support Zone spares planner on reduction of CWC.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Good knowledge of the safety requirements.
• Strong communication skills from executive level through to the shop floor.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving capability tempered with a bias for action.
• Ability to influence others and build relationships in all levels of the organization.

Minimum Requirements:

• B-Tech or Bachelor's degree in industrial, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience in industrial engineering and maintenance within the FMCG or beverages sector.
• A highly skilled practitioner of the manufacturing process and best practices.
• Familiar with OSHA and plant legislative laws.
• Detail Orientated
• Proven experience in solving technical problems with pragmatic solutions.