Packaging Machine Specialist - Newlands Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Description

The key purpose of this role is to maintain, repair and optimise plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

Operational Support:

• Provide specialist support for coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• This will include standby, day shift and when requested after a time frame that standby will need expert advice or support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving for the plant and support to zone
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimisation trials
• Provide additional support to process artisan on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Upskill process artisans with latest SWI for machine setups or machine restorations

Planning Maintenance:

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Ensure backlog meets minimum hours and schedules are reviewed as per required frequency
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine Maintenance:

• Partake in ATO cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques
• If Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these required, additional resources may be called in to assist
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the Technician in accordance with the ZCM schedule

Problem Solving:

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request take part, as functional expert, in AB- Report , SDCA and PDCA on request

Housekeeping and Safety:

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties
• Present 5’s plans to team and management when required
• Raise sio’s and close sio’s related to your machine area

Running Repairs:

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action. Where required, specialist assistance may be called in
• This may include internal resources such as Instrument Technicians or Inspection and coding specialist or external resources such as Contractors or Suppliers
• Where repairs indicate that major work is required, such as re-wiring a motor, this must be transferred to the engineering workshop for attention
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out
• This includes all SAP inputs
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Ability to solve problems on FMCG machines
• Ability to communicate technical knowledge to operation staff improving their skills sets
• Ability to train, coach and mentor operation staff on ATO and 5’s principles
• Ability to optimiseusages and reduce wastage with permanent solutions
• Interpersonal Skills
• Work in Teams and Collaborate
• Strong self-management practices
• Ability to problem solve using basic problem solving tools (5 why; fishbone)and involved in high level problem solving to identify root causes and loop closures –AB Reports , SDCA, PDCA
• Ability to reduce machine downtime to minimum while ensuring the all problems have permanent solutions
• Ability to analysevarious graphical data and open gaps to improve performance
• Ability to identify non-standard work and tag the defects with root causes
• Ability to identify required spares for restorations tasks and communicate with suppliers for the best possible price thus showing savings on ZBB
• Ability to be able to use electronic communication devices e.g. Tablets, laptops and other devices to help you understand the specific machines in more in detail
• Ability to understand camera technology and different type of algorithms
• Ability to understand software, bus systems( Asibus, Profibus, Canbus, Ethernet, Ethercat, ) only for Electrical or Instrument
• Always looking for opportunities to improve MTTB and shorten MTTR

Minimum Requirement:

• N6 Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or higher qualification
• Trade test qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or Millwright
• Knowledge or experience of working in a production environment particularly in FMCG Applicants