Packaging Maintenance Planner-2 at The South African Breweries (SAB)

End Date: October 28, 2026

Key Outputs and Responsibilities:

Maintenance Planning.

• Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre meeting with a focus on required work, problems to be addressed and resource requirements.
• Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule.
• Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritised and relevant works requests generated.
• Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources.
• Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion.
• Partake in planned maintenance period in support of the maintenance team, assisting with problem solving, work prioritisation and resource re allocation.
• Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems.
• Facilitate and lead the maintenance postmortems and document any problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned.

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve.
• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to engineer for direction.
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request.
• Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA’s on request.

Moreover:

• Ensure that all legal compliance and safety tasks are carried out on the specific time allocation.
• Ensure that all maintenance KPIs meet the required targets set out by TSM manager.
• Setup weekly/yearly maintenance budget based on the tasks that is being carried out and ensure you are in control of the requested budgets.
• Ensure maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown programs are completed.
• Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards.
• Ensure spares needed to support asset care program are available on time and within costs.
• Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialist’s as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations.
• Analyse SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules.
• Coordinate resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown.
• Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions.

Minimum Requirements:

• N6/Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/equivalent).
• Trade Tested Mechanical/Electrical/Instrumentation.
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience.
• Worked as machine specialist in FMCG for at least 2 years.
• Solid SAP experience.
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft Office package).
• Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices.
• In depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes.
• Assertive leadership, good people management.
• Strong diagnostic abilit