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

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 prioritisedand 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 prioritisationand 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
• 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
• Co-ordinates 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: 

• Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering
• 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 ability