Packaging Technical Expert - Prospecton Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe, healthy and risk-free working environment for ( Bottle ,Crate and Pallet Conveyors )
• Provide equipment that is safe to operate, compliant to environmental requirements and can delivery products that meet the required quality requirements.
• Support and coaching of Contractors  to achieve 100% Uptime, Zero Safety incidents, Zero Quality incidents, VIC usages like water, energy , Luebe etc. in control
• Must have a deep  understanding  VPO, The Safety , Maintenance , Quality, Management and Logistic pillars.
• Must know how the VPO pillars are interconnected  to support the journey to world class operations
• Drive the implementation of Autonomous Operations (ATO ) through hands-on execution of each of the ATO  steps .
• Equipment to be restored to an "as new" condition, in which initial deterioration is eliminated or controlled during MEOP windows .
• Provides a stable maintenance platform from which natural deterioration linked failures can be appropriately addressed with preventive ,  predictive and restoration  maintenance activities.
• Continuously check the maintenance Plan for 16 weeks ahead  in advance to identify resources , spares and required time for the outages .
• Manage the backlog within (4 to 7) weeks and improve MTTR YOY while increasing  the MTBF YOY.
• Set up Base line Budgets yearly  for ZBB / VIC / UPP maintenance costs for Short  ,Medium- and long-term plans and ensure spends are within the approve budgets .
• Optimize budgets to meet the daily , weekly , monthly and yearly budget agree spend by ensuring root causes for failures has been identified and loop closures are implemented to preventive high cost
• Continuously look for improvement in spares material by redesigning and reproducing it with an improved lifespan ensuring it meets the quality standards and at a lower price than OEM/OMM
• Actively participate with coaching contractors and line team members  in problem solving (5 Why reviews, Problem Terminator ,  Abnormality Reports and PDCA , ITF's) to provide deep technical knowledge to ensure correct root causes has been identified so that suitable preventive measures has been implemented to prevent repeat failures from reoccurrence.
• Manage machine related projects for selected machine group to improve overall performance (reliability, quality and cost) as agreed with Pack Engineer or ZTE
• Project completion on time, within budget and according to agreed GTS specifications , all gaps identified and close off including spares parts , manuals and training material is available for team.
• Collaboration with ZTE's, Vendor's and Reverse Engineering Specialist to deliver KPI’s
• Use data driven techniques to identify gaps  in machine performance develop, train and assess technical skills interventions to improve skills related performance gaps
• Improved equipment performance as a result of improved technical skills of relevant personnel
• Codification of technical knowledge through SOP's and SWI’s to be created and role out to current / new employees checking for competencies.
• Regular assessments to be carried on equipment identifying gaps and plan in place  to be closed out in a suitable time frame .
• Monthly use data driven techniques to sustain and drive systemic improvements in equipment reliability for selected machine group by developing, improving and optimizing preventive and predictive maintenance plans
• Build Data base for critical spares to be created in the system and ensure that the maintenance package (Bill of materials) is regularly updated.
• Stores walkabout to be done regularly identifying unused spares to be written off and  ensuring all critical spares is in good condition and available incase of breakdowns .
• Liaise with  different suppliers and hold them responsible for quality of spares.
• Draft up an SLA with contracting company for Labour to maintain , lubricate and clean conveyors in a safe manner following SAFE  process .
• Ensure all contractors is knowledgeable of the different VPO pillars allowing them to maintain the equipment .

Minimum Requirements:

• National Diploma or N6 Mechanical
• Millwright or Mechanical Trade Test
• Bachelors Degree (Mechanical Engineering)
• Additional business qualification advantageous
• Belt qualification
• 2-3 Years in similar FMCG industry as controller / supervisor / senior technician