Reliability Engineer - VOPS Alrode at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Implementation of Maintenance Business Strategy in the Maltings Engineering department.

Reliability of Equipment

• Leverage Equipment lifespan, productivity, reliability and maintainability
• Plant, Machine & Equipment availability

Process Control

• Improved process control and subsequent quality assurance Materials
• Optimum availability of maintenance materials and spares

Maintain a Safe and Healthy Working Environment

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation • Maintain safety and housekeeping standards

Maintain, Calibrate, Repair Equipment and Optimize Plant and Associated Devices

• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
• Plan and prepare the maintenance jobs and plant shut downs
• Schedules completion - job allocation to artisans
• Continuously improve (optimize) planning process
• Allocate and plan maintenance tasks

Work in Teams

• Communicate effectively in teams
• Contribute to self and team development
• Manage Asset Care Lead the development of the asset care strategy and plan for the entire brewery, ensuring adherence to COT principles
• Liaise with Zone around asset care, and take part in regional and central asset care MDT's
• Through the training controller, ensure development of required asset care competencies within the engineering team
• Provide specialist asset care guidance and advice to engineering and production on asset care management
• Ensure reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) techniques are incorporated into all capital projects
• Perform routine and specific asset care assessments, and communicate findings to key stakeholders
• Address problems with asset care program, and lead the implementation of corrective action
• Manage required asset care systems, and ensure functional and data integrity of information
• Maintenance System Management where necessary, lead and take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current systems
• Provide training, coaching and mentoring to users of maintenance systems and assist in problem solving
• Ensure, through the training controller, system users have the appropriate training and competencies to utilise the system
• Ensure the functional and data integrity of the maintenance system, and identify and resolve problems
• Conduct routine assessments of the system, and report finding to key stakeholders
• Where assessments highlight problems, the asset care specialist must ensure resolution
• Condition Monitoring Manage and co-ordinate overall condition monitoring activities, ensuring that the relevant competencies are developed within the engineering pool
• Manage condition monitoring systems and ensure that functional and data integrity is maintained
• Co-ordinate and manage any outsourced condition monitoring activities and verify that work carried out is in accordance with VPO practices
• Monitor, assess and evaluate condition monitoring techniques, and where required introduce new techniques
• Conduct training needs analysis, and where condition-monitoring training is required, through the training controller, ensure this is provided
• Interpret data collected from condition monitoring and communicate finding and recommendations to the key stakeholders
• Problem Solving Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problems solving approach to resolve
• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to the engineering controller for direction
• Take part, as a functional specialist, in FFA's

Minimum Requirements:

• Min – B Tech in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Min – 12 months on the job training
• 2-3 Years as a Packaging or Brewing & E&F Engineering Controller or Planner