The key purpose of this role is to ensure that effective maintenance plans are in place for the maintenance of applicable equipment, that spares are available for the planned work, resources are available to execute. On the planned maintenance outage, monitor that the plan is effective. Makes recommendations to the maintenance controller, Brewing Area Manager and Brewing Engineer if unforeseen work arises

Key roles and responsibilities:

Maintenance Scheduling

• Using the maintenance planning system, generate the routine maintenance schedules including required cleaning, lubrication, and inspections tasks.
• Allocate resources to the schedules and generate works orders where these are indicated.
• Communicate the schedules to production, engineering and other support teams and resolve work and resource allocation problems.
• Coordinates maintenance resource allocation. • Verify that routine maintenance schedules are being completed and that shift teams are completing autonomous maintenance tasks assigned to them.
• Complete all administration and maintenance systems tasks required to support the management of routine maintenance schedules.
• Provide feedback on the efficiency of routine maintenance tasks to the shift and engineering teams and highlight non-compliance and problems that need to be addressed.

Maintenance System Management

• Where necessary, take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current maintenance system.
• Manage the maintenance systems, ensuring operational and data integrity and correct use of the system.
• Plan required maintenance work using the maintenance system, generating the required schedules and associated works orders.
• Generate required maintenance reports, including Coswin reports and communicate to key stakeholders.
• Capture required data on the maintenance systems. Data must be verified for accuracy and completeness.
• Conduct analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes and root causes of maintenance problems, and to identify problems timeously.
• Where analysis of maintenance data indicates a need to carry out work, this information must be communicated to the engineering team and included in the planned maintenance schedules.

Maintenance Planning

• Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre and post 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 prioritized, 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 prioritization and resource reallocation.
• 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.

Profile:

• Diploma or Degree in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent and trade tested.
• 5 years production Engineering experience with 5 years at supervisory level
• Knowledge of Brewing and Utilities plant will be an advantage.
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft office applications)
• Min – 3 – 5 years production engineering in a FMCG environment
• 5 Years technical mechanical/electrical and bottling experience in a leadership capacity in a FMCG environment