Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Maintenance Controller

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Maintenance Controller at South African Breweries (SAB). The position is responsible for the comprehensive management, planning, and execution of maintenance activities for packaging pipelines, ensuring operational efficiency, data integrity, and compliance within a manufacturing environment. **What you will do** * Generate routine maintenance schedules, including cleaning, lubrication, and inspection tasks. * Allocate resources to schedules, generate work orders, and communicate schedules to production, engineering, and support teams, resolving work and resource allocation problems. * Verify the completion of routine maintenance schedules and assigned autonomous maintenance tasks by shift teams. * Complete all required administration and maintenance systems tasks for managing routine maintenance schedules. * Provide feedback on the efficiency of routine maintenance tasks, highlighting non-compliance and problems. * Participate in the commissioning of new maintenance systems or changes to current systems when necessary. * Manage maintenance systems to ensure operational and data integrity and correct system use. * Plan required maintenance work using the maintenance system, generating schedules and associated work orders. * Generate and communicate required maintenance reports, including SAP reports, to key stakeholders. * Capture required data on maintenance systems, verifying its accuracy and completeness. * Conduct analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes, root causes of problems, and to identify issues timeously. * Communicate findings from maintenance data analysis to the engineering team and include them in planned maintenance schedules. * Facilitate and lead planned maintenance pre-meetings to discuss required work, problems, and resource requirements. * Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule, including prioritised ad hoc tasks and generating relevant work requests. * Determine resource requirements and assign tasks, potentially interacting with departmental heads to obtain resources. * Partake in planned maintenance periods to support the maintenance team and assist 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 period on maintenance systems. * Facilitate and lead maintenance postmortems to discuss encountered problems, identified opportunities, and lessons learned. * Apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve issues that occur during routine and planned maintenance activities. * Call in additional resources or escalate to an engineer for direction when required for problem-solving. * Assist fellow team members in resolving problems upon request. * Take part in FFAs (Functional Failure Analysis) as a functional expert when requested. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Diploma in Engineering Mechanical/Electrical or equivalent and trade tested. * 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience with 3 years in supervisory level. * Proven experience in applying technical knowledge and principles. * Solid understanding of Brewing principles and processes. * Good all-round knowledge of manufacturing and maintenance processes. * Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures. * PC literate. * Proficiency in Microsoft office applications. * Knowledge of Brewing and Packaging plant (will be an advantage). **Who should apply** This role is suitable for an experienced and trade-tested Mechanical or Electrical Engineering professional with 3-5 years of production engineering experience, including at least 3 years at a supervisory level. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of brewing, manufacturing, and maintenance processes, along with demonstrated technical knowledge and familiarity with SHE policies and procedures. They should be PC literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, capable of managing maintenance schedules, systems, planning, and problem-solving within a dynamic production environment. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/packaging-pipeline-packaging-maintenance-controller-the-south-african-breweries Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• Microsoft Office
• SAP

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