Engineering

Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Engineer

South African Breweries (SAB)

Minimum qualification
Bachelor's degree
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Overview This document outlines the role of a Packaging Engineer within the South African Breweries (SAB), specifically focusing on the Packaging Pipeline. The role is critical for ensuring the reliability, optimal performance, and safety of the packaging hall, involving significant responsibilities in asset care, plant optimization, and leading an engineering team. What you will do * **Asset Care:** Contribute to the development and implement asset care plans for the packaging hall, provide expert advice, ensure the engineering team has required competencies, audit compliance, and manage budgetary controls. * **Plant Reliability:** Be responsible for the overall reliability and uptime of the packaging hall, lead the engineering team in providing asset care and engineering support, verify maintenance activities and quality, ensure maintenance systems work correctly, review plant reliability, and participate in maintenance problem-solving. * **Plant Optimisation:** Participate in plant optimisation trials, evaluate and sign off on new plant/equipment modifications, analyze plant performance data to identify improvement opportunities, investigate causes of repeat failures, and evaluate continuous improvement opportunities. * **Team Leadership:** Lead the engineering team to foster ownership, empowerment, and interaction, develop and communicate team goals, conduct regular performance reviews, identify training needs, and ensure competency development and cross-skilling. * **Safety and Housekeeping:** Ensure the engineering team adheres to proper safety and housekeeping procedures and legal requirements (e.g., OSH act), conduct regular checks and safety audits, correct unsafe work practices, and drive safety and legal compliance in the Packaging Hall as a 2.7 appointee. Requirements (from the original advert) * **Minimum Requirements:** * BSc Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree. * Government Certificate of Competence (highly advantageous). * A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management. * Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line (highly advantageous). * A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people. * **Key Attributes and Competencies:** * Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational, people). * A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintain inequality. * Mental alertness and analytical ability. * Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance. * Leadership ability (ability to lead planners, controllers and a full engineering team). * Good interpersonal and communication skills. * Ability to develop and control budgets. * Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop. * Ability to manage complex projects of significant number. * Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum. * High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment. Who should apply The ideal candidate is a highly experienced Production Maintenance Manager with deep expertise in asset management, holding a BSc in Engineering or equivalent. They should possess strong leadership capabilities, demonstrated experience in managing and developing engineering teams, and a proven track record in driving commercial decisions within a packaging hall environment. Candidates must be mentally alert, analytically strong, capable of managing complex projects, and proficient in problem-solving within a team context. The role also requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to control budgets, and a high level of resilience to operate effectively in a high-pressure environment, with a disciplined work ethic and "passion at maintain inequality." Experience with high-speed packaging lines and a Government Certificate of Competence are highly advantageous. Deadline Not specified Reference Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/packaging-pipeline-packaging-engineer-the-south-african-breweries Source: myjobmag

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Key Roles and Responsibilities: Asset Care * Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the packaging hall, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice * Implement the asset care plan for the packaging hall, ensuring that the engineering team have the required competencies * Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals Audit compliance to the asset care programme by both the engineering team and the shift base teams * Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team. Where training needs have been identified, through the training controller, ensure these are addressed * Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of the packaging hall Plant Reliability * Responsible for the overall reliability and up time of the packaging hall * Lead the engineering team in the provisioning of asset care and engineering support to the shift based production teams * Verifies that the engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance, and validates quality of work * Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly, and that data integrity and information accuracy is maintained * Reviews plant reliability to ensure that equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously * Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that the engineering team is applying the correct problem solving techniques Plant Optimisation * Takes part in the Regional and Central Office plant optimisation trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required * Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant and equipment modifications * Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance and initiates opportunity evaluation * Analyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to correct root causes * Takes part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support * Ensures that continuous improvement is built into engineering team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions Team Leadership * Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction * Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members * Conduct regular engineering team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one on one and performance reviews * Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members * Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team Safety and Housekeeping * Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements when carrying out their tasks * Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies such as OSH act on safety and housekeeping * Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive the appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits * Where unsafe work practice has been identified, the packaging engineer is responsible for correcting this Drive Safety and legal compliance in the Packaging Hall as a 2 7 appointee Key Attributes and Competencies: * Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall financial, operational, people * A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintain inequality * Mental alertness and analytical ability * Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance * Leadership ability ability to lead planners, controllers and a full engineering team * Good interpersonal and communication skills * Ability to develop and control budgets * Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop * Ability to manage complex projects of significant number * Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum * High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment Minimum Requirements: * BSc Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree * Government Certificate of Competence would be highly advantageous * A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management * Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line highly advantageous * A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people

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