Packaging Maintenance Planner-2

In brief

**Overview** The South African Breweries (SAB) is seeking a Packaging Maintenance Planner-2. This role focuses on facilitating, planning, and executing maintenance activities within the packaging plant, including resource allocation, problem-solving, and ensuring compliance with maintenance standards and budgets. **What you will do** * Facilitate and lead planned maintenance pre-meetings, focusing on required work, problems to be addressed, and resource requirements. * Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule, including the prioritization of ad hoc tasks and generation of relevant work requests. * Determine resource requirements for tasks and assign them to specific resources. * Interact with departmental heads to obtain necessary resources for task completion. * Partake in planned maintenance periods, supporting the maintenance team by 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 maintenance post-mortems, documenting problems encountered, opportunities identified, and lessons learned. * Apply a structured problem-solving approach to resolve issues that have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities. * Call in additional resources to assist in problem-solving or escalate to an engineer for direction where required. * Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request. * Take part as a functional expert in FFA’s (failure analysis) on request. * Ensure that all legal compliance and safety tasks are carried out within the specific time allocation. * Ensure that all maintenance KPIs meet the required targets set out by the TSM manager. * Set up weekly/yearly maintenance budgets based on tasks being carried out and ensure control of requested budgets. * Ensure maintenance and cleaning day, and annual shutdown programs are completed. * Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards. * Ensure spares needed to support the asset care program are available on time and within costs. * Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialists as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations. * Analyze the SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance asset care schedules. * Coordinate resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialists on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown. * Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem-solving sessions. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * N6/Diploma in Engineering Mechanical/equivalent. * Trade Tested Mechanical/Electrical/Instrumentation. * 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience. * Worked as machine specialist in FMCG for at least 2 years. * Solid SAP experience. * PC literate Proficiency in Microsoft Office package. * Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices. * In-depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes. * Assertive leadership, good people management. * Strong diagnostic ability. **Who should apply** Candidates should hold an N6/Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent qualification, be Trade Tested in Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation, and have 3 to 5 years of production engineering experience, with at least 2 years as a machine specialist in an FMCG environment. Essential skills include solid SAP experience, PC literacy with proficiency in Microsoft Office, a strong understanding of maintenance processes and practices, and in-depth knowledge of packaging plant equipment. The ideal applicant will demonstrate assertive leadership, good people management abilities, and strong diagnostic skills, capable of leading planning, problem-solving, and coordination efforts. **Deadline** October 28, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/packaging-maintenance-planner-2-the-south-african-breweries Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• Microsoft Office
• SAP

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