Packaging Maintenance Planner - Chamdor Brewery

In brief

**Overview** This is an explanation of the role of a Packaging Maintenance Planner at the South African Breweries (SAB) Chamdor Brewery. The position focuses on managing, scheduling, and optimizing maintenance activities and systems within the brewery's packaging plant to ensure efficient operations and data integrity. **What you will do** * **Maintenance Scheduling:** Generate routine maintenance schedules using the maintenance planning system, including required cleaning, lubrication, and inspection tasks. Allocate resources, generate work orders, and communicate schedules to production, engineering, and other support teams, resolving any work or resource allocation issues. Verify the completion of routine maintenance schedules and assigned autonomous maintenance tasks by shift teams. Complete all necessary administration and maintenance system tasks to support routine maintenance schedule management. Provide feedback on the efficiency of routine tasks to shift and engineering teams, highlighting non-compliance and problems. * **Maintenance Systems Management:** Participate in the commissioning of new maintenance systems or changes to existing ones when necessary. Manage the maintenance systems, ensuring operational and data integrity and correct usage. Plan required maintenance work using the system, generating schedules and associated work orders. Generate required maintenance reports, including SAP reports, and communicate them to key stakeholders. Capture and verify the accuracy and completeness of required data on maintenance systems. Conduct analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes, root causes of maintenance problems, and detect issues proactively. Communicate findings from maintenance data analysis to the engineering team and integrate them into planned maintenance schedules. * **Maintenance Planning:** Facilitate and lead planned maintenance pre-meetings to discuss required work, problems to be addressed, and resource needs. Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule, including prioritizing ad hoc tasks and generating relevant work requests. Determine resource requirements and assign tasks to specific resources, which may involve interaction with departmental heads. Partake in planned maintenance periods to support the maintenance team, assisting with problem-solving, work prioritization, and resource reallocation. Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all necessary information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems. Facilitate and lead maintenance post-mortems to discuss problems encountered, opportunities identified, and lessons learned. * **Problem Solving:** Apply the correct problem-solving approach to issues occurring during routine and planned maintenance activities. Call in additional resources to assist or escalate to an engineer for direction when required. Assist fellow team members in resolving problems upon request. Participate as a functional expert in FFAs (Failure Finding Analysis, or similar context) 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 a supervisory level. * PC literate and proficient in Microsoft office applications. * 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. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for a technically skilled individual holding an Engineering Diploma (Mechanical/Electrical or equivalent and trade tested) with substantial production engineering experience, including supervisory responsibilities. The ideal candidate will possess a strong foundational understanding of brewing, manufacturing, and maintenance processes, alongside demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures. They should be proficient in using maintenance planning systems, skilled in data analysis, and adept at problem-solving within a dynamic production environment. The role requires someone capable of leading meetings, managing resources, and ensuring the integrity of maintenance operations and data. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/packaging-maintenance-planner-chamdor-brewery-the-south-african-breweries Source: myjobmag

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• At least 3 years of experience.

• Microsoft Office
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