Brewing Machine Specialist

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to maintain equipment in an as new condition, assuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment back to inherent condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop closure and provide input into the VIC/UPP/ZBB maintenance budget. Coaches operators/apprentices/artisans in the correct way to operate equipment  perform autonomous operations, and carry out routine maintenance

Key outputs and responsibilities

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

• Provide specialist support to the shift based and day shift teams during operations.
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving.This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift based teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and SAP, with strong computer literacy skills
• The candidate will be responsible for liaising with suppliers, following up on orders and repairs, and coordinating spare parts and equipment to support efficient plant operations and minimise downtime.

PLANNED MAINTENANCE

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work .
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities.

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate PS techniques and loop closure.

RUNNING REPAIRS

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per SAP requirements

PROBLEM SOLVING

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, the correct problem solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in FFA's on request
• The candidate must be confident participating in meetings, communicating with plant personnel, and providing clear technical feedback to support effective problem-solving and teamwork.

IMPROVEMENT

• Improve SWI's, SOP's and maintenance tasks on an ongoing basis to ensure that the loop is closed out to prevent issues arising
• Ability to drive maintenance cost-saving initiatives
• Implement reliability improvements through the effective use of VPO tools, including AWS (Artisan Work Station), SDCA, and related continuous improvement methodologies.  
   

HOUSEKEEPING AND SAFETY

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate AB InBev policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties and workstation and area of responsibility.
• Knowledge and experience in the creation and review of RAMs (Risk Assessment Method Statements)

Key attributes and competencies

• Management skills
• People handling ability
• Mental alertness, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Conceptual skills
• Engineering Specialist SME - Subject matter expert

Minimum Requirements

• Min – N6 Technikon qualification
• Trade test qualification in Mechanical or Millwright

Training:

• 3 - 5 years in a Brewing or production environment

Experience:

• 1-3 Years technical mechanical/millwright brewing.
• Experience in a leadership capacity in a FMCG environment

Desirable but not essential

• National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Millwright)
• Brewing maintenance workshop experience in a brewing plant
• Brewing and production experience
• Machine specific experience

Reporting structure:

• Direct reports (solid line):
• None
• Dotted line reports:
• None

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