Packaging Specialist

Overall Responsibility: The key purpose of this role is to execute the relevant Maintenance activities, spares management, execution of routine and planned maintenance schedules, provide support to maintenance teams in the execution of maintenance and ensuring relevant safety measures are in place.

Focus Area 1

Maintenance Execution

• Execute maintenance activities and co-ordination of maintenance activities including annual shutdown and daily adhoc work


• Analyse machinery and component life cycles by identifying failure trends


• Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans daily


• Updating job cards and maintenance schedules based on OEM manuals and historical performance


• Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work


• Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule


• Perform stores walkabout and review store bin holdings min and max


• Carryout autonomous operations as per requirements


• Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion


• Carryout out work during the planned, routine, and opportunity maintenance windows by the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner


• Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams


• Training of operators and shift artisans to close skills gaps

Focus Area 2                              

Plant Reliability and Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve


• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to Maintenance Manager for direction


• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request


• Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA’s on request


• 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 asset care program are available on time and within costs


• Identify asset care training needs in the technicians as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations


• Analyse Pragma maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules


• Co-ordinates resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown


• Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions

Focus Area 3

Plant Optimisation

• Manage preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, which will include condition monitoring and other practices


• Monitor job completion rates and report trends to the Engineering management team


• CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) – implementation, optimization and management of the Shopware Asset Care system


• Planning and optimising the most appropriate maintenance tasks for relevant equipment


• Analysis and interpretation of maintenance history and feedback report preparation


• Ensure ongoing communication with Engineering team, Production team and Production Planner


• Work closely with engineering stores personnel to control spares and stock levels.


• Projects – work closely with the project team to ensure efficient delivery of tasks involving engineering input


• Manufacturing Excellence - support all manufacturing excellence pillar initiatives and routines

Requirements of the Role

• Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent


• Minimum of 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience


• Solid Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) experience


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages


• Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices


• In depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes


• Assertive leadership, good people management


• Strong diagnostic ability

Preferred Skills/Competencies

• Knowledge of Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) e.g. SAP, Shopware and/or Pragma experience


• Experience with CMMS preferably Pragma ‘On Key”, will be a distinct advantage Knowledge of TPM and RCM concepts and principles


• Knowledge of MS Projects and MS Excel                                                     

NB: Specific duties/responsibilities will vary from time to time: the above list is intended to indicate the general nature of the post and is not exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to be flexible in supporting the business by undertaking any other responsibilities which are aligned with this job level.