Job Description
The key purpose of this role is to facilitate continuous improvement in plant reliability through TPM development and maintenance / project planning.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Maintenance Scheduling
- Using the maintenance planning system, generate the routine maintenance schedules
- This should include required cleaning, lubrication and inspection tasks
- Allocate resources to the schedules and generate works orders where these are indicated
- Communicate the schedules to the production, engineering and other support teams and resolve work and resource allocation problems
- Verify that routine maintenance schedules are being completed and that shift teams are completing autonomous maintenance tasks assigned to them
- Complete all administration and maintenance systems tasks required supporting the management of routine maintenance schedules
- Provide feedback on the efficiency of routine maintenance tasks to the shift and engineering teams, and highlight non-compliance and problems that need to be addressed
Maintenance Systems Management
- Where necessary, take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current maintenance system
- Manage the maintenance systems, ensuring operational and data integrity and correct use of the system
- Plan required maintenance work using the maintenance system, generating the required schedules and associated works orders
- Generate required maintenance reports, including SAP reports and communicate to key stakeholders
- Capture required data on the maintenance systems
- Data must be verified for accuracy and completeness
- Conduct analysis on maintenance data to identify failure modes and root causes of maintenance problems, and to identify problems timeously
- Where analysis of maintenance data indicates a need to carry out work, this information must be communicated to the engineering team and included in the planned maintenance schedule
Maintenance Planning
- Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre-meeting
- Work required, problems to be addressed and resource requirements must be discussed
- Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
- Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritized and relevant works requests generated
- Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
- Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources may be required
- Partake in planned maintenance period in support of maintenance team and assist with problem solving, work prioritization and resource re-allocation
- Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
- Facilitate and lead the maintenance post mortems. Problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned should be discussed
Problem Solving
- Where problems have occurred during routine and planned maintenance activities, apply the correct problem solving approach to resolve
- Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to engineer for direction
- Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
- Take part, as functional expert, in FFA's on request
Minimum Requirements:
- Engineering(Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent and trade
- 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience
- Knowledge of Utilities and Brewing plant will be an advantage
- PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft office applications and SAP)