Job Description
The Key Purpose of this role is to Co-ordinate, coach and control the activities of the level one maintenance teams in the production environment and to provide technical advice to ensure maximum equipment availability.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Asset Care
- Manage all brewing mechanical maintenance activities and lead a team of 4 employees across on day shift.
- Diagnoses and interprets problems (fault finding) to optimise production output and with own team carrying out the plant repairs.
- Responsible for the reduction of breakdowns in the brewing area by analyzing breakdowns, complying with the PM requirements and implementing Continuous Improvements.
- Review and Implementation of Planned Maintenance Procedures (Daily, Weekly and Monthly Checklists).
- Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, preventative and predictive maintenance effectively.
- Participate in executing the department’s asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the brewing department is maintained.
- Control and oversee maintenance cost against available budget.
- Ensure engineering standards applied correctly.
- Draws up, Coaches and develops engineering skills to other maintenance and operational staff using OPL and SOPs.
Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Responsible for fault finding and problem solving of engineering/ operational problems in the brewing area by ensuring that the appropriate corrective action regarding any deviation from standards is taken.
- Identifies the major engineering losses in brewing area and investigates using problem solving methodologies. (5 Why, Stage 1 etc.).
- Review emergency works orders and initiate investigations and corrective action.
- Capability to develop and lead cross functional teams to deliver Business needs.
Safety and Hygiene
- Ensure team compliance with acts and procedures.
- Maintain 5 S and housekeeping standards.
- Ensure reporting, investigation, documentation and action of incidents as per the relevant acts and procedures.
- Promote safety awareness.
Administration
- Manager Level 1 & 2 Team goals in brewing area.
- Conduct individual and team performance reviews and one on ones. Provide performance feedback.
- Lead all VPO initiatives in the department.
- Apply and sustain industrial relations initiatives, policies, procedures, agreement & core values.
Quality
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- High Integrity and discipline.
- High energy levels and good interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Computer literate.
- Ability to implement effective problem solving.
- Sound organisational skills and ability to work in a highly structured and controlled environment.
- Team player with outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Leadership skills.
- People Management skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at various levels of the organisation.
Minimum Requirements:
- National Diploma Mechanical Engineering (S4)/ (N6) and Trade Tested Fitter or Millwright.
- Maintenance Diploma would be advantageous.
- 3-5 years experience in Preventive, Predictive Maintenance of concerned with production plant, involved in the day-to-day inspections, preventive & predictive maintenance and repair of machinery.
- Previous work experience with VPO or other continuous improvement tools would be advantageous.
- Good all round knowledge of manufacturing.
- Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures.
- Sound knowledge of VPO and workplace change principles.
- Sound knowledge of the Computer Maintenance Management System (SAP).
- A good understanding of the Change Management Process.
- Have a general understanding about Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.