Machine Specialist: Technical Services at International Breweries

Job Description

Overall Purpose of the Function

Opportunities exist for highly skilled and result driven Machine Specialist- Technical Services in our Gateway Plant. The successful incumbent will maintain, repair, and optimize machines and associated devices to ensure machine availability and product quality at minimum cost whilst maintaining standards

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving
• This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan. This role can also be the Process Artisan on shift
• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions, and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance outage in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the Main Planner 
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities, and learnings from maintenance activities        
• 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       
• 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

Qualifications

• Min. of B.Sc./HND in Mechanical Engineering.
• 1-3 Years on the job training

Traits & Competences Required

• Manage Machines according to VPO principles and standards        
• A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment.
• A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist).
• Initiative and energy.
• Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best).
• Key Function is to Carry out repairs / maintenance
• Plan and prepare the job