Packaging Maintenance Planner at International Breweries

The key purpose of the 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 schedules

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 o n t he 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:

• Diploma in Engineering(Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent and trade
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience with 3 years in supervisory level
• Knowledge of Brewing and Packaging plant will be an advantage
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft office applications)