BREWING MAINTENANCE CONTROLLER

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to facilitate continuous improvement in plant reliability through TPM development and maintenance/project planning.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Asset Care

• Manages all Brewing maintenance activities and lead a team on day shift
• Diagnoses and interprets problems (fault finding) to optimize 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
• Reviews and Implements the Planned Maintenance Procedures (Daily, Weekly and Monthly Checklists)
• Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance, and loop closure implementation effectively
• Participate in executing the department’s asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the Brewing department is maintained
• Draws up, coaches and develops the engineering skills of other maintenance and operational staff using OPLs, SOPs and SWIs
• Controls and oversees maintenance cost against available budget.
• Ensures engineering standards applied correctly
• Ensures compliance to Pressure Vessels and Equipment Regulations
• Supports the scoping of CAPEX projects within Brewing Plant
• Maintaining the integrity and security of maintenance management systems

Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Responsible for fault finding and problem solving of engineering/ operational problems by ensuring that the appropriate corrective action regarding any deviation from standards are taken
• Takes responsibility and coach team members to use the 4 phases of problem-solving
• Identifies the major engineering losses in Brewing area and investigates using problem solving methodologies. (5 Why, Stage 1 etc.)
• Reviews emergency works orders and initiate investigations and corrective action
• Capability to develop and lead cross functional teams to deliver Business needs

Safety and Hygiene

• Ensures team compliance with acts and procedures
• Maintains 5S and housekeeping standards
• Ensures reporting, investigation, documentation and action of incidents as per the relevant acts and procedures
• Promotes safety awareness
• Ensure compliance with special work permit requirements by own employees and contractors
• Ensure compliance with Dust Explosion prevention and management standards

Administration

• Manages Level 1 & 2 team goals in Brewing area
• Manages team’s maintenance performance measures
• Conducts individual and team performance reviews and one on ones. Provides performance feedback
• Leads all VPO initiatives in the department
• Applies and sustains industrial relations initiatives, policies, procedures, agreements & core values
• Performs relevant routines and supervisory walkabouts and checks

Quality

• Ensures that Company Quality Standards and are adhered to in the utilities area

Key Attributes and competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at various levels of the organization
• Previous experience with VPO or other continuous improvement tools would be advantageous
• Ability to prioritize and manage maintenance projects in a Brewing environment
• Good knowledge of sustainable development reporting would be advantageous
• Good all-round knowledge of manufacturing
• Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures
• Desirable, but not essential - Knowledge of Brewing plant or bottling hall production and processes will be an advantage

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Qualification: BTech in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in Preventive & Predictive Maintenance concerned with production plant, involved in the day-to-day inspections, preventive & predictive maintenance and repair of machinery

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.