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Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Maintenance Controller

SAB
South Africa Default Location
Full-timeMarket relatedCloses 1 Jan 2027

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About the role

SAB is hiring a Packaging Pipeline: Packaging Maintenance Controller, based in South Africa Default Location. The key purpose of this role is to facilitate continuous improvement in plant reliability through TPM development and maintenance/project planning.

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 prioritised 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 prioritisation 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 postmortems. 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
  • Key Attributes and Competencies
  • Proven experience in applying technical knowledge and principles Solid understanding of Brewing principles and processes
  • Good all-round knowledge of manufacturing and maintenance processes
  • Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures

Requirements

  • Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent and trade tested
  • 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)
Ref: 30104677Posted 8 Oct 2026