Key outputs and responsibilities:

Maintenance Planning

• Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre meeting with a focus on required work, problems to be addressed and resource requirements
• Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
• Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritisedand relevant works requests generated
• Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
• Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion
• Partake in planned maintenance period in support of the maintenance team, assisting with problem solving, work prioritisationand resource re allocation
• Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
• Facilitate and lead the maintenance post mortems and document any problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
• Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA’s on request

In addition:

• Ensure that all legal compliance and safety tasks are carried out on the specific time allocation
• Ensure that all maintenance KPIs meet the required targets set out by TSM manager
• Setup weekly/ yearly maintenance budget based on the tasks that is being carried out and ensure you are in control of the requested budgets
• Ensure maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown programs are completed
• Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards
• Ensure spares needed to support asset care program are available on time and within costs
• Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialist’s as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations
• Analyse SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules
• Coordinates resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown
• Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions

Minimum Requirements:

• N6 / Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/ or equivalent
• Trade Tested Mechanical / Electrical / Instrumentation
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience
• Worked as machine specialist in FMCG for at least 2 years
• Solid SAP experience
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft Office package)
• Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices
• In depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes