Artisan Millwright – VOPS Caledon at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles and responsibilities

• Comply with safe, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Identification of unsafe practices through SIO’s.
• Safety inspections conducted.
• Safe maintenance practices audited.
• Adherence to PPE policies.
• Maintenance tools are in good working order
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems.
• Plan and prepare the job.
• Carry out repairs / maintenance.
• Operate workshop equipment
• Communicate effectively in teams.
• Contribute to self and team development
• Generate tags for follow on work
• Satisfied customers – no rework.
• Management skills.
• People handling ability.
• Mental alertness, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Conceptual skills.
• Subject matter expert
• 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  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 Maintenance Planner 
• Partake in maintenance post mortems 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 problem solving techniques. 
• Partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Process Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action 
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs  carried out as per CMMS requirements
• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Maintenance Controller for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems.
• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate AB InBev policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Education:

• Matric
• Trade Tested N3
• Millwright – Trade Tested

Training:

• Min – 2-3 months on the job training
• Manufacturing Basic Maintenance Training.
• Ideal 3-6 months on the job training

Experience:

• 1-2 years as a Millwright Artisan in similar industry

Desirable but not essential:

• Electrical trade coupled with Control & Automation
• Qualified, trade-tested mechanical artisan with N4 to N6 qualification