Packaging Artisan – Alrode Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations including standby and day shift support.
• Assist as a functional expert in problem solving (where requested).
• Provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on machine operation, machine fault. finding and correct responses to machine failure modes (where requested).
• Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams.
• Assess Operators and Artisans ability to carry out tasks.
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimisation trials.
• Adhere to work practices that support shift-based teams.

Maintenace

• Take part in maintenance planning meetings, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required.
• Carry out work during the planned, routine and opportunity maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the Planner.
• Where scheduled work cannot be completed, feed back to the Maintenance Planner for direction. This may involve rescheduling the work or prioritising outstanding work.
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows.
• Complete any administration and SAP tasks in support of planned maintenance.
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities.
• Carry out Autonomous Operations as per requirements.
• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner.
• Resolve issues by using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule.
• Call additional resources to assist where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance (where applicable).
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, problems had been addressed.
• Complete administration tasks relating to any running repairs carried out (this includes all SAP inputs).
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window.

Problem solving

• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems (on request).
• Take part, as functional expert, in AB reports (on request).
• Call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction (where necessary).
• Analyse machine performance, conduct loss and waste analysis and develop action plans to improve performance.

Housekeeping and Safety

• 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 SAB policies and procedures.
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties.

Minimum Requirements: 

• N3 Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering or Instrumentation (with intention to move towards N6).
• Grade 12
• Trade Tested Millwright (with a strong electrical bias).
• 2 Years’ experience in an FMCG Environment.
• Packaging experience (highly advantageous).
   

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