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 co-ordinate, coach, develop and control the activities of a level four control and automation maintenance team in the production workplace and to provide specialist technical advice, to ensure maximum equipment availability.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: Asset Care

- Manage all Packaging electrical and automation maintenance activities and lead the C&A; team
- 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
- Review and Implementation of Planned Maintenance Procedures (Daily, Weekly and Monthly Checklists)
- Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, preventative and predictive maintenance effectively
- Participate in executing the department’s asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the brewing department is maintained
- Coaches and develops the engineering skills of other maintenance and operational staff




- Control and oversee maintenance cost against available budget
- Ensure engineering standards applied correctly
- Draws up, Coaches and develops engineering skills to other maintenance and operational staff using OPL and SOPs
- Coach Artisans on AWS

Optimize Production Performance and Processes

- Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
- Plan and prepare the job
- Carry out repairs / maintenance
- Continuously improve (optimise) plant, process equipment and systems
- Operate plant and process equipment
- Calibrate instruments
- Maintenance KPI's and PI's
- Autonomous Operations implemented and sustained as per plan. Enforce and maintain safe work areas
- Delegate and monitor work activities
- Manage continuous improvement projects
- Maintain machines & repairs breakdowns
- Support and coach team members,
- Perform SKAP Assessments for team members
- Solve situational problems
- Technical support service
- Conduct audits

Optimize Team Performance

- Communicate effectively in teams
- Develop and monitor team goals
- Contribute to self and team development
- Manage personal development and performance
- Develops apprentices, artisans and machine specialist. Ensure that a development plan is in place

Administration

- Identifies CAPEX UPP opportunities that need to be addressed. Prepares the allocated area ZBB Maintenance budget
- Complies to approved budget




- Highlights risk areas ahead of time, cost, support implementation as required

Facilitate Team Problem Solving and Decision Making

- Completed 5 why’s
- FFA participation
- Loss and Waste analysis for top 3 equipment in assigned areas based on the 12-week view
- Ensure that artisan workstations are aligned to address the identified problem areas

Health & Safety Policy

- Identification and closure of unsafe practices through SIO's
- Safety inspections conducted
- Safe maintenance practices audited
- Adherence to PPE policies
- Maintenance tools are in good working order

Manage Human Resources

- Develop employees
- Manage and apply personnel processes
- Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate

Lead the Application of VPO Principles and Practices

- All work is carried out using the VPO principles
- Understands, Implements and Complies to the GOP requirement
- Sustains what has been implemented

Minimum Requirements:

- Degree/HND in Engineering (Electrical, Instrumentation, Electronics) or equivalent trade
- 3 - 5 years Control & Automation experience with 3 years in supervisory level
- Knowledge of Brewing, Utilities and Packaging plant will be an advantage
- PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft office applications)
- Ability to manage a maintenance department.
- Analytical and evaluation skills
- People management skills

Additional Information:

- BAND: VIII

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

📌 Maintenance Controller (Abu Road)
🏢 AB InBev Africa
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