Packaging Artisan - Prospecton Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles and responsibilities

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations, this will include standby and day shift support​
• Where requested, 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 optimization trials. Adhere to work practices that support shift-based teams

Maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, 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, feedback is given to the Maintenance Planner for direction: this may involve rescheduling the work or prioritizing outstanding work
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Complete any administration and SAP tasks, SIGGA, Problem Terminator 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 must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance (where required, additional resources may be called in to assist)
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs has carried out (this includes all SAP & SIGGA, Problem Terminator 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
• Where necessary, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Packaging Engineer and the Performance and Continuous Improvement Manager for direction
• Analyze machine performance, conduct loss and waste analysis and develop action plans to improve performance

House Keeping

• 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 and VPO Standards
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Minimum requirements:

• Trade Test Mechanical/Millwright (Mechanical Bias)
• Minimum N3 Mechanical
• 2-3  year's experience