VPO Specialist: Maintenance at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Purpose:

 Implement, entrench and improve the use and effectiveness of VPO in the Pillar of specialization in African Breweries and Vertical Operations to deliver business results.

Key roles responsibilities:

• Drive delivery of expected business results through the VPO Pillar of specialization.
• Define and management of VPO strategy for the pillar, ensuring results are met.
• Agree on Zone level priority blocks within the Pillar that will deliver expected business KPI and means results.
• Agree on Plant level priorities and targets with Zone Pillar Manager and Specialists.
• Guide and drive implementation across Africa together with Zone Pillar Managers and Specialists.
• Define VPO Implementation plans for Brownfields, Greenfields and New Operations.
• Monitor and track implementation progress to plan per Plant.
• Train and coach Plant personnel on your Pillar of Specialization.
• Analyse Plant KPI performance vs. means scores, previously identified gaps, agreed actions prior to audits.
• Audit Plants, together with other Pillar Specialists, on Pillar of specialization. (Plants audited with team of 7 Pillar Specialists).
• Agree actions with Plants to close gaps identified during the audits (in the Pillar of specialization).
• Track and monitor closure of actions by plants against agreed timelines.
• Evaluate Plant KPI performance and means performance looking for examples of Best Practice.
• Best practices identification, standardization, and roll out. Escalation to Global when appropriate.
• Test and entrench best practices using PDCA and SDCA and the standard VPO tools.
• Document and track Plant KPI performance, means scores and action closure.
• Compile monthly VPO report according to the Global VPO Business Cycle.
• Own and Maintain all VPO documentation for your Pillar.

Profile:

• Experience working in a Plant or Production area is vital.
• +5 years’ experience in maintenance management.
• Must have experience in effective implementation of management systems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to foster effective working partnerships.
• Problem solving ability to be able to guide Plants in developing actions plans to improve both KPI performance and VPO means scores.
• Experience in coaching and training and guiding plant leadership teams.
• Must enjoy and be effective at training and coaching.
• Tertiary degree is essential in a related field.

Additional Information:

• Based in the Supply Zone HQ (Johannesburg)
• Reporting to the Zone VPO Manager (Solid Line)
• Works closely with the Zone Pillar Managers and Specialists.
• Also works with Plant Pillar owners.
• Travel throughout Africa a big part of this job
• All Plants will be audited twice per year. This workload will be split between 2 teams.