LOCATION : ABL GRAPHIC ROAD
DURATION: FULL TIME
DEADLINE: 30th April, 2026
Key Responsibilities
To provide technical expertise to the shift teams, in order to optimize the process and performance measures for an energy and fluids process area and to ensure maintenance integrity within energy and fluids.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Assess requirements
- Conduct analysis and provide recommendations
- Support implementation of recommendations
- Optimize plant availability and process outputs
- Optimize and reduce utilities usages and waste discharge
- Support technical projects
- Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
- Plan and implement maintenance priorities
- Manage issues emanating from system usage reports
- Ensure adherence to asset care business processes
- Maintain maintenance integrity
- Develop employees
- Ensure a positive employee relations climate
- Manage and apply personnel practices
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
- Implement safety, health and environmental legislation and procedures
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Ensure daily leadership behavior is consistent with the manufacturing way principles and practices
- Lead the change process to implement the manufacturing way principles and practices within area of control
- Ensure that the manufacturing way principles and practices become the standard work practices within area of control
- Ensure that all team members are fully conversant with the Voyager Plant Optimization (VPO) means and results
- Conduct regular assessments using the VPO method to assess team / department maturity in the VPO practices
- Develop and drive implementation plans to progress maturity in the VPO principles and practices.
Key performance Areas and Measures:
- Energy and Fluids Machine Availability
- Asset management indicators
- Product quality
- Wastage
- IQMS parameters
- Asset register updated
- Spares stocks levels maintained
- CMMS integrity and accuracy audited
- Schedule revision audited
- Energy and Fluids systems reliability
- Change control processes entrenched
- Maintenance cost per Hl to benchmarks
- Utilities cost per HL to benchmarks
- Spares stockholding levels
- Adherence to PPE policies
- General workshop housekeeping
- Identification of unsafe practices
- Safety inspections conducted and audited
- Safe maintenance practices audited
- Identification of unsafe practices
- Safety inspections conducted and audited
- Safe maintenance practices audited
- 1-on-1’s completed
- SKAP managed
- Departmental communication
- VPO Maintenance Pillar skills
- PLC skills
- Basic Maintenance skills
- Voyager Plant Optimization (VPO) implemented
- VPO Assessment Completed and Audited
- Continuous improvement processes entrenched
Key Accountabilities:
- Provide technical expertise
- Optimize production processes
- Optimize plant and equipment availability
- Manage COSWIN and SYSPRO system integrity and optimal usage
- Mentor and coach the shift team
- Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
- Manage HR (Level 2)
- Operate utilities plant and equipment
- Compile and Manage asset Care Budgets for B&U
- Optimize Maintenance reliability, availability and cost.
Minimum Requirements:
- Min – Engineer (Mech /Process/ Elec) Ideal – BSc Process or Mechanical Engineer with Diploma in Brewing (IBD) as additional business qualification Registered Engineer
- Min – Complete Engineering Traineeship or Diploma in Brewing plus 3 months on the job training Ideal – Diploma in Brewing plus 6 months on the job training
- 1 Year – 18 months as a Team Leader or 1 year as a Maintenance Planner / Controller
Additional Information:
- Band: VII
AB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing
