The key purpose of this role is to maintain, repair and optimise plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe, healthy, risk-free working environment at all times by abiding to all rules and regulations of the safety policies
- Perform maintenance and operation on various machines while ensuring that the machine is safe before maintenance tasks are carried out
- Maintain and repair plant & associated devices at minimum cost while maintaining highest quality standards
- Optimise and improve plant, process equipment & systems in case of Electricians/ Instruments need to ensure that all tasks performed meets the requirements of South African Bureau of Standards Act 1945
- Ensure that maintenance tasks are completed to the standard work instructions set out by SAB
- Standby duty required as per roster set out with minimum disruptions
Key Attributes And Competencies:
- Ability to solve problems on FMCG machines
- Ability to communicate technical knowledge to operation staff improving their skills sets
- Ability to train, coach and mentor operation staff on ATO and 5’s principles
- Ability to optimise usages and reduce wastage with permanent solution
- Interpersonal Skills,Work in Teams and Collaborate
- Ability to work no supervision (strong self-management practices)
- Ability to problem solve using basic problem-solving tools (5 why; fishbone)
- Ability to reduce machine downtime to minimum while ensuring the all problems have permanent solutions
- Ability to analyse various graphical data and open gaps to improve performance
- Ability to identify non-standard work and tag the defects
- Ability to work out spares requirements for machines and request via the sap system
- Ability to be able to use electronic communication devices eg Tablets, laptops and other devices
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum N4 Technical qualification or higher
- Trade test qualification in Electrical/ Instrumentation
- Experience in Packaging would be advantageous
- Summative assessment in current role would be advantageous
- 2 year’s post trade test experience would be advantageous
- Basic computer skills in Microsoft Excel and Word
- Basic operations of electronic communication devices