Packaging Machine Specialist

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  job is to maintain equipment in an as new condition, assuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective and preventive actions to restore equipment back to inherent condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop closure and provide input into the ZBB, VIC and UPP  maintenance budget. Coach operators in the correct way to operate equipment and perform autonomous operations.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Comply with safe, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Identification of unsafe practices through SIO's.
• Conduct Safety inspections.
• Safe maintenance practices audited.
• Adherence to PPE policies.
• Maintenance tools are in good working order

Maintain and repair plant and associated devices:

• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems.
• Plan and prepare the job.
• Carry out repairs/maintenance.
• Operate workshop equipment 

Work in Teams: 

• Communicate effectively in teams.
• Contribute to self and team development

Work orders complete:

• Backlog.
• Generate tags for follow on work
• Satisfied customers – no rework

Operational Support:

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations.
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving.
• This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on mechanical equipment, mechanical fault-finding and correct responses to mechanical failure modes 

Planned Maintenance:

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities 

Routine Maintenance:

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques. 

Running Repairs:

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equip- ment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per CMMC requirements

Problem Solving:

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in FFA's on request 

Improvement:

• Improve SWI's, SOP's and maintenance tasks (schedule reviews) on an ongoing basis as issues arise to ensure that the loop is closed out to prevent issues arising.

Housekeeping and Safety:

• 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 AB InBev policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum advanced certificate in Mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum two years of experience in a position of process artisan or equivalent will be an added advantage
• Expertise in engineering drawing and circuit diagram analysis
• Experience in mechanical/ electrical and packaging-based equipment troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Act
• Certified member of the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ)
• Minimum three years of experience in FMCG processing environments will be an added advantage