Maintenance Specialist - Cape Town, South Africa - Optential Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Optential Consulting (Pty) Ltd
Optential Consulting (Pty) Ltd
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

1 month ago

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Description

Primary Responsibilities:

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Focus Area 1: Maintenance

  • Provide specialist support to the shiftbased teams during operations
  • Review and interpret engineering specifications, schematics, and blueprints to determine work procedures.
  • Accountable for equipment reliability and ownership of the entire maintenance process; provide guidance and oversee troubleshooting of equipment issues
  • Perform Electrical, Electrical Controls, Instrumentation and Instrumentation Control duties and some mechanical duties such as setup, adjustment, calibrate, tune, and troubleshoot, Preventative Maintenance inspections and Overhaul
  • Managing the layout and placement of equipment and machinery in factory settings to ensure minimum downtime
  • Establish and maintain an effective spare parts inventory
  • Work with Management Team to contribute to longterm strategic planning
  • Troubleshoot & maintain PLCs and variable speed drive controlled equipment
  • Continuously support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of all equipment

Focus Area 2:
Procedure and Protocol Management

  • Develop, refine and document maintenance procedures
  • Enforce protocol and good FMCG practices within the brewery
  • Foster and promote continuous improvement and root cause analysis processes

Focus Area 3:
Safety Management

  • Respond quickly in the event of an emergency, notify appropriate personnel and follow safety protocol
  • Support Safety Initiatives
  • Perform Food Safety and Quality related activities as part of the FSMS and QC functions
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Requirements of the Role:
  • Tertiary education, degree or diploma, Electrical engineering.
Passed the relevant Trade Test

  • Passed the relevant Trade Test
  • Valid unendorsed drivers licence
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant technical experience, preferably in the brewing, beverage or FMCG industry is required
  • Experience/Certification with reliability centred maintenance preferred, (e.g. Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (CMRP))
  • Familiar with electrical systems such as controls, automation, VFDs, PLCs is essential
  • Familiar with mechanical systems such as welding, part fabrication, fluid transfer, pneumatics and plumbing is highly desired
  • Practical experience with highspeed bottling/packaging operations in food/beverage industries will be highly advantageous
  • Good knowledge of the safety requirements
  • Willing to work afterhours or on weekends as per the production demands.

Required Skills:


  • Attention to detail when reporting.
  • Strong understanding of general maintenance processes and methods
  • Good communication and interaction skills with people on all levels in the organization.
  • Ability to adhere to strict deadlines.
  • Able to work on your own, unsupervised
  • Willing to be challenged and work well within a team
  • Focused on excellence
  • Supervising, leading and developing staff
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