Maintenance Specialist - Cape Town, South Africa - Signal Hill Products Pty Ltd
Description
Location:
Cape Town - Western Cape
Signal Hill Products is looking for an exciting, dynamic, and ambitious individual to join the team at a leading Cape Town based brewery.
Overall Responsibility:
The Maintenance Specialist's is responsible for maintaining and operating machinery from necessary to advanced systems. The Maintenance Specialist will provide functional leadership for plant maintenance within the designated Plant.
Working closely with the team leaders, Production manager and a consulting engineer to ensure plant operations are maintained at all times to achieve safe, reliable & a cost efficient plants.
Primary Responsibilities:
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
Requirements of the Role:
- Tertiary education, degree or diploma, Electrical engineering.
- 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
Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cape Town,
Western Cape:
Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)
Application Question(s):
- Have you passed the Electrician Trade Test?
Education:
- Certificate (preferred)
Experience:
- Technical: 3 years (preferred)
