Roles and Responsibilities:

• Engineering Management, Manage Plant Asset Care Budget / Finances
• Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability
• Lead engineering projects by increasing efficient project planning and execution thereof *Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
• Manage the F&E function including Operations and Maintenance
• Manage Site Engineering, encompassing Site Maintenance, Engineering Stores and Engineering procurement
• Lead the risk management program, encompassing occupational health and safety and risk management
• Ensure legal compliance in engineering and adherence to legal standards/regulations
• People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
• Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular engineering team goal review sessions
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team

Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment

• Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards

Manage Human Resource

• Develop employees
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage and apply personnel practices

Ensure manufacturing systems and instrumentation integrity

• Maintain system integrity and change control
• Maintain and calibrate site instrumentation

Ensure engineering standards compliance

• Ensure application documented standards
• Develop and update engineering standards through ZBS Maintenance

Lead maintenance strategy lead as per VPO

• Optimize use of planned maintenance system
• Apply formal failure analysis process
• Apply relevant engineering spares strategy

• Implement VPO and Associated GOP’s
• Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed

Manage small site projects

• Project completion on time and in budget

Manage financial performance

• Manage ZBB Maintenance and CAPEX budgeting process
• Control departmental costs
• Review financial results.

Expected Standards:

• Utilities, Packaging and Brewing IQMS
• Maintenance Cost per Hl to benchmarks
• Spares stockholding levels
• Utilities cost
• Workshop Housekeeping
• Identification of unsafe practices.
• GMP/5S audit results
• Adherence to local regulations
• Maintenance skills on site including Coswin.
• PLC and Software skills on site
• SCAP progress [Skills Competency auisition Process]
• Brewing Plant Reliability
• Utilities Plant Reliability
• Packaging Machine Efficiency
• Maintenance Indicators
• Complete in time and in cost

Requirements:

• Min B.Sc/HND – Engineer Electrical/Mechanical. (M.Sc added advantage)
• 2-3 Years as a Packaging or Brewing & Utilities Engineer

Skills and Attributes:

• A motivated individual with high levels of resilience and the ability to operate in a high-pressure environment Commercial Acumen with strong planning & financial management skills
• Highly developed analytical skills with excellent problem-solving capability
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality is non-negotiable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Proven leadership and management capability.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• An Innovative thinker, persuasive, assertive and a good negotiator
• Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to lead, motivate and develop employees

Additional information:

• Band: VII

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.