Brewing Engineer

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Engineering or equivalent tertiary education
  
• 3-5 years as a Section Engineer ideally in an FMCG company
  
• Experience with modern asset management systems is essential
  
• Previous exposure in brewing or similar process
  

Asset Care:

• Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the brewing, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice
  
• Implement the asset care plan for the brewing, ensuring the engineering team have the required competencies
  
• Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals
  
• Audit compliance to the asset care program by both the engineering team and shift based teams
  
• Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team
  

Plant Reliability:

• Responsible for the overall reliability and uptime of brewing plant
  
• Lead the engineering team in the provision of asset care and engineering support to the shift-based production teams
  
• Verifies that engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance and validates quality of work
  
• Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly, and that data integrity and information accuracy maintained
  
• Reviews plant reliability to ensure equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
  

Plant Optimisation:

• Takes part in regional and central office plant optimisation trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required
  
• Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment and signs off all plant modifications and changes
  
• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance, and initiates opportunity evaluation
  

Team Leadership:

• 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
  
• Conducts regular engineering team goal review session and conduct regular one-on-one and performance reviews
  
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
  

Safety And Housekeeping:

• Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures and adhere to all legal requirement when carrying out their tasks
  
• Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping
  
• Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits