Packaging Machine Specialist – Inspection & Coding

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?Packaging Machine Specialist

 

 

The key purpose of this role is to maintain, repair, and optimize packaging hall machines to ensure plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

 

Key roles and responsibilities:Packaging Machine Specialist

• Review SAP downtime in preparation for the morning meeting with the maintenance controller
• Advance terminator to Unit manager level
• Develop SWIs, SOPs, and schedules reviewed and train operators.
• Training of operators and shift artisans to close skill Gaps
• Obtain quotes for spare parts from OEM/AMM and or reverse engineering as required and manage the RTS process to recover ZBB.
• Perform store walkabout and review store bin holding min and max levels
• Support with shut planning by utilizing medium- and long-term action plans
• Update AWS daily and track machine-specific performance and KPIs
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the production teams on machine operation, machine fault finding, and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift-based teams
• Carry out work during the planned, routine, and opportunity maintenance window by the planned maintenance schedule issued by the Planner
• Where scheduled work cannot be completed, feedback to the Maintenance Planner for direction, this may involve rescheduling the work or prioritizing outstanding work
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks during planned maintenance windows
• Complete any administration and SAP tasks in support of planned maintenance, Standby duties – be available for call out when required
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities, and learnings from maintenance activities
• Carry out Autonomous Operations as per requirements
• Participate in machine grouping improvement using Artisan Workstation
• Carry out routine maintenance activities by the maintenance schedule where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance (where required, additional resources may be called in to assist)
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Where necessary, call in additional resources to assist in problem-solving or escalate to the Maintenance Controller for direction

 

Profile:Packaging Machine Specialist

• Minimum N6 Electrical (Must be trade tested) or National Diploma in Electrical Engineering
• 2 years’ experience in an FMCG Environment
• Experience in Krones and Heuft inspection machines
• Experience in date coding machines: Video Jets
• Strong Electrical and Instrumentation knowledge
• Strong Analytical thinking

 

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SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with SAB 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. Packaging Machine Specialist