Engineering Specialist

**Position/Title**: Engineering Specialist

**Reports To**: Maintenance & Utilities Manager

**Function**: Site

**Area**: Cape Town

**Number of Reports**: 1

**Overall Responsibility**:
To maintain equipment in a new condition, assuring machine/process reliability to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment back to original condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop closure action. The Engineering Specialist will provide functional leadership for plant maintenance within the designated plant. Working closely with the Production Team Leaders to ensure plant reliability is kept to standard.

**Focus Area 1**

**Maintenance management**
- Accountable for the development & continuous improvement of maintenance programs of the allocated equipment to the Specialist (includes mechanical, electrical & instrumentation)
- Review and interpret engineering specifications, schematics, and blueprints to determine Maintenance SOP's/Work instructions
- Provide guidance and oversee Problem solving process as per Manufacturing excellence Focused improvement pillar
- Continually improve the standard of the allocated machine maintenance programs through the problem solving loop closure process
- Ensure safe operation of allocaated machines
- Establish and maintain an effective spare parts inventory list & availability of same
- Assist in the introduction of Condition monitoring process/tools into the machine maintenance program
- Coach operators on Autonomous maintenance process and practice

**Focus Area 2**

**Safety adherence**
- Adhere to all Company and plant safety standards
- Implement safety practices as per SHE pillar handbook
- Support safety observation process to promote a safer work place

**Focus Area 3**

**Start up & SKU change process**
- Assist with Start up & Shut down SOP's
- Assist Production with development of operational SOP's when requested
- Develop SKU change SOP's with Maintenance & Production staff

**Requirements of the Role**
- Grade 12 along with trade certificate (successfully completed)
- Tertiary education, degree or diploma, Electrical engineering (advantageous, not a prerequisite)
- Valid unendorsed drivers license and own transport
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant technical experience, preferably in the brewing, beverage or FMCG industry
- Experience/Certification with reliability centered maintenance preferred
- 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 high-speed bottling/packaging operations in food/beverage industries will be highly advantageous
- Good knowledge of safety requirements
- Willing to work afterhours or on weekends as per the production demands.

**Preferred Skills/Competencies**
- 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 organisation
- 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

**NB: Specific duties/responsibilities will vary from time to time: the above list is intended to indicate the general nature of the post and is not exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to be flexible in supporting the business by undertaking any other responsibilities which are aligned with this job level