Engineering Foreman

**AVI Ltd. **is known for its leading household brands across many categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

**NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED** operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.

An exciting opportunity exists for a qualified and experienced **Engineering Foreman **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Rosslyn, Snacks**. The successful incumbent will be responsible for the efficient operations and maintenance of all plants and equipment in Factory 1. This position reports directly to the Maintenance Manager.

**Number of Direct Reports**: 7

**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:
**Health, Safety and Environment**
- Adhere to, and ensure compliance by subordinates to the company safety policies and procedures
- Assist with obtainment and maintenance of relevant health, safety and environmental management system standards
- Ensure equipment compliance with relevant safety regulations, including the General Machinery and Driven Machinery Regulations
- Ensure facilities and infrastructure are conducive to employee health and wellness

**Food Safety**
- Adhere to, and ensure compliance by subordinates to FSSC 22000, AIB and ISO principles
- To ensure site infrastructure and equipment are installed and maintained in such a manner that Food Safety is not compromised.
- Ensure the standard of utilities (water and compressed air) in the respective area of responsibility, is in line with Food Safety Standards
- Manage all requirements related to CCP and OPRP equipment (calibration, validation, maintenance, etc.)
- Ensure that direct reports are trained on, and comply with Maintenance for Food Safety Procedures

**Plant Availability and reliability**
- Oversee all relevant maintenance activities for the area of responsibility
- Assist and oversee high-level breakdowns to ensure quick turnaround times
- Analyse breakdowns and provide recommendations to reduce downtime for areas of responsibility
- Ensure factory efficiency demands are met as per business targets (Availability and OEE)
- Ensure availability and reliability of equipment for the area of responsibility
- Provide expert advice in the area of responsibility
- Assist with developing and maintaining a problem-solving culture within the department (direct reports) through facilitating and sustaining root cause analysis practices
- Ensure that maintenance strategies are implemented
- Ensure that the job card processes including monitoring, allocation, close-out and backlog for the area of responsibility are up to date
- Ensure the artisans execute maintenance activities as per CMMS (Asset care system) schedules. This includes preventative, pro-active and breakdown schedules and procedures and auditing of work performed with the maintenance planner
- Ensure that stock requirements (critical spares, slow-moving, redundant) for equipment in the area of responsibility have been ordered and will be in store
- Assist with reviewing OEM recommended spares and identification and classification of critical spares
- Participate in scoping and procurement of new plant equipment to ensure adherence to site Engineering standards
- Provide input for the upkeep of the site Engineering standards specification document
- Workshop housekeeping, GMP and environmental compliance and related activities must adhere to relevant standards
- Input into development and coordination of annual maintenance plan and communication with all relevant stakeholders, with main focus on execution of the plan
- Assist with planning of new installations, upgrades and modifications to the existing plant in a safe and effective manner.
- Formulate equipment strategies as to how one will bring equipment back to their standard forms
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives with the team

**Systems and reporting**
- Assist with the Computerised Maintenance Management System, ensuring reliability and integrity of information
- Report on asset care schedule compliance, artisan utilisation, employee management control
- Ensure compliance with all relevant procedures
- Raising, and closing out NCRs in connection with equipment related food safety incidents
- Deliver monthly reports

**Budget**
- Ensure monthly spending of the allocated responsible cost centre is within the budget amount.

**Projects**
- Assist with commissioning and handover of projects
- Assist with identifying areas of improvement (continuous improvement projects)
- Planning and execution of large maintenance projects

**Management**
- Lead mechanical and electrical artisan teams
- Ensuring appropriate