Job Title:   Machine Specialist

Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited

Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda

About the Company:

Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.

Job Summary:   The key purpose of this role is to maintain equipment in an as-new condition, ensuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment to its inherent condition, problem-solving to address root causes of failures, and loop closure, while also providing input into the ZBB maintenance budget. Additionally, this role involves coaching operators on the correct methods for operating equipment and performing autonomous operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• • Comply with safe, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
  • Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
  • Identification of unsafe practices through SIO’s.
  • Safety inspections conducted.
  • Safe maintenance practices audited.
  • Adherence to PPE policies.
  • Maintenance tools are in good working order
  • Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems.
  • Plan and prepare the job.
  • Carry out repairs / maintenance.
  • Operate workshop equipment
  • Communicate effectively in teams.
  • Contribute to self and team development
  • Generate tags for follow on work
  • Satisfied customers – no rework.

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations.
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving.
• This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on mechanical equipment, mechanical faultfinding and correct responses to mechanical failure modes

Planned Maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned Maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine Maintenance

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.

Running Repairs

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per SAP requirements

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in ABR’s on request

Improvement

• Improve SWI’s, SOP’s and maintenance tasks on an ongoing basis as issues arise to ensure that the loop is closed out to prevent issues arising.

Housekeeping And Safety

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriateAB InBev policies and procedures
• Carry out houskeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

• National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical)
• 1-3 Years technical mechanical and Utilities experience in a FMCG environment