The Team Leader: Utilities is responsible to lead, support and develop the Engineering technical team to proactively maintain the utilities equipment and site infrastructure in a cost-effective manner, so that reliability and effectiveness of the Site and Utilities is maximized, and losses and risk are minimized and manage external contractor to ensure safety, quality and reliability of work performed in utilities and site.

Key Duties & Responsibilities             

Operational Management

• Monitor and control equipment and processes (syrup room, water treatment plant, CO2 facilities, refrigeration, Effluent plant, boiler house, air compressors, Water Reticulation, Electrical reticulation, site).
• Plan and ensure that equipment is maintained.
• Plan, delegate and monitor work activities.
• Provide building maintenance and support.
• Provide technical support service.
• Manage projects.
• Maintain SHE regulations and standards.
• Solve situational problems.
• Adhere to the procurement policy.
• Manage the processes effectively: Maintain vs replace.
• Manage the spares required, by monitoring cost vs reliability.
• Conduct risk assessments on non-routine tasks.
• Maintain and monitor the suppliers required for services.

Daily Routines

• Compile and update work instructions.
• Refurbish equipment and engineering materials
• Formulate and control the budget.
• Managed own development and performance.
• Conduct Audits.
• Bottling principles and industry/manufacturing knowledge
• Monitor and maintain building/site maintenance principles.
• Adhere to the company labour relations practices.
• Communicate manufacturing information on an ongoing basis.
• Control the usage of raw materials.
• Manage continuous improvement projects

People Management

• Develop and monitor team goals.
• Support, guide and coach team members.
• Manage team relationships.

Skills, Experience & Education           

Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• 3 years generic technical and 2 years leadership experience in a FMCG environment
• Sufficient knowledge of construction (minimum 2 years) to be appointed as a supervisor of building work.
• Experience with SHEQ and site fire protection.
• Experience with managing projects.
• Experience with budget preparation and control.

Competencies

Good Communication:

The ability to express oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others and tailors the content of speech to the level and experience of the audience.

Problem Solving:

Use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.

Planning:

The ability to apply planning skills in order to, schedule activities and prioritize resources in the achievement of an objective.

Customer orientation

Be dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Conflict Management

Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.

Directing Others

Is good at establishing clear directions; sets stretching objectives; distributes the workload appropriately; lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results; brings out the best in people; is a clear communicator.

• Monitor and control equipment and processes (syrup room, water treatment plant, CO2 facilities, refrigeration, Effluent plant, boiler house, air compressors, Water Reticulation, Electrical reticulation, site).
• Plan and ensure that equipment is maintained.
• Plan, delegate and monitor work activities.
• Provide building maintenance and support.
• Provide technical support service.
• Manage projects.
• Maintain SHE regulations and standards.
• Solve situational problems.
• Adhere to the procurement policy.
• Manage the processes effectively: Maintain vs replace.
• Manage the spares required, by monitoring cost vs reliability.
• Conduct risk assessments on non-routine tasks.
• Maintain and monitor the suppliers required for services.
• Compile and update work instructions.
• Refurbish equipment and engineering materials
• Formulate and control the budget.
• Managed own development and performance.
• Conduct Audits.
• Bottling principles and industry/manufacturing knowledge
• Monitor and maintain building/site maintenance principles.
• Adhere to the company labour relations practices.
• Communicate manufacturing information on an ongoing basis.
• Control the usage of raw materials.
• Manage continuous improvement projects
• Develop and monitor team goals.
• Support, guide and coach team members.
• Manage team relationships.

• Good Communication
• Problem Solving
• Planning
• Customer orientation
• Conflict Management
• Directing Others

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• Sufficient knowledge of construction (minimum 2 years) to be appointed as a supervisor of building work.
• Experience with SHEQ and site fire protection.
• Experience with managing projects.
• Experience with budget preparation and control.