Job Description           

The Maintenance Controller is responsible to lead and support the technical team; to pro-actively ensure proper execution of maintenance on line equipment and to provide professional technical support to the Shift Team Leader and his team so that reliability and effectiveness of the line is maximized, thereby reducing losses and minimizing risks.

Key Duties & Responsibilities             

Maintenance Planning and Control

• Manage the maintenance of machines.
• Manage the maintenance schedule.
• Manage the breakdown repairs.
• Provide technical support service.
• Formulate and control repairs and maintain the budget (including engineering spares).
• Manage and review the maintenance program.
• Validate and verify the spares list.

Daily Routines

• Maintain a safe work area.
• Delegate and monitor work activities.
• Manage continuous improvement projects.
• Solve situational problems.
• Conduct audits.
• Perform downtime reconciliations.
• Initiate work permits and signs off.

People Management

• Monitor performance trends in the team and develop and implement capability enhancement plans against KPIs.
• Manage personal development and performance.
• Cascade plant manufacturing goals into team and monitor execution ensuring continuous coaching, one-on-ones and provision of support to team members.
• Continuously assess candidates for development purposes ensuring that competency acquisition tracks according to plan.
• Plan and carry out job observations.
• Maintain the effective acquisition and application of technical knowledge and principles with regards to maintenance planning and control.

Skills, Experience & Education           

Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• 3-5 years technical experience in a bottling environment will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of bottling processes and principles.

Competencies

Assertiveness

Be able to bring own views across clearly without damaging the relationship with the other party. Choose an appropriate stand in order to meet targets and best practice and encourage team members to be more productive.

Analytical thinking:

To analyse the relationships between events, circumstances and forces beyond the obvious and draws insightful conclusions, at a micro and macro level. Demonstrate the understanding of the inter-relationships between systems and processes and consolidate information into a coherent whole.

Business Acumen

Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting his/her business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.

Functional and Technical skills:

Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment

 Process Management

Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow.

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. (i.e. Develop new procedures to enhance distribution planning processes).

• Manage the maintenance of machines.
• Manage the maintenance schedule.
• Manage the breakdown repairs.
• Provide technical support service.
• Formulate and control repairs and maintain the budget (including engineering spares).
• Manage and review the maintenance program.
• Validate and verify the spares list.
• Maintain a safe work area.
• Delegate and monitor work activities.
• Manage continuous improvement projects.
• Solve situational problems.
• Conduct audits.
• Perform downtime reconciliations.
• Initiate work permits and sign off.
• Monitor performance trends in the team and develop and implement capability enhancement plans against KPIs.
• Manage personal development and performance.
• Cascade plant manufacturing goals into team and monitor execution ensuring continuous coaching, one-on-ones and provision of support to team members.
• Continuously assess candidates for development purposes ensuring that competency acquisition tracks according to plan.
• Plan and carry out job observations.
• Maintain the effective acquisition and application of technical knowledge and principles with regards to maintenance planning and control.

• Assertiveness
• Analytical thinking
• Business Acumen
• Functional and Technical skills
• Process Management
• Problem Solving

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• 3-5 years technical experience in a bottling environment will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of bottling processes and principles.