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 Maintenance Engineer at NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Isando Coffee and Creamer. The successful incumbent will be responsible for the Engineering Stores, Maintenance Planning and Spares Maintenance.

Line Manager: Engineering Manager

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

1.Engineering Stores:

• Be appointed as the GMR 2.7 for the engineering stores and ensure all statutory compliance takes place according to the OHS Act and its regulations within area of responsibility.
• Manage the engineering stores and implement the spares management business processes.
• Lead a team of stores controllers and clerks in the receiving, issuing and repair of critical spares and rotables.
• Monitor the quality of the spares and equipment purchased and ensure effective quality assurance practices are in place for all rotables.
• Ensure Stores Clerk’s perform maintenance on critical spares and good housekeeping standards are upheld at all times.
• Support the Store Controller with cycle counts, stock counts, rotables tracking, stock reporting and purchasing.
• Audit spares on hand and provide monthly SLOB’s report and high usage/consumption indicators.
• Monitor stores to direct spares purchase cost ratios for improvement and control.

2. Spares and Rotables Maintenance:

• Provide supervision for the execution of equipment maintenance through the effective utilisation of key out-housed engineering resources, original equipment manufacturers and contracted services.
• Improve spare parts quality, consumption and availability of work done on spares and rotables.
• Review OEM recommended spares and classification of critical spares.
• Management of equipment warranties, ensuring new equipment information is captured on the warranty register and warranties are upheld.
• Raising, and closing out of NCR’s in connection with equipment and spares related food safety incidents. 

3. Maintenance Planning:

• Manage the maintenance planning function and supervisor the Maintenance Planners.
• Ensure planning occurs, is effective and appropriate for the entire site.
• With the help of the Maintenance Planners, plan and facilitate maintenance shutdowns and improve plant reliability and equipment availability using OEM, RCM, 5Why and RCA processes.
• Managing the collection and recording of all preventative and statutory compliance records and documentation.
• Manage job card effectiveness including monitoring, allocation, close-out and backlog
• Be a super user for both the CMMS and SAP MM systems.
• Compile and review all asset care and stores reports – KPI’s, asset care schedule compliance, artisan utilization, employee management control, turnaround time etc.
• Compilation of annual maintenance shutdown budget

4. People Management:

• Lead a team of Maintenance Planners, Stores Controller and Stores Clerk.
• Manage resource allocation and time in accordance with Basic Conditions of Employment and Labour Relations Act, ensuring appropriate resources for departmental requirements.
• Subscribe to the values of NBL and foster a culture of care, ownership, accountability and teamwork with the other departments in the site and the wider engineering fraternity at other NBL factories.
• Adhere to and ensure compliance by subordinates to the company safety policies and procedures by keeping the employees accountable for their actions, as well as for the lack thereof.
• Ensure facilities and infrastructure are conducive to employee health and wellness.
• Drive a safety culture in the department & section – Housekeeping, PTW, LOTO, SOP’s.
• Adhere to, and ensure compliance by subordinates to FSSC 22000, AIB and ISO principles.
• Ensure team members have the means to do their jobs, the ability to execute on tasks and are held accountability through recognition and discipline for their outputs.
• Plan the leave, training, and development for the sub-ordinates in line with the engineering strategies developed for the department.

The abovementioned activities shall be conducted in compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act, No. 85 of 1993 and all relevant NBL policies and procedures.

This profile acts as a guide and any additional work outcomes in-line with the role may be required to be performed by the incumbent.

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

• 3 to 5 years in a manufacturing plant environment, preferably FMCG.
• Experience in a supervisory or management role, preferably in a broad manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of the OHS Act and GMR 2.7 legal appointments.
• Knowledge of engineering principles and maintenance management systems (CMMS, SAP MM).
• Experienced in asset care plans and overall equipment effectiveness.
• Sound understanding of contractor management and management of change.
• Ability to influence a department and experience in managing poor performance.
• Computer literacy in SAP, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Projects), SharePoint and Corrective Action Systems.

Qualifications:

• Completed Ndip /BTech / BSc / BEng in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering Degree

 Additional Requirements:

• Eligibility to write GCC (Factories) will be advantageous.
• Must be able to work overtime and standby
• Flexible and available as and when required in the event of emergencies
• Must be able to perform any other reasonable duties within the scope of the engineering
• Ability to stand-in for line manager when not available

Competencies:

• Thinking Analytically
• Thinking Rationally
• Articulating Information
• Staying Composed
• Working Together
• Meeting Deadlines
• Minimising Risk
• Maintaining Productivity