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Job Title:   Machine Specialist (Diploma Jobs)

Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited

Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda

About US:

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, assuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment back to inherent condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop closure and provide input into the ZBB maintenance budget. You will also coach operators in the correct way to operate equipment and perform autonomous operations. You will typically be assigned to quality impact machines like bottle washer, filler and Labellers, quality checks are carried out and deviations to standard acted on.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

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 schedules
• 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 Specialist 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 Maintenance 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
• Always operate in a safe manner, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate AB InBev policies and procedures
• Carry out house keeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical engineering
• Min – 3 – 5 years in a packaging bottling production environment.
• Experience: 1-3 Years technical mechanical/electrical and bottling experience in a FMCG environment.

How to Apply:

All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.

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