Mechanical Artisan Full-Time

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to provide engineering support to the maintenance function through the repairing, replacing or manufacturing of parts for plant, machines and equipment in manufacturing.

Key roles and responsibility

Operational support:

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations.
• This will include standby and day shift support.
• Where requested, assist as a 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 machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams.
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimization trials.

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.
• Where scheduled work cannot be completed, feed back to the maintenance planner for direction.
• This may involve rescheduling the work or prioritizing outstanding work.
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows. 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.
• If required, additional resources may be called in to assist.
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner.

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 Planner or Engineer for direction.
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part, as functional expert, in FFA’s on request.

Housekeeping 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 appropriate SAB policies and procedures.
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 4S principles during the executions of duties.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Ability to communicate well.
• Team player.
• Ability to adhere to instructions, work in shifts with minimum supervision and hard worker.
• Sober mind, self-starter and honest.

Minimum Requirements

• Trade tested Mechanical artisan, Millwright or qualified welder Ammonia CAT A & B Certification.
• 1-2 years as an Artisan.

Additional information:

• Band: X – (A11)

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.