Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. CCBA is a market leader in the NARTD non-alcoholic ready to drink market in Africa. CCBA has an extensive footprint in Africa, employing approximately 14 000 employees in Africa, with over 2000 employees in Kenya
Key Duties & Responsibilities
1. Operational support
- Provide specialist support to the shift based teams during operations.
- Provide guidance and advice to the shift based teams on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes.
- Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams.
- Review SIC’s and address deviations regularly.
- Development of work instructions related to equipment.
- Monitor and manage performance of equipment.
- Ability to work shifts and be available on call-out where necessary
- Verify and ensure that machines are running at rated speed
- Manage Maintenance performance indicators.
- Support continuous improvement and implement new technology.
2. 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 post mortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learning’s from maintenance activities.
- Optimisation of maintenance schedules and plant availability.
- Coach / train Operators on autonomous maintenance tasks
- Maintaining the integrity and security for maintenance systems.
- Assist with ensuring that system architecture environment remains aligned with the regional asset care, C&A strategy and CCBA standards.
- Ensure that regular line capability audits are done that would ensure that the entire line performs at rated capacity without waste.
- Ensure that the dynamic line control is continuously optimised.
3. Routine Maintenance
- 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- Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the technician in accordance with the CM schedule.
4. Running Repairs
- 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.
- Verify that running repairs carried out address the problems
5. Problem Solving
- Apply the correct problem solving methodologies to resolve problems
- Solicit additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to the Packaging Engineer for direction.
- Assist /coach fellow team members to resolve problems.
- Take part, as a functional expert, situational and systemic problem solving.
6. House keeping and Safety
- Operate in a safe manner at all times, and to identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected.
- Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhering to appropriate CCBA policies and procedures.
- Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of their duties
- Conduct risk assessments and implement disaster recovery plans.
7. Support NPD implementation and trials:
- Support NPD trials to be able to run on assets
- Ensure adherence to NPD procedures
- Ensure all changes on assets are well documented as per the Engineering Change Management business processes
8. Training and Development
- Train, coach, assess and sign-off PA’s and Operators on asset care and autonomous maintenance practices.
- Development of operational and technical standards and work instructions
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Degree in Mechatronics Engineering
- PLC programming software training.
- HMI development / programming software training.
- PC literacy essential – Microsoft packages.
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a FMCG.
- Packaging machines (within specialist area) and functionality