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Packaging Engineer

Zambia Breweries | Lusaka

Zambia Breweries

Innovating the future of tech solutions in Zambia.

Job Description

Job description

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 job is to take the Strategic lead for the maintenance function in Packaging and to lead related Strategic Initiatives ensuring Corporate Governance for equipment and system integrity through the application of and adherence to relevant Standards and Legislation.

Key roles and responsibilities:

  • Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
  • Maintain safety and housekeeping standards in workshops, artisan workstations and at place or work
  • Develop employees
  • Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
  • Manage and apply personnel practices
  • Maintain system integrity and change control
  • Maintain and calibrate packaging mechanical plant and equipment including instrumentation integrity
  • Ensure application documented standards
  • Develop and update engineering standards through the Zone
  • Ensures a high quality of workmanship is attained from the maintenance team
  • Plans in place to implement the various maintenance pillar blocks
  • Sustain what has been implemented
  • Optimise use of planned maintenance system
  • Apply formal failure analysis process
  • Apply relevant engineering spares strategy
  • Project completion on time and in budget
  • Manage budgeting process
  • Control departmental costs
  • Review financial results

Profile:

  • BSc Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree​
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management​
  • Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line highly advantageous​
  • A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people​
  • Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational,
  • people)​
  • A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality​
  • Mental alertness and analytical ability​
  • Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance​
  • Leadership ability (ability to lead planners, controllers and a full engineering team)​
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills​
  • Ability to develop and control budgets​
  • Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop​
  • Ability to manage complex projects of significant number​
  • Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum​
  • High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment

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