Technical Services Co - ordinator SA

Energy & Fluids Leadership Role

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 functional leadership for plant Energy & Fluids within the designated Africa zone business unit. They will be the single Point of Contact (SPOC) for E&F for the BOP. Working closely with the BU-BOP, this will include setting strategic direction for Energy & Fluids and working with country business units to deliver this strategy, to achieve safe, reliable & cost-efficient plants.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Agrees strategic direction for the function aligned to business needs and the VPO.
• Ensures alignment of the business strategy.
• Develops and implements KPI's and reporting systems and analyses the KPI's to provide business insight.

Governance & Standards

• Ensure compliance to applicable statutory maintenance requirements for Utilities.
• Ensure SHE maintenance work practices and procedures are developed and adhered to.
• Ensure governance / compliance to maintenance standards and practices are adhered to.
• Ensure technology upgrades are in line with business standards
• Audit Energy and Fluids across Zone & ensure countries close audit gaps.

Energy & Fluids Execution

• Provides support to breweries in identification of Energy & Fluids 1 year and 3-year glide paths and plans.
• Development of VA initiatives for breweries.
• Delivers on identified VA initiatives.
• Actively involved in the compilation, execution of Utilities budgets.
• Ensure resource availability to improve E&F and brewery efficiency (i.e.TEL).
• Implement E&F Global processes and best practices (GOPs, SWEEP, Levers etc).
• Process integration of Capin projects.
• Ensure optimum Utilities Shutdown plans are in place.

Continuity and Risk

• Develop and standardize system Utilities availability BCP plans for countries and plants.
• Develops and implements approaches to mitigate obsolescence.
• Ensure sharing of best practices for Utilities management.
• Monitors Utilities quality parameters (IQMS).
• Implements Ammonia and Steam Process Safety Management programs.

Skills Development and Transfer

• Assist in the development plans for all Energy & Fluids positions.
• Provide coaching for E&F across the breweries.
• Supports the development and roll out of E&F Technical Packages.
• Develop and implement Energy and Fluids best practices.

Projects (Investments)

• Assist in defining cost effective capital investment to support the strategic plan.
• Utilities SME for Capital projects, ensuring Energy & Fluids best practices are incorporated into design specifications.
• Evaluates plant capacity and expansion plans to ensure efficient Utility capacity.
• Support the operational readiness plan.

Partnering with Suppliers

• Identify key suppliers and support Procurement to formulate technical specifications.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Good knowledge of the safety requirements.
• Very strong communication skills from executive level through to shop floor.
• Strong systemic and strategic thinking balanced with a practical realism.
• Strong analytic skills and problem-solving capability tempered with a bias for action.
• Ability to influence others and build relationships in all levels of the organization.
• Lives out the company values.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 5 years FMCG or beverages experience in industrial electrical and mechanical engineering and maintenance.
• Is an experienced practitioner of the manufacturing way and VPO.
• Familiar with OSHA and plant legislative laws.

Additional Information:

• Band: V

SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.