Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Hiring Maintenance Controller – Nairobi

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, and approximately 7 000 employees in South Africa. 

Key Purpose Statement

To ensure that the line is always available for production and then produces at the rated speed and perfect quality with minimal waste through optimum maintenance and execution.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

1. Asset Care

• Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the packaging plant, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice.
• Support the implementation of the asset care plan for the Packaging plant, ensuring the MAS’s, PA’s and operational teams have the required technical competencies to execute the plan
• Support the implementation of the Predictive Maintenance Strategy, including the Condition Monitoring program
• Is accountable for the execution of the technical gap plan for the plant
• Ensure audit compliance to the asset care program

2. Plant Reliability

• Responsible for the reliability and uptime of Packaging
• Ensure the execution of maintenance / extended maintenance work
• Ensure that predictive maintenance techniques are implemented correctly.
• Ensure spares needed to support asset management program are available on time and within costs
• Ensure compliance to maintenance planning and execution of maintenance outage
• Coordinate and control MAS’s availability for the maintenance day.
• Take part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that the Packaging Engineering team is applying the correct problem solving techniques.

3. Plant Optimisation

• Evaluate impact of new plant and equipment, and recommend changes.
• Have a working understanding of plant operation and associated Work Instructions and/or procedures.
• Analyse plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to identify and correct root causes.
• Take part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support.
• Ensure that continuous improvement is built into the MAS’s team goals, and forms part of regular goal review sessions.

4. Team Leadership and Management

• Lead the MAS’s team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction.
• Lead the development of MAS’s team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members.
• Entrench a high performance culture by conducting regular Packaging Engineering team goal review sessions, one-on-one’s and performance reviews.
• Ensure training need analysis are conducted and training plans developed for team members.
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure multi-skilling occurs within the Packaging (this includes evaluation of workmanship of teams)
• Manage Contracted-out maintenance services by ensuring that the service supplied is in strict accordance with supply scheme contract and that of service and product reliability, quality, cost and the service providers own employee behaviour is acceptable while on site.

5. Safety and Housekeeping

• Ensure that the team members apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements when carrying out their tasks.
• Ensure adherence to the appropriate CCBA and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping.
• Ensure all statutory and mandatory checks are part of the asset care management system, are performed and all documentation completed and recorded.
• Ensure that health, safety and housekeeping receive appropriate focus through regular checks and audits, with appropriate monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Where unsafe work practices have been identified, the Maintenance Controller is responsible for correcting this.

Skills, Experience & Education

Education

• Minimum requirement : Diploma in Mechanical and /Electrical Engineering or relevant course
• Added advantage : Degree in Electrical Engineering

Experience

• 3 years maintenance experience
• 5 years of experience in maintenance of packaging equipment

Closing Date : 2025/03/10

Location : Nairobi

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