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Reliability Engineer - VOPS Alrode at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The South African Breweries (SAB)
March 19, 2026
Full-time
On-site
Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy


Implementation of Maintenance Business Strategy in the Maltings Engineering department.


Reliability of Equipment


Leverage Equipment lifespan, productivity, reliability and maintainability
Plant, Machine & Equipment availability


Process Control


Improved process control and subsequent quality assurance Materials
Optimum availability of maintenance materials and spares


Maintain a Safe and Healthy Working Environment


Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation • Maintain safety and housekeeping standards


Maintain, Calibrate, Repair Equipment and Optimize Plant and Associated Devices


Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
Plan and prepare the maintenance jobs and plant shut downs
Schedules completion - job allocation to artisans
Continuously improve (optimize) planning process
Allocate and plan maintenance tasks


Work in Teams


Communicate effectively in teams
Contribute to self and team development
Manage Asset Care Lead the development of the asset care strategy and plan for the entire brewery, ensuring adherence to COT principles
Liaise with Zone around asset care, and take part in regional and central asset care MDT's
Through the training controller, ensure development of required asset care competencies within the engineering team
Provide specialist asset care guidance and advice to engineering and production on asset care management
Ensure reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) techniques are incorporated into all capital projects
Perform routine and specific asset care assessments, and communicate findings to key stakeholders
Address problems with asset care program, and lead the implementation of corrective action
Manage required asset care systems, and ensure functional and data integrity of information
Maintenance System Management where necessary, lead and take part in the commissioning of new maintenance systems, or changes to the current systems
Provide training, coaching and mentoring to users of maintenance systems and assist in problem solving
Ensure, through the training controller, system users have the appropriate training and competencies to utilise the system
Ensure the functional and data integrity of the maintenance system, and identify and resolve problems
Conduct routine assessments of the system, and report finding to key stakeholders
Where assessments highlight problems, the asset care specialist must ensure resolution
Condition Monitoring Manage and co-ordinate overall condition monitoring activities, ensuring that the relevant competencies are developed within the engineering pool
Manage condition monitoring systems and ensure that functional and data integrity is maintained
Co-ordinate and manage any outsourced condition monitoring activities and verify that work carried out is in accordance with VPO practices
Monitor, assess and evaluate condition monitoring techniques, and where required introduce new techniques
Conduct training needs analysis, and where condition-monitoring training is required, through the training controller, ensure this is provided
Interpret data collected from condition monitoring and communicate finding and recommendations to the key stakeholders
Problem Solving Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problems solving approach to resolve
Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to the engineering controller for direction
Take part, as a functional specialist, in FFA's


Minimum Requirements:


Min - B Tech in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
Min - 12 months on the job training
2-3 Years as a Packaging or Brewing & E&F Engineering Controller or Planner