Function: Supply Chain
Sub Function : Engineering
Location : Gisenyi, Rwanda
Contract: Permanent
BRALIRWA Plc, is engaged in the production, distribution, and sales of a wide range of beer and soft drink brands. A career with BRALIRWA offers great professional challenges combined with exciting opportunities to own and grow one’s career in line with their aspiration.
JOB PURPOSE
The Maintenance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of all production and utilities equipment having a long-term focus and providing input to planning and execution of maintenance plans.
He supports Engineering Manager in enhancing the planned maintenance pillar functionalities leading to improved asset performance and reduced costs, and lead Planned & Preventive maintenance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Safety, Food Safety and Sustainability
- Collect safety and Legal related maintenance tasks and translate into maintenance plans for execution.
- Executes Safety diagnostics based in safety reports and inspections
Quality
Collects quality related maintenance tasks and translate into maintenance plans for execution, including calibration activities.
Work process
- Manages and organizes asset master data within the CMMS. Uses, monitors, and controls the asset breakdown structure and defines all PM tasks and inventory items in CMMS.
- Monitors asset performance (OPI or line availability) and is responsible for plant availability (uptime).
- Optimizes Planned Maintenance strategy (standards and tasks).
- Optimizes Spare Parts management.
- Collects and manages asset drawings, documents, permits (licenses), warranties.
Organization and People management
- Supports Engineering manager (EM) and reports to the EM in initiating and driving optimized maintenance processes (i.e. improve and sustain asset performance and reducing costs).
- Manages the maintenance planners concerning preventive maintenance plans and plans to improve asset performance and/or reduce costs.
- Manages the Spare part coordinator to optimize spare parts
- Mentors and trains zone technicians in optimizing asset performance and reducing costs in their zones.
- Mentors and trains zone technicians in executing breakdown analysis and implementation of minor stops, alarm & speed loss reduction process.
TPM & Continuous Improvement
- Performs loss & cost maintenance deployments to shop floor level and establish PDCA-process.
- Monitors and controls breakdown analysis and reduction system (BDA).
- Launches Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process to extend life and reduce costs.
- Implements weak component analysis (WCA). Executes improvement activities to improve weak points of equipment.
- Supports identification & transfer of maintenance operations AM Teams, including CBM and Running checks.
- Proactively identifies and shares relevant best practices within the Heineken network.
Information & Data Management
- Key-user of the CMMS. OPI (and other ME-) data registration in the CMMS.
- Reports on maintenance KPI’s
QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, electronic or any other related field.
- A minimum of 4 years’ working experience in maintenance and/or operations execution.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in People Management with proven track records.
- Working knowledge of MS Office packages-Word, Excel & Power Point.
- Fluent in English and Kinyarwanda (both verbally and in writing) and French will be added advantage.
- Advanced knowledge and experience in maintenance engineering, Supply Chain, and Inventory Management work processes.
- Strong facilitating skills and ample knowledge and experience in RCM, FMECA and TPM.
HOW TO APPLY
Should you wish to apply for this position, please go to https://careers.theheinekencompany.com/Rwanda and search for “Maintenance Engineer”.
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All applicants must apply using our online application system, CVs received via email or standard post will NOT be considered. In case you face any challenges in applying, please let us know through jobs.bralirwa@heineken.com (no applications will be accepted through this email).
The closing date for submission of applications is Friday 30th April 2021.
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#WeAreHEINEKEN. People are at the heart of our company. Our people are as diverse as our brands! We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We see our strength in trust, diversity and progress. Our aim is to have the most talented employees attracted to our company, and to hire them based on their merits, equal opportunities and respect for the differences of each individual. As part of that, we strive for BRALIRWA to be a safe & open place for everyone.
NB: All employment is conditional upon successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks.
