Title:  Maintenance Engineer

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Immediate Superior: Engineering Manager
Location: Stellenbosch
Function: Supply Chain
Type of Contract: Permanent
Reference Number: 155413 
Closing Date: 07 April 2026

Applications are invited for the above-mentioned position in the Engineering Department, based at Adam Tas Cluster manufacturing plants in Stellenbosch. The successful candidate will support both Adam Tas and JC Le Roux manufacturing plants and will report directly to the Engineering Manager.

Purpose of the Role:

The Maintenance Engineer will take ownership of and lead the plant-level deployment of Heineken asset care / maintenance standards across the cluster. This role places strong emphasis on providing direction, driving implementation, and ensuring standardisation across both manufacturing plants. The role is accountable for optimising equipment reliability, performance, and operational efficiency, through the development and implementation of effective maintenance strategies, as well as the effective management of asset / maintenance lifecycles.

Stakeholders include, but not limited to, packaging, cellars, site engineering, facilities, dry goods and warehousing, laboratory and quality assurance, intrinsics, finance, HSE, and TPM departments,

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

1. ASSET CARE/MAINTENANCE:

• Develop an asset care / maintenance strategy for the cluster, with implementation plan, aligned to the manufacturing strategy and business plans.
• Provide and drive a standardise approach to managing assets / maintenance by implement common systems and standards across all departments and sites.
• Define and entrench the basic principles of world class preventive, proactive and predictive maintenance based on criticality analysis and failure modes.
• Secure optimum equipment availability and reliability by tracking and analysing equipment performance.
• Manage and facilitates problem solving activities to eliminate repeat and significant equipment failures.
• Ensures the optimum performance, availability, and reliability of each component of the machines/ equipment by tracking and analysing equipment performance with the objective of no unplanned downtime.
• Establish processes to ensure that facilities, safety equipment, and tools are properly maintained and calibrated.
• Ensuring competencies and skills of asset care / maintenance personnel by implementing and sustaining a structured system.
• Improve the maintenance organisation efficiency and effectiveness by eliminating waste and losses over the whole life cycle of the equipment.
• Responsible for the integrity of asset - and equipment register for the cluster.
• Identify and mitigate asset / maintenance-related safety and environmental risks and ensure that equipment poses the least possible threat to human safety and the environment.
• Prepare and deliver balanced scorecard to monitor the health of equipment, the effectiveness of the staff compliment, and status of asset care / maintenance strategy implementation.
• Develop lifecycle replacement strategies and develop masterplans.
• Responsible for reporting the mandatory BCS metrics every month.

2. WORK MANAGEMENT:

• Establish and maintain an effective planned maintenance system, ensuring all work is properly scoped, prioritised, and scheduled.
• Drive compliance to the work management process.
• Ensure high-quality work order planning, including resource allocation, tools, spares, and safety requirements.
• Lead the development and optimisation of maintenance plans and ensure that maintenance tasks lists are technically sound, effective, mitigate risks, and that it adds value.
• Put systems in place to continuously improve work quality and compliance.
• Implement and maintain efficient and effective standards for work planning and controls, backlog management, maintenance days, shutdown management, calibration and validation processes, etc.
• SME for CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) and responsible to manage and optimise the use of the CMMS to ensure data integrity.

3. PROJECTS

• Provide technical input into projects and modifications and sign-off on new and modified installations.
• Responsible for the development of asset care / maintenance requirements new and modified installations.
• Work with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
• Ensure all asset care / maintenance related technical documentation and data are supplied.
• Register continuous asset / maintenance improvement projects.

4. TPM

• Asset Care / Maintenance engineer is the engineering TPM lead that is responsible to drive TPM implementation in engineering department.
• Support site TPM lead with the deployment strategy and creating the TPM roadmap.
• Implement and sustain the TPM fundamentals. (5S, VM, DCS, UPS, Zero Waste and Losses)
• Manages all stages of TPM strategy for the engineering department in accordance with the applicable TPM standards and ensure the TPM methodology is embedded as the way of working.
• Detailed planning and implementation of AM and PM Maintenance Pillar for the cluster.

5. SPARE PARTS STORE:

• Ensuring the right spare parts are available at the right time, quality, and quantity, to support equipment reliability and production uptime.
• Reduce working capital, but with an aim to balance the financial and maintenance requirements. 
• Prepare documented procedures for spare parts management and ensure compliance to internal controls and standards.
• Ensure that all stock items and consumables are timeously requested, correct stock levels are maintained, and stock ordered in line with company policies and procedures. (including re-order point and quantities)
• Managing all KPI’s related to the spare part store and report on it.
• Develop BOM for each equipment and ensure that material and equipment is linked.
• Criticality of spare parts.

The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience:

• Relevant Degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant plant maintenance working experience in a FMCG production environment.
• Demonstrate excellent people leadership skills.
• Be computer literate with working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Must be innovative, analytical and pro-active
• Be systematic in solving technical problems
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Have good business communication skills, both written and spoken
• Have sound planning and organising abilities
• Strategic thinking skills
• Ability to work independently and meet demanding deadlines
• An action & self-driven, motivated person.
• Strong numerical aptitude
• Attention to detail and analytical abilities are essential
• Goal & Service Orientated

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Heineken Beverages (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd) is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values inclusion and diversity. You must be fully eligible to live and work in South Africa to apply.