Condition Monitoring Specialist at AB InBev
Job Overview

Condition Monitoring Specialist at AB InBev
Condition Monitoring Specialist
AB InBev
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 ensure optimal asset performance through loss elimination, risk management, life cycle management
and identification, implementation and entrenchment of best practice. To ensure efficient management of the fixed cost maintenance
plan for the asset.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Condition Monitoring Techniques:
Develop and manage Plant footprint to ensure the correct condition monitoring techniques are applied in order to prevent functional failures
Apply RCM practices to prevent functional failures (Vibration Spectrum
Analyses, Oil Analyses, Thermography, Ultrasonic Analyses)
Monitor to detect the onset of deterioration and provide a measure of the extent and rate of deterioration
Incorporate condition monitoring techniques into SIC systems
Maximise asset reliability and availability:
- Deliver JIT approach to maintain assets in Plants according to Condition Monitoring results
- Continually review and optimize predictive maintenance plans to ensure maximum output at minimum cost
- Identify trends in asset performance using RCM analysis and implement solutions to reduce breakdowns and improve machine efficiency by
applying predictive maintenance solutions - Analyse asset performance trends to generate and support preventative and predictive improvement plans
- Monitor reliability indicators based on the condition monitoring report, failure reports and notifications generated
- Monitor adherence to the preventative and predictive maintenance plans; adjust accordingly and take corrective action
- Monitor assets, condition monitoring indicators and take necessary corrective actions
- Prevention of functional failures and avoid the consequences of functional failures
Drive the resolution of failures through structured problem solving:
- Evaluate effectiveness of regional problem solving through the analysis of formal problem-solving documentation
- Facilitate higher level problem solving for assets by applying standard problem-solving tools informed by Loss & Waste and Condition
- Monitoring analyses
Risk and life cycle management of assets:
- Identify maintenance risks and address accordingly by applying the correct condition monitoring techniques
- Maintain the maintenance TCO and ensure appropriately prioritised plans to extend equipment life
- Optimise the asset maintenance life cycle cost through life cycle costing analysis
- Reduce life cycle costing by improving asset maintainability
Identify, implement and entrench best practice:
- Implement condition monitoring best practice
- Where best practice is not available, identify and define good condition monitoring practices (benchmarking against similar assets where
possible) and implement accordingly - Identify and eliminate poor maintenance practices
- Ensure adherence to internal and external condition monitoring standards
- Drive efficiency by ensuring that learnings from downtime and condition monitoring findings are replicated across similar asset across the
group - Reduce mean time to repair and secondary breakdowns by ensuring adherence to good engineering and condition monitoring standards
Training and Development
- Train, coach, assess and sign-off condition monitoring best practices and standards
- Development of technical standards and work instructions
Projects Delivery:
- All new equipment must be included on condition monitoring footprint, and the correct techniques must be applied on assets
- Incorporate all new equipment into the Condition Monitoring Footprint
- Apply correct techniques on assets
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Superior decision-making capability
- Strong analytical capabilities and excellent problem-solving skills
- Proactive self-starter with high energy levels and a bias for action
- High level of self-management
- Ability to deliver through others, regardless of reporting structures
- Ability to work with people at all levels of the organization across different disciplines
- Commercial discipline
- Ability to work in a matrix / team environment
Minimum Requirements:
- National Diploma (N6) in Engineering or Maintenance Diploma
- Ideally 3 years’ experience packaging production experience and/or VISA Level 2
- Sound understanding of packaging
- Experience in the packaging/utilities environment
- Management experience will be advantageous
- SAP PM knowledge
- Excellent Excel skills
- Excellent PC Skills
Additional Information:
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent
requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only
short-listed applicants will be contacted
How to Apply:
