Who We Are
We are Highlands, a vibrant, fast-growing beverage company in Kenya, committed to delighting our consumers and supporting our employees every day. Together, we are One, On, and Strong, always striving to become Kenya’s number one beverage company.
Our Purpose & Promise
We create refreshing drinks that Kenyans love and can afford. Our mission is to delight every consumer, every time. Our commitment to our employees makes us great—every day, we play as a team and strive to become better in all we do.
The Purpose of the role
This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance plans for manufacturing machinery and related facilities for a busy beverage manufacturing company. The holder of the role will be ensuring proper maintenance by scheduling corrective actions, managing spare parts, and coordinating with maintenance stakeholders to optimize equipment performance, improve equipment reliability and minimize downtime.
About the Job
Detailed responsibilities include:
Planning and scheduling:
- Create and update preventive maintenance schedules based on equipment usage, manufacturer recommendations, and historical data.
- Together with assistant Engineer, prioritize and assign maintenance tasks to technicians based on urgency and impact on production.
Spare parts management:
- Monitor and manage inventory levels of critical spare parts to ensure timely availability for repairs.
- Monitor consumption rates for spares and report and/or perform root causes for abnormal trends.
- Coordinate with procurement department to procure necessary spare parts in good time.
Collaboration and communication:
- Collaborate with production teams to identify potential maintenance needs and schedule maintenance activities with minimal disruption.
- Communicate maintenance plans clearly to all stakeholders and ensure alignment.
Performance analysis and Continuous improvement:
- Analyse maintenance data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
- Continuously improve preventive maintenance programs, ensuring that day to day experience in maintenance is used to optimize the preventive maintenance programs.
- Continuously gather improvement ideas from all equipment and facilities stakeholders and plan for necessary equipment upgrades and modifications.
- Identify knowledge gaps on operators, technical operators and technicians and recommend suitable trainings
Maintenance Documentation and reporting:
- Generate reports on equipment reliability, maintenance costs, and other agreed maintenance performance metrics.
- Ensure that all preventive maintenance forms and reports are done within the same day of maintenance and are filed appropriately.
- Ensure all RCA reports are done accurately and filed appropriately
Minimum Academic Qualification and Experience
- Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, mechatronic or any related field.
- At least 5 years experience working as a maintenance planner or supervising a major engineering function in a busy factory.
- Technical knowledge - Strong understanding of industrial machinery, mechanical systems, electrical components, and basic troubleshooting.
- Possession of substantial maintenance hands on experience will be an added advantage.
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