Fresher Utilities Artisan Jobs – Nile Breweries

Job Title:   Utilities Artisan (Fresher Jobs)

Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited

Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda

 

About the Company:

Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.

 

Job Summary:   The key purpose of this role is to provide engineering support to the maintenance function through repairing, replacing and manufacturing of parts for plant, machines and equipment in manufacturing plant.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment
• Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance.
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards.
• Maintain and repair of plant and associated devices
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and systems.
• Plan and prepare for plant jobs.
• Carry out repairs / maintenance.
• Operate workshop equipment.
• Stop and start Utilities equipment.
• Work in Teams
• Communicate effectively in teams.
• Contribute to self and team development.
• Work orders complete
• Backlog maintained with the required target.
• Satisfied customers – no rework.
• Health, Safety and Environment
• Identification of unsafe practices.
• Safety and legal inspections conducted as per the instructions.
• Safe maintenance practices audited.
• Adherence to PPE policies.
• Maintenance tools are in good working order.
• Comply with VPO requirements for LOTO and PTW.
• Manage Human Resources
• Management skills.
• People handling ability.
• Mental alertness, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Conceptual skills.
• Subject matter expert.

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations.
• This will include standby and day shift support.
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving.
• This must be undertaken in support of the process artisan.
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams.
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimisation trials.

Planned Maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required.
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner.
• Where scheduled work cannot be completed, feed back to the maintenance planner for direction.
• This may involve rescheduling the work or prioritising outstanding work.
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows.
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine Maintenance

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner.
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule.
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.
• If required, additional resources may be called in to assist.
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner.
• Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the Technician in accordance with the CM schedule.

Running Repairs

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs.
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action.
• Where required, specialist assistance may be called in.
• This may include internal resources such as Instrument Technicians, or external resources such as Contractors or Suppliers.
• Where repairs indicate that major work is required, such as re-wiring a motor, this must be transferred to the engineering workshop for attention.
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem.
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out.
• This includes all SAP inputs.
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window.

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve.
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Maintenance Planner or Engineer for direction.
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part, as functional expert, in problem solving on request.

Housekeeping and Safety

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate SAB policies and procedures Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 4S principles during
• Maintain, repair equipment, improvements and optimize plant and associated equipment
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
• Plan and prepare the maintenance jobs and plant shut downs
• Schedules completion – job allocation overview of quality of workmanship by other maintenance specialists and artisans on responsible equipment
• Continuously improve (optimize) planning process
• Allocate and plan maintenance task
• All work is carried out using the VPO principles

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A diploma in Engineering (Electrica lor Mechanical) or its Equivalence
• At least 3 Years’ experience as an artisan

Key Attributes and Competency:

• Good analytical and evaluative skills.
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills.
• Articulate & Conceptual skills.
• Accurate, decisive and persuasive skills.
• People handling and leadership skills.

 

How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 18th April 2025