Key Purpose Statement

• The key purpose of the Team Leader, Cold Drink Equipment (CDE) is to oversee daily activities, ensure efficient maintenance and placement of equipment, and lead the team to achieve operational goals and high performance

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Key Outputs and Accountabilities include, but not limited to:

Managed cooler maintenance 

• Managed the execution of the Maintenance and Repairs.
• Plan for regular maintenance of coolers to ensure high reliability.
• Coolers are maintained as per schedule
• Ensure good housekeeping of the workshop for cleanliness and a safe working environment.
• Assist Cooler Mechanics with breakdown repairs and troubleshooting of faults
• Ensure all equipment is operated at its optimum

Operational requirements

• Maintain customer service excellence.
• Monitor the process of tool management.
• Maintained safety, health and environmental standards.
• Achieved quality standards.
• Set goals and drive team performance.
• Provide leadership, support and guidance to the team.
• Self-managed development.
• Maintain Internal and External customer collaboration.
• Maintain effective communication with all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensured effective administrative processes
• Adhere to necessary legal requirements
• Ensure KPI’s are met
• Ensure that all Job cards are signed off on completion and the transaction is completed in ERP system.
• Managed Budget
• Monitor expenses
• Report on deviations
• Spare parts management.
• Provides input and support to the department’s Budget Planning Process

Skills, Experience & Education    

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering with demonstrated specialization in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning engineering.

Experience

• A Minimum of 5 years of experience as a technician working cold drink equipment or coolers in a bottling or manufacturing environment.
• A Minimum of 2 years’ experience managing teams.
• 1 year – accident-free driving experience with a valid license.

Skills: 

• Be able to bring own views across clearly without damaging the relationship with the other party. Choose an appropriate stand in order to meet targets and best practice and encourage team members to be more productive.
• To analyse the relationships between events, circumstances and forces beyond the obvious and draws insightful conclusions, at a micro and macro level. Demonstrate the understanding of the inter-relationships between systems and processes and consolidate information into a coherent whole.
• Be dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
• The ability to express oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others and tailors the content of speech to the level and experience of the audience.
• The ability to apply planning skills in order to, schedule activities and prioritise resources in the achievement of an objective.
• The ability to establish clear directions; create a sense of urgency; sets stretching objectives; distributes the workload appropriately; lays out work in a well-planned and organised manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results; brings out the best in people; is a clear communicator.