Utilities Maintenance Planner

August 31, 2025

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Job Description

AB InBev is the world’s leading brewer. We produce over 500 beers, including world-famous brands such as Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona. Local Africa brands such as Carling Black Label, Hero, Kilimanjaro, 2M, Eagle and we want like-minded, hard-working and passionate people to join our teams in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Utilities Maintenance Planner

Location: Hong, Adamawa
Job Type: Full-time

About the job

  • The Key Purpose of this role is to ensures that effective maintenance plans are in place for the maintenance of applicable equipment, that spares are available for the planned work, resources are available to execute, monitor that the maintenance outage plan is effective and make recommendations to the maintenance controller, unit manager and packaging engineer if unforeseen work arises.

Key Roles and Responsibilities
Maintain a Safe and Healthy Working Environment:

  • Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation
  • Maintain safety and housekeeping standards.

Plans for the Effective Maintenance, Calibration, Repair of Equipment and Optimisation of Plant and Associated Devices:

  • Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems
  • Develop the plan
  • Tags and work arings from inspection tasks are planned to carry out repairs
  • Continuously improve (optimise) plans and looks for opportunities to reduce the overall planned maintenance outage, whilst ensureing that all required work is carried and plant is not placed at risk.

Work in Teams:

  • Communicate effectively in teams and all levels in the plant
  • Contribute to self and team development.

Apply the VPO Principles and Practices:

  • All work is carried out using the VPO principles
  • Understands, Implements and Complies to the GOP requirements
  • Sustains what has been implemented.

Minimum Requirements 

  • Min-Trade Test Millwright (N6) Mechanical or Electrical artisan or Technician (N6)
  • Min 3 – 5 years Production Engineering in a FMCG environment
  • 5 years technical mechanical/electrical and bottling experience in a leadership capacity in a FMCG environment.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

  • Operate as a leader in a multi disciplinary team
  • Encourage team members to participate in all work planning operational communications, problem solving and evaluations
  • Have team leadership and team participation skills
  • Have a development of others orientation
  • Have vigilance and energy
  • Have a concern for detail
  • Have a concern for doing things correctly and better than before
  • Exceptionally organised
  • High degree of self discipline
  • Able to influence work to be carried through others.

Additional Information:

  • Band: VIII.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and appointments are made inline with AB InBev’s employment equity plan and talent requirements.

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