Salary
negotiable
Deadline
12 Oct 2026
Posted
07 Oct 2026
Location
Mbeya Plant, Tanzania
Job Description
SBC Tanzania Limited (PEPSI Tanzania), a leading beverage manufacturer and distributor of PepsiCo brands across Tanzania, is seeking a qualified Senior Maintenance Engineer to join its technical team at the Mbeya Plant. Reporting directly to the Bottling Manager, the Senior Maintenance Engineer will oversee plant equipment, drive preventive maintenance schedules, minimize production downtime, and ensure peak operational reliability across bottling lines.
Responsibilities
- Preventive & Predictive Maintenance: Design, schedule, and execute comprehensive planned preventive maintenance programs for all manufacturing plant machinery and utility systems.
- Downtime Minimization: Proactively diagnose mechanical issues and collaborate closely with the Production team to perform repairs with minimal disruption to bottling targets.Government jobs listings
- Spare Parts Management: Supervise the inventory, ordering, and storage of technical spare parts, ensuring zero stockouts and prompt reporting of inventory variances.
- Safety & Compliance: Enforce high safety standards, enforce strict industrial housekeeping practices, and maintain safe systems of work across the engineering workshop.
- Team Leadership & Development: Organize technical training, mentor junior engineers, and supervise workshop staff under a “No Noise, Just Execution” approach
Requirements
- Advanced mechanical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Proficiency in predictive maintenance and plant condition monitoring.
- Practical understanding of industrial safety, EHS regulations, and factory compliance.
- Strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and technical training abilities.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Work Experience: Minimum of 6 years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience, preferably in FMCG, beverage, or automated bottling environments.
Skills
Advanced mechanical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
Proficiency in predictive maintenance and plant condition monitoring.
Practical understanding of industrial safety
EHS regulations
and factory compliance.
Strong leadership
cross-functional collaboration
and technical training abilities.
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