About This Role
This is a hands-on shift role at one of Ethiopia's established brewing companies, where you would be the person keeping the plant's utility backbone — steam, compressed air, water, refrigeration, and similar systems — running smoothly throughout your shift. Unlike a project or design engineering job, the work is operational and immediate: when something drifts or fails, production feels it within minutes. It suits an engineer who is comfortable on the plant floor, working rotating shifts, and making quick technical calls under pressure rather than waiting for direction.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The profile Habesha is looking for is someone who has already spent a few years inside a running industrial facility, not just studied engineering theory. The emphasis on supporting operators, tracking maintenance execution, and handling emergencies points to a candidate who can both supervise and get their hands dirty when needed. The mention of parameter settings and operational data suggests they value someone numerate and disciplined about records, since utility performance in a brewery is judged by consistency, not one-off fixes. Expect them to favor candidates who understand how utility interruptions cascade into production losses.
How to Approach This Application
Your CV should lead with concrete exposure to utility systems in a continuous-process environment — breweries, beverage plants, food processing, or heavy manufacturing — and quantify what you kept stable or restored. Describe specific incidents where you diagnosed a fault, what you did, and what downtime you prevented; that kind of narrative stands out far more than a list of equipment names. Since this is a shift position, make your willingness and prior experience with rotating schedules explicit, as it is often a silent screening criterion. If you have worked with preventive maintenance systems or logged operational data, mention the tools by name.
Who This Role Suits
This role best fits a mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineer with three to five years in plant operations who wants stability and depth in an FMCG environment rather than a fast-track corporate path. Competition is likely moderate — the pool of engineers with genuine utility-plant experience in Ethiopia is limited, but the brewery sector's reputation means Habesha will attract strong local candidates, so specific, verifiable plant experience is your main differentiator.
Purpose of the Role:
The Shift Utility Engineer is responsible for controlling shift operations of Utility plants and ensuring that all machinery is running properly. He should deliver the required outputs of all Utility plants as per production process requirements.
Requirements:
- Ensure that Utility supplies are being delivered during the shift operation
- Follow up on the operational performance of utility plants
- Provide timely operational solutions for any emergencies during shift operation
- Control utility operation parameter settings and data Support shift utility operator in operational tasksSupport shift utility operator in operational tasks
- Follow up execution of all planned and preventive maintenance tasks of Utility machines to ensure that all maintenance activities are done as per plan.
- Execute routine preventive maintenance activities to reduce unplanned stoppages of machines.
- Carry out troubleshooting of machines to detect and locate operational problems and inefficiencies of machines.
- Monitor the condition of machines to ensure that problems are addressed before machines fail.
- Identify and prepare necessary spares for all Utility plants for purchase ordering.
- Control the documentation & data recording of utility operation.
- Follow up and amend the operational parameter settings of Utility machines.
- Ensure that proper safety procedures are followed during maintenance and operational activities
- Identify and report safety risk incidents and ergonomic issues during maintenance activities. Control the housekeeping of Utility plants.
- Control the housekeeping of Utility plants
Education: B.Sc. Degree in Engineering from a recognized college or university.
Experience: 4 years of relevant experience in the FMCG sector
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