Brewing Operator - Newlands Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Optimize Plant & Process Performance where appropriate​
• Operate the Brew house Plant and Process​
• Operate Beverage Fermentation Plant and Process​
• Operate Beverage Filtration Plant and Process​
• Operate the Packaging (kegging and bottling) Plant and Process​
• Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 5s principles and following safe work practices
• Unsafe work practices must be identified and corrected.​
• Support the creation (drafting and documenting) of standard work procedures (including quick fix routines and problems​
• Carry out the required quality +checks and analyses, and recording the results on the appropriate information system
• Where quality problems have arisen, apply the appropriate problem-solving techniques (e.g. Quick fix routines) to resolve​
• Escalate any identified or unresolved problems to BAM​
• Actively participate in meetings and goal reviews.​
• Utilize the gap list to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.​
• Fully understanding the team goals and participating in team goal review sessions.​
• Making use of relevant communication media (e.g. shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.​
• Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality​
• Complete autonomous maintenance tasks problem-solving activities​
• Respond rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that could result in out of control process situations
• Apply problem solving techniques (e.g. 5Y, quick fix routines etc.) to identify and correct problems
• Develop others in own skills as well as the learning of the skills of other specialist Brewery Technicians
• Be a logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment
• A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist)
• Demonstrate Initiative and energy
• Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the bestThe Key Purpose of this role is the safe operation of one or more discrete processes in the Brewing & Utilities plant (e.g. Wort Cooling, Yeast Management, Filtration Q&C), the execution of maintenance tasks, quality control checks and analyses, and the coaching of fellow team members to produce a consistent product of the right quality at optimum cost.

Minimum Requirements:

• Diploma in Food Science, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

• Basic PC Literacy (Microsoft/ SAP)