Brewing Team Leader-1 at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Checking that the team, in accordance with work instructions and maintenance schedules carries out required maintenance tasks on shift
• Ensuring that the Brewing Process Artisan carries out running repairs on shift, calling in additional resources where required and communicating outstanding work to the Maintenance Planner
• Verifying that the Brewing Process Artisan coaches, mentors, and transfers knowledge relating to maintenance to the Brewing Process Operator, and provides assistance during autonomous maintenance. Where maintenance issues have been escalated to the Team Leader, the Team Leader with the Brewing Process Artisan must provide guidance and call in additional resources if required Ensuring that the SBU understands and adhere to quality standards, and verifying that team members are carrying out routine quality checks and analyses according to the work instructions
• Verifying that the Brewing Process Operator coaches, mentors and transfers knowledge relating to quality control and analyses to the Brewing Process Artisans and Brewing Operators
• Carrying out quality trend analysis to identify problems and opportunities timeously, and where quality problems have occurred and been escalated to the Team Leader, deciding on an appropriate course of action to resolve. This may involve calling in specialist resources such as core lab. Where quality information has triggered a problem solving, the Team Leader must ensure that the required and relevant SBU members are involved. Where quality trend analysis indicate the need for a problem solving exercise, the Team Leader must initiate one
• Preparing for the daily shift meeting by reviewing past shift performance and identifying issues for team discussion. Lead the daily shift meeting, making use of a standard agenda, and ensuring that team members actively partake
• Ensuring that issues and opportunities raised during daily shift meetings are recorded on the gap list for action, and that these actions have accountabilities assigned
• Communicating production schedule, shift production and quality performance or other relevant information to team members
• Conduct an end of shift meeting with the team to communicate production performance, problems, planned schedule and work assignments
• Conducting a hand-over meeting with incoming shift Team Leader. Issues to be communicated include process performance, quality, production schedule, problems and issues. Check that hand over procedures are followed (e.g. housekeeping, change parts etc.) and that team members are conducting a hand over to incoming team members
• Coaching, mentoring and supporting team members in using the correct problem-solving techniques (such as 5Y, quick fix, etc.) to solve situational problems. Where problems have been escalated to the Team Leader, deciding on an appropriate course of action where necessary, the Team Leader may call in additional or specialist resources. Verify, where problems have been resolved, that the problem has been eliminated and ensure that, where necessary, work instructions and procedures have been updated
• Where problems cannot be resolved on the situational level, the Team Leader must escalate it to L2
• Ensuring that waste reduction and process improvement goals are incorporated into team goals, and the team understands these goals
• Ensuring that where process improvement or waste reduction opportunities have been captured on the gap list, these are properly evaluated, and calls in specialist resources where required to assist in evaluation
• Ensure that SBU members take part in regional and divisional plant optimization initiatives

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Biological sciences
• Brewing Diploma {AME/IBD} would be advantageous
• Successfully completed a Brewing Technical Trainee program would be advantageous

End Date: April 16, 2026