Packaging Team Leader - Newlands Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

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

Optimize Production Performance & Processes

• Manages shift in accordance with VPO tools and principles 
• Manages shift to achieve production plan within the allowed costs
• Co-ordinate scheduled maintenance and autonomous operations
• Monitor and co-ordinate production processes to within budget
• Interpret and implement the production plan for shift
• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment
• Build and foster relationships with customers and suppliers​

Perform Administration

• Ensure application of admin systems and procedures
• Administer conditions of employment for team members
• Contribute to self and team development
• Prepare and control budgets

Initiate and Facilitate Team Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Apply problem solving and decision-making techniques and principles
• Facilitate team problem solving

Manage Human Resources

• Develop employees
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage and apply people policies and practices

Optimize Team Performance

• Facilitate effective team dynamics
• Implement performance management and OPR processes
• Communicate effectively in the workplace

Key attributes and competencies:

• Experience in a packaging process environment
• Supervisory level experience​
• Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line would be highly advantageous​

Minimum requirements:

• Post Matric Tertiary Qualification e.g., National Diploma or equivalent in engineering
• N6 Engineering studies
• Trade Certificate
• Min - SAP (Where applicable) and Voyager Plant Optimisation (VPO)
• Minimum 2 years in FMCG environment
• Min - 3 months on the job training
• Completion of a SAB packaging Traineeship