Available Jobs at The South African Breweries (SAB)

• The Key Purpose of this role is to lead and manage area teams to deliver sound operational and technical practices in the brewing department under pinned by prescribed VPO practices. The Brewing Area Manager is required to meet the required   production plan, adhering to the principles of all VPO pillars. The role is required to maintain a high level of control against the budgeted KPI’s as well as the variable and fixed costs controllable within the team.

Key roles and responsibilities: 

Promote Beer Brewing Quality Excellence in the Value Chain

• Communicate brewing process and product quality information/standards
• Effectively communicate changes in the brewing process or standards

Provide leadership to ensure commitment to product quality in the brewing department

• Apply brewing subdepartment quality systems in the workplace 
• Provide Brewing Process Expertise (Technical Depth) and Lead Problem-Solving Processes
• Assess brewing technical requirements and decisions where required
• Support implementation of recommendations
• Support implementation of process and product optimisation including CAP-in and VA projects and trials
• Audit area standards (quality, process and work-practices) to ensure effective management of the area
• Support all 7 pillars standards in the workplace relating to VPO

Facilitate Team Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

• Apply problem solving and decision-making techniques and principles
• Interacts with brewing management and operations teams to ensure appropriate people are involved in problem-solving sessions
• Verifies that corrective action has been implemented and that the problem has been resolved

Manage Health, Safety & Risk

• Manage occupational health, safety and risk for the area teams

Manage Productivity

• Control fixed and variable costs
• Minimize waste

Manage the Brewing Process

• Ensure conformance to brewing area production plans
• Ensure conformance to brewing area specifications and standards
• Ensure maintenance integrity in brewing area
• Ensure effective cost-management on fixed and variable costs including by-product
• Optimise process availability to achieve delivery and reliability targets
• Support engineering integrity
• Support production and process optimisation including trials, VA and CAPEX projects
• Ensure adherence to environmental standards by area teams
• Ensure adherence to quality standards by area teams

System Expertise

• Ensure adequate adherence and compliance to system processes as prescribed by MES, PTS, eQMS, PaQT and all other prescribed elements of technology for beer production through the brewing department

Management of People

• Apply performance management principles for employees (production teams)
• Apply self-performance management principles
• Develop employees for current role and future roles to ensure proper pipeline
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage and apply personnel practices
• Provide effective leadership
• Ensure employees are trained on technical and VPO standards
• Drive the high-performance levels of autonomous steams without shift supervision

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Completed brewing traineeship
• IBD Papers 1, 2 & 3 completed and passed 
• At least 2-years production experience, of which 1 year operating at a management level within Brewing
• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational,  people) and brewing technical expertise
• A good performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality

Desirable But Not Essential:

• Master Brewer IBD qualification obtained Studying towards MB Qualification
• Additional business qualification
• SAP modules: White belt certification would be highly advantageous

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• The key purpose of this role to is to drive a consistent Service Level by ensuring superior POC execution of the Delivery Process while executing our competition strategy responsibly. Grow profitability by exploiting delivery mode opportunities.

Key outputs and responsibilities:
Delivery Productivity Management

• In trade coaching with errant offenders on MBFU, refusals and OODD
• Ensuring that delivery modes share us adhered and continually look for opportunities to pursue cheaper modes.
• Master Data verified for accuracy
• Carry out in trade Owner Driver standard verification
• Adherence to market visit plan within trade presence at a minimum of x4 days a week ensuring adherence to SOPs and OWDs done to open the gap where necessary

Quality Management

• Ensure Quality is clear in the Route Delivery Execution Process and people know and follow it.
• Ensure all employees understand the customer complaint process. Process is in place, KPI is tracked and there are action plans to improve results. Consumer complaints GOPS are being tracked and implemented
• Ensure that the driver base is trained and equipped to identify quality related issues and understands correct handling methodology to minimise issues

Capacity Occupation and Refusal Management

• Establish SLA with 2DCP on Capacity Occupation daily optimisation
• Ensure that appropriate communication channel in place and action plans have been developed to track Refusals
• Ensure return policies are in place and they cover all items, and they are adhered to and updated.
• Support Service Social Systems
• Establish routines to with CXC to track performance
• Create an environment that allows for cross functional learning and integration

Profile:

• Relevant 3-year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
• 2 years’ experience in a customer service role within an FMCG Supply Chain and or Logistics
• Valid Code 08 Driver's License
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• SAP experience will be preferred
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Demonstrates reliability
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Ability to work under pressure
• Verbal ability and communication skills
• Excellent self-management and planning skills
• Strong achievement orientation

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• The Key Purpose of this role is to maintain, repair, and optimize plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities:

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

• Provide specialist support for coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift-based teams
• This will include standby, day shift, and when requested after a time frame that standby will need expert advice or support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem-solving for the plant and support to zone
• Take part, as a functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimization trials
• Provide additional support to process artisan on machine operation, machine fault finding, and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Upskill process artisans with the latest SWI for machine setups or machine restorations

PLANNED MAINTENANCE

• Take part in maintenance planning meetings, contributing suggestions and clarifying the work required
• Ensure backlog meets minimum hours and schedules are reviewed as per required frequency
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities, and learnings from maintenance activities

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE

• Participating in ATO cleaning, lubrication, and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques
• If carrying out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these required, additional resources may be called to assist
• Where problems have been discovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the Technician in accordance with the ZCM schedule

Key Attributes and Competencies

• Ability to solve problems on FMCG machines
• Ability to communicate technical knowledge to operation staff improving their skill sets
• Ability to train, coach, and mentor operation staff on ATO and 5’s principles
• Ability to optimize usage and reduce wastage with permanent solutions
• Interpersonal Skills
• Work in Teams and Collaborate
• Strong self-management practices
• Ability to solve problems using essential problem-solving tools (5 why; fishbone) and involved in high-level problem solving to identify root causes and loop closures AB Reports, SDCA, PDCA
• Ability to reduce machine downtime to a minimum while ensuring all problems have permanent solutions
• Ability to analyze various graphical data and open gaps to improve performance
• Ability to identify nonstandard work and tag the defects with root causes
• Ability to identify required spares for restoration tasks and communicate with suppliers for the best possible price thus showing savings on ZBB
• Ability to be able to use electronic communication devices e.g. Tablets, laptops, and other devices to help you understand the specific machines in more detail
• Ability to understand the robotic and sequencing system
• Always looking for opportunities to improve MTTB and shorten MTTR

Minimum Requirements:

• N6 Electrical / Instrumentation Or National Diploma in Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering
• Electrical/Instrumentation Trade Test Certificate
• 3 – 5 Years in FMCG environment
• Strong Knowledge of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering
• Strong knowledge of PLC programming and Troubleshooting (Siemens and Allen-Bradley)
• Strong Knowledge of Industrial communication protocols (Ethernet IP, Device Net, Profinet, Profibus etc.)
• Ability to do standby and after-hours support
• Have reliable transport