Career Opportunities at The South African Breweries (SAB)

An exciting opportunity for a proactive, unconventional, efficient and meticulous individual with strong financial and communication skills. A team player who enjoys working within a fast-paced environment.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Driving efficiencies in the team
• Agile ways of working which requires; ownership of work on the sprint backlog; pushing the boundaries for excellent delivery; focusing on root cause problem solving; using diverse and collective skills to support other members of the team
• Identify opportunities for reporting automation across the VLC PPM stream
• Identify key controls to be implemented / adhered to across the VLC PPM stream
• Drive a customer focused mind-set within the team

Annual Plan / Budget includes, but are not limited to:

• Budgeting for International Logistics across the Zone
• Calculation of annual budgets for Returnable Packaging
• Communicate annual plan calendar and milestones to finance teams
• Ensure all Champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget
• Prepare management review presentations, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools
• Completion of bottom-up budget process
• Map and understand the end-to-end International logistics processes and conduct all required information gathering to identify and document pain points/opportunities, to improve the International logistics operation and KPI performance by implementing technology/analytics/process improvements

Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review)

• Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible
• Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines
• Posting of accurate journal entries on the reporting tools
• Prepare monthly standard decks
• Trouble shoot issues and share improvement ideas with Team Lead
• Deep dive all new variance drivers, find root-causes and work with Logistics team to implement gap-closing action plans
• Adherence to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the NoCC VLC key stakeholders

Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)

• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective root causes and create gap-closing action plans

Champions

• Drive the Champions process for all International Logistics Packages, focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with Zone guidelines
• Ensure all projects are measured, reviewed and updated monthly
• Align Champions and Risks and Opportunities outlook

Ad-hoc

• Support on ad-hoc Audit Requirements
• Calculations of transfer pricing on new projects/initiatives
• Any other related items /projects 

Profile:

• Embodies the AB InBev culture and 10 principles
• Energized self-starter with the ability to take initiative
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work with all levels of the organization
• High sense of urgency and accuracy
• Ability to work in and understand multi-cultural environments, interacting with various Zone and Country teams
• High level of service mindset and ability to handle demanding stakeholders
• Comfortable to work with deadlines under high pressure conditions
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Strong analytical and reporting skills with a problem-solving mindset
• Minimum of 3 years experience in FMCG environment
• Bachelors Degree, CIMA / CA (SA) or progress towards (preferred)
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint, with particularly strong Excel skills
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro
• Basic business sense and results focused

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The key purpose of this job is to provide an overall Electrical Engineering Maintenance Service to the brewery, thereby, enabling production to be optimized at a minimum cost to provide an electrical workshop service to the entire site. Is the responsible person for the integrity and reliability of high voltage i.e.: 11kv where it comes into the plant through transformers, switch gear and associated installations

Key roles and responsibilities

• Maintain a safe and healthy working environment
• Comply with safe, healthy & environmental procedures and legislations

Maintain safety & housekeeping standards

• Maintain and repair plant and associated devices
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems
• Plan and prepare the job
• Carry out repairs / maintenance

Operate workshop equipment 

• Work in Teams
• Communicate effectively in teams
• Contribute to self and team development

Work Orders Complete

• Backlog
• Satisfied customers – no rework
• Coordinates planned work with municipality electrical departments
• Health, Safety and Environment

Identification of unsafe practices

• Safety inspections conducted
• Safe maintenance practices audited

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• The key purpose of this role is to maintain and improve all control and automation related equipment and systems, focusing mainly on field 

 instrumentation and networks with an understanding of manufacturing execution systems.

Maintain safe healthy and risk free working environment

• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation 
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
• Maintain, calibrate, repair equipment and optimise plant and associated devices
• Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation / systems 
• Plan and prepare the job 
• Carry out repairs / maintenance 
• Continuously improve (optimise) plant, process equipment and systems 
• Operate plant and process equipment 
• Calibrate instruments 
• Perform basic changes to software in PLC's with necessary approvals
• Supports the scoping of projects and upgrades to plant and process

Work in Teams

• Communicate effectively in teams 
• Contribute to self and team development

Apply problem solving processes 

• Utilise loss & waste and short interval control to identify problems 
• Apply problem solving techniques to resolve situational problems
• Apply the VPO principles and practices
• Apply 5S standards and practices in the workplace 
• Operate and control the process according to SOP’s 
• Participate in and coach autonomous operations 
• Support quality at source 
• Improve personal competence and flexibility

Competencies and Attributes

• Min – N6 and Trade Test qualification in Electrical Engineering L/C 
• Training: 3 years instrumentation equipment maintenance and PLC
• experience as well as excellent fault finding capabilities
• Experience with Instrumentation, Concept, Siemens, Rockwell, RSBatch, InTouch, Fieldbus Networks 
• (Asi, Profibus, Ethernet) and InSQL. 
• Calibration of instruments. 
• Knowledge of OHS act. 
• Analytical ability and attention to detail
• Display initiative and ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organisation, within a team environment and with suppliers
• Motivated self starter with high energy levels
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Team player

Desirable but not essential

• Certified Instrumentation Technician 
• 5 years experience in FMCG environment (processing)

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The key purpose of this role is Identifying and delivering initiatives to deliver step change performance improvement and process stability in order to realise true process capability.

Key roles and responsibilities:

ASSET CARE​

• Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the brewing, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice
• Implement the asset care plan for the brewing, ensuring the engineering team have the required competencies
• Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals
• Audit compliance to the asset care program by both the engineering team and shift-based teams
• Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team
• Where training needs have been identified, through the training specialist, ensure these are addressed​
• Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of brewing

PLANT RELIABILITY​

• Responsible for the overall reliability and uptime of brewing plant
• Lead the engineering team in the provision of asset care and engineering support to the shift-based production teams
• Verifies that engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance, and validates quality of work
• Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly and that data integrity and information accuracy maintained​
• Reviews plant reliability to ensure equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
• Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that engineering team is applying the correct problem solving techniques

PLANT OPTIMISATION​

• Takes part in regional and central office plant optimization trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required
• Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant modifications and changes
• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance, and initiates opportunity evaluation​
• Analyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to identify and correct root causes
• Takes part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support
• Ensures that continuous improvement is built into engineering team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions

TEAM LEADERSHIP

• Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conducts regular engineering team goal review session, and conduct regular one-on-one and performance reviews
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team

SAFETY AND HOUSEKEEPING

• Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirement when carrying outtheir tasks
• Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping
• Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits
• Where unsafe work practices have been identified, the Brewing Engineer is responsible for correcting this

Profile:

• BSc Engineering or equivalent tertiary education
• 3-5 years as a Section Engineer ideally in an FMCG company
• Cover for Brewing department and NSBCo
• Experience with modern VPO Maintenance Pillar
• Previous exposure in brewing or similar process
• Ability to ensure that all equipment and resources are available for an effective maintenance system​
• Ability to manage and ensure an effective spares stock levels and to ensure that costs are within budget
• Ability to ensure that principles of VPO are implemented within brewing department​
• Ability to ensure that plant start-ups and shut downs are done safely and properly
• Knowledge of the OH&S Act and NOSA standards
• Ability to effect good HR processes to ensure that people are disciplined, motivated, developed and properly managed to ensure effective team performance
• Government Certificate of Competence would be an advantage
• Analytical and evaluative skills
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills - Articulate
• Conceptual skills
• Accurate, decisiveness and persuasiveness
• People handling and leadership skills