Current Jobs at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Asset Care

• Manages all Brewing maintenance activities and lead a team on day shift
• Diagnoses and interprets problems (fault finding) to optimize production output and with own team carrying out the plant repairs.
• Responsible for the reduction of breakdowns in the Brewing area by analyzing breakdowns, complying with the PM requirements and implementing Continuous Improvements
• Reviews and Implements the Planned Maintenance Procedures ( Weekly and Monthly Checklists).
• Ensures that service levels agreements are maintained at the required standards by carrying out all breakdown, corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance, and loop closure implementation effectively.
• Participate in executing the department’s asset care strategy and ensure the machine performance of the Brewing department is maintained.
• Draws up, coaches and develops the engineering skills of other maintenance and operational staff using OPLs, SOPs and SWIs.
• Controls and oversees maintenance cost against available budget.
• Ensures engineering standards applied correctly.
• Ensures compliance to Pressure Vessels and Equipment Regulations.
• Supports the scoping of CAPEX projects within Brewing Plant.
• Maintaining the integrity and security of maintenance management systems.

Problem Solving and Decisions Making

• Responsible for fault finding and problem solving of engineering/ operational problems by ensuring that the appropriate corrective action regarding any deviation from standards are taken
• Takes responsibility and coach team members to use the 4 phases of problem solving
• Identifies the major engineering losses in Brewing area and investigates using problem solving methodologies. (5 Why, Stage 1 etc.)
• Reviews emergency works orders and initiate investigations and corrective action
• Capability to develop and lead cross functional teams to deliver Business needs.

Safety and Hygiene

• Ensures team compliance with acts and procedures
• Maintains 5S and housekeeping standards
• Ensures reporting, investigation, documentation and action of incidents as per the relevant acts and procedures
• Promotes safety awareness
• Ensure compliance with special work permit requirements by own employees and contractors
• Ensure compliance with Dust Explosion prevention and management standards
• Administration

Administration

• Manages Level 1 - 2 team goals in Brewing area
• Manages team’s maintenance performance measures
• Conducts individual and team performance reviews and one on ones. Provides performance feedback
• Leads all VPO initiatives in the department
• Applies and sustains industrial relations initiatives, policies, procedures, agreements core values
• Performs relevant routines and supervisory walkabouts and checks

Quality

• Ensures that Company Quality Standards and are adhered to in the utilities area

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Qualification: BTech in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience in Preventive Predictive Maintenance concerned with production plant, involved in the day to day inspections, preventive predictive maintenance and repair of machinery
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence at various levels of the organization
• Previous experience with VPO or other continuous improvement tools would be advantageous
• Ability to prioritize and manage maintenance projects in a Brewing environment
• Good knowledge of sustainable development reporting would be advantageous
• Good all round knowledge of manufacturing
• Demonstrated knowledge of SHE policies and procedures
• Desirable, but not essential
• Knowledge of Brewing plant or bottling hall production and processes will be an advantage

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop strategic business plans
• Compile quarterly operational sales plan in relation to the 3-year business plan
• Develop an annual time and territory management plan • Determine annual budget requirements
• Provide customers service excellence • Provide merchandising and signage support
• Implement national, regional and ad hoc promotional activity
• Implement customer call frequency
• Establish sound business relationships
• Develop tailored service packages
• Achieve predetermined sales volume and market share targets
• Leverage sales information services
• Monitor retail liquor pricing
• Maintain product quality
• Comply with SAB credit policy
• Conduct SEC evaluations
• Manage Human Resources
• Develop employees
• Manage IR climate
• Apply personnel function

Minimum Requirements:

• BCom, IMM or similar sales and marketing qualification
• 3 - 5 years management experience
• Valid Driver's License
• Computer literate

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Operational Oversight

• Manage 24/7 cybersecurity operations, including threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management.
• Our globally centralized SOC requires strong teamwork and leadership skills for a unified response to cyber threats.
• Oversee the development and implementation of security policies, procedures, and standards to safeguard information and assets.

Incident Management

• Lead incident response efforts, coordinating with zone and global teams and external partners to detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from cybersecurity incidents.
• Ensure incidents are handled according to best practices and regulatory requirements.

Team Leadership

• Supervise a team of cybersecurity analysts and engineers, providing guidance, training, and performance evaluations.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and professional development within the team.

Strategic Planning

• Execute the comprehensive global cybersecurity strategy aligned with zone business objectives.
• Collaborate with senior management to identify risks and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and standards (e.g., POPIA, ISO 27001).
• Conduct regular risk assessments and security audits to identify vulnerabilities and recommend improvements.
• Execute regular global routines for data protection, privacy, third-party risk management, and vulnerability management.

Communication

• Serve as the primary liaison between the cybersecurity team and other departments, ensuring effective communication regarding security issues.
• Prepare reports for senior management on security metrics, incidents, and ongoing cybersecurity projects.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in cybersecurity or IT security roles, with at least 3 years in a managerial position.
• Proven experience leading security operations.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM (preferred) or CC (minimum requirement).
• Experience with cloud security platforms and technologies.
• Familiarity with securing on-premises servers and cloud technology. Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation tasks.

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Key roles and responsibilities

• Manage and support in the execution of Capital Projects at a Regional level following approved project processes to ensure budgets are met, timeline are adhered to, quality of delivery is to specification and business benefit is derived
• Support the Capital Budgeting process for the Region results in effective Capex business planning in the form of a Regional 5-year plan and Capex budget for the next year
• Ensure that all assigned Regional Capex projects are optimized using Capital Optimization and Value Engineering techniques and that the projects business objectives are achieved by using solutions that are both technically and financially optimum
• Interface with Divisional Project Managers on centrally controlled projects and NPD Projects, to implement the site-specific project requirements using approved project processes and to ensure interface with relevant Regional stakeholders and resources that are required to be involved to ensure the project is successful
• Perform Project Management process governance regionally by performing self audits of a cross section of Regional projects
• Deliver the Regional Capital Investment program to ensure maximized business benefit by completion of projects in budget, on time and to the correct quality
• Ensure the Capital Expenditure delivers solutions that are holistic and applicable in the Supply environment and are fully integrated into existing operations (this includes appropriate technology choices, maintainability, operate ability, support, etc.)
• Manage Human Resources (mainly contractors), this includes direct reports, seconded resources to the project,
• Maintain safe, healthy and risk-free working environment, this includes ensuring that contractors comply with all legal requirements, procedures manage financial performance, in specific, the efficiency of Capital and internal QESH standards
• Ensure all projects at a Region comply with legislation pertaining to Sustainable Development and Environmental legislation
• Spend in terms of value (Capital Optimization), commercial terms leveraged and optimized cash flows
• Perform Project Management administrative functions to comply with the Project Management processes
• Administer Regional SMDP and 5-year planning processes by facilitating regional departmental strategic review of Capital spend requirements to maintain quality, cost competitiveness and efficiency as well as optimizing capability as directed by Zone strategy
• Ensure technical integrity of Capital proposals or requests drawing & general engineering standards
• Project Management standards. and documentation control system applied
• Manage Regional governance of Capital expenditure including Capital expenditure by departmental managers

Minimum Requirements:

• B-Eng (B-Tech is acceptable)
• 2 – 3 years Engineering experience in maintenance, design, construction and/or commissioning
• 0 – 1 years project management experience

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Key responsibilities:

• Zone compliance with CSRD reporting requirements across environmental, social, and governance topics; evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of processes, internal controls, and compliance with policies and regulations
• Implementation and ongoing oversight of sustainability reporting control framework
• Consolidation of Zone non-financial data on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
• Coordination of senior Zone functional leaders for on-time, complete, accurate, and consistent reporting across all material themes identified satisfying Internal Control, as well as other audit requirements
• Training and support to Zone functions (Supply, Procurement, People, LCA) on reporting requirements and process implementation
• Delivery of Zone external assurance for all CSRD-required metrics – including management of relationship with external auditor, solving audit queries, and coordination of any documentation requests
• Work to enhance controls and processes in existing operations, while also providing insights on new processes and controls

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3-5+ years in Accounting, Internal Control, or Finance
• Track record working in financial reporting or operations with an understanding of the interdependencies of both to inform sustainability reporting
• Experience or strong interest and willingness to learn about relevant sustainability topics covered in mandatory reporting requirements
• Experience in data analytics and relevant tools
• Understands internal controls and has experience in designing and executing controls

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Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone VIC PPM team
• Completion to all budget calculations w.r.t price and OPC’s/BOMs, completion of budget SCFD submission by plant
• Completion of final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (COGNOS, SCFD, SAP, Syspro, TM1, BPC)
• Assist in delivery of weekly and monthly usage variance reports
• Review of month end journals relating to VIC where necessary
• High-level analysis and insights to usage and price variance by material
• Assistance in completion of monthly actual SCFD submission and submission to Global
• Assistance in completion of standard reporting decks
• Completion of reconciliations between systems, monthly analysis files, weekly KPI’s reporting & standard usage variance trackers

Minimum Requirements:

• BCom, CIMA / CA (SA) or progress towards (preferred)
• 2 years experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
• High level of service mindset with accurate outputs
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Good Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets for assigned areas.
• Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution.
• Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets.
• Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector.
• Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets.
• Closely monitor actions of the competition.

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the integrity and security of maintenance systems
• Developing and maintaining documentation as well as its integrity
• Coach, guide and assist with training of all maintenance staff
• Assist with ensuring that system architecture environment remains aligned with the regional asset care strategy and beer division standards
• Developing a strong understanding of the relevant SAP system modules
• Organizing the systems and business preparations for SAP take-on procedures
• Maintain maltings maintenance integrity
• Plan and implement maintenance priorities
• Manage Maintenance performance indicators
• Optimise plant availability/perform plant walkabouts
• Manage plant backlog within standard
• Sharing of learning’s internally and throughout the division
• Conduct administration/prepare and manage annual budget for maintenance
• Perform 1 on 1 and performance of reports
• Deliver SKAP/support for team development
• IR management
• Live and own VPO
• Comply to Safety and VPO requirements in all areas
• Support continuous improvement
• Manage Problem Solving and RCA

Minimum Requirements:

• N6 Mechanical/Electrical Control & Automation qualification
• Trade Test
• At least 4 years of experience in a supervisory role, within a maintenance workshop environment.
• Detailed mechanical knowledge of plant with in-depth understanding of electrical and instrumentation aspects
• PC literacy (Microsoft office package/SAP)
• Budgeting and cost management
• Execution and solution driven
• Self starter/initiative
• VPO Maintenance and Management Pillar understanding will be advantageous.

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets for assigned areas
• Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution
• Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets
• Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector
• Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets
• Closely monitor actions of the competition

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum requirements:
• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment
• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills