Current Vacancies at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Purpose:
The key purpose of this role is to develop a deep understanding of the Logistics department where you will be immersed into Distribution, Warehousing, Inventory & Planning during a 12-  month period. The Trainees will be allocated to the following sites: HQ Bryanston/Sandton, Isando, Denver and Bloemfontein.

• A fast paced 12-month Logistics technical program inclusive of exposure to the Logistics function operations and projects as well as interaction with senior leaders
• Robust evaluations determine progression into each rotation of the program within the 12 months
• Unleashes potential through 4-month rotational cycles and enabling cross functional work experience in various teams within the respective function
• The Program works on the 70-20-10 rule, where individuals learn 70% of their knowledge from challenging experiences and projects, 20% from developmental relationships, and 10% from coursework and training. 
• After a successful 8 months of continuous growth and completion of the program, you will be able apply for roles within the business to create a future with more cheers with us!

Key roles and responsibilities: 

• Exhibit passion, curiosity, courage and resilience, ready to take on tough challenges and be determined to deliver results. 
• Collaborate with a global mindset and connect with people at all levels. 
• Contribute to our teams in enabling us to continue to grow and broaden our category, leveraging insight, innovation and technology to stay ahead of the curve.
• Embrace our fast-paced culture, no matter the challenge
• Innovate with an Owner mindset, as owners - we each play an integral role in AB InBev’s success. 

Profile:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent
• Maximum of 3 years full-time formal working experience
• Geographical mobility – you may be required to move to different locations  during the 12-month training program and after, and you should be willing to  relocate throughout your career
• Fully proficient in English
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and ability to quickly adapt to  new systems
• Ambitious, curious, bold and resilient
• Determined to deliver results
• Sense of ownership and a desire to make an impact

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The key purpose of this role as a Brewing expert, lead and manage area teams to deliver sound operational and technical practices in the brewing department underpinned 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 outputs 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 sub department 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

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 currentrole and future roles to ensure proper pipeline?
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage and apply personnelpractices
• Provide effective leadership
• Ensure employees are trained on technical andVPO standards
• Drive the high performance levels of autonomous teams without shift supervision

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

•  BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
•  Completed brewing traineeship
•  IBD Papers 1,2&3 completed and passed

Experience:

•  At least 2 years production experience, of which 1 years’ 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; Whitebelt certification would be highly advantageous
•  BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
•  Completed brewing traineeship
•  IBD Papers 1,2&3 completed and passed Experience:
•  At least 2 years production experience, of which 1 years’ 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

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The key purpose of the role is to lead the SBU in the execution of the production plan, executing quality control and analyses, the carrying outof autonomous maintenance tasks and the resolution of production problems.

OPTIMISE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE & PROCESSES:

• Co-ordinate and perform scheduled maintenance.
• Monitor production processes.
• Interpret and implement production plan for shift.
• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
• Build and foster relationships with customers and preferred 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.

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 personnel practices.

Minimum Requirements:

• Post Matric Tertiary Qualification e.g. National Diploma or equivalent in engineering, N6 Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) studies plus Trade Test qualification
• Familiarity with SAP and Voyager Plant Optimisation (VPO) will be an advantage.
• Experience in a packaging process environment, experience at supervisory level will be an added advantage
• Be able to work shifts
• Be a team-player as well as an effective leader
• Attention to detail,
• Computer literate
• Bias for action/comfortable with initiating action
• Able to lead meetings and make presentations
• Analytical and systematic thinking ability, to enable effective problem-solving
• Sound communication skills
• Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum
• High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high-pressure environment
• Experience of managing and running a high-speed packaging line would be highly advantageous

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The key purpose of this role is to manage shift to efficiently execute both T1 & T2 load plans to satisfy internal and external Customer service levels.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

Inventory Counts:

• Physically perform and lead the morning inventory count process
• Identify the root cause of inventory count variances and put action plans in place through problem solving tools to improve the Inventory Accuracy KPI
• Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem-solving tools
• Create and manage warehouse management tools to ensure FEFO.
• Track and trend Inventory Accuracy
• Ensure movement of materials always reflects in the SAP system

Layout Implementation:

• Ensure adherence to the layout in line of certain warehouse activities e.g. Empties zone; Refusal zone; Order Picking zone; Repack zone; Finished Goods zone

Improve Quality Standards:

• Manage, track and trend 1. warehouse cleanliness, 2. pest control schedule adherence, 3. cross contamination from non-food grade chemicals, 4. daily temperature control and 5. product exposure
• Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
• Implement and adhere to a Location-Based Inventory System to identify stored product
• Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non-conforming inventory
• Product quality induction programme conducted
• Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity

Picking Standards:

• Adhere to a standardised picking process and ensure compliance through management routines to ensure a safe and productive process
• Track, trend and manage picking accuracy and productivity through management tools

Productivity & Capacity Managed:

• Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labour Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
• Allocate and assign labour activities utilizing the SKAP tool

Warehouse Management:

• Implement, track, trend and improve 5S results
• Support the design of the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA's, Process Maps, Indicators and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees
• Develop and continuously validate SOP's through management routines and tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA)
• Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
• Develop and maintain SCL routines and track adherence thereof
• Use problem solving tools e.g. 5 WHY, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPLs, RACI's, OWD's, PDCA's, etc. to develop action plans to show improvement on PI's and KPI’s
• Cascade KPI's and PI's to individual warehouse employee level, calenderise the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual target

Safe Warehouse Practices:

• Ensure & maintain a safe warehouse operation driving awareness and compliance to all the relevant safety blocks

Loading and Unloading activities

• Track and measure the PI of the loading/unloading bay allocation tool with action plans to improve productivity
• Track, trend and manage related KPI's/PI's e.g. TCT, baytime utilization, Hl/man Hour

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year relevant diploma/degree
• 2+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience
• Highly level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
• SAP proficient
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Superior planning ability
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good verbal and communication skills
• Good self-management practices
• Strong achievement orientation
• Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
• Excellent coaching capability