Hot Jobs at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Effective communication skills
• Good presentation skills 
• Self-managed and assertiveness
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the business Creative and broad-minded thinker
• Dynamic Personality
• Must be a change agent (influential power)
• Self-starter and energetic
• Willingness to challenge the “status quo”
• Owner Mind-set 
• Excitement to function in a dynamic and fast changing environment
• Problem Solver 
• Passion for Beer and Brewing

Profile:

• A completed BSc degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent BTech

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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 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 CAPin 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
• Minimise 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 byproduct
• 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 teams 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 years’ operating at a management level within Brewing
• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people) and brewing technical expertise    
• 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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Key outputs and responsibilities:

• The Technical Traineeship is primarily a hands-on, self-study program where the Trainee is expected to gain a full understanding of the theory, principles and operation of Packaging equipment across the Packaging Hall
• Participation in projects in Packaging aligned to the program requirements and brewery priorities
• Apply VPO principles
• Diagnosis of systemic and situational problems and troubleshooting 
• Participation in Packaging team structures including acting roles in identified leadership positions within Packaging
• Communication of learnings and solutions across various levels of the business

Minimum requirements:

• BSC or BTech or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering
• 2 years Packaging Experience

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Key outputs and responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe, healthy, risk free working environment at all times by abiding to all rules and regulations of the safety policies
• Perform maintenance and operation on various machines while ensuring that the machine is safe before maintenance tasks are carried out
• Maintain and repair plant & associated devices at minimum cost while maintaining highest quality standards
• Ensure that maintenance tasks are completed to the standard work instructions set out by AB-InBev
• Standby duty required as per roster set out with minimum disruptions

Minimum Requirements:

• Trade Tested Mechanical Artisan (Fitter/Turner/Millwright trade advantageous)
• Ability to solve problems on FMCG machines
• Extensive knowledge in high speed packaging machines
• Ability to communicate technical knowledge to operation staff improving their skills sets

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Key Roles 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
• reflects in the SAP system at all times

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 warehouse cleanliness,  pest control schedule adherence,cross contamination from non food grade chemicals,daily temperature control and 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 standardized 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 KP I' s
• Cascade KPI's and PI's to individual warehouse employee level, calendarize 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

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance to 5's Standard within and around Warehouse Operation and show results evolution
• Cascade all Global policies and ensure compliance to them
• Implement and design the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA's, Process Maps, kPI Indicators and ensure compliance with all warehouse staff and show results evolution
• Develop and continuously validate SOPs through management routines by using tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA,SCL OWD)
• Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
• Develop and maintain MCRS/MCL routines and track adherence there off
• 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, standardize the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual targets
• Ensure adherence to best practice generation process and execute approved projects and show result evolution
• Make use of GOP's linked to warehouse KPI's and insure 75% score is achieved
• Utilize GAPA and PDCA for chronic abnormality's and execute actions derived from analysis

Inventory:

• Ensure daily compliance of inventory counts
• Ensure compliance to inventory policy and use management tools to close gaps
• Ensure compliance to Quality Policy and use management tools to close gaps
• Manage the process on how to destroy and write off obsolete product in compliance with legal/environmental requirements
• 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 and management of stock age KPI’s
• Track and trend all operating variances within in the warehouse and utilize management tools to improve results

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
• Track and manage warehouse management tools to ensure ABC compliance
• Trough MCL routine track compliance to all safety related processes within the warehouse
• Track and trend ABC compliance to realize warehouse efficiencies, Time and Motion studies and show Results evolution

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 andb5. product exposure • Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
• Implement and adhere to a Location-Based Inventory System to identify stored product
• Execute Action Plan to address the Stock Age Index KPI • Track and trend %HL near to be blocked as a PI
• Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non-conforming inventory
• Track, trend and manage sorting processes to reduce MBFU% and to improve sorting productivity by utilizing management tools
• Track and trend broken cases by operator, picker and sorter to develop action plan to improve total breakage costs
• Create a quality induction programme and ensure 100% compliance on training to warehouse staff
• Track, trend and manage the distribution returns policy to ensure alignment with the quality policy
• Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity

Picking Standards:

• Ensure adherence to the standardised picking process and ensure compliance through management routines that ensure a safe and productive process
• Insure Picking area has a productive ergonomic layout that allows zero-man machine interactions
• Create and monitor picking KPI's/Pi's Cas/Per man Hour, Replenishment adherence

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year relevant diploma/degree
• 3+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience advantageous
• Highly level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
• SAP proficient

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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 outputs and responsibilities:

• Effective communication skills
• Good presentation skills
• Self-managed and assertiveness
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the business
• Creative and broad-minded thinker
• Dynamic Personality
• Must be a change agent (influential power)
• Self-starter and energetic
• Willingness to challenge the “status quo”
• Owner Mind set
• Excitement to function in a dynamic and fast changing environment
• Problem Solver
• Passion for Beer and Brewing

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric Certificate/ NSC
• A Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent BTech

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Occupational Health, Safety and Risk Ensure that Brewery quality and safety targets are met
• Ensure overall reliability of production Process optimisation and asset management and plant availability
• Adherence to AB InBev and global packaging quality standards
• Ensure Packaging strategy implementation and support
• Ensure line audits are complete by machine as per Zone Technical Experts guidelines
• 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 packaging shift team
• Provide coaching and mentorship to Packaging Levels 1,2,3
• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for performance improvement and waste reduction
• Analyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to correct root causes

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant Degree (Elec, Mech, Industrial, Instrumental)
• Belt training
• Packaging Technical / Management / Global Management Trainee
• At least 3-5 years factory production experience and a management level