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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Achieve production requirements against targets.
• Ensure adherence to the production plan.
• Ensure efficient asset utilization.
• Ensure adherence to planned maintenance of all equipment
• Achieve product quality.
• Management of all quality systems
• Establish a positive and disciplined environment with the workers and manage all HR matters within the packaging department.
• Effectively manage performance and drive TPM processes.
• TPM AM Pillar Lead
• Monitor and manage losses and waste
• Support the Area and Unit Managers in establishing “lean” ways of working that can positively impact productivity.
• Monitor OPI and ensue that structural improvement plans are produced and implemented
• Drive continuous improvement and lean operation by ensuring that production output exceeds BOM, and that HL/FTE is maximized.
• Prepare training needs analysis and develop training plans accordingly.
• Ensure effective skills development within department.
• Ensure career development is in line with the strategic business needs.
• Conduct performance and potential reviews for subordinates.
• Maintain a good and healthy work environment within the packaging department.
• Ensure the production operation is carried out in compliance with the health and safety rules and regulations.
• Ensure adherence to the company’s Health & Safety Policy
• Drive the safety culture in the Packaging department
• Actively participate in daily and weekly management meetings.

The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience:

• An Industrial Engineering or equivalent degree
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience and working knowledge within a Production / Packaging environment and/or fast-moving consumable industry.
• A valid Code EB drivers’ licence and own transport
• Ability to oversee multiple production lines.
• Sound knowledge and ability to manage IR practices
• Strong leadership capabilities.
• Proven computer literacy in SAP & MS Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel).
• Must be innovative and drive best business practices
• Knowledge of high-speed equipment will be advantageous.

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Key performance criteria:

Strategy Implement

• Ensures the integrity and reliability of plant by implementing and effectively administering maintenance systems for the brewery.
• Establishing and maintaining a robust improvement agenda for all aspects of engineering across site to achieve optimum operational opportunities.
• Lead cross functional loss deployment teams for Machine Breakdowns, minor stops and speed restrictions to achieve loss reduction.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice maintenance vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Maintenance activities.

Maintenance Effort

• Ensuring compliance with HBSA health, safety, and risk regulations.
• Fulfil the site appointment as GMR2.1 competent person.
• Ensuring effective fixed asset maintenance and management.
• Manage the technical / maintenance teams responsible to deliver Projects, Innovation, Infrastructure and Services to the site.
• Develop, deploy and implement plans to ensure the best utilization of assets in the sites as well as supervise and give guidance on the maintenance of such assets.
• Prepare and Manage Capital budget and Capital Expenditure Proposals in coordination with cluster and category requirements.
• Liaison with Engineering Excellence teams for technology upgrades.
• Responsible for the Safety of all project-related operations within the manufacturing sites, as well as maintaining and setting of safe working procedures; including management of Health, Safety and Environmental aspects of project management from design, equipment selection, project implementation (site safety), commissioning and final project handover.
• Implementation of the capital projects portfolio post approval; to project closure, following Early Equipment Management.
• Create and implement plans to continuously improve site infrastructure needs such as energy, water, treatment, steam and all infrastructure services, contracts and contractors.
• Collaborate with Operations Team to drive site and line efficiencies and reduce waste.
• Manage the Projects, Innovation and Maintenance budgets. Asset care and improvement through establishing and maintaining an effective system of preventative maintenance applicable to plant and services.
• Manage the engineering contractors and ensure statutory and legal compliance.
• Optimize maintenance cost, MTBF, and MTTR for production lines. Optimize spare parts safety stock levels in line with working capital targets of the manufacturing sites.
• Implement control measures to ensure system accuracy in accounting of spares and spares consumption.
• Implement projects on Energy Efficiency program and sustainability.
• Coach and develop the team across the site on technical and technology issues.
• Securing, rationalization and standardization of engineering spares.
• Implementation and management of engineering standards.

People Management

• Manage, coach and develop a high performing Maintenance team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.
• Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.
• Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required.
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviors expected of them.
• Ensure the delivery of the People Strategy within area of accountability.
• Manage and lead the team, ensuring adequate staffing levels.
• Motivate and coach the team to operational success.
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance and record on appropriate systems.
• Review, implement and update company records e.g. training matrices, performance reviews, risk assessments.
• Communicate KPIs from the strategic annual plan so that each employee is aware.

Budgeting & Control

• Input and hold responsibility for maintenance budgets.
• Prepare the annual Maintenance budget and forecasts/ROFO and all Capital Expenditure proposals as well as ensuring compliance with legal standards. Manage the budget from identification to completion of projects.
• Provides and maintains cost effective services and utilities by maintaining an overview of the purchasing / use of power, gas, water and trade waste.

Departmental Organization

• Leads a team of highly motivated, well trained and competent staff by agreeing departmental performance standards, providing regular feedback and developing staff training programs.

Relationship Management

• Work as part of the Management team to share ideas and improve operation, recommending, supporting and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimize results and improve quality of delivery, in line with quality standards requirements delivery in line with Company and Customer requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
• Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the maintenance strategy.
• Communicate with stakeholders the impact of market change and potential effects on engineering design and development.
• Recommend solutions without compromising quality or service while optimizing cost.
• Liaise and communicate with other departments, customers, suppliers and other service providers.
• Ensure an effective interface with other departmental staff is maintained.

Job Requirements

Education

• Relevant tertiary qualification: B ENG, BSC, B- Tech, NHDT (NQF7).
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) is essential and compulsory as Brewery is above 3000kW capacity.
• Postgraduate qualification would be advantageous.

Experience

• 5-10 years in FMCG/ Manufacturing operations experience.
• 3 years in a managerial role.
• Proficient leadership and management experience across large Teams, Stakeholders and Suppliers/ Third Parties/ Contractors. 
• Must have lead projects from end to end looking at design, budget creation and control and project execution.

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Key Learning Areas include (but are not limited to):

• Plant Maintenance
• Plant Operations: Column and Pot Distillation
• Lab analysis
• Utilities and Facilities
• General administrative assistance
• Process Optimization
• Loss Control
• Problem Solving
• Projects Execution

To qualify for selection and participation in this programme, candidates must satisfy the following criteria:

• Excellent academic record – Chemical Engineering Diploma / Degree
• Candidates in need of In-Service or practical workplace experience
• Computer literacy – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Sound communication and presentation skills
• Effective time management
• Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure
• Ability to work in a team
• Driver’s license would be beneficial
• South African citizen
• Reliable means of transport
• Willingness to work overtime during week/weekends
• Must reside or be able to relocate to Worcester/Rawsonville

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Key Learning Areas include (but are not limited to):

• Quality Assurance (Intrinsic & extrinsic quality control; Quality Management Systems; etc.)
• Research
• Production

To qualify for selection and participation in this programme, candidates must satisfy the following criteria:

• South African citizenship.
• Satisfactory academic record and in final year of obtaining relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. National Diploma in Food Technology;  National Diploma in Analytical Chemistry; B Sc Bio Technology; etc).
• Basic computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook).
• Sound communication and presentation skills.
• Effective time management skills with the ability to multi-task and perform under pressure.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Ability to cope with the inherent physical demands of the position.
• Willing and able to work extended hours.
• Willing to relocate to Worcester
• Must be willing, able and committed to enter into and complete the 12 month internship programme.

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Key Learning Areas include (but are not limited to):

• Plant Maintenance
• Plant Operations
• Lab analysis
• Effluent treatment
• Utilities and Facilities
• General administrative assistance

To qualify for selection and participation in this programme, candidates must satisfy the following criteria:

• Excellent academic record – Chemical Engineering Diploma / Degree
• Candidates in need of In Service or practical workplace experience
• Computer literacy – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Sound communication and presentation skills
• Effective time management
• Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure.
• Ability to work in a team
• Driver’s license would be beneficial
• South African citizen
• Reliable means of transport
• Willingness to work overtime during week/weekends
• Must reside or be able to relocate to Wellington

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Key Responsibilities:

Provide direct support to the PCI Managers in the following:

Process & Control Management:

• To ensure business processes and controls are appropriately designed, constructed, implemented and maintained.
• Jointly drive with Local Management the design and documentation of business processes and controls, applying the global process design and management methodology and HEINEKEN Enterprise Process Model (HEPM).
• Ensure that controls are fully embedded in the design of processes, including Process Performance Indicator (PPI) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) defined by the Business.
• Ensure PPIs and KPIs are monitored on an ongoing basis to identify any risks or opportunities for improvements (processes & controls). Identify and report any process activities that deviate from the global standard by Local Management.

Control Monitoring:

• To monitor and test control effectiveness and drive the implementation of remediating actions. o Ensure that the effectiveness of controls is monitored and/or frequently tested.
• Be responsible for putting the appropriate actions in place (agreed with Management).
• Track and monitor the progress of remediating activities.

Process Improvement:

• To embed a process improvement culture, drive process and control improvement and realise benefits.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, benchmarking and innovation.
• Build process improvement capabilities through training and people development.
• Challenge existing processes to identify improvement opportunities using benchmarks and external best practices.
• Quantify financial benefits and costs associated with improvement ideas.
• Analyse impact of Job Description changes on processes and ways of working.
• Implement process improvements and inform Local Management about the progress on a regular basis. Ensure that the global process improvement methodology (Lean / Six Sigma) is applied.
• Evaluate the success of the improvement projects and the benefits realised.

Risk Management:

• To lead the process of Risk Identification, Assessment and Response and monitor existing and emerging risks.
• Drive the implementation of a comprehensive Risk Management (RM) framework.
• Identify relevant risks for the business. Analyses, measures and evaluates risks.
• Conduct Risk Assessment through running risk workshops with the Business, ensures relevant risk templates and documentation are used and drives the creation of risk responses. This also includes new and emerging risks.
• Develop specific action plans to mitigate, accept or transfer risk and monitors progress on an ongoing basis.

Fraud Management:

• To improve fraud prevention and detection and support fraud investigation when required.
• Raise fraud awareness through promoting the ‘Speak-up’ procedures.
• Drive fraud prevention and detection through identifying fraud risks and addressing them through strong process and control design and testing.
• Discuss and support incident assessment, following the Anti-Fraud procedure (P&CI may be requested on an exceptional basis to investigate specific fraud incidents that are related to business process controls).
• Support fraud investigation when requested by Local Management, Global Legal Affairs or Global Audit.

Compliance Management:

• To provide assurance that processes and controls are designed, implemented and operating in line with the relevant policies, procedures and HEINEKEN Rules.
• P&CI is informed about policy changes and assesses the impact on existing control frameworks. Provide advice, support and challenge during the implementation of policies (global & local).
• Register, track and log policies & procedures. This includes the review and challenge of the self assessment activities.
• If requested, provide advice, support and challenge to the design of policies (global & local).

Assurance Activities:

• To support Global and External Audit to efficiently plan and execute audits and to drive closure of audit findings.
• Plan, lead and execute audits to evaluate the risks and the established controls in all business processes in NewCo
• Work with Global Audit to ensure a consistent and efficient audit plan is adopted.
• Support and/or execution of audits in global audits (inside or outside of the OpCo) at the request of the Audit Committee, via Global Audit.
• Support the audit through providing information or specialist input where required (Local P&CI team members may perform controls testing or other audit activities on behalf of Global Audit when agreed with OpCo FD/FM).
• Define and execute remediation plans (in agreement with Management). Track and monitor the progress of remediating activities.
• Work closely with external auditors in respect to the Financial Controls Audit to enable reliance on the work of internal audit, thus driving reductions in the overall audit fees

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of financial tertiary qualification CA (SA)
• Six Sigma
• Extensive experience within internal audit of international companies, including experience of operational audit, risk management.
• Proven ability of working in an international setting.
• Business experience in line manager role is an advantage.
• Experience and proven success in managing and developing teams.
• Proven success in influencing management and performing Management controls reviews,
•   providing strong effective business-oriented recommendations.
• Ability to travel locally and internationally (up to 50%)
• Development and leadership of projects based on risk evaluation and/or business consulting.
• Broad knowledge of internal control.
• Development of audit programs and budgets.
• Solid experience in process analysis.
• Creation of Policies and Procedures.
• Leadership capabilities and ability to communicate effectively, including excellent report writing skills.
• Ability to collect and analyze complex data, evaluate information and systems and reach logical conclusions.

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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Achieve production KPI’s against targets:
• Adherence and Attainment to Production Plan (PCTS)
• Production Order Variances
• Operational Expenditure budgeting and control (R/hL)
• OPI NONA & Line Performance
• Efficient Asset utilization 
• Achieve product quality
• Managing people
• Managing capital and NPD projects, trials and feasibility studies.
• See to annual maintenance plan of all equipment within department. (Adherence to Planned maintenance)
• Management of all quality systems.
• Develop and implement annual departmental business plans and assist in site’s business plan.
• To establish a positive and disciplined environment with staff and manage all HR issues within department.
• To effectively manage performance and drive TPM processes and implementation.
• Promote and drive skills development within department.
• Actively participate in daily and weekly management meetings.
• Must be able to work under pressure and see to queries associated with department.
• Innovation and business improvements in support of operational and segment goals.

The successful candidate must have the following experience/skills:

• Strong leadership capabilities
• Strong technical aptitude
• Degree as minimum qualification (NQF7 equivalent or above)
• Packaging experience in an FMCG environment
• World Class Manufacturing/TPM exposure (e.g. problem solving, visual management)
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years supervisory / management role
• Strong problem solving and RCA (root cause analysis) abilities
• People management and leadership skills
• High level of computer literacy in SAP & Microsoft O365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
• The successful candidate must be innovative and drive best practices

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Key Responsibilities

Admin Support:

• Monitor on going progress against regional activity plans, gather feedback from sales teams (Trade Marketing Teams)     
• Administer and track trading term contracts.
• Assisting with Stock on Hand issues.
• Distribution of internal and external communication.
• Assist with Management Presentation compilation.
• Manage and replenish office supplies and consumables.
• Manage general Sales Consultant information and queries.
• Reconciliation of regional reports.
• Arrange and manage all Sales Team gatherings i.e. quarterly cycle briefing events, management meetings, monthly meetings etc.
• Booking of travel and accommodation for trade visits, meetings, etc.
• Management of budget (operational costs, campaigns, etc)
• Maintain and update CMD process.
• Assist with allocation of sales orders.
• Manage and order promotional liquor.
• Loading of deals.
• Processing and tracking of vendor payments.
• Assist with ordering, splitting, and tracking of merchandising materials.

Asset Management:

• Manage ordering, delivery, and incidents of new / replacement mobile devices (Laptops, cell phones and tablets).
• Assist with new vehicle ordering and old vehicle collections.
• Manage vehicle amendments.
• Process and follow-up on glass claims and accidents/incidents.
• Following up with dealers
• Tracking of license discs and fuel cards
• Manage fleet cost centre.
• Manage inspection procedures.
• Assisting with cold space issues/upliftments, etc.
• Responsible for verification tracking.
• Handling database issues.

Job Requirements

Education:

• 3-5 years’ experience office admin / secretarial field
• Grade 12
• A tertiary qualification in Office Administration will be an advantage

Experience:

• 5 years’ experience in administration function with multiple stakeholders
• Advanced experienced with Microsoft Office especially Excel.
• Experience with project management / coordination of multi-disciplines and across functions.

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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring the establishment, placing, monitoring, and controlling of purchase requirements.
• Ensuring all purchase orders are actioned timeously (MRP), adherence to MRP health checks daily (FIT) to ensure digital twin on the system.
• Actioning outstanding orders timeously (DDL)
• Quick resolution of AP workflows/ Queries (invoices/credits)
• Manage 4 weeks window for material requirement planning.
• Managing JIT deliveries.
• Always ensure stock availability to prevent production stoppages.
• Maintaining and improving relationships with suppliers and customers.
• Managing Supplier OTIF.
• Adhering to all ICC procedures pertaining to purchasing process.
• Perform stand-in duties for the Master Scheduler.

The successful candidate must have the following experience/skills:

• Grade 12
• A tertiary qualification in Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, Logistics & CIPS qualification.
• 2-3 years’ experience in MRP purchasing.
• Able to supervise the correct implementation and utilisation of administrative procedures.
• Must be meticulous and consistently display good attention to detail.
• Able to apply purchasing/ buying principles, procedures and practices in own work area according to organisational requirements.
• Able to interpret product related requirements and apply correct buying/ purchasing techniques to satisfy needs.
• Able to initiate contact with parties relevant to work functions.
• Can develop alternative strategies to handle changes/situations in own working area.
• Is pro-active and anticipates problems before they arise.
• Can follow through with own tasks even if peaks occur and deadlines are set.
• Responds to and resolves customer problems quickly and amicably.
• Computer literate in MS Office, especially Excel on an intermediate level of competency.
• Experience working on SAP purchasing modules will be of an advantage.
• Production planning experience will be an advantage
• Strong planning, organising and coordinating skills.
• Strong interpersonal and persuasive skills to ensure task completion.
• To reflect good leadership behaviour towards colleagues, superior and company value.