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PACKAGING MAINTENANCE PLANNER

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to manage the relevant Maintenance Systems, spares management, generation of routine and planned maintenance schedules, provide support to maintenance teams in the execution of maintenance and ensuring relevant Permit to Work are in place.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Maintenance Planning
• Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre meeting with a focus on required work, problems to be addressed and resource requirements
• Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
• Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritisedand relevant works requests generated
• Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
• Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion
• Partake in planned maintenance period in support of the maintenance team, assisting with problem solving, work prioritisationand resource re allocation
• Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
• Facilitate and lead the maintenance post mortems and document any problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned

• Problem Solving
• Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
• Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA’s on request

In addition:

• Ensure that all legal compliance and safety tasks are carried out on the specific time allocation
• Ensure that all maintenance KPIs meet the required targets set out by TSM manager
• Setup weekly/ yearly maintenance budget based on the tasks that is being carried out and ensure you are in control of the requested budgets
• Ensure maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown programs are completed
• Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards
• Ensure spares needed to support asset care program are available on time and within costs
• Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialist’s as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations
• Analyse SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules
• Coordinates resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown
• Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions

Minimum Requirements:

• N6 / Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/ or equivalent
• Trade Tested Mechanical / Electrical / Instrumentation
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering experience
• Worked as machine specialist in FMCG for at least 2 years
• Solid SAP experience
• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft Office package)
• Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices
• In depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes

Additional information:

Band: VI

ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing.

Control & Automation Trainee

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Control & Automation Trainee programme is a structured 18 month programme which is designed to address the acquisition of technical skills and experience for graduates as well as familiarize them with the company culture and principles. The rigour of the programme should ensure that an individual that has completed the programme can be allocated an area of responsibility immediately.

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 the Control & Automation processes
• Apply VPO principles
• Participation in the team structures including acting roles in identified positions, i.e., within Maintenance, Planning Systems and Control Systems
• Complete and be competent in Generic Modules within VPO, Engineering Safety, Safety & Environment, Control & Automation
• Complete identified Projects within the Engineering C&A Training Programme
• Participation in projects in the Plant environment aligned to the program requirements and brewery priorities
• Diagnosis of systemic and situational problems and troubleshooting
• Communication of learnings and solutions across various levels of the business

Outputs:

• Manage and control manufacturing systems infrastructure, Control and automation processes, databases and applications to ensure sustained integrity and stability of the environment
• Proactively optimize manufacturing systems to improve quality, efficiency and/or functionality
• Lead users through manufacturing systems interventions and change
• Work in teams
• Coach , guide and assist with training of all production employees
• Facilitation , project management and development of systems and/or reports to satisfy the requirements of production
• Assist with ensuring that the manufacturing systems environment remains aligned with the manufacturing systems strategy
• Identify and motivate technical CAPIN justification
• Improvement of manufacturing systems, process control and database knowledge within Production
• Understand and assist with network, IT support and process control

Competencies:

• Knowledge of systems, object-oriented programming languages, SQL databases, process modelling and report development as well as conceptual design/automation
• PLC Programming knowledge (Siemens S7)
• Extensive knowledge of business processes
• Ability to implement effective problem solving
• Sound organizational skills
• Good facilitation skills
• Team player with outstanding interpersonal skills
• A good understanding of the Change Management Process
• Enquiring and analytical thinking ability
• Highly assertive
• A self starter with high energy and a bias for action
• Working knowledge of relevant international standards (e.g. S88, ANSI SQL)

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc BTech Computer Science, Electrical Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or relevant equivalent tertiary qualification
• Minimum 2 3 years relevant experience in Manufacturing systems Control and Automation environment

Additional information:

• Band: VIII

SAB is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in
line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements.

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing.

UNIT MANAGER

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to ensure optimum utilization of plant, raw materials and people, to produce quality product at minimum cost which meets customer requirements and complies with legislation.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Packaged Volumes

• Ensure that hl. packed by brand/pack are in accordance with plan
• Supply full beer to warehouse and agree on stock numbers
• Maintain/increase number of hl packed per day in accordance with plan and laid down factory efficiency standards
• Packaged Product Quality:
• Ensure that the packaging process is controlled such that all quality standards are maintained
• Implement correct action to prevent substandard product and reinforce continuous improvement

Productivity

• Achieve and improve all targets i.e. hl per man hour; % GLY and hl / factory hour targets; % LEF and hl / machine hour targets
• Control fixed costs, beer loss and container loss
• Prepare and implement plans that produce required outcomes, including materials, machine maintenance and subordinate deployment
• Motivate and manage human resource, including performance appraisals, discipline, administration, training, IR climate, absenteeism etc.
• Comply with laid down safety standards and statutory requirements
• Ensure packaging line is clean / tidy at all times
• Report on efficiencies, downtime, and other production related issues
• Recruit, select and appoint staff
• Outplacement of staff
• Team and individual goals set and monitored
• Conduct team reviews
• Performance reviews conducted
• Address training and development needs
• Career planning
• Opportunity to improve processes are identified

Productivity

• Plans developed to optimize resources
• Discipline and grievance handling
• Analytical ability
• Team leadership
• Concern for detail and accuracy
• Desire to do better (achievement orientation)

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Ability to work shifts
• Good understanding OHS and NOSA requirements
• Should have good verbal, sight and hearing abilities in order to be able to do the job as prescribed

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Engineering or B-Tech Mechanical / Electrical
• Packaging Traineeship (in-house)
• Packaging experience (high speed plant and equipment)

Additional Information:

• Band: VI

SAB is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent

requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for shortlisting.

LAB TECHNICIAN (ANALYTICAL)

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to carry out sampling, sample preparation and analysis of raw materials, in-process samples of brewing 
product from Brew house, Yeast & Fermentation and Bright beer.​

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Sampling is carried out as per manualised methods​
• Relevant apparatus, equipment and reagents are prepared as per manualised method ​
• Analysis is performed using fundamental laboratory techniques and practices​
• Accurate results generated, recorded and reported on time​
• Carry out lab equipment maintained and calibration as per manualized methods​
• Comply to company safety policy and procedure (Hazardous substance, PPE, MSDS, Safety incidents, lab safety rules)​
• Adhere to 5S and Housekeeping schedules​
• Conduct required and requested quality audits, completing the appropriate documentation and communicating the results ​
• Coach, check, mentor and assist shift-based production teams on problem solving and correct use of problem solving techniques​
• Take part in regional and divisional process optimisation initiatives as required

Key Attributes and Competencies: 

• Must be hardworking, Honest and self-motivated​
• Must be dynamic & a good team Player​
• Excellent commitment to Occupational Safety & health, Environmental implications of the job​
• Understanding of process control within a brewing/process environment ​
• Assertive and analytical ​
• Knowledge in computer Excel, Power point ​
• Proactive ​
• Proven leadership ability​
• Good understanding of the principles and practices of Manufacturing Excellence

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum – National Diploma in Biotechnology, Analytical Chemistry or equivalent​
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in FMCG industry ​
• Knowledge of VPO quality

Additional Information: 

• BAND: X 

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan 
and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant 
information as criteria for short-listing

SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGER

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to provide the plant with a comprehensive and professional environment and occupational health and safety system. Ensuring compliance to environment and safety systems, standards and work practices to achieve targets set for the VPO environment and safety pillars as well as the environment and safety KPI’s.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintain Safe Healthy and Risk Free Working Environment

• Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
• Ensure compliance the VPO Standards for the environment and safety pillars
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards

Manage Human Resources

• Develop employees based on identified needs through OPR sessions
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage technical pipeline for key roles in safety and environment team
• Support apprenticeship and artisan development for site

Leads the Management and Implementation of the Safety and Environment VPO Pillar in the Plant

• Ensure requirements of all 23 Blocks of the Safety Pillar are implemented
• Performs Safety and environment monitoring and audits
• Performs regular VPO Safety and environment Pillars’ audits and reviews using the Pillar Questionnaires
• Performs legal Compliance Audit

Monitors and Analyses Leading and Lagging

• Ensures all Safety and environment Incidents and Observations are captured and reported in Credit360
• Manage the problem solving process to ensure all Safety and environment accidents/incidents are captured and reported in Credit360 and escalated as per VPO requirements
• Ensures all efficient and effective problem solving and implementation of loop closure for all Safety and environment/accidents reported in Cr360 as per VPO requirements
• Ensures optimum use of Safety App or equivalent system to raise Safety and environment Incidents and Observations
• Performs Loss and waste analysis on Safety and environment Incident and Observations
• Develops an action plan to close SIO’s based on priority
• Performs safety and environment monitoring using the Supervisor or Managers Check Lists

Leads the Safety and Environment Strategies as VPO-Safety and Environment Pillars

• Implement Behavioural Safety Program at all levels
• Implement focused safety and environment interventions for critical/priority blocks
• Apply relevant Safety and environment Standards & SOPs
• Develops and coordinate Safety and environment Investment Programme
• Implement Safety and Environment VPO and associated GOP’s
• Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed
• Implement E&S Dashboards and sustain derived improvement

Manage Small Safety and Environment Site Capex Projects

• Mange Safety and environment requirements during Projects execution
• Project completion on time and in budget
• Ensure safety and environment compliance of all new equipment during commissioning

Manage Financial Performance

• Manage ZBB and CAPEX budgeting process for Safety and Environment
• Control departmental costs
• Review financial results
• Manage and maximize By-product revenue

Manage Safety and Environment Pillar Knowledge and Awareness

• Leads organises and participates in World Safety and environment Day/Week and other planed safety and environment awareness activities
• Shares relevant safety and environment alerts with operational teams
• Mandatory training provided to all employees to ensure as per VPO Safety and environment Pillar VPO
• Train all TL’s and UM’s on department-specific safety & environment requirements
• Ensure effective induction, training and awareness for new employee, service providers and Contractors
• Identify environment and safety legal training needs, arrange and co-ordinate training program

Business Continuity and Risk Management

• Develop and standardize system emergency and disaster recovery (BCP) plans for plant
• Develops and implements approaches to mitigate obsolescence
• Ensure sharing of best practices for Safety and environment management
• Ensures implementation of Ammonia Process, Steam Process, Dust Process and Electrical Process Safety Management programs

Manage Safety, Upholding (UPP) and Cost CAPEX Portfolios

• Ensure a 3 year plan exists for, – Maintenance and replacement of Plant Equipment across Sites – Maintenance and replacement of C&A infrastructure due to obsolescence.

Indicate Primary Challenges Presented by this Job and this Kinds of Decisions that the Position is Expected to Make

• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
• Lead the establishment of a SAFETY FIRST culture through implementation of behavioural safety program
• Ensure delivery of results through implementation of VPO standards and relevant safety and environment SOPs
• Manage departmental Budget / Finances
• Lead safety in site projects execution defining minimum requirements at all stages and monitoring compliance during planning and execution thereof
• Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability
• Manage the Safety and Environment function including Operations and Maintenance of Effluent tank and screen
• Lead the elimination of all identified safety and environment risks through sharing safety alerts and driving closure of identified gaps from problem solving and incident and accident investigations.
• Create a Safety and environment awareness through planned and unplanned campaigns such as World environment/Safety day activities
• Lead the risk management program, comprising of occupational health and safety and risk management
• Ensure plant’s legal compliance and adherence to legal standards/regulations
• People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
• Lead the Safety and environment team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of Safety and environment team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular Safety and environment team goal review sessions
• 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 Safety and environment team

Minimum Requirements:

• 3 year appropriate tertiary qualification, i.e. B Tech: Mech or Electrical, BSc Mech or Electrical
• Tertiary qualification in Safety and environment Management and Auditing
• Successful Completed ABInBev trainee program (Brewing, Packaging, Logistics, Maintenance or E&F)
• South African Department of Labour issued Government Certificate of Competence or equivalent legal requirement for appointment to the position of responsible person for Safety and environment
• Minimum 5 years experience in a Fast Moving Consumer Goods environment Experience in both safety and environment management
• 3-5 years experience in either Safety/environment Facilitator or Controller role

Additional Information:

Band: VI

ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements

ENERGY & FLUIDS SPECIALIST

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to lead the Process Engineering function in the Brewery. Optimize the generation and utilization of all utilities within the process. Identifying and delivering initiatives to deliver step change performance improvement and process stability in order to realize true process capability.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Apply engineering principles in assisting Brewing and E&F production teams to achieve optimal plant performance
• Provide line support for situational and systemic problem-solving
• Execute identified process optimisation initiatives
• Execute identified process capability studies
• Provide design support for regional capital projects
• Support the execution of regional capital projects
• Lead small CAPIN projects in Brewing and/or E&F plants
• Provide coaching to process engineering trainees
• Assist with the identification and closure of Brewing and E&F technological gaps
• Manage, co-ordinate and implement improvement projects to ensure optimisation of Brewing and E&F plant and process

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Deep understanding of E&F and Brewing plant, Process Controls and Automation, design and commissioning
• Rigorous analytical skills and ability to apply them to complex problems
• Ability to develop project plans and meet project deadlines
• Ability to multi-task
• Work on own initiative

Minimum Requirements:

• Min – BSc Chemical engineering or equivalent qualification
• Checked out Process Engineer • 2-3 Years as a checked-out Process Engineer • Black Belt qualification (advantageous)
• Recognised International Brewing Qualification e.g. IBD (advantageous)
• 3 – 5 years process engineering experience (advantageous)

Additional Information:

Band: VIII

ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

Engineering Trainee

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

Job Purpose

The Key Purpose of this role is to address the acquisition of technical skills and experience for graduates as well as familiarize them with the company culture and principles in an 18-month structured programme. The rigor of the programme should ensure that an individual that has completed the programme can be allocated an area of responsibility immediately.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities:

• The 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 equipment across the various department
• Participation in projects is aligned to the program requirements and brewery priorities
• Apply VPO principles
• Diagnosis of systemic and situational problems and troubleshooting
• Participation in team structures including acting roles in identified leadership positions within the department
• Communication of learnings and solutions across various levels of the business

Minimum Requirements

• BSC, BEng or Btech or equivalent in Mechanical, Electrical/Electronics, Energy or Mechatronics
• BSC Chemical Engineering
• BSC/BTech Biotechnology, Analytical Chemistry or Chemistry or Biology

Additional Information:

• BAND: VIII

SAB is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing

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