Brewing Area 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 manage and coordinate the Brewing department activities with overall responsibility for people, plant, process, product, quality and management systems in order to deliver compliance to the SAB Ltd and global brewing standards in the most efficient, effective, safe and reliable manner.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of brewing team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members

• Conduct regular brewing team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one-on-one and performance reviews

• 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 engineering team

• Provide coaching and mentorship to brewing levels 1, 2, 3

• Brewing Managers are responsible for managing technical trainees, providing guidance, supervising development and actively

• participating in trainee checkouts

• Brewing Optimization:

• Ongoing optimization of brewing quality and production processes

• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance and initiates opportunity evaluation

• Analyses plant failure modes and investigate causes for repeat failures to correct root causes

• Ensures that continuous improvement is built into brewing team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions

• Manage financial performance (prepare and manage budgets) and monthly financial Short Interval Control

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Proven team leadership skills and highly assertive and outstanding interpersonal and facilitation skills

• Analytical problem solver and demonstrated ability at implementing effective problem solving

• Enquiring and curious mind-set

• Proven financial competence with the ability to control budgets

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Good understanding of Standard Work Practices and other WCM methodologies

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering is required

• Brewing qualification –IBD Brewing Diploma is a minimum requirement

• SAB Ltd Brewing Traineeship (or ABInBev certified equivalent) is a further minimum requirement

• At least 8 –10 year's production experience, of which 5 years’ operating at a management level within Brewing

• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people)

• A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality

• Solid understand of performance management principles – i.e. Our People Way

• Integrated understanding of the ABInBev Voyager Plant Optimization (VPO) program

• Good working knowledge of all SAP modules and NOSA Safety Standards and requirements

• Greenbelt certification would be highly advantageous

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 short-listing.