Control & Automation Coordinator

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 incumbent, reporting to the Zone Maintenance Director, provides functional leadership for Control and Automation within the Africa Zone. This includes defining the strategic direction for Control and Automation (C&A) and collaborating with global, zone and  country business units to successfully deliver the strategy.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Define strategic direction aligned to business needs whilst leveraging on technology.
• Ensure alignment to the overall business strategy from global to business unit.
• Develop and implement KPIs and reporting systems as technology evolves to provide business insight.

Governance & Standards

• Ensure control and automation governance standards and practices are adhered to.
• Ensure technology upgrades comply with defined business standards.
• Ensure closure of audit findings across countries.
• Establish and enforce effective change management procedures for manufacturing systems.
• Drive the implementation and adoption of predictive maintenance technologies.
• Ensure cybersecurity governance, including compliance with OT security standards, network protection, access control, patching, and vulnerability management.
• Ensure protection of manufacturing systems against cyber threats and alignment to corporate cybersecurity frameworks.

Maintenance & Support

• Provide C&A operational support at country and plant levels.
• Manage manufacturing system security at plant and country levels.
• Ensure integrity of the control layer to MES integration.

Continuity and Risk

• Develop and standardize business continuity plans (BCP).
• Manage hardware and software obsolescence strategies medium and long term.
• Ensure security of control and automation systems.
• Promote best practices in disaster recovery and continuity.
• Ensure adherence to vulnerability and threat management.
• Ensure standardized controls in place for server rooms and server infrastructure.

Skills & Capability Development

• Ensure staffing pipeline and development plans are in place.
• Deliver against capability requirements for all C&A roles.
• Ensure continuation and evolution of community of practice learnings.

Projects (Investments)

• Support capital investment planning aligned to strategy.
• Ensure adherence to standards from project inception to handover.
• Ensure readiness for large capital projects.
• Drive implementation of new C&A technologies.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities.

Supplier Management

• Identify key suppliers and establish service level agreements (SLAs).
• Manage licensing and support contracts.
• Ensure effective deployment and management of C&A solutions.

Minimum Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Specialization in Industrial Control and Automation.
• Minimum 5 years of FMCG or beverage industry experience.
• Experience in manufacturing excellence practices.

Attributes and Competencies

• Strong safety knowledge.
• Excellent communication across all organizational levels.
• Strategic and analytical thinking with a practical mindset.
• Problem-solving with a bias for action.
• Ability to influence and build relationships across all levels in the organization.
• Ability to travel.

Additional Information:

• Band: V

SAB/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.