Brewing Area Manager

time left to apply End Date: April 15, (7 hours left to apply) job requisition id. 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 as a Brewing Expert is to lead and manage area teams to deliver sound operational and technical practices in the brewing department underpinned by prescribed VPO practices. The Brewing Area Manager is required to meet the required production plan, adhering to the principles of all VPO pillars.

The role is required to maintain a high level of control against the budgeted KPI's as well as the variable and fixed costs controllable within the team.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Promote beer brewing quality excellence in the value chain.
2. Communicate brewing process and product quality information / standards.
3. Effectively communicate changes in the brewing process or standards.
4. Provide leadership to ensure commitment to product quality in the brewing department.
5. Apply brewing sub-department quality systems in the workplace.
6. Provide Brewing process expertise (Technical depth) and Lead problem-solving processes.
7. Assess brewing technical requirements and decisions where required.
8. Support implementation of recommendations.
9. Support implementation of process and product optimisation including CAPin and VA projects and trials.
10. Audit area standards (quality, process and work-practices) to ensure effective management of the area.
11. Support all 7 pillars standards in the workplace relating to VPO.
12. Facilitate team problem solving and decision making.
13. Apply problem solving and decision-making techniques and principles.
14. Interact with brewing management and operations teams to ensure appropriate people are involved in problem solving sessions.
15. Manage Health, Safety & Risk.
16. Manage occupational health, safety and risk for the area teams.
17. Manage Productivity.
18. Control fixed and variable costs.
19. Minimize waste.
20. Manage the brewing process.
21. Ensure conformance to brewing area production plans.
22. Ensure conformance to brewing area specifications and standards.
23. Ensure maintenance integrity in brewing area.
24. Ensure effective cost management on fixed and variable costs including by-products.
25. Optimise process availability to achieve delivery and reliability targets.
26. Support production and process optimisation including trials, VA and CAPEX projects.
27. Ensure adherence to environmental standards by area teams.
28. Ensure adherence to quality standards by area teams.
29. 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.
30. Apply performance management principles for employees (production teams).
31. Apply self-performance management principles.
32. Develop employees for current role and future roles to ensure proper pipeline.
33. Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate.
34. Manage and apply personnel practices.
35. Provide effective leadership.
36. Ensure employees are trained on technical and VPO standards.
37. Drive the high performance levels of autonomous teams without shift supervision.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

1. Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people).
2. Brewing technical expertise.
3. A good performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality.
4. BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
5. Completed brewing traineeship.
6. IBD Papers 1, 2 & 3 completed and passed.
7. At least 2 years production experience, of which 1 year operating at a management level within Brewing.
8. Master Brewer IBD qualification obtained - Studying towards MB Qualification.
9. AP modules: White Belt certification would be highly advantageous.

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Management reserves the right to use additional / relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

About Us:

The South African Breweries (SAB) has reimagined what a beer company can be and has anchored this in a powerful brand purpose – We Dream Big to Create a Future With More Cheers – which articulates who we are and where we are going. At SAB it's always about more than the beer. We are driven by our passion to demonstrate the unique power of beer to propel South Africa forward.

Since our inception over a century ago, SAB has grown to become South Africa's largest brewer, a powerful economic contributor, a leader in sustainability, and a champion of responsible consumption. SAB is one of South Africa's admired companies and corporate brands.

The company has 7 breweries and 42 depots in South Africa, a total workforce of approximately, and supports a beer economy 'from seed to sip' of over jobs. Its portfolio of beer brands meets the needs of a wide range of consumers and includes leading brands in beer and beyond such as Castle Lager, Carling Black Label, Corona, Brutal Fruit, and Flying Fish.