BREWING ENGINEER

SAB; Krugersdorp; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

SAB is seeking a Brewing Engineer at Chamdor Brewery to drive asset care, improve plant reliability and optimize performance across brewing operations. You will lead the engineering team, set goals, review performance, and support safe, compliant plant start-ups and shutdowns.

The role requires a BSc in Engineering or equivalent, 3–5 years as a Section Engineer in FMCG, and experience with VPO Maintenance Pillar. SAP knowledge and COCP would be advantageous.

Qualifications

• BSc Engineering or equivalent tertiary education.
• 3-5 years as a Section Engineer ideally in an FMCG company.
• Experience with modern VPO Maintenance Pillar.
• Previous exposure in brewing or similar process.
• Government Certificate of Competence would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement asset care plan for brewing; ensure engineering team competencies.
• Ensure reliability and uptime of brewing plant; supervise maintenance and data integrity.
• Lead plant optimization trials; evaluate impact of new equipment and plant changes.
• Lead the engineering team; conduct regular goal reviews and training plans.
• Ensure safety and housekeeping compliance; implement SAB and OSH policies.

Skills

Asset Care

Plant Reliability

Plant Optimisation

Team Leadership

Safety and Housekeeping

OH&S Act knowledge

HR processes

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

BSc Engineering

Equivalent tertiary education

Government Certificate of Competence (advantage)

Job description

## BREWING ENGINEERApply: Chamdor Brewery: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: October 7, 2026 (6 days left to apply): 30103362**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 identify and deliver initiatives to deliver step change performance, improvement and process stability in order to realise true process capability.**Key Roles and Responsibilities:****Asset Care*** Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the brewing, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice* Implement the asset care plan for the brewing, ensuring the engineering team have the required competencies* Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals* Audit compliance to the asset care program by both the engineering team and shift based teams* Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team* Where training needs have been identified, through the training specialist, ensure these are addressed* Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of brewing **Plant Reliability*** Responsible for the overall reliability and uptime of brewing plant* Lead the engineering team in the provision of asset care and engineering support to the shift based production teams* Verifies that engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance, and validates quality of work* Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly and that data integrity and information accuracy maintained* Reviews plant reliability to ensure equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously* Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that engineering team is applying the correct problem solving techniques **Plant Optimisation*** Takes part in regional and central office plant optimization trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required* Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant modifications and changes* 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 identify and correct root causes* Takes part in evaluating continuous improvement opportunities identified by the production teams or engineering support* Ensures that continuous improvement is built into engineering team goals and forms part of regular goal review sessions **Team Leadership*** Lead the engineering team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction* Lead the development of engineering team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members* Conducts regular engineering team goal review session, 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 **Safety and Housekeeping*** Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirement when carrying out their tasks* Ensure implementation of the appropriate SAB and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping* Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits* Where unsafe work practices have been identified, the Brewing Engineer is responsible for correcting this* Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities, and learnings from maintenance activities* React to the results using the VPO tools supplied* Fully understand the team Dream and contribute to achieving it.**Key Attributes and Competencies:*** Ability to ensure that all equipment and resources are available for an effective maintenance system* Ability to manage and ensure an effective spares stock levels and to ensure that costs are within budget* Ability to ensure that principles of VPO are implemented within brewing department* Ability to ensure that plant start-ups and shut downs are done safely and properly* Knowledge of the OH&S Act and NOSA standards* Ability to effect good HR processes to ensure that people are disciplined, motivated, developed and properly managed to ensure effective team performance* Analytical and evaluative skills* Sound interpersonal and communication skills - Articulate* Conceptual skills* Accurate, decisiveness and persuasiveness* People handling and leadership skills.**Minimum Requirements:*** BSc Engineering or equivalent tertiary education* 3-5 years as a Section Engineer ideally in an FMCG company* Experience with modern VPO Maintenance Pillar* Previous exposure in brewing or similar process* Government Certificate of Competence would be an advantage**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. 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