Malt Operator-3

The South African Breweries; Theewaterskloof Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Breweries is seeking a Shift Operator for its Malting process in the Western Cape. You will run pre-steeping to germination and kilning stages, perform quality checks, and support maintenance.

This role emphasizes teamwork, problem solving, and adherence to SOPs within a manufacturing environment. Key tasks include operating maltings equipment, monitoring performance, maintaining safety, and contributing to continuous improvement and waste reduction.

Qualifications

• Matric or equivalent (NQF Level 4).
• Diploma in Food Technology, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Production Management, Operations Management or related field.
• Minimum 3 months on-the-job training.
• 2 to 5 years’ experience in a malting environment.
• Experience in a process-controlled manufacturing environment, preferably in food FMCG production.

Responsibilities

• Interpret and implement production plan for shift.
• Monitor production processes on shift.
• Ensure process quality and productivity.
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
• Co-ordinate autonomous operations and cleaning.
• Communicate effectively in the workplace.
• Apply administration systems and procedures; contribute to team development.
• Use 5Y’s and quick fix routines to identify origins of problems and report to Team Leader.
• Identify waste sources and report to the Team Leader.
• Operate maltings equipment per SOPs; review performance and downtime; record waste and movements.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Initiative

Achievement drive

Analytical thinking

Education

Diploma in Food Technology

Diploma in Chemical Engineering

Diploma in Biotechnology

Diploma in Production Management

Diploma in Operations Management

Job description

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 operate the pre-steeping, steeping, germination, kilning, effluent areas and associated process areas, the execution of quality control checks and analyses, including coaching of other team members and supporting the maintenance department in carrying out asset care activities.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

_ Shift Based Production Performance and Processes _

• Interpret and implement production plan for shift.
• Monitor production processes on shift.
• Ensure process quality and productivity.
• Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
• Co-ordinate autonomous operations and cleaning.

_ Shift Team Performance _

• Communicate effectively in the workplace.

_ Perform Administration _

• Ensure application of administration systems and procedures.
• Contribute to self and team development.

_ Problem Solving _

• Apply problem solving and decision-making techniques and principles.

_ Operating And Process Control _

• Operating equipment in Malting process areas according to standard operating procedures.
• Constantly reviewing process performance against target and recording and understanding reasons for down time.
• Recording waste and movement of product on the appropriate documentation or information systems and reviewing waste trends to identify problems.

_ Maintenance Of Plant and Equipment _

• Carrying out in-depth cleaning, lubrication and inspection of equipment according to autonomous operations and in accordance with the maintenance schedule.
• Identify defective plant and report these through to Team Leader for resolution.
• Assisting the Standby Artisan in executing running repairs on shift.

_ Quality Control and Analysis _

• Carrying out the required quality checks and analyses, and recording the results on the appropriate information system.
• The list of quality checks to be executed is contained in the work instructions / SOPs.

_ Communication _

• Actively participate in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions. making use of the action log to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.
• Fully understand the team goals and participate in team goal review sessions.
• Make use of relevant communication media (e.g. operator workstations/team rooms) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
• Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated.

_ Problem Solving _

• Where problems occur, use 5Y’s and quick fix routines to identify the possible origin and report these to Team leader for resolution.

_ Continuous Improvement _

• Identify sources of waste and report these to the Team Leader.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• The main role is to apply core competencies to achieve optimum plant and process performance.
• Supportive role is to attempt to develop others in own skills as well as the learning of the skills of another specialist at Maltings.
• A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment.
• A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist).
• Initiative and energetic.
• Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best).

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric or equivalent (NQF Level 4).
• Relevant Diploma in Food Technology, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Production Management, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 months on-the-job training.
• 2 to 5 years’ experience in a malting environment.
• Previous experience in a process-controlled manufacturing environment, ideally within food FMCG production.

Additional information:

• Band: XI

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.