Fresh Jobs at International Breweries – 18 April, 2024

The key purpose of this role is to maintain, calibrate, repair equipment, optimise Packaging equipment and associated devices to ensure availability and product quality.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations.
• Assist as functional expert in problem solving. This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on mechanical equipment, mechanical fault-finding and correct responses to mechanical failure modes

Planned Maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Partake in maintenance post-mortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

Routine Maintenance

• Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.

Running Repairs

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per SAP requirements

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in FFA’s on request

Improvement

Housekeeping and Safety

• Always operate in a safe manner, identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate ABInBev policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties.

Profile:

• HND/B.Eng or equivalent in Mechanical or Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Minimum of 3-5 years as Process Artisans or Maintenance Artisan on high-speed packing lines
• Computer Literate
• Systemic and Analytical problem-solver
• Good leadership potential
• Good understanding of modern maintenance practices and maintenance system, and production processes and technologies
• Influencing ability with regards to sound maintenance

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The key purpose of this role is to provide specialised dual artisan skill and knowledge to the shift team, and to support the operations, maintenance ​and problem-solving activities of the shift teams.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Operate machine and equipment
• Optimize production performance and process
• Maintain, repair, and optimize plant and associated devises
• Maintain safe, healthy, and risk-free working environment
• Work in teams.
• react to the results using the VPO tools supplied
• Actively participate in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions. Making use of the action logs to record issues, problems, and improvement opportunities.
• Fully understand the team Dream and contribute to achieving it. 
• Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated.

Profile

• Min. of B.Sc./HND/B.Tech in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• 2-3 Years’ experience in Packaging/FMCG environment
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office applications i.e. (Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Minimum of 2 years working experience in Manufacturing
• Ability to communicate well
• Must be a team player
• Ability to adhere to instructions, work in shifts with minimum supervision and action oriented
• Sober mind, self-starter, physically fit and honest

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The key purpose of this role is to provide district sales teams with deep-dives and localized sales analysis informed by centralized retail intelligence platform, resulting in localized insights in support of the district business plan. Supporting the sales team in their day to day on insights and salesforce.​

Key Outputs and Responsibilities:​

• Analysis of sales information to generate local insights. ​
• Support country commercial manager with business planning requirements. ​
• Support country commercial manager with weekly insights and analysis across sales teams.​
• Support sales team with sales insights and KPI tracking.​
• Localized deep dive and trend analysis as per Ad Hoc requirements.​
• Weekly opportunity or issue identification for the sales teams.​
• Analyse standard reporting packs and provide recommendations to sales managers and to the district manager.

Profile: Education​

Experience:

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Excellent attention to detail, highly analytical.​
• Good organization and planning skills.​
• Ability to operate efficiently in systems such as Office, In particular Excel, Word and Outlook.​
• Initiative and ability to analyze market trends (creativity, initiative).​
• Ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal, influencing and internal customer liaison skills. ​
• Ability to make recommendations and implement changes in relation to internal customer needs (bias for action).​
• Time management.​
• Good communication skills.

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The key purpose of this role is to implement and uphold AB InBev’s safety standards, manage the brewery and regional distribution, inventory and warehousing functions, implement standard operating processes in line with DPO and VPO standards, and manage VLC, ZBB and FLC budgets in line with annual flexed targets.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Safety

• Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders
• Ensures that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented
• Maintains a robust system of SIO generation and close out
• Quarterly safety reviews are conducted with the Logistics and Supply Directors to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
• Completes an annual risk review of internal and external processes, identifying relevant mitigation plans and implementing them

Quality

• Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per AB InBev’s quality guidelines;
• Adheres to Zone blocking mechanisms to ensure that blocked stock is at no time a risk to our stakeholders;
• Manages DOC & stock age for finished goods inventories in order to proactively identify opportunities or alleviate write off risks with functional peers in Planning, Sales and Supply.

DPO/VPO

• Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO guidelines (OWD’s, SCL, MCL, mandatory meetings)
• Conducts the Daily Logistics Meeting as per the specified TOR’s listed in the DPO/VPO framework
• Ensures that processes are standardized via SOP’s and work standards are monitored and improved by using Operational Work Diagnoses (OWD’s)
• Track KPI’s on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO/VPO requirements; Ensures that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out-of-range KPI’s in line with DPO/VPO methodology.

Quality

• Maintains a healthy relationship with T1 &T2 carriers to ensure brewery throughput is maintained
• Maintains interactions with RD’s to identify opportunities for return of glass back to the brewery
• Engages with Planning Team around glass availability and sales requirements to support service level
• Ensures there is strict adherence to Inventory Policy within the warehouse
• Manages Service Level Agreements (SLA) on a weekly basis with Fleet, Quality and Sales/CIC
• Escalates relevant MBFU policy transgressions and takes appropriate actions to mitigate packaging downtime
• Manages weekly SLA with Sales with clearly documented information on sizing, sales forecast and potential SCOH; performance measures to be shared weekly includes refusals performance, sales curve index, OODD, drop size and OOS constraints

Cost Management

• Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse and inventory management teams;
• Ensures that accountability is aligned to package owners
• Assumes overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH
• Accounts for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency

People Management

• Ensure that the Shop Floor are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement
• Ensures that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process
• Maintains a healthy industrial relations climate with key stakeholders through documented SLA Meetings
• Communication channels are open to relevant stakeholders via Monthly All Employee meetings
• Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern
• Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline
• Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings

Profile:

• Degree in Logistics Management or related
• Familiar with local market environments
• Knowledge of relevant legislative requirements
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Superior planning and leadership abilities
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Adaptability

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The key purpose of this role is to maintain, repair and optimize plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality at minimum cost without sacrificing standards.

Key roles and responsibilities:

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

• Provide specialist support for coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• This will include standby, day shift and when requested after a time frame that standby will need expert advice or support
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving for the plant and support to zone
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimization trials
• Provide additional support to process artisan on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Upskill process artisans with latest SWI for machine setups or machine restorations

PLANNED MAINTENANCE

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Ensure backlog meets minimum hours and schedules are reviewed as per required frequency
• Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE

• Partake in ATO cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques
• Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these required, additional resources may be called in to assist
• Where problems have been uncovered, and it is required to include the work in the planned maintenance schedule, this must be communicated to the Maintenance Planner
• Carry out condition monitoring activities where these have been allocated to the Technician in accordance with the ZCM schedule

PROBLEM SOLVING

• Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request take part, as functional expert, in AB- Report , SDCA and PDCA on request

HOUSEKEEPING AND SAFETY

• Always operate in a safe manner, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
• Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate AB-Inbev policies and procedures
• Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties
• Present 5’s plans to team and management when required
• Raise and close SIO’s related to your machine area

RUNNING REPAIRS

• On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
• When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action. Where required, specialist assistance may be called in
• This may include internal resources such as Instrument
• Technicians or Inspection and coding specialist or external resources such as Contractors or Suppliers
• Where repairs indicate that major work is required, such as re-wiring a motor, this must be transferred to the engineering workshop for attention
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out
• This includes all SAP inputs
• Where running repairs cannot be carried out, communicate this to the Maintenance Planner to ensure the work is planned into the next planned window

Profile:

• Min. of B.Sc./HND in Mechanical Engineering.
• 2-3 Years on the job training/SKAP
• Manage Machines according to VPO principles and standards        
• A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment.
• A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist).
• Initiative and energy.
• Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best).
• Key Function is to Carry out repairs / maintenance
• Plan and prepare the job