Brewing Engineer at Zambian Breweries

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 Identifying and delivering 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

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: VII

ABinBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with 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.