Current Vacancies at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles & responsibilities:

• The Technical Traineeship is primarily a hands-on, self-study program where the Trainee is expected to gain a full understanding of the theory, principles and operation of Utilities equipment across the Brewery
• Participation in projects in Utilities aligned to the program requirements and brewery priorities
• Apply VPO principles
• Diagnosis of systemic and situational problems and troubleshooting
• Participation in Utilities team structures including acting roles in identified leadership positions within Utilities
• Communication of learnings and solutions across various levels of the business

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum BSc or B-Tech Qualification - Mechanical/Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering
• 2 years Utilities Experience advantageous

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Key roles and responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with Safety standards and guidelines and drive a safety culture to ensure safety in the work environment
• Maintenance Pillar Owner for the Plant
• Use effective Loss and Waste analysis to identify gaps in the Plant Maintenance system vs VPO
• Drive actions to close the gaps
• Monthly review of VPO gap closure and score
• Quarterly review of VPO managed
• Monthly and quarterly updates sent to Organize, implement and execute VPO in Area
• Manage the Plant and Department indicators to achieve target
• Achieve ZBB commitments for Department and ZBB Maintenance for Plant
• Lead the ZBB Maintenance Budgeting process for the Plant
• Manage Engineering Stores inventory to optimize Working Capital
• Identify and develop VA initiatives for future VA commitments and drive and monitor current year committed VA initiatives
• Achieve VA and VIC commitments for the Plant and Department
• Manage Engineering Stores, Site Maintenance, Condition Monitoring, Control and Automation infrastructure
• Attend the Plant's routine meetings according to the MCRS and TOR‘s
• Interface with appropriate Local government authorities to ensure compliance to statutory policies and regulations for pressure vessels
• Plan and execute the actions required to comply with the applicable, local, state and municipality laws
• Ensure and assure suitable training capability exists (material and facilitators) suitable to cover Maintenance training needs
• Raise the training and development needs of your team and ensure their execution
• Manager the apprentice development program for the Plant
• Ensure targeted GOPS compliance % is achieved
• Manage Capex project portfolio and execution of projects vs. plan for the Plant
• Ensure the correct scoping of Plant Capex Projects for the Plant
• Ensure a 3-year plan exists for Maintenance and replacement of C&A infrastructure due to obsolescence
• Ensure a 3-year plan exists for Maintenance and replacement of Plant Equipment across Sites
• Lead, coach and train team members
• Ensure continuous improvement in engagement of people in the Plant
• Manage 5S inside the department
• Co-ordinate and assure Tracking and Monitoring Maintenance information to the Zone is correct and timeously submitted

Key attributes and competencies:

• Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance
• Good Influencing and communication skills
• Ability to develop and control site maintenance budgets
• Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop
• Facilitate Asset care forums for site
• Implement and evaluate condition-based monitoring system
• Develop continuity capital business plan
• Ability to lead a team

​Minimum requirements:

• BSc Engineering: Electrical or Mechanical
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management
• Experience of SAP maintenance System
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing people

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Key roles and responsibilities

Operational Support

• Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations, this will include standby and day shift support​
• Where requested, assist as a functional expert in problem solving
• Where requested, provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on machine operation, machine fault finding and correct responses to machine failure modes
• Where requested, provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer of machine operation to shift based teams
• Assess Operators and Artisans ability to carry out tasks
• Take part, as functional expert, in regional and central office plant optimization trials. Adhere to work practices that support shift-based teams

Maintenance

• Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
• Carry out work during the planned, routine and opportunity maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the Planner where scheduled work cannot be completed, feedback is given to the Maintenance Planner for direction: this may involve rescheduling the work or prioritizing outstanding work
• Assist fellow team members in the execution of their tasks in during planned maintenance windows
• Complete any administration and SAP tasks, SIGGA, Problem Terminator in support of planned maintenance​
• Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities
• Carry out Autonomous Operations as per requirements Partake in 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 (where required, additional resources may be called in to assist)
• Verify that where running repairs have been carried out, this has addressed the problem
• Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs has carried out (this includes all SAP & SIGGA, Problem Terminator 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

Problem Solving

• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part, as functional expert, in AB reports on request
• Where necessary, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Packaging Engineer and the Performance and Continuous Improvement Manager for direction
• Analyze machine performance, conduct loss and waste analysis and develop action plans to improve performance

House Keeping

• Operate in a safe manner at all times, 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 SAB policies and procedures and VPO Standards
• Carry out housekeeping tasks and apply 5S principles during the execution of duties

Minimum requirements:

• Trade Test Mechanical/Millwright (Mechanical Bias)
• Minimum N3 Mechanical
• 2-3  year's experience

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Key roles and responsibilities

Delivery Productivity Management 

• In trade coaching with errant offenders on MBFU, refusals and OODD
• Ensuring that delivery modes share us adhered and continually look for opportunities to pursue cheaper modes
• Master Data verified for accuracy 
• Carry out in-trade Owner Driver standard verification
• Adherence to market visit plan with in trade presence at a minimum of x4 days a week ensuring adherence to SOPs and OWDs done to open the gap where necessary

Quality Management

• Ensure Quality is clear in the Route Delivery Execution Process and people know and follow it
• Ensure all employees understand the customer complaint process. Process is in place, KPI is tracked and there are action plans to improve results
• Consumer complaints GOPS are being tracked and implemented
• Ensure that the driver base is trained and equipped to identify quality related issues and understands correct handling methodology to minimise issues Capacity Occupation and Refusal Management
• Establish SLA with 2DCP on Capacity Occupation daily optimization
• Ensure that appropriate communication channel in place and action plans have been developed to track Refusals
• Ensure return policies are in place, and they cover all items, and they are adhered to and updated
• Support Service Social Systems
• Establish routines to with CXC to track performance
• Create an environment that allows for cross functional learning and integration

Key attributes and competencies:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• SAP experience will be preferred
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Demonstrates reliability
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Ability to work under pressure
• Verbal ability and communication skills
• Excellent self-management and planning skills
• Strong achievement orientation

Minimum requirements:

• Relevant 3-year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
• 2 years’ experience in a customer service role within an FMCG Supply Chain and or Logistics
• Valid Code 08 Driver's License

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Key roles and responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets for assigned areas
• Manage and supervise Distributors of assigned sector (orders, payment, re-distribution
• Ensure IB products are available in reasonable stock (complete range) in the customers and retail outlets
• Ensure merchandising (visibility of the brands in terms of POS and Chillers) in the customers and retail outlets
• Ensure chillers are properly placed in the performing outlet and used exclusively for IBPLC products in the assigned sector
• Monitor the recommended price of our product at sales outlets
• Closely monitor actions of the competition

Key attributes and competencies:

• Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
• Basic computer literacy and experience working with Microsoft Office
• Local area knowledge is a requirement
• Excellent administration skills

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year degree qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a sales/marketing/FMCG environment

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Key outputs and responsibilities:

Delivery Productivity Management

• In trade coaching with errant offenders on MBFU, refusals and OODD
• Ensuring that delivery modes share us adhered and continually look for opportunities to pursue cheaper modes.
• Master Data verified for accuracy
• Carry out in trade Owner Driver standard verification
• Adherence to market visit plan with in trade presence at a minimum of x4 days a week ensuring adherence to SOPs and OWDs done to open the gap where necessary

Quality Management

• Ensure Quality is clear in the Route Delivery Execution Process and people know and follow it.
• Ensure all employees understand the customer complaint process. Process is in place, KPI is tracked and there are action plans to improve results. Consumer complaints GOPS are being tracked and implemented
• Ensure that the driver base is trained and equipped to identify quality related issues and understands correct handling methodology to minimize issues

Capacity Occupation and Refusal Management

• Establish SLA with 2DCP on Capacity Occupation daily optimization
• Ensure that appropriate communication channel in place and action plans have been developed to track Refusals
• Ensure return policies are in place and they cover all items and they are adhered to and updated.

Support Service Social Systems

• Establish routines to with CXC to track performance
• Create an environment that allows for cross functional learning and integration

Profile:

• Relevant 3 year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
• 2 years’ experience in a customer service role within an FMCG Supply Chain and or Logistics
• Valid Code 08 Drivers License
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• SAP experience will be preferred
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Demonstrates reliability
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Ability to work under pressure
• Verbal ability and communication skills
• Excellent self management and planning skills
• Strong achievement orientation

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Key roles and responsibilities:

Inventory Counts

• Physically perform and lead the morning inventory count process
• Identify the root cause of inventory count variances and put action plans in place through problem solving tools to improve the Inventory Accuracy KPI
• Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem-solving tools
• Create and manage warehouse management tools to ensure FEFO
• Track and trend Inventory Accuracy
• Ensure movement of materials reflects in the SAP system at all times
• Ensure adherence to the layout in line of certain warehouse activities e.g. Empties zone; Refusal zone; Order Picking zone; Repack zone; Finished Goods zone

Improve Quality Standards

• Manage, track and trend warehouse cleanliness, pest control schedule adherence, cross contamination from non-food grade chemicals, daily temperature control and product exposure
• Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
• Implement and adhere to a Location-Based Inventory System to identify stored product
• Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non-conforming inventory
• Product quality induction programme conducted
• Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity

Picking Standards

• Adhere to a standardised picking process and ensure compliance through management routines to ensure a safe and productive process
• Track, trend and manage picking accuracy and productivity through management tools

Productivity & Capacity Managed

• Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labour Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
• Allocate and assign labour activities utilizing the SKAP tool

Warehouse Management

• Implement, track, trend and improve 5S results
• Support the design of the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA's, Process Maps, Indicators and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees
• Develop and continuously validate SOPs through management routines and tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA)
• Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
• Develop and maintain SCL routines and track adherence thereof
• Use problem solving tools like the: 5 WHY, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPLs, RACI's, OWD's, PDCA's, etc. to develop action plans to show improvement on PI's and KPI's
• Cascade KPI's and PI's to individual warehouse employee level, calenderise the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual target

Safe Warehouse Practices

• Ensure & maintain a safe warehouse operation driving awareness and compliance to all the relevant safety blocks
• Track and measure the PI of the loading/unloading bay allocation tool with action plans to improve productivity
• Track, trend and manage related KPI's/PI's such as: TCT, baytime utilization, Hl/man Hour

Key attributes and competencies:

• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Superior planning ability
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good verbal and communication skills
• Good self-management practices
• Strong achievement orientation
• Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
• Excellent coaching capability

Minimum requirements:

• 3-year relevant diploma/degree
• 2+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience
• Highly level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
• SAP proficient

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Roles and Responsibilities:

Agile Ways of Working  

• As a Product Owner (PO), this role is responsible for streamlining the execution of operational priorities, while maintaining integrity of the operations, the product backlog and the delivery of value to the customer.  It  requires good communication of the needs of the business and ability to prioritize the needs of the teams.

• The PO protects the team from disruptions and outside influence and enables the team to deliver incremental value to the business through active prioritization, balancing owning the team backlog, ensuring continuous improvement, and clearly communicating future plans to the team

Annual Plan / Budget includes, but are not limited to:

• Lead the budgeting process for ZBB across the NoCC, ensuring that all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements are met.
• Providing accurate ZBB requirements by package
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all Champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget
• Prepare management review presentations, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (SAP, Anaplan)
• Completion of bottom-up budget process

Champions

• Drive the Champions process for all ZBB Packages
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are measured, reviewed and updated monthly
• Align Champions and R&O outlook

Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review/LE)

• Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible
• Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines
• Governance reporting (incl. FBI’s issued reports, vehicle tracking etc.)
• Review and cascade monthly standard decks

Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)

• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective root causes and create gap-closing action plans

Ad-hoc

• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
• Support Finance, Commercial and Marketing team across the Zone when required

Key Attributes & Competencies:

• High level of service mindset
• Coordination skills, Presentation skills and a high sense of accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Basic business sense
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Used to working with deadlines

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3 year university degree in i. e. in accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• Minimum of 4 years experience in FMCG environment with a minimum of 2 years management experience
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver

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Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Ability to work
• Team player
• Vigilant with a bias for action
• Attention to details
• Problem solving ability
• Manual dexterity

Key Attributes and competencies:

• Attention to details 
• PC Literacy

Minimum Requirements:

• ND: Chemical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
• Understand the chemical process of brewing the beer or the Packaging Process
• Provided an opportunity to fulfil their experiential training or plant operation exposure
• Manual dexterity.

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Key roles and responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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

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 plant start-ups and shutdowns are done safely and properly
• Ability to effect good HR processes to ensure that people are disciplined, motivated, developed and properly managed to ensure effective team performance Government Certificate of Competence would be an advantage
• Analytical and evaluative skills
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills - Articulate
• Conceptual skills
• Accurate, decisiveness and persuasiveness
• People handling and leadership skill

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
• Knowledge of the OH & S Act and NOSA standards
• Ability to ensure that principles of VPO are implemented within brewing department

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Key outputs and responsibilities:

Delivery Productivity Management

• In trade coaching with errant offenders on MBFU, refusals and OODD
• Ensuring that delivery modes share us adhered and continually look for opportunities to pursue cheaper modes.
• Master Data verified for accuracy
• Carry out in trade Owner Driver standard verification
• Adherence to market visit plan with in trade presence at a minimum of x4 days a week ensuring adherence to SOPs and OWDs done to open the gap where necessary

Quality Management

• Ensure Quality is clear in the Route Delivery Execution Process and people know and follow it.
• Ensure all employees understand the customer complaint process. Process is in place, KPI is tracked and there are action plans to improve results. Consumer complaints GOPS are being tracked and implemented
• Ensure that the driver base is trained and equipped to identify quality related issues and understands correct handling methodology to minimize issues

Capacity Occupation and Refusal Management

• Establish SLA with 2DCP on Capacity Occupation daily optimization
• Ensure that appropriate communication channel in place and action plans have been developed to track Refusals
• Ensure return policies are in place and they cover all items and they are adhered to and updated.

Support Service Social Systems

• Establish routines to with CXC to track performance
• Create an environment that allows for cross functional learning and integration

Profile:

• Relevant 3 year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
• 2 years’ experience in a customer service role within an FMCG Supply Chain and or Logistics
• Valid Code 08 Drivers License
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• SAP experience will be preferred
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Demonstrates reliability
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Ability to work under pressure
• Verbal ability and communication skills
• Excellent self management and planning skills
• Strong achievement orientation

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Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Centralized Inventory tracking and monitoring with performance gaps identified & actions for gap closure followed up
• Inventory Count deployment and reconciliation from the center
• Inventory Process compliance validation and monitoring of risk sites
• Africa Zone Transporter Logistics claims process compliance audited and tracked
• Open Cycles tracked and communicated, coaching intervention where required
• Review effectiveness of Controlled Self-Assessment audit documents for the zone (Covering all areas of inventory)
• Working closely with brewery/ depot finance teams, perform controlled self-assessments audits to pre-emptively identify risks
• Support Inventory audits across the Zone as and when required
• Ensure and validate processes are aligned to finance and control requirements in the Zone
• Capability built in the inventory functional areas, ensuring SOPs, OPL’s, governance policies & controls are updated
• Monitor alignment of local processes (In country) with all Excellence Programs in the Zone
• Joint zone owner for LCP Supply Chain Overheads Toolkit, identifying gaps; driving performance and engaging with stakeholders who deliver inputs to the toolkit
• Monitor compliance to existing Inventory KPI’s as required to drive performance in all areas of inventory (Finance, Process and Control)
• Review Compliance to existing KPI’s Ensure stock posting times are met at all sites - to reflect correct values for planning
• Engage cross functionally with other areas and deliver input to the S&OP process
• Interrogate the veracity of information received from in country teams and ensure data is accurate for reporting purposes
• Actively drive the use of automation tools across the zone

Key attributes and Competencies:

• Consistently following through
• Team-oriented: Making the most out of collaboration
• Strong record of high performance
• Able to effectively communicate and interact cross functionally
• Strong people management and influence.
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills
• Ability to solve complex problems individually and quickly
• Strong work ethic: Setting and achieving goals

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's or post-graduate degree qualification in a relevant field: B.Sc. Degree in Engineering or Econometrics, Finance or Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain, Economics, Accounting Science, MBA recommended.
• 5 Years experience in logistics and supply chain management and finance background
• Strong experience in management of finished goods; returnable packaging and/or raw materials management
• Strong knowledge of finance management
• Strong end to end Supply Chain expertise.
• Ability to effectively communicate at senior levels up to MANCOM level and able to engage global counterparts.