Website South African Breweries (SAB)
South African Breweries (SAB) is the largest brewer in South Africa and a major business division of the global beverage giant, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev).
About South African Breweries (SAB)
South African Breweries (SAB) is the largest brewer in South Africa and a major business division of the global beverage giant, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev). Founded in 1895 during the Johannesburg gold rush, it has a long history as a key player in the country’s economy and is known for its wide portfolio of popular beer brands.
Job Purpose
The key purpose of this role is to provide packaging technical and operational support across the Breweries to drive performance improvement while enabling teams to meet their goals. This includes coaching on packaging processes and standards, resolving medium- to long-term stakeholder queries, collaborating with vendors and plant teams to implement technology-based solutions, and working cross-functionally with logistics, brewing, E&F, and capex teams to support 1YP deliverables.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Support breweries in safe working practices
- Support Breweries on VPO
- Conduct and lead performance optimization initiatives (line, plant and process capability studies)
- Support in the maintenance of packaging Standards, packaging Quality, methods, packaging knowledge base and benchmarks.
- Supporting the projects implementation (innovation, cost reduction, new packaging materials, new technologies, new materials etc
- Support Breweries in reducing losses in the processes, packaging, energy consumption, water usage including champions initiatives
- Support Breweries in the Total cycle of operational plant performance target setting, follow up & outcome
- Increasing the breweries capacity via Capex implementation or via debottlenecking
- Work closely with Brewing, Logistics, Packaging, Maintenance and Innovation teams for successful implementation and delivery of strategic projects and initiatives
Technical Knowledge
- Specialized knowledge of the packaging process and quality standards
- In depth knowledge on maintenance processes and standards in Packaging
- In depth knowledge of Packaging GOP’s and toolkits (internal candidates)
- Support Zone in value engineering and innovation
Continuous Improvement
- Strong VPO knowledge and problem-solving ability
- Complete detailed data analysis and lead/ ITF
- Complete best in class benchmarking and support implement on focus packaging lines
- Support execution of Value Engineering projects and initiatives
- Define & execute innovation strategy (including benchmarking)
- Identify risks and develop mitigation plans
- Improve and manage packaging maintenance (asset management, predictive maintenance) and production reports
- Develop and continuously improve key performance indicators to measure value engineering benefits
Minimum Requirements:
- University Degree Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or a related field
- GCC Factories is an added advantage
- Experience in Engineering Specialist roles
- 2-3 FMCG Experience
- Sound knowledge packaging process and quality systems (internal candidates), such as machine SAP, Power BI, Grafana, Flow
- Experience with world class manufacturing principles
- Ability to understand the packaging production process in detail
- Ability to define, develop and execute testing plans for new technology products and infrastructure
- Must possess strong understanding of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and how they relate to a business
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