Brewing Engineer

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

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 shutdowns are done safely and properly
• Knowledge of the OH&S Act and NOSA standards
• Analytical and evaluative skills
• Conceptual skills
• 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
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills - Articulate
• 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
• Cover for Brewing department and NSBCo
• Experience with modern VPO Maintenance Pillar
• Previous exposure in brewing or similar process

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

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