Placement: Polokwane Brewery
Due Date: February 19, 2025 (6 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: 30077097
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 is to manage and co-ordinate the packaging department (people, plant, process and systems) in order to achieve the required standard of product quality and output in the most efficient and effective manner.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership
- Lead the packaging team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
- Lead the development of packaging team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
- Conduct regular Packaging team goal review sessions, and conduct regular one-on-one and performance reviews
- Ensure training need analysis are conducted and training plans developed for team members
- Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the packaging team
- Safety and Housekeeping
- Ensure that the packaging team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements 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 the appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits
- Where unsafe work practice have been identified, the packaging manager is responsible for correcting this
- Ensures adherence to PPE policy
- General production housekeeping
- Safe maintenance practices audited
- Ensures adherence to SHE system requirements
- Drive the implementation of VPO in accordance with the Zone and Plant implementation actions.
- Drive Safety and legal compliance in the Packaging Hall
Manage plant, process and systems:
- Translates and implements packaging, manufacturing and business strategies across the packaging hall
- Ensure that all team members are fully conversant with the Voyager Plant Optimisation
- Develop and drive implementation plans to progress maturity in the manufacturing way principles and practices
- Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
- Drives maintenance integrity
- Optimises process capability
- Leads packaging projects as required
- Coordinates packaging logistics and supports engineering integrity
- Packaging Productivity
- Proactively control fixed and variable costs
- Minimise waste
- Manage, measure and monitor packaging effectiveness through: Packaging efficiency, Trade quality, Raw material usage
- Rate, Waste through beer loss
- IQMS parameters
- Production costs per Hl to global benchmarks
- Maintenance cost per Hl to global benchmarks
- Responsible for the overall reliability of the packaging hall
Minimum Requirements:
- BSc Mechanical Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Production Maintenance Management with deep expertise in asset management
- Experience of managing and running a high speed packaging line would be highly advantageous
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing people
- Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a packaging hall (financial, operational, people)
- A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality
- Demonstrated understanding of relevant legislation, specifically health and safety and labour legislation
- Proven experience in managing Industrial Relations within the workforce
- Managing people ability as well as ability to drive performance
- Leadership ability (ability to lead the packaging hall)
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to develop and control budgets
- Ability to implement appropriate HR processes to manage, motivate and develop
- Ability to manage complex projects of significant number
- Ability to facilitate problem solving in a team forum
- High level of resilience and ability to operate in a high pressure environment
Additional Information:
Band VI
SAB is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB 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.
