Brewing Manager at International Breweries Plc

International Breweries Plc - Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients.

Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Brewing Manager

Job Requisition ID: 30076502
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job Type: Full time

Job Description

• The Key Purpose of this role is to manage and coordinate the Brewing department activities with overall responsibility for people, plant, process, product, quality and management systems in order to deliver compliance to the International Breweries and global brewing standards in the most efficient, effective, safe and reliable manner.

Responsibilities
Occupational Health, Safety and Risk

• Ensure that Brewery quality and taste targets are met.
• Ensure overall reliability of production.
• Process optimisation and asset management and plant availability.
• Adherence to SAB Ltd and global brewing quality standards.

Brewing Strategy & Implementation

• Translate and implement brewing strategies within the framework of the manufacturing and business strategies.
• Ensure disciplined execution of standard work practices at the regional brewery level.
• Ensure that brand and brewing process standards are met.
• Ensure that brewing technical and brand audits are conducted as per the QA audit schedule – and deviations identified and managed through the non-conformance management process.
• World class manufacturing GEM adherence and regional brewing best practice development as per the SABMiller manufacturing way.
• Adherence to the Brewing and IBMS technical and business audit schedule.

People Management

• Facilitate team problem solving and decision making.
• Manage people in alignment with Global Leadership Behaviours, the SABMiller values and the ‘Our People.
• Lead the development of brewing team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members.
• Conduct regular brewing team goal review sessions, 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 i n the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the engineering team.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to brewing levels 1, 2, 3.
• Brewing Managers are responsible for managing technical trainees, providing guidance, supervising development and actively participating in trainee checkouts.
• Ongoing optimisation of brewing quality and production processes
• 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 correct root causes.
• Ensures that continuous improvement is built into brewing team goals and forms part of re gular goal review sessions.
• Manage financial performance (prepare and manage budgets) and monthly financial Short Interval Control.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• A superior performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality.
• Solid understand of performance management principles – i.e. Our People Way.

Requirements

• BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering is required.
• Brewing qualification – IBD Brewing Diploma is a minimum requirement.
• SAB Ltd Brewing Traineeship (or SABMiller certified equivalent) is a further minimum requirement.
• At least 8 – 10 years production experience, of which 5 years’ operating at a management level within Brewing.
• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people).
• Good working knowledge of all SAP modules and NOSA Safety Standards and requirements.

Application Closing Date
12th February, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online