JOB TITLE: OPERATOR

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The key purpose of this role is to load, unload, and stack materials safely and efficiently while maintaining our inventory and materials, governance controls, customer service standards, and production.

 

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Effective fleet management

• Conduct pre-trip inspections prior to the start of each shift using the forklift inspection checklist.
• Ensure that the forklift is operated, cleaned, and maintained in optimal condition.
• Ensure that fuel and fluids are at acceptable operating levels.

 

Adherence to the health, safety, and environmental standards

• Department of Labor stacking exemptions complied with
• 5S and site housekeeping standards are maintained and adhered to.
• Appropriate personal protective equipment is used as designated by site safety standards.
• Adherence to all relevant SOPs and GOP’s

 

Effective stock-quality management

• Warehouse stock age standards are maintained by ensuring stock rotation principles are applied (FEFO).
• Ensures quality control by checking packaging on the warehouse floor and prior to loading.
• Effective inventory management and controls are in line with our governance policies.
• Participation in the handover process before and after every shift
• Accurate daily stock count performed using a handheld device
• Generate variance reports and resolve discrepancies.

 

Effective stock quality management (continuation)

• Maintain clear and effective communication with inventory teams, warehouse teams, and other stakeholders.
• Accurate checking, loading, and unloading of vehicles. Load Summary is used to load the correct quantities of split and full pallets.
• Accurate recording of returns prior to unloading
• Accurate stock movements on FG and empties from and onto the lines
• Bin sign-off is required to ensure accurate stock and inventory reconciliations.

 

Efficient loading and unloading of vehicles and production lines

• Maintain clear and effective communication with logistics.
• Coordinators and team members
• All documentation was accurately and comprehensively completed.
• Ensure production continuity (where applicable).
• Load empties and raw materials onto production lines while ensuring optimal productivity.
• Remove and stack finished products from line to bin while ensuring optimal line productivity.
• Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures

 

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Good interpersonal skills build good relationships.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good verbal and communication skills
• Good self-management principles
• Ability to adapt to change effectively
• Lives the values of the organization
• Good numerical ability

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric, Grade 12, or equivalent
• Valid forklift driver license
• Experience operating a double handler
• Computer literate
• Stock Count Digital device literacy is advantageous.

 

Additional Information:

• BAND: XI

ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with the ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advertisement has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

 

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Job Title: Blending and Distillation Operator

The key purpose of this role is to operate the blending and distillation and associated process areas and execute quality control checks and analyses, including coaching other team members and supporting the quality technician in carrying out asset care activities.

 

Key roles and responsibilities:

Operating and Process Control:

• Operating manual equipment in blended process areas according to the work instructions and supporting the plant control system under the instructions of the E&F technician, Artisan
• Constantly reviewing process performance against targets and recording short stops. Where process performance does not meet targets, trends, or opportunities timeously. indicate the existence of problems, corrective action must be initiated.
• Recording waste and movement of products on the appropriate documentation or information systems and reviewing waste trends to identify problems
• Carrying out the required quality checks as described in the quality control and analysis work practice
• Responding rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that could result in quality or production problems
• Appropriate problem-solving approaches, as detailed in the problem-solving work practice, must be followed.
• Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 4S principles, and following safe work practices
• Unsafe work practices must be identified and corrected.
• Assisting fellow team members in the execution of their tasks

 

Maintenance of Plants and Equipment:

• Carrying out in-depth cleaning, lubrication, and inspection of equipment according to the work instructions and in accordance with the maintenance schedule
• Performing simple autonomous maintenance tasks (e.g., replacement of simple valves) in accordance with the maintenance schedule and, where required, requesting the assistance of the E&F Process Artisan
• Identify defective plants and report them to the process artist or team leader for resolution. Assisting the process artist in executing running repairs on shift

 

Quality Control and Analysis:

• Carrying out the required quality checks and analyses and recording the results on the appropriate information system
• The list of quality checks to be executed is contained in the work instructions. Where quality problems have arisen, apply the 5Y’s and quick fix routines to resolve them.

 

Communication:

• Actively participate in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions. making use of the gap list to record issues, problems, and improvement opportunities
• Fully understand the team goals and participate in team goal review sessions.
• Make use of relevant communication media (e.g., a shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
• Complete the required handover to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality, and maintenance are communicated.

 

Problem-solving:

• Where problems occur, use the 5Y's and quick fix routines to identify the possible origin and report these to the process artist for resolution.
• Provide information to teams carrying out problem solving or FFA’s as required.

 

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify sources of waste and report them to the team leader.

 

Profile:

• Minimum Matric or equivalent, e.g., NQF Level 4
• National Diploma or equivalent
• 12 months on the job training @ SKAP process
• 6 months–5 years’ experience in a brewing environment or previous experience in a process-controlled manufacturing environment, ideally in FMCG

 

Skills and attributes required 

• The main role is to apply core competencies to achieve optimum plant and process performance.
• However, a supportive role is to attempt to develop others' skills as well as the skills of other specialist brewery technicians.
• A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment
• A team player (prepared to communicate, listen, and assist)
• Initiative and energy
• Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best)

 

Additional Information:

• Band: X

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with the AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require line manager approval.

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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Job Title: Country Operations Manager

The key purpose of the job is to ensure alignment with the overall business strategy and deliver customer service volume, market share, and profitability imperatives in an ethical and responsible manner.

 

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Ensuring safety is the first priority in Tanzanian operations.
• Execute the strategy for T1, T2, transportation, and warehouse capacity and operations.
• Ensure inventory control and SCOH cost control.
• Country intermediary with the commercial function to support in delivering the best customer service strategy within each sales region
• Deliver variable logistics cost (VLC) results.
• Ensure optimal productivity levels and process uniformity across T1, T2, and warehousing by sharing best practices and cascading monitoring and co-correcting KPIs across the brewery and other operation regions.
• Execute DPO/VPO/LCP means and standards, Drive innovation, benchmarking, and process improvement initiatives to improve the Sustainable, PO, and LCP KPIs.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to reduce operating costs and improve customer service throughout the T1 warehouses. rehouses.
• Developing the annual Zone Africa ZBB Budget, analyzing, reporting, lyzing, reporting, and rectifying any deviations throughout the year
• Plan for Capin, including timing and execution of the spend
• Support the implementation of Champion's and VA initiatives.

 

 

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