Leads brewing area teams to deliver production targets, quality standards, operational excellence, cost control, safety compliance, and continuous process improvement at AB InBev’s Dar es Salaam facility.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage brewing area teams in accordance with Value Packaged Organisation practices.
- Communicate brewing processes, product quality information, and quality standards.
- Implement brewing sub-department quality systems and promote product quality excellence.
- Assess technical brewing requirements and support recommended solutions.
- Support process and product optimization initiatives, including CAPEX, Value Analysis projects, and production trials.
- Audit area standards covering quality, processes, and work practices.
- Support implementation of the seven VPO pillars and workplace standards.
- Facilitate problem-solving and decision-making with brewing management and operations teams.
- Verify that corrective actions are implemented and identified problems are resolved.
- Manage occupational health, safety, and risk matters within assigned area teams.
- Control fixed and variable operational costs, minimize production waste, and improve efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with brewing production plans, specifications, operational standards, and environmental requirements.
- Maintain maintenance and engineering integrity within the brewing area.
- Optimize process availability to achieve production delivery and reliability targets.
- Ensure compliance with production technology systems including MES, PTS, eQMS, and PaQT.
- Apply performance management principles and develop employees for current and future roles.
- Maintain healthy industrial relations and provide leadership and technical training to production teams.
- Drive high performance within autonomous production teams.
Requirements
- Brewing process expertise.
- Beer quality management and quality systems.
- Production planning and operational management.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Cost control and budget management.
- Knowledge of VPO practices and workplace standards.
- Health, safety, risk, and environmental compliance.
- People leadership, performance management, and employee development.
- Knowledge of MES, PTS, eQMS, PaQT, and other production technology systems.
- Knowledge of SAP modules.
- Commercial decision-making across financial, operational, and people matters.
