Brewing Area Manager

Leads and manages brewing area teams to deliver production plans, maintain quality and safety standards, control costs, optimize brewing processes, and develop high-performing employees in the brewing department.

Responsibilities

• Promote beer brewing quality excellence across the value chain
• Communicate brewing process and product quality information and standards
• Provide leadership to ensure commitment to product quality in the brewing department
• Apply brewing sub-department quality systems in the workplace
• Assess brewing technical requirements and make decisions where required
• Support implementation of recommendations
• Support process and product optimization, including CAPEX and VA projects and trials
• Audit area standards, including quality, process, and work practices
• Support all seven VPO pillar standards in the workplace
• Apply problem-solving and decision-making techniques and principles
• Coordinate with brewing management and operations teams during problem-solving sessions
• Verify that corrective actions have been implemented and problems resolved
• Manage occupational health, safety, and risk for area teams
• Control fixed and variable costs and minimize waste
• Ensure conformance to brewing area production plans, specifications, and standards
• Ensure maintenance integrity in the brewing area
• Optimize process availability to achieve delivery and reliability targets
• Support engineering integrity and production optimization projects
• Ensure adherence to environmental and quality standards
• Ensure compliance with MES, PTS, eQMS, PaQT, and other prescribed beer production technology systems
• Apply performance management principles for production employees
• Develop employees for current and future roles
• Maintain a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage and apply personnel practices
• Provide effective leadership
• Ensure employees are trained on technical and VPO standards
• Drive high performance in autonomous teams without shift supervision

Requirements

• BSc degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering
• Brewing traineeship completion
• IBD Papers 1, 2, and 3
• Brewing production and technical expertise
• Commercial decision-making skills in financial, operational, and people-related areas
• Quality management and process optimization skills
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Knowledge of VPO standards and pillars
• Knowledge of SAP modules
• Strong leadership and employee development skills
• Disciplined work ethic and commitment to quality
• Master Brewer IBD qualification or progress toward the qualification
• Additional business qualification