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Key Purpose

• The key purpose of this role to provide Career opportunity exists for a highly skilled and result driven Laboratory Specialist in Ilesha Plant reporting directly to the Quality Manager.
• To manage and coordinate Brewery quality control and to ensure QA analysis is conducted in compliance with AB InBev standards and specifications for transforming information into recognized Lab standards and procedures.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities

• Ensure the functional and data integrity of the various quality systems and identify and resolve problems.
• Audit compliance to the various quality systems by both the laboratory team and shift-based production teams.
• Liaise with Central Office around quality and take part in regional and divisional MDT's.
• Checking and verifying that team members are carrying out quality checks and analyses and recording the information on the appropriate systems.
• Verifies that the quality systems are working properly, and that data integrity and information accuracy is being maintained.
• Responsible for ensuring that laboratory equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously.
• Ensures that COT standards have been adapted to consider regional specificity, where necessary. Interacts with COT through various MDT fora as required, ensuring that regional complexities and requirements are properly understood.
• Ensuring that team members understand and adheres to the operational, quality and process standards, work instructions and calibration schedules and performance target.

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Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Microbiology or equivalent.

Experience:

• 3 - 6 months on the job training.

Qualifications:

• Quality certification in Quality Engineering/Management or TQM.
• City & Guilds Qualification recommended.
• Qualified ISO 9000 series auditor.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Good knowledge of Food Safety and Micro Laboratory Systems, processes, and analyses
• Experience in the application of problem-solving techniques and statistics.
• Good understanding of HACCP, GMP standards and CIP requirements
• Good all-round knowledge of AB InBev manufacturing processes and philosophies
• Proven knowledge and experience in integrating and facilitating a multidisciplinary group of skills, specialists and functions
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good auditing skills Information systems knowledge.
• Analytical ability.
• Communication skills (verbal and written).
• Problem Solving ability
• Ability to work in teams.

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Key Role

• The Key Role of this Opportunity exists for a highly skilled Brewing Artisan, Electrical.
• The Successful candidate will operate, maintain, repair, and optimize plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities

• Operate machine and equipment
• Optimize production performance and process
• Maintain, repair, and optimize plant and associated devises
• Maintain safe, healthy, and risk-free working environment
• Work in teams.
• React to the results using the VPO tools supplied
• Actively participate in shift meetings, asking questions to test understanding and contributing suggestions.
• Making use of the action logs to record issues, problems, and improvement opportunities.
• Fully understand the team Dream and contribute to achieving it.
• Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of B.Sc / HND / B.Tech in Electrical Engineering.
• 3 Years’ experience in Brewing/FMCG environment
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office applications i.e. (Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Expected Standards:

• Management skills.
• People handling ability.
• Mental alertness, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Conceptual skills.
• Engineering Specialist- Subject matter expert.

Traits & Competences Required:

• The main role is to apply core competencies to achieve optimum plant and process performance.
• Manage a process area according to VPO principles and standards
• 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).

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Job Description

• The key purpose of this role as a Brewing expert, lead and manage area teams to deliver sound operational and technical practices in the brewing department underpinned by prescribed VPO practices.
• The Brewing Area Manager is required to meet the required production plan, adhering to the principles of all VPO pillars.
• The role is required to maintain a high level of control against the budgeted KPI's as well as the variable and fixed costs controllable within the team.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities

• Promote beer brewing quality excellence in the value chain
• Provide Brewing process expertise (Technical depth) and Lead problem solving processes
• Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
• Manage Health, Safety & Risk, Manage Productivity, Manage the brewing process, Management of People
• Occupational Health, Safety and Risk Ensure that Brewery quality and taste targets are met
• Ensure overall reliability of production Process optimization and asset management and plant availability
• Adherence to AB InBev and global brewing quality standards
• Brewing Strategy implementation and support
• 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
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the brewing shift team
• Provide coaching and mentorship to brewing levels 1, 2, 3
• Ongoing optimization of brewing quality and production processes
• Drive implementation of process and product optimization including CAPin and VA projects and trials
• 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.

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Qualifications & Experience:

• BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• IBD Papers 1,2&3 completed and passed
• Completed brewing traineeship
• At least 2 years production experience, of which 1 years’ operating at a management level within Brewing.

Traits & Competences Required:

• Demonstrate experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people) and brewing technical expertise
• A good performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality
• Excellent understanding of VPO
• Effective communication skills.
• Good presentation skills.
• Self-managed and assertiveness.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the business
• Creative and broad-minded thinker.
• Dynamic personality.
• Must be a Change agent (Influential power).
• Self-starter and energetic.
• Provide operational support to autonomous shift-based teams on process problem solving, supplying expert advice and guidance.
• Willingness to challenge the "status quo" and uphold process a quality standard within the operational environment
• Coaching and mentoring: with deviations addressed through the non-conformance management procedure and cabin process.