International Breweries Plc was incorporated in December 1971 by its founder and first Chairman, Dr. Lawrence Omole under the name International Breweries Limited. The Company commenced production of its flagship product Trophy Lager in December 1978 with an installed capacity of 200,000 hectoliters per annum.
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The Key Purpose of this role is to operate and maintain defined brewing equipment and related processes to achieve optimal effectiveness.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Operating and Process Control
- Operating equipment in Brewing process areas according to VPO standards
- Constantly reviewing process performance against target, and recording short stops and correcting any out of controls using the VPO tools
- Recording waste and movement of product on the appropriate documentation or information systems. Review trends to identify & resolve problems.
Maintenance of Plant and Equipment
- Carrying out autonomous operations as defined for the process areas.
- Identify defective plant, and report these through to the Process Artisan or Team Leader to assist with resolution.
- Assisting the Process Artisan/Machine specialist 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.
- React to the results using the VPO tools supplied.
Communication
- 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 in achieving it.
- Make use of relevant communication media (e.g. shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
- Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated.
Problem Solving
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in a fast-paced environment.
- A team player
- High level of initiative and energy
Minimum Requirements:
- Min. of OND/B.Sc./HND or equivalent in the Sciences or Engineering.
- Experience in Brewing process Environment
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The key purpose of this job is to provide an overall Electrical Engineering Maintenance Service to the brewery, thereby, enabling production to be optimized at a minimum cost to provide an electrical workshop service to the entire site. Is the responsible person for the integrity and reliability of high voltage i.e. 11kv where it comes into the plant through transformers, switch gear and associated installations.
Key roles and responsibilities:
Maintain a safe and healthy working environment
- Comply with safe, healthy & environmental procedures and legislations
- Maintain safety & housekeeping standards
Maintain and repair plant and associated devices
- Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems
- Plan and prepare the job
- Carry out repairs / maintenance • Operate workshop equipment
Work in Teams
- Communicate effectively in teams
- Contribute to self and team development
Work Orders Complete
- Backlog
- Satisfied customers – no rework
- Coordinates planned work with municipality electrical departments
Health, Safety and Environment
- Identification of unsafe practices
- Safety inspections conducted
- Safe maintenance practices audited
Key attributes and competencies:
Minimum requirements:
- Trade test qualification in Electrical Engineering
- Certificated in high voltage installations and maintenance
- Min: 3 - 5 years in FMCG experience
- 1-3 Years technical mechanical/electrical and entire brewery experience in a leadership capacity in a FMCG environment
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The Key Purpose of this role is to provide specialized electrical artisan skill and knowledge to the shift team, and to support the operations, maintenance of the E&F plant and to perform and assist in problem solving.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Comply with safe, health and environmental procedures and legislation
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Identification of unsafe practices through SIO's
- Conduct safety inspections and audit safe maintenance practices
- Adherence to PPE policies
- Maintenance tools are in good working order
- Locate plant, equipment, spares and relevant documentation and or systems
- Plan and prepare the job, carry out repairs and maintenance
- Operate workshop equipment
- Communicate effectively in teams and contribute to self and team development
- Backlog, generate tags for follow on work and Satisfied customers – no rework
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Management skills
- People handling ability
- Mental alertness, analytical and problem solving skills
- Conceptual skills
- Subject matter expert
Minimum Requirements:
- Trade Tested N3 Electrical
- Electrical artisan - Trade Tested
- Electrical trade coupled with C&A
- Qualified, trade-tested mechanical artisan with N4 to N6 qualification
- Manufacturing Basic Maintenance Training
- Ideal 3-6 months on the job training
- Experience: 1-2 years as an Electrical Artisan in similar industry
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The Key Purpose of this role is to performs activities related to inspection and coding optimisation and apply VPO principles. The Inspection and Coding Specialist must ensure a safe and healthy working environment and supports the installations of process control relevant electrical systems, as well as to maintain, calibrate, repair equipment, optimize plant and associated devices to ensure plant availability and product quality.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Maintain a safe and healthy working environment
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards.
Maintain, calibrate, repair equipment and optimize plant and associated devices
- Troubleshoot Packaging inspection & coding systems.
- Interpret process description specifications and conduct modifications / optimizations of process control software as per specifications and software standards. Identify process control software deviations and resolve or
- recommend solutions. Support the process control software change management process.
- Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions, working with manufacturers and field representatives as necessary to procure replacement parts.
- Support the development of and upgrade preventative maintenance procedures for inspection & coding systems.
- Maintain working knowledge of new technology instrumentation, software, etc., through reading and/or attending conferences, workshops or other training.
- Provide engineering/projects support and recommendations for new and existing equipment with regard to installation, upgrades and enhancement.
- Maintain process control software integrity and security.
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
- Locate plant, equipment, spares, and relevant documentation / systems.
- Plan and prepare the job.
- Carry out repairs / maintenance.
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards.
- Continuously improve (optimize) plant, process equipment and systems.
- Apply 5S standards and practices in the workplace.
- Operate and control the process according to SOP’s.
Work in Teams
- Communicate effectively in teams.
- Contribute to self and team development.
Apply the VPO principles and practices
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Analytical ability and attention to detail.
- Display initiative and ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organisation.
- within a team environment and with suppliers.
- Motivated self-starter with high energy levels.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Team player.
Minimum Requirements:
- Min – Electrical or Instrumentation.
- Trade tested Millwright or electrician/ National Diploma Engineering.
- Min – 3 - 6 months on the job training plus Vendor Maintenance.
- 6 - 9 months on the job plus Siemens S7 PLC Training.
- Routine electrical and instrumentation maintenance on similar. Brewing and E&F plants.
- Comprehensive Packaging, Brewing and E&F plants equipment and process knowledge.
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The Key Purpose of this role is to design, coordinate and implement the installations of new process control systems within the plant in accordance with standards, ensure sustainable integrity and stability of the C&A infrastructure, proactively recommend best practices within the control and automation space, assess business continuity risk and associated equipment obsolescence's in the assigned area and test and execute disaster recovery procedures.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Governance & Standards
- Support plant with C&A project implementation and ensure that they adhere to the C&A standards within the project
- To support the plant with control and automation project implementations by ensuring correct control and automation standards are followed and advising on technologies where applicable
- Assist with technology selection by providing the plant with insight into new technologies and making recommendations around these technologies
- Provide the plant with Global Technical Specifications (GTS) and Zone Technical Specifications (ZTS) where they exist or assist the plant in developing new standards in conjunction with the regions
- Provide the plant with advice of technology implementation during design and commissioning of projects
- Lead design and architecture workshops and ensure that a sound design and architecture solution is developed
- Ensure that the correct technologies are selected to deliver the solution
- Co-ordinate with System Integrators to ensure our C&A standards are adhered to during divisional control and automation projects
- Review, update and specify C&A standards
- To be the custodians of all manufacturing standards by reviewing standards, updating these standards and developing new standards.
- Understand current standards and know why and how to implement these
- Coach plant staff on current standards
- Review standards and make recommendations to improve standards
- Create new standards for new technologies and get plant manager approval
- Train systems staff in new standards
- Audit plant against C&A standards and ensuring compliance
- Conduct an unbiased audit on specified systems and process within the manufacturing system’s environment
- Document findings of the audit and assist the plant in creating action plans and to close out gaps
- Assist with implementation of standards and processes where applicable and having follow-up meetings.
Maintenance & Support
- Support the change control process at the plant to ensure that approved changes are made in accordance with approved procedures and vendor recommendations to the control and automation system as specified by the plant manager and site engineer
- Follow-up on the effectiveness and sustainability of changes made
- Ensure plant efficiency by maintaining C&A systems uptime and resolution of C&A breakdowns in as short a time period as possible
- Attending to and resolving C&A breakdowns both during and after office hours either remotely or by coming to site
- Conducting after action reviews to engineer, design and execute sustainable preventative measures
- Support plant with problems experienced in the Control and Automation layer that has been escalated to Tech Supply, ZBS Maintenance or Solutions
- To support plant with operational control and automation issues that have been escalated to Tech Supply, ZBS Maintenance or Solutions
- Audio visual support for projectors, zoom rooms, auditoriums, training rooms and boardrooms
- Escalation point for all help desk issues
- Ensure that manufacturing server checks are being done including Avmar backup checks – part of workflow verification to ensure backups are done - hardware, cluster health, server operating system, server application, time sync, SQL, anti-virus, SCCM, SCOM, incidents being driven to closure and deviations are being resolved or incidents logged by manufacturing systems resources or Solutions
- Ensure that Inter plc network maintenance – switches for inter plc network not managed by the network team but by region – is being done
- Act as single point of contact for outsourced Solutions services: Cameras, IT generators, IT UPS, IT networks.
Continuity & Risk
- To ensure and maintain control and automation systems uptime by continuously assessing and mitigating risks, resolving breakdowns and instituting sustainable prevention measures
- Conducting C&A risk assessments and recommending mitigation as per the site risk assessment process
- Executing mitigation efforts in reduction of the risks identified
- Developing and Testing Disaster Recovery Procedures including ensuring data and configuration back-ups can be successfully restored
- In the event of a disaster or unforeseen event - executing the disaster recovery procedures in accordance with the Business Continuity Plan
- Correctly scope project and CAPEX to reduce or eliminate high risk items including but not limited only to hardware and software obsolescence and operational technology (OT)
- Assist identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities in partnership with Security Operations Centre and Solutions
- Ensure antivirus and anti-malware systems are up-to-date and functioning correctly.
Skills
- Improve control and automation knowledge at the plant to ensure faster escalation of issues
- Prepare material for and participate in weekly knowledge sharing sessions
- Develop own and close Skills Acquisition Process (SKAP) training plan
- Supports the pipeline development of apprentices, instrument artisans and Technicians
Projects (Investments)
- Provide input to the Business Case by reviewing business cases and making recommendations to the plant
- Provide the plant with advice of technology implementation during design and commissioning of projects
- Provide technical leadership for divisional control and automation projects in a timely manner
- Assist with determining scope of the project through communication session with the business, stakeholders and users and documenting the requirements
- Manage development and testing of solution
- Lead commissioning of the solution at the plant
- Execute small optimization projects, hence adding value in terms of cost saving
- Coordination of Control and Automation aspects of CAPEX projects.
Optimise
- Support plant process optimisation in terms of Quality, Cost and Speed improvements
- To support the plant with process optimisation efforts in terms of improving quality, cost and speed of plant processes
- Provide insight and feedback on how processes are controlled to plant management team so that optimisation proposals can be engineered
- Analyse and resolve long-term operational issues experienced in the plant.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronic Engineering or Computer Science
- In-depth knowledge of Process Control
- Specialisation in Industrial Control & Automation
- At least 3 years in industrial control and automation or completion of Control and Automation technical traineeship
- FMCG or beverages experience in industrial control and automation.
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The Key Purpose of this role is to operate and maintain defined brewing equipment and related processes to achieve optimal effectiveness.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Operating and Process Control
- Operating equipment in Brewing process areas according to VPO standards
- Constantly reviewing process performance against target, and recording short stops and correcting any out of controls using the VPO tools
- Recording waste and movement of product on the appropriate documentation or information systems. Review trends to identify & resolve problems.
Maintenance of Plant and Equipment
- Carrying out autonomous operations as defined for the process areas.
- Identify defective plant, and report these through to the Process Artisan or Team Leader to assist with resolution.
- Assisting the Process Artisan/Machine specialist 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.
- React to the results using the VPO tools supplied.
Communication
- 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 in achieving it.
- Make use of relevant communication media (e.g. shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
- Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality and maintenance are communicated.
Problem Solving
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in a fast-paced environment.
- A team player
- High level of initiative and energy
Minimum Requirements:
- Min. of OND/B.Sc./HND or equivalent in the Sciences or Engineering.
- Experience in Brewing process Environment
Method of Application
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