Brewing Area Manager

About the role

The Brewing Area Manager leads and manages area teams to deliver sound operational and technical practices in the brewing department, underpinned by prescribed VPO practices. The role must meet the production plan while keeping control of budgeted KPIs and the variable and fixed costs controllable within the team.

Key responsibilities

• Promote beer brewing quality excellence across the value chain, communicating process and product quality information and standards, and applying brewing sub-department quality systems
• Provide brewing process expertise, assess technical requirements, support process and product optimisation, CAPEX and VA projects and trials, and audit area standards
• Support problem-solving and decision-making, verify that corrective actions are implemented and problems resolved, and involve the right people from brewing management and operations
• Manage occupational health, safety and risk for the area teams
• Control productivity by managing fixed and variable costs, minimising waste, ensuring maintenance integrity and supporting engineering integrity
• Ensure conformance to production plans, specifications, environmental and quality standards, and adherence to MES, PTS, eQMS, PaQT and other prescribed systems
• Manage people: apply performance management, develop employees, ensure training on technical and VPO standards, maintain a healthy industrial relations climate and drive high-performance autonomous teams without shift supervision

Required profile

• BSc degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Completed brewing traineeship and IBD papers 1, 2 and 3 passed
• At least 2 years' production experience, including 1 year at a management level within Brewing
• Demonstrated experience driving commercial decisions in a brewery and brewing technical expertise
• Good performance track record with a disciplined work ethic and passion for quality
• Master Brewer IBD qualification obtained or studying towards it, plus an additional business qualification

Required skills

• SAP modules
• White Belt certification highly advantageous