Manufacturing System Manager at International Breweries

The key purpose of this role is to ensure resource availability to execute projects in brewery, provides C&A operational support at brewery level to ensure maximized productivity, efficiency and availability. and ensure integrity of the control layer including MES integration.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Continuity and Risk Accountable for system BCP and DRP plans for the brewery.
• In partnership with Solutions, develops and implements approaches to hardware and software obsolescence.
• Accountable for manufacturing system security.
• Contribute to the sharing of best practice between breweries
• Ensure adherence to antivirus and support patch requirements.
• Vendor Management with support from ZBS/Solutions to enhance the effectiveness of C&A vendors.
• Validation of system integrator effectiveness and quality. Necessary service level agreements to be in place with vendors.
• Partnering provide single point of contact between brewery and solutions.
• People Management facilitate team problem solving and decision-making
• Lead the manufacturing systems team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of systems’ team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Comply with and administer Zone people cycle
• 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 systems team
• Ensure safe plant operations
• Ensure effective process control
• Optimize and improve plant processes
• Well Managed C&C function
• Well managed and properly maintained C&A environment
• Systems available at all times to support production requirements
• Ability to adapt to new production requirements
• Visibility and reporting of plant processes
• Alignment to global supply systems
• Ensure standardization is adhered to in order to leverage skills and scale
• Ensure proper root causes established to eliminate problems
• Identify potential C&A solutions to resolve business problems
• Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures.
• Manage ZBB Automation and CAPEX budgeting process
• Control departmental costs

Profile:

• Diploma in Engineer Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics
• Ability to anticipate situations and take charge
• Ability to learn new systems quickly
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with Control and Automation
• Microsoft server software
• Manufacturing Execution systems (MES).
• PLC systems
• Manufacturing processes
• S88 batch control standard
• Field instrumentation and networks
• SCADA systems