Agriculture Manager at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
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The key purpose of this role is to lead a team in Tanzania, ensuring a secure supply of high-quality malting barley and sorghum for ABInBev’s processing facilities. The Agricultural Manager will optimize growing areas, consult with producers, maintain industry relationships, and support the raw materials procurement and R&D processes. Additionally, the role will manage decision-making support systems and drive the company’s sustainability agenda, with experience in collaborating with NPOs/NGOs to enhance crop production and funding opportunities.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Ensure we have the Right Seed Quantity/Variety & Quality, at the Right Place, and Right Time in accordance to the crop Variety Steerco and crop commercial policies
- Demonstrates expert knowledge of the primary agronomic cropping systems in all regions where malting barley / sorghum is cultivated
- Serves as domain specialist to all regional agronomy in areas such as fertilization and soil management, pest and disease management, planting density, irrigation, optimization of crop inputs, digital agriculture, and alternative rotational crops.
- Lead regional agronomists / Extension officers to drive execution, strategy, priorities, and actions for supply security of crops in each sub region.
- Bring balance between improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of crop operations from seed to sip (seed to supply to maltings)
- Provide input and drive implementation of our sustainability strategy and regenerative agriculture programs
- Build effective partnerships with all regional procurement and global agronomy stakeholders, crop subject matter experts, and external experts to deliver high quality raw materials
- Promote a safe work environment and a strong safety culture.
- Maintain a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Develop and deliver regular updates to internal ABInBev stakeholders and governance bodies regarding status and progress of the crop and contracting with Aggregators / Storage partners
- Ensures identification, assessment, and management of key risks in our production environments
- Maintain effective communication and interaction with collaboration partners, to ensure execution of short-term plans and to support alignment of long-term strategy for our collaborations
- Effectively manage budgets and ensure resource requirements are clearly defined, communicated and sourced on time in order to deliver on the key performance indicators
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Digital fluency is required
- Ability to work effectively across disciplines and cultures and across geographies
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, networking and influencing skills
- Strategic thinking and the tactical implementation of strategic initiatives
- Must be able to deal effectively with organizational complexity and ambiguity
- Agile mind set to react efficiently and appropriately to rapidly changing business environment
- Excellent networking skills and ability to influence people without line management responsibility
- Appropriate balance between management and leadership styles
- Excellent communication/Presentation skills
- Skilled in seeking business input (strategic imperative and prioritization) and translation into implementable Research direction
- Drives critical decisions in program and its projects
- Experience in managing diverse teams across large geographical regions
- Experience in managing agronomic operations
- Experience in working with commercial and small holder farmers
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Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in agronomy
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in seed & FMCG companies
- BSc. Hon in Agronomy or related field with field crops experience required
- Experience working successfully in international and multidisciplinary environment
- Track record of influencing/developing talent
- Experience in the development, utilization and enabling technologies
- Experience in managing in a developmental environment with various levels of competency and capability within teams
- Demonstrated ability to successfully influence colleagues across functional boundaries
- Effective time management, with the ability to successfully plan and control activities over several months or years
- Driver’s license & driving experience
- Willing to travel extensively in production areas 60% of the time
- Expert knowledge of grain storage and factors influencing cost / quality and safe storage practices
- High skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI & Outlook
Additional Information
- Band: VI
- Location: Tanzania – based in Arusha
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advertisement has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Operator-5 at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to load, unload and stack materials safely and efficiently while maintaining our governance and Customer service standards.
Key roles and responsibilities
- Ensure that stock received from Breweries is accounted for accurately
- Ensure that safe offloading practices are adhered to in line with DPO Safety guidelines
- Load stock correctly on Tier 2 trucks as per what the customer has ordered to ensure that they are happy
- Maintain compliance to road traffic act and internal measures such as pre-trip inspection
- Minimizes risks, and ensures safety
- Ensure that no out of specification / inferior quality stock is loaded and delivered to customers
- Ensure Safe operating practices of Forklifts is adhered to at all times to avoid accidents and injuries.
- Ensure that only licensed individuals are allowed to operate a forklifts
- Ensure that operators wear the mandatory minimum PPE to prevent injuries
- Ensure that Department of Labour stacking exemptions complied with
- Ensure productivity is maximized through world class housekeeping
- Ensure cleanliness of the DC Warehouse is upheld in order to maintain our product quality
Key attributes and competencies:
- Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good verbal and communication skills
- Good self-management principles
- Ability to adapt to change effectively
- Good numerical ability
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Minimum requirements:
- Certificate in Logistics
- Valid forklift driver license
- Experience operating a double handler
- Computer literate
- SAP literacy advantageous
Additional information:
- BAND: XI
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Lab Technician at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to provide laboratory support to the value chain by performing checks and analysis on BOP’s raw materials to enable production to produce beer that conforms to ABInBev quality standards.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for meeting Quality KPIs
- Prevent quality non compliances
- Promote quality awareness
- Contribute to quality performance at the site
- Promotion of a quality culture
- Maintain housekeeping and 5S standards
Maintain Equipment and Workplace
- Maintain and calibrate equipment
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment
Analyse Samples
- Prepare samples
- Conduct analyses
Compliance to VPO Quality Pillar and other Applicable VPO Requirements
- Execute VPO activities in accordance with the VPO work practices
- Execution of activities to ensure compliance to food safety and quality management systems
Process Control
- Sampling is carried out as per manualized methods
- Samples are identified, verified and handled to retain integrity as per manual
- Samples are prepared and dispatched, if necessary, as per manualized method
- Relevant apparatus, equipment and reagents are prepared as per manualized method
- Analysis is performed using fundamental laboratory techniques and practices
- Accurate results generated at specified times
- Results are recorded and reported as per standard manuals
- Nonconformance identified
- Out of control procedure adhered to
- VPO compliance
Lab Equipment
- Equipment is maintained and calibrated according to manualized methods
- Equipment calibration frequencies are adhered to
- Calibration records available and update
Safety and healthy work environment
- Adherence to PPE policy
- Unsafe conditions and work practices are identified and actioned
- Chemicals and reagents are handled as per manualized procedure
- Hazardous substances are stored, handled and disposed of as per procedures
- Adherence to documented lab safety rules, guides and practices
- Incidents are reported and actioned as per procedure
- Housekeeping schedules are adhered to
Specialist Analysis
- Carry out specialized and highly specialized quality analyses where required
- Record the results of analyses conducted on appropriate information systems and communicate results accordingly
- Conduct analysis of results to identify problems and improvement opportunities timeously
- Assist the plant in the execution of quality analysis, where required
- Conduct calibration of specialist equipment for which the labs are responsible
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Quality Auditing
- Conduct required and requested quality audits, completing the appropriate documentation and communicating the results
- Review quality analysis procedures of production teams, identifying problems or training needs and communicating these to the team leader
- Conduct regular audits of calibration procedures of production teams and communicating results
- Conduct audits of analytic procedures to ensure compliance with Zone/Global guidelines, and identifying corrective actions required
- Where required, initiate corrective actions coming out of the quality audits in areas that impact the laboratory
Problem Solving
- Support the production teams in problem solving, providing specialist assistance and techniques
- Assist with coaching/mentoring of production teams on problem solving and correct use of problem-solving techniques as required
Training
- Support the training of the production teams
- Assist with coaching/mentoring of production teams on quality analyses and correct use of analytical techniques
Continuous Improvement
- Carry out specialized analyses in support of the evaluation of continuous improvement opportunities
- Determine additional analytical work required evaluating continuous improvement opportunities
- Take part in regional and divisional process optimization initiatives as required
Work in teams
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
- Contribute to self and team development
Key attributes and competencies:
- Proactive
- Proven leadership ability
- Ability to utilize computer programmes
- Analytical ability
- Communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Problem solving skills
- Precision and accuracy, attention to detail
- Numeracy
Minimum requirements:
- Min –National Diploma Chemistry, Food Science, Biotechnology
- B Tech Chemistry or equivalent is advantageous
- 2-3 Years in Laboratory, understanding of process control within the malting process environment is advantageous
- Good understanding of the principles and practices of VPO
Additional information:
- BAND: X
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for shortlisting
How to Apply:
,To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Lab Technician: Governance and Instrumentation at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to provide laboratory support to the value chain by performing checks and analysis on BOP’s raw materials to enable production to produce beer that conforms to ABInBev quality standards.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for meeting Quality KPIs
- Prevent quality non compliances
- Promote quality awareness
- Contribute to quality performance at the site
- Promotion of a quality culture
- Maintain housekeeping and 5S standards
Maintain Equipment and Workplace
- Maintain and calibrate equipment
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment
Analyse Samples
- Prepare samples
- Conduct analyses
Compliance to VPO Quality Pillar and other Applicable VPO Requirements
- Execute VPO activities in accordance with the VPO work practices
- Execution of activities to ensure compliance to food safety and quality management systems
Process Control
- Sampling is carried out as per manualized methods
- Samples are identified, verified and handled to retain integrity as per manual
- Samples are prepared and dispatched, if necessary, as per manualized method
- Relevant apparatus, equipment and reagents are prepared as per manualized method
- Analysis is performed using fundamental laboratory techniques and practices
- Accurate results generated at specified times
- Results are recorded and reported as per standard manuals
- Nonconformance identified
- Out of control procedure adhered to
- VPO compliance
Lab Equipment
- Equipment is maintained and calibrated according to manualized methods
- Equipment calibration frequencies are adhered to
- Calibration records available and update
Safety and healthy work environment
- Adherence to PPE policy
- Unsafe conditions and work practices are identified and actioned
- Chemicals and reagents are handled as per manualized procedure
- Hazardous substances are stored, handled and disposed of as per procedures
- Adherence to documented lab safety rules, guides and practices
- Incidents are reported and actioned as per procedure
- Housekeeping schedules are adhered to
Specialist Analysis
- Carry out specialized and highly specialized quality analyses where required
- Record the results of analyses conducted on appropriate information systems and communicate results accordingly
- Conduct analysis of results to identify problems and improvement opportunities timeously
- Assist the plant in the execution of quality analysis, where required
- Conduct calibration of specialist equipment for which the labs are responsible
Quality Auditing
- Conduct required and requested quality audits, completing the appropriate documentation and communicating the results
- Review quality analysis procedures of production teams, identifying problems or training needs and communicating these to the team leader
- Conduct regular audits of calibration procedures of production teams and communicating results
- Conduct audits of analytic procedures to ensure compliance with Zone/Global guidelines, and identifying corrective actions required
- Where required, initiate corrective actions coming out of the quality audits in areas that impact the laboratory
Problem Solving
- Support the production teams in problem solving, providing specialist assistance and techniques
- Assist with coaching/mentoring of production teams on problem solving and correct use of problem-solving techniques as required
Training
- Support the training of the production teams
- Assist with coaching/mentoring of production teams on quality analyses and correct use of analytical techniques
Continuous Improvement
- Carry out specialized analyses in support of the evaluation of continuous improvement opportunities
- Determine additional analytical work required evaluating continuous improvement opportunities
- Take part in regional and divisional process optimization initiatives as required
Work in teams
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
- Contribute to self and team development
Key attributes and competencies:
- Proactive
- Proven leadership ability
- Ability to utilize computer programmes
- Analytical ability
- Communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Problem solving skills
- Precision and accuracy, attention to detail
- Numeracy
Minimum requirements:
- Min –National Diploma Chemistry, Food Science, Biotechnology
- B Tech Chemistry or equivalent is advantageous
- 2-3 Years in Laboratory, understanding of process control within the malting process environment is advantageous
- Good understanding of the principles and practices of VPO
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Additional information:
- BAND: X
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for shortlisting.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Maintanance Planner -Packaging at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to manage the relevant Maintenance Systems, spares management, generation of routine and planned maintenance schedules, provide support to maintenance teams in the execution of maintenance and ensuring relevant Permit-to-Work are in place.
Key roles and responsibilities:
Maintenance Planning
- Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre-meeting with a focus on required work, problems to be addressed and resource requirements
- Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
- Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritised and relevant works requests generated
- Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
- Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion
- Partake in planned maintenance period in support of the maintenance team, assisting with problem solving, work prioritisation and resource re-allocation
- Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
- Facilitate and lead the maintenance postmortems and document any problems encountered, opportunities identified, and lessons learned
Problem Solving
- Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve
- Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to engineer for direction
- Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
- Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA’s on request
- Ensure maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown programs are completed
- Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards
- Ensure spares needed to support asset care program are available on time and within costs
- Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialist’s as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations
- Analyse SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules
- Co-ordinates resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown
- Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions
Key attributes and competencies:
- Assertive leadership, good people management
- Strong diagnostic ability
Minimum requirements:
- Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent
- 3 to 5 years production Engineering
- Solid SAP experience
- PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft Office package)
- Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices
- In depth knowledge of Packaging plant equipment and processes
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Additional information:
- BAND: VIII
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
Packaging Machine Specialist at AB InBev
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to maintain equipment in an as new condition, assuring reliable performance to standard through inspections, corrective actions to restore equipment back to inherent condition, problem solving to address root cause of failures and loop-closure and provide input into the ZBB maintenance budget. Coaching operators in the correct way to operate equipment and perform autonomous operations. Typically assigned to quality impact machines like bottle washer, filler and labelers, quality checks are carried out and deviations to standard acted on.
Key roles and responsibilities:
Health, safety and environment
- Comply with safe, health and environmental procedures and legislation.
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Identification of unsafe practices through SIO’s.
- Safety inspections conducted.
- Safe maintenance practices audited.
- Adherence to PPE policies.
- Maintenance tools are in good working order
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
Backlog
- Generate tags for follow on work
- Satisfied customers – no rework.
Operational support
- Provide specialist support to the shift-based teams during operations.
- Assist as functional expert in problem solving.
- This must be undertaken in support of the Process Artisan where requested: provide guidance and advice to the shift-based teams on mechanical equipment, mechanical fault-finding and correct responses to mechanical failure modes
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Planned maintenance
- Take part in maintenance planning meeting, contributing suggestions and clarifying work required
- Carry out work during the planned maintenance window in accordance with the planned maintenance schedule issued by the planner
- Partake in maintenance postmortems to feedback problems, opportunities and learnings from maintenance activities
Routine maintenance
- Partake in cleaning, lubrication and inspection in accordance with the maintenance schedule issued by the Maintenance Planner
- Carry out routine maintenance activities in accordance with the maintenance schedule
- Where problems have been uncovered during routine maintenance, these must be resolved using the appropriate problem-solving techniques.
Running repairs
- On request, partake in carrying out running repairs on plant and equipment, or support the Shift Artisans in carrying out repairs
- When carrying out repairs, assess the problem and determine a course of action
- Complete the administration tasks relating to any running repairs that the Technician has carried out as per SAP requirements
Problem solving
- Where problems have occurred during routine activities, apply the correct problem-solving approach to resolve
- Where required, call in additional resources to assist in problem solving or escalate to the Engineering Controller for direction
- Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request Take part in FFA’s on request
Improvement
- Improve SWI’s, SOP’s and maintenance tasks on an ongoing basis as issues arise to ensure that the loop is closed out to prevent issues arising.
Housekeeping and safety
- Operate in a safe manner at all times, and identify and highlight unsafe work practices so that these may be corrected
- Carry out work according to the work instructions and adhere to appropriate InBev policies and procedures
- Carry out housekeeping tasks, and apply 4S principles during the execution of duties
Key attributes and competencies:
- Management skills.
- People handling ability.
- Mental alertness, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Conceptual skills.
- Engineering Specialist SME – Subject matter expert
Minimum requirements:
- National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical)
- NTC5/N5 Technikon qualification
- Trade test qualification in Electrical, Mechanical or Millwright
- 3 – 5 years in a packaging bottling production environment
- 1-3 Years technical mechanical/electrical and bottling experience in a FMCG environment
- Packaging maintenance workshop experience.
- Bottling hall and production experience.
- Machine specific experience
Additional information:
- BAND: X
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.
How to Apply:
To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
