Site Brewery Operations Manager

 About us

At Diageo, our legacy is built on the character and diversity of our people. From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, we have thrived over 250 years as the world's leading premium alcohol company. Our success is driven by our dedicated team across all roles globally. We entrust them with our legacy and offer career-defining opportunities in return. Our ambition is to be the best performing, most trusted, and respected Consumer Products Company worldwide. To achieve this, we seek diverse talent from around the world who feel passionate about our vision.

About Serengeti Breweries Ltd (SBL): Founded in 1988 as Associated Breweries Limited and rebranded to Serengeti Breweries Limited in 2002, SBL began commercial operations in 1996 with a brewery in Dar es Salaam. Acquired by EABL in October 2010, SBL now operates breweries in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Moshi. The flagship brand is Serengeti Premium Lager alongside other portfolios like Guinness and Plisner. Headquartered in Dar es Salaam, SBL also distributes world-class global Diageo spirit brands such as Johnnie Walker®, Smirnoff Vodka®, Bailey’s Irish Cream®, Richot®, Bond 7 Whiskey®, and Gilbeys Gin®.

 Purpose of role

Provide strategic leadership to the whole brewery (site) to achieve best in class status in all the areas of operations. This includes

• Safety of the people and the operations
• Environment
• Full compliance to:
  • legal/governmental regulations and requirements
  • Diageo/EABL/SBL procures, standards and code of business conduct
  • Quality systems requirements such as ISO, FSCC etc.

• To ensure efficient and cost effective production, to deliver finished product in line with sales requirement, adhering to highest quality standards and within budget.
• Maintaining excellent quality performance in a safe working environment.
• Continuously improving the performance of the operations to reduce losses and costs and improve quality and efficiencies.

The Technical Brewery Operations Manager is part of the regional management team, together with the regional sales manager, the regional First Point (HR) employee and the site finance manager; as the brewery is located away from the SBL headquarters.

The Technical Brewery Operations Manager is responsible for the following departments and fields, and is also required to ensure knowledge transfer in these areas:

Production departments of brewing (including raw materials handling, brewing, fermentation, storage and filtration) and packaging.

• Engineering/maintenance (including utilities of the site)
• Quality
• Environment
• Safety
• Stores (including spare parts, raw materials, auxiliary materials and packaging materials) – on site and external warehouse.

Accountabilities

• Fully accountable for managing the site operations teams in the Moshi brewery as well as overseeing general management in the region and site with the regional management team
• Train team on, and ensure, timely and safe production (brewing, fermentation, storing, filtration and packaging) of all by sales required products, up to the required quality standards.
• Train team on, and ensuring full compliance to all applicable legal/governmental requirements/regulations as well as Diageo/EABL/SBL standards, procedures and code of business conduct.
• Ensuring continuous improvement of the operations in terms of service level, operational efficiencies, cost efficiencies and safety. Actively identifying with the team areas of improvement and implementation of these improvement plans.
• Train Moshi team on, and ensuring implementation of the Excellence in Supply Chain way of working, throughout all facets of the operations.
• Ensuring full control of all the costs and losses in the operations – while managing minimisation of both.
• Management of site reliability and efficiency by ensuring proper, timely and efficient planned maintenance of all fixed assets.
• Ensuring comprehensive inventory control for raw materials, spare parts, raw, auxiliary and packaging materials – which is fully updated in the SAP system.
• Identification and implementation of new software systems related to the operations on site.
• Growing the performance of the team by:
  • Evaluating team members’ performance according to the SBL performance review cycle
  • Coaching and developing the team
  • Transferring specialised brewing, technical, packaging and project management knowledge to the team
  • Identifying training needs and providing training to the team members
• Management of CAPEX projects on the site.
• Ensuring compliance to all required quality systems standards, such as ISO, HACCP, FSCC – as well as training the team on these standards and ways of working
• Accountability for (improving of) the following main KPIs (non-exhaustive list) – including training of the team on these systems and technologies: Safety KPIs on the site
  • Quality KPIs of the site (liquid non-compliance, pack dress, microbiology, flavour scores, IPQI etc)
  • on production efficiencies (OEE brewing and OEE packaging)
  • Extract loss
  • Packaging material losses
  • Energy consumption
  • Water consumption
  • Waste KPIs (waste to landfill, BOD, COD etc.)
  • Cost of Conversion

Qualifications and experience required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Engineering
• Master Brewer certification. Otherwise has to be obtained within 2 years after hiring.

Experience:

• 10+ years management experience in brewing/packaging industry.
• 3+ years experience in brewing department – with higher than 1m hl yearly production output.
• Experience with quality systems, food safety systems and occupational health and safety management in the food & beverage industries
• Excellent data management (spreadsheet) and query skills a must.
• Experience and awareness of production/quality/maintenance technologies and best practices in the FMCG industry