Unit Manager

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 is to ensure optimum utilisation of plant, raw materials and people, to produce quality products at minimum cost which meets customer requirements and complies with legislation.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Packaged Volume

• Ensure that hl. Packed by brand/pack are in accordance with plan

• Supply full beer to warehouse and agreed on stock numbers

• Maintain/increase numbers of HL packed per day in accordance with plan and laid down efficiency standards.

Packaged Product Quality

• Ensure that the packaging process is controlled such that all quality standards are maintained

• Implement correct action to prevent substandard product and reinforce continuous improvement 

Productivity

• Achieve and improve all targets i.e., hl per man hour

• GLY and hl/hours targets, % LEF and hl/machine hours target

• Control fixed costs, beer loss and container loss

• Prepare and implement production plans that produce required outcomes, including materials and machine maintenance

• Accountable for proper design and utilization of VPO supporting infrastructure (e.g., Line Team room, communication and line performance visualization, operators’ workstations, etc.) to drive results

• Responsible for defining/validating line production strategy, changeovers strategy and execution, corrective and preventive maintenance, startup/shutdown and modulation

• Accountable for the deployment and effectiveness of Autonomous Teams structures across all shifts

• Maintenance and Reliability: Knowledge of the Maintenance Backlog, validation of priorities with Packaging Reliability and Maintenance owner; review quality of Work Orders execution

• Accountable for the deployment and effectiveness of Autonomous Teams structures across all shifts

• Responsible for Line core team training and development, training gap analysis, training strategy

• Accountable for People Engagement in the line and driving “meaningful jobs” (i.e., removing mundane, low-skill tasks from operators & technicians)