Vacancy title:
Brewing Area Manager

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Beverages, Category: Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
AB InBev

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, July 15 2025

Duty Station:
Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 4 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The key purpose of this role is to lead and manage area teams to ensure the effective implementation of operational and technical practices within the brewing department. This role is grounded in the application of prescribed VPO (Voyager Plant Optimization) principles across all relevant pillars. The manager is accountable for achieving the production plan, maintaining strict adherence to safety, quality, and performance standards, and ensuring alignment with budgeted KPIs. Additionally, the role involves managing and controlling both variable and fixed costs within the team’s scope.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Promote Beer Brewing Quality Excellence in the Value Chain
• Communicate brewing process and product quality information / standards
• Effectively communicate changes in the brewing process or standards
• Provide leadership to ensure commitment to product quality in the brewing department
• Apply brewing sub department quality systems in the workplace
  

Provide Brewing Process Expertise (Technical depth) and Lead Problem Solving Processes:

• Assess brewing technical requirements and decisions where required
• Support implementation of recommendations
• Support implementation of process and product optimisation including CAPin and VA projects and trials
• Audit area standards (quality, process and work-practices) to ensure effective management of the area
• Support all 7 pillars standards in the workplace relating to VPO
  

Facilitate Team Problem Solving and Decision Making:

• Apply problem solving and decision-making techniques and principles
• Interact with brewing management and operations teams to ensure appropriate people are involved in problem solving sessions
• Verify that corrective action has been implemented and that the problem has been resolved
  

Manage Health, Safety & Risk:

• Manage occupational health, safety and risk for the area teams
  

Manage Productivity:

• Control fixed and variable costs
• Minimise waste
  

Manage the Brewing Process:

• Ensure conformance to brewing area production plans
• Ensure conformance to brewing area specifications and standards
• Ensure maintenance integrity in brewing area
• Ensure effective cost management on fixed and variable costs including byproduct
• Optimise process availability to achieve delivery and reliability targets
• Support engineering integrity
• Support production and process optimisation including trials, VA and CAPEX projects
• Ensure adherence to environmental standards by area teams
• Ensure adherence to quality standards by area teams
  

System Expertise:

• Ensure adequate adherence and compliance to system processes as prescribed by MES, PTS, eQMS, PaQT and all other prescribed elements of technology for beer production through the brewing department
  

Management of People:

• Apply performance management principles for employees (production teams)
• Apply self-performance management principles
• Develop employees for current role and future roles to ensure proper pipeline
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage and apply personnel practices
• Provide effective leadership
• Ensure employees are trained on technical and VPO standards
• Drive the high-performance levels of autonomous teams without shift supervision

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc Degree in Biological Sciences, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Completed brewing traineeship
• IBD Papers 1,2&3 completed and passed
• At least 2 years production experience, of which 1 year operating at a management level within Brewing
• Demonstrated experience in driving commercial decisions in a brewery (financial, operational, people) and brewing technical expertise
• A good performance track record indicating a disciplined work ethic with passion at maintaining quality
• Master Brewer IBD qualification obtained or studying towards MB Qualification
• SAP modules: White belt certification would be highly advantageous 

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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