Manufacturing Systems Manager

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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 the role is to coordinate, coach and control the activities of the level one maintenance teams in the production environment and to provide specialist technical advice to ensure maximum equipment availability.

• Manage Service Delivery and Support to the brewery by effective team performance management and leadership.
• Manage Manufacturing Systems Software deployment and licensing.
• Identify and motivate technical CAPIN for Manufacturing Systems.
• Manage Manufacturing Systems project implementation.
• Manage Manufacturing Systems change control practices.
• Manage adherence to the Manufacturing Systems standards.
• Manage Manufacturing System s team members.
• Provide leadership to the team in the field of Manufacturing Systems and Technology.
• Leverage business benefit from existing and new Production Execution Systems and Information Systems.
• Facilitate and optimise the interface between the systems team and Business Information Systems Department (BIS).
• Infrastructure fibre optic network identifying risks and remediation (e.g. CAPIN, business cases, and first line problem) and Back‑office servers first line reaction, problem solving, and problem resolution acting as single point of contact for plant when interfacing with GIS (BCX) until resolution.
• Manufacturing machines e.g., SCADA software maintenance and problem solving.
• AVMAR backup checks part of workflow verification to ensure backups are done and, if not, to alert RSDM.
• Inter‑PLC network maintenance switches for inter‑PLC network not managed by BCX but by region.
• Recruitment, management, coaching and upskilling of SPCTs.
• Infrastructure, i.e., current and future expansions for both E&I and C&A components to facilitate new projects, obsolesce of equipment, and risk mitigation against a 5‑year rolling plan.
• Technical footprint (new technology) lead for both E&I and C&A.
• Project Management to ensure strategic expansion and technical footprint is adhered to.
• Management of System Integrators to ensure standards adherence and pricing structures, etc., are in order.
• Ensure governance around and operations of automated safety systems on site.
• Deliver and maintain reporting and application development solutions to brewery requirements.
• Coordination of Control and Automation aspects of CAPIN projects.
• Leverage IT systems within Brewery.

• Excellent problem‑solving ability.
• Analytical.
• Lateral and conceptual thinker.
• Proactive with high energy levels.
• Strong leadership ability.
• Understanding of IS methodologies and techniques.
• Financial planning and control.
• Quality assurance principles.
• People management experience.
• Experience in facilitation and joint application development techniques (especially process and data modeling).

• Tertiary qualification, Preferably a degree in Information Systems / Engineering.
• Management experience in the implementation of systems.
• Project planning and management experience.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Systems Environment and/or with Control and Automation systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise resource planning systems (e.g. SAP).

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AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short‑listed applicants will be contacted.