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Job Position: Brewing Operator
Location: Rosslyn, Gauteng
Closing Date: 18 April 2026
Job Purpose
The primary goal of this role is to ensure the safe operation of one or more discrete processes in the Brewing & Utilities plant (e.g., Wort Cooling, Yeast Management, Filtration Q&C), to carry out maintenance tasks, to conduct quality control checks and analyses, and to coach fellow team members in order to produce a consistent product of the right quality at the best possible cost.
Duties And Responsibilities
Plant andProcess
- Optimise Plant & Process Performance where appropriate
- Operate the Brew house Plant and Process
- Operate Beverage Fermentation Plant and Process
- Operate Beverage Filtration Plant and Process
- Operate the Packaging (kegging and bottling) Plant and Process
- Performing housekeeping tasks, applying 5s principles and following safe work practices
- Unsafe work practices must be identified and corrected.
- Support the creation (drafting and documenting) of standard work procedures (including quick fix routines and problems
Quality control andanalysis
- Carry out the required quality +checks and analyses, and recording the results on the appropriate information system
- Where quality problems have arisen, apply the appropriate problem solving techniques (e.g. Quick fix routines) to resolve
- Escalate any identified or unresolved problems to BAM
Communication
- Actively participate in meetings and goal reviews.
- Utilize the gap list to record issues, problems and improvement opportunities.
- Fully understanding the team goals and participating in team goal review sessions.
- Making use of relevant communication media (e.g. shift logbook) to stay informed and inform others of issues.
- Complete required hand over to incoming shift team members, ensuring the issues relating to plant performance, quality
- Complete autonomous maintenance tasks problem-solving activities
Problemsolving
- Respond rapidly to upstream or downstream triggers that could result in out of control process situations
- Apply problem solving techniques (e.g. 5Y, quick fix routines etc.) to identify and correct problems
Work InTeams
- Develop others in own skills as well as the learning of the skills of other specialist Brewery Technicians
- Be a logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment
- A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist)
- Demonstrate Initiative and energy
- Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best)
- Be available to work flexible hours (outside of normal office hours and sometimes over the weekends) to meet production
Skills And Compitencies
- Basic PC Literacy (Microsoft/ SAP)
- Problem solving skills
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work shifts
Requirements
- Grade 12
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