Packaging Trainee

  • Full-time

Company Description

Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients. Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 200,000 employees based in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Job Description

Overall Purpose of the Function

To ensure that trainees entering manufacturing have a core understanding of the critical aspects of packaging, brewing, engineering, and quality on which to build further competence

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate knowledge of packaging plant and process
  • Demonstrate Knowledge of the possible impact of packaging of product quality
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the supply chain from warehouse to customer
  • Demonstrate Knowledge of Trade Quality implications
  • Identify problems or potential problems
  • Facilitate Problem solving and decision making
  • Maintain Personal Competence and flexibility
  • Manage quality at source
  • Conduct autonomous maintenance asset care activities
  • Operate and control the process according to SOP
  • Apply 5S standards and practices in the workplace
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the production and supply of the utilities within a brewery
  • Demonstrate knowledge of instrumentation and control use in the brewing process
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the main requirements of brewery plant
  • Demonstrate knowledge of plant maintenance in the brewing process
  • Identify the sources treatment and uses of water in brewing
  • Explain the nature of hops and their use in brewing 
  • Explain the nature and use of barley, malt and adjuncts in the brewing process

Qualifications

  • Relevant Technical Qualification / Diploma

Skills and Attributes

  • A logical, analytical problem solver who can operate in an unstructured environment.
  • A team player (prepared to communicate, listen and assist).
  • Initiative and energy.
  • Achievement Drive (improvement, do better than standard or what was done previously, be the best).
  • Key Function is to Carry out repairs / maintenance
  • Plan and prepare the job

Additional Information

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.

  1. Internal applicants require Line manager approval
  2. Kindly attach CV in PDF format
  3. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Interested candidates who meet the above specifications may apply no later than 17 January 2021.

Band: VIII-B

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