Careers At Guinness Ghana Breweries (May 2017)

Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) operates in a growing but a highly competitive market where productivity and product quality are critical to business success. The business has seen significant investment over the last few years in terms of capacity and innovation.

Job Description

Job Title: Technical Manager – Brewing, Quality & Innovations

To support our growth and agenda we want to recruit a Technical Manager to drive both brewing standards and capability.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced brewing professional with a passion for quality and capability development to play a key role in delivering GGBL’s strategic ambition over the next 2 years.

PURPOSE

The Technical Manager will be responsible for driving production efficiencies and quality improvements to ensure that GGBL consistently complies with Diageo Way of Brewing, Global Risk Management Standards, and Food Safety Certification. Capability building within the Brewing function at all levels will be key to success. The person will also be the main link to the Diageo and Heineken Brand Technical centers for support and reporting.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED ·

• The Technical Manager must have attained a Master Brewer (IBD) qualification and have at least 5 -10 hands-on brewing experience in a high quality, continuous improvement environment.
• In depth knowledge of brewing, liquid processing, quality and governance in relation to a food manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding and experience of Manufacturing Excellence continuous improvement tools.
• A skilled coach with a passion for capability development.
• An authentic individual with the ability to quickly build credible and effective relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels in the business.
• Strong influencing skills required to gain support and drive change.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Develop and drive quality improvement plans for both breweries. Lead the functional directing of the Brewing staff to ensure the efficient and effective running of the brewing department to deliver the stretching Improvement plans using PPMS methodology and achieve the agreed KPI’s.
• Drive Brewing and process capability development through a combination of classroom training, hands-on coaching and 1-1 mentoring of brewing personnel.
• Lead the brewing teams in problem-solving, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement initiatives. These could include quality, efficiency, and cost management initiatives.
• Track and monitor Brewing KPI’s using existing tools for tracking of key brewing KPIs and lead Brewing improvement plans to deliver KPI’s.
• Lead implementation of global initiatives and ensure brewing compliance to local legislation, DWB, GRMS, FSSC and CODEX standards.