International Breweries Plc – 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manufacturing Systems Manager

Ref No: 30027226
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job Type: Full time

Job Purpose

• The key purpose of this role is to ensure compliance to control and be accountable for the management and execution of the Control and Automation function within the brewery.
• The incumbent will ensure strategic alignment to the manufacturing systems strategy as defined by ABI automation standards and practices.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate understanding of the associated control systems. (Brew house, Cellars, Filtration, Packaging, Raw materials brewing/Packaging) and provide expertise to the line teams
• Ensure application of the GOPs (Maintenance, Extended maintenance, Electrical Systems, Control & Automation, Reverse Engineering) and create sustainable improvement in focused GOP scores in Control and Automation.
• Ensure security of site automation infrastructure
• Ensure compliance to calibration schedule across the plant
• Optimise production processes
• Demonstrate your support with fault-finding on the following systems (MES integration with Batch exchanger and BTE logs, incoming/outgoing message tables, PaQT agent logs)
• Manage control panel protocol (Cabinet/panel/rack/wiring labelling and drawings, 5 “S” practices, component configuration/programming/operation standards, ventilation & cooling)
• Implement the Plant ‘s strategic plan for control and automation. (Consistency across plant, technical documentation, visualization & and diagnostics for operating areas, flow of material and control information, network architecture compliance to standard)

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant course
• Minimum of 5 years experience in:
• Automation
• Networks and servers
• Microsoft server software
• Manufacturing Execution systems (MES).
• PLC systems
• Manufacturing processes
• S88 batch control standard
• Field instrumentation and networks
• SCADA systems

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.