Brewing Engineer at International Breweries Plc

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: Brewing Engineer

Job Requisition ID: 30100006
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job Type: Full time

Key Purpose

• The key purpose of this role is Identifying and delivering initiatives to deliver step change performance improvement and process stability in order to realise true process capability.

Key Roles and Responsibilities
Asset Care:

• Partake in the development of the asset care plan for the brewing, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice
• Implement the asset care plan for the brewing, ensuring the engineering team have the required competencies
• Ensure that asset care goals are incorporated into engineering team and individual goals
• Audit compliance to the asset care program by both the engineering team and shift based teams
• Ensure that asset care competencies are developed in the engineering team
• Where training needs have been identified, through the training specialist, ensure these are addressed
• Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of brewing

Plant Reliability:

• Responsible for the overall reliability and uptime of brewing plant
• Lead the engineering team in the provision of asset care and engineering support to the shift based production teams
• Verifies that engineering team are carrying out routine and planned maintenance, and validates quality of work
• Verifies that the maintenance systems are working properly and that data integrity and information accuracy maintained
• Reviews plant reliability to ensure equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
• Takes part in maintenance problem solving, and ensure that engineering team is applying the correct problem-solving techniques

Plant Optimisation:

• Takes part in regional and central office plant optimization trials, providing advice, assistance and guidance where required
• Evaluates impact of new plant and equipment, and signs off all plant modifications and changes
• Analyses plant performance data to identify opportunities for improvement to plant performance, and initiates opportunity evaluation

Minimum Requirements

• B.Sc Engineering or equivalent tertiary education
• 3-5 years as a Section Engineer ideally in an FMCG company
• Cover for Brewing department and NSBCo
• Experience with modern VPO Maintenance Pillar
• Previous exposure in brewing or similar process

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Ability to ensure that all equipment and resources are available for an effective maintenance system​
• Ability to manage and ensure an effective spares stock levels and to ensure that costs are within budget
• Ability to ensure that principles of VPO are implemented within brewing department​
• Ability to ensure that plant start-ups and shutdowns are done safely and properly
• Knowledge of the OH&S Act and NOSA standards
• Analytical and evaluative skills
• Conceptual skills
• Ability to effect good HR processes to ensure that people are disciplined, motivated, developed and properly managed to ensure effective team performance
• Government Certificate of Competence would be an advantage
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills - Articulate
• Accurate, decisiveness and persuasiveness
• People handling and leadership skills

Application Closing Date
3rd July, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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