Brewer

About the Role

Operations Planning & Budgeting

• Lead operations planning for the brewery based on monthly forecasts shared by Corporate.
• Schedule monthly and weekly production and align with targets for volume, quality, and cost.
• Engage with Sales to understand market penetration, product off-take, and anticipated sales growth for production and dispatch planning.
• Formulate the overall brewery budget from consolidated inputs and work with the CSCO to finalize it for corporate approval.
• Ensure availability of raw materials, packaging, utilities, logistics, and manpower while optimizing utilization and minimizing costs.

Operations and Dispatch Management

• Monitor procurement and quality of raw materials, malt, adjuncts, and yeasts while balancing inventory and resource reuse.
• Oversee brewing and production operations to ensure timely dispatch of quality products in line with internal and statutory guidelines.
• Coordinate weekly and daily dispatch planning with the local Sales Head and resolve dispatch inefficiencies.
• Identify and resolve losses and constraints related to processes, manpower, materials, capacity, and customer compliance.
• Conduct product trials, review product performance, prepare reports, and share insights with HO and CTC teams.

Operations Review

• Review daily operations using production volumes, bottling efficiency, consumables, inventory, expenses, and safety indicators.
• Lead daily meetings to track actual performance against targets and provide variance correction inputs.
• Review flagged issues, design corrective actions, and lead actions for production and maintenance operations.
• Prepare KPI and KAI reports and present production and maintenance performance reports to HO and unit leadership.

Quality Tests and Sensory Evaluation

• Conduct quality tests and taste sessions for water, brew, filtration, carbonation, lager beers, and lauter tanks.
• Monitor quality indicators, lead sensory evaluations, identify red flags, and drive corrective actions.
• Review product, process, and raw-material quality matrices and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with microbiology and QA teams on beer health indices, deviations, and course corrections.
• Check raw-material samples and approve materials for use.

Audit and Compliance

• Ensure statutory compliance for labelling, packaging, factory and boiler maintenance, infrastructure, billing ledgers, and inventory.
• Facilitate process and quality audits, review findings, and support closure of audit queries.
• Support financial and vendor audits by providing accurate brewery data and audit assistance.