The Engine Room Role: Become a Checker Operator at SAB Waltloo Depot! 🚀

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company, and it drives our future—a future where we’re always looking forward. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, ready to unleash their full potential. The power we create together is unstoppable.

Are you ready to be the safety and efficiency expert on our logistics team?

We are seeking a dedicated Checker Operator to join our team at the SAB Waltloo Depot/Tswane. The key purpose of this full-time role is essential: to safely and efficiently load, unload, and stack materials, all while maintaining our strict governance standards and ensuring superior customer service.

The Role: Precision, Safety, and Inventory Integrity

This is a hands-on position requiring sharp focus, technical competence, and a commitment to AB InBev’s high operational standards. You will be the crucial link between production, inventory, and delivery.

Key Areas of Accountability: What You’ll Deliver

Your day-to-day responsibilities will cover Fleet Management, Inventory, Safety, and Continuous Improvement:

1. Fleet Management & Safety Compliance

• Vehicle Readiness: Conduct thorough pre-trip inspections prior to every shift using the official checklist, ensuring the forklift is in optimal condition and correctly fueled.
• Safety First: Strictly adhere to all health, safety, and environmental standards. This includes ensuring Department of Labour stacking exemptions are met, maintaining impeccable site housekeeping, and using appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Proactive Safety: Maintain a robust system for generating and closing out SIOs (Safe Interaction Observations) and SHOs (Safety Hazard Observations).

2. Inventory Management & Quality Control

• Accuracy is Key: Perform accurate daily stock counts using a handheld device, generate variance reports in SAP, and resolve discrepancies promptly.
• Stock Rotation: Maintain warehouse stock age standards by meticulously ensuring First Expiration First Out (FEFO) principles are applied, complying with the freshness and rotation policy.
• Quality Check: Ensure quality control by checking packaging on the warehouse floor and prior to loading vehicles.
• Data Integrity: Accurately record returns on the handheld device before unloading and participate actively in the handover process before and after every shift.

3. Efficient Operations & Problem Solving

• Loading/Unloading: Ensure the accurate checking, loading, and unloading of vehicles. Use the Load Summary to ensure correct quantities are loaded and update the Shipment Status in SAP immediately.
• Production Support (Where Applicable): Ensure production continuity by efficiently loading empties and raw materials onto lines, and removing finished products to the stack, always aiming for optimal line productivity.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive a problem-solving culture using DPO tools like 5-Why, Abnormality Reports, and OWD’s. You will be involved in DPO, CSA, and other audits, and you’ll track and manage KPIs on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

What We’re Looking For

This role requires a dedicated individual who is ready to embrace our culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

• Education: A 3-year Post Matric Qualification (Degree/National Diploma in Logistics or a related field) is required.
• Experience: 1 or 2 years’ experience in a warehousing or logistics environment is an added advantage.
• Certification: A Forklift license will be an added advantage.
• DPO Focus: A good understanding of DPO (Driving Operational Excellence) principles and the ability to run and manage a shift are highly preferable.
• Attributes: The ability to work under pressure and over weekends when required, and a commitment to encouraging a culture of continuous improvement.

Ready to Join a Team That Dreams Bigger?

If you are precise, safety-minded, and ready to become a core part of our logistics team in Waltloo, we invite you to apply now!

Don’t wait! The deadline is fast approaching: September 27, 2025.

SAB is an equal opportunity employer. Management reserves the right to use additional relevant information as criteria for short-listing.