About the position
Responsible for day-to-day management of the food manufacturing process, ensuring achievement of a daily plan, in compliance with business KPI’s, health and safety objectives. Responsible for supporting the Production Group Leader in achieving production targets and efficiencies. Assisting the Production Group Leader with the day-to-day management (including people management) and reporting for the areas under their responsibility
Education (Formal Qualification Required) Minimum
- Matric or recognised equivalent qualification.
- Computer Literacy.
- Numeracy and Literacy Proficient.
Ideal
- Mechanical engineering N3 – N6 advantageous
Legal Requirements
Requirements / Certifications (e.g., Driver’s License as a job requirement, professional affiliations etc.)
Detail Counterbalance Forklift License
Experience
- Experience in a manufacturing environment in progressively responsible roles.
- Supervisory Management or equivalent would be a distinct advantage.
- Experience as a key operator. 2 – 3 years
- FMCG/Manufacturing experience 2 - 3 years
- Minimum 2 years’ experience within a Manufacturing / production related facility.
- Must understand LEAN principles.
- Knowledge of ERP System preferably SAP would be advantageous but extensive training will be given to the company.
- Must be able to efficiently operate a PC, and have basic MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) skills.
Position Description Key Performance Area / Main Output
- Safety, Food Safety and People Management
- Ensure full compliance to all national OHS Act requirements and Occupational Health and Safety & Food Safety regulations and policies.
- Responsible and accountable for maintenance of the “5 s’” in your department.
- Action all Internal and External Safety Audit action plans relating to your section.
- Manage direct reports according to the basic employment regulations, company policies and prescribed demonstrated HR and operations best practices; (absenteeism, safety, food safety, production and quality procedures, grievances etc.)
- Attend daily production meetings providing input where required necessary.
- Coordinate the activities of the team, ensuring that labour is utilised effectively and that objectives are communicated to aid in team and individual motivation.
- Assess needs regarding the training and development plan, ensuring goals and objectives are communicated and reviewed to motivate, develop and retain staff.
- Complete and sign off time sheets for the team and provide records to the production manager.
- Assist or relieve operators, production operators and forklift driver as and when necessary.
- Ad-hoc duties from time to time at the request of the Factory Manager or the Production Group Leader.
Productivity Improvement and Implementation
- Ensure achievement of target World Class Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) levels by the identification and elimination and documentation of “8 waste/loss buckets” areas of Lean Manufacturing.
- Review daily production reports /data for GPM and OEE Reporting before submission to the Production Group Leader.
- Verify all information to be correct on a shift report and ensure that data inputs and raw material actuals balance to ERP SAP and shopware records.
- Effectively manage inventory levels in liaison with the Warehouse department.
- Optimize labour complement and utilization to give best quality of product at minimum cost and line savings based on up-to-date plant diagnostics.
- Ensure effective utilization of all lean manufacturing tools, e.g. mistake proofing, SMED, pull systems, Root Cause Problem Solving, optimized changeover principles.
- Assist with continuous improvement projects till successful completion.
- Prepare recipes, labels, spices and vegetables for hand over to Pre-weigher.
- Collect required ingredients from raw material section using a folk lift.
- Capture stock movement in the system in accordance with standard procedure.
- Keep accurate record of all batches released and used for each shift.
Quality Control, Inspections, PCD’S and QM System
- Ensure all products are manufactured to the company's Quality process and procedure and product specifications as per production plan requirements. Evidence of any deviation to be corrected immediately.
- In partnership with materials procurement and quality, ensure inputs to the manufacturing processes consistently meet requirements, including mutually agreed specifications and all the specified BOM specifications.
- Ensure all line operators are completing PCDs and related documentation correctly and timeously if assistance required liaise with QA.
- Maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and process control sheets in compliance with Quality Management Systems.
Manufacturing/FMCG experience
Leading and managing a team
Desired Skills:
- Process production
- FMCG
- Team Leader
- Manufacturing
- Food manufacturing
