Production Manager

1 week ago


Pinetown, South Africa AVI Limited Full time

**AVI Ltd**. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

**NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED** operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range

**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:

- To effectively empower and develop staff through goal setting and performance management in-order to enable them to contribute effectively and make the right decisions.
- Ensuring high efficiency, excellent quality and low waste.
- To ensure optimal production through effective liaison with all other support functions.
- Manage and ensure cost effective labour usage in accordance with MANMAPS.
- Analysing and resolving production history in order to minimize potential risk.
- To ensure that operating specifications are in place and are achievable (correctly implemented).
- To ensure the right talent are recruited and identified for development.
- Implementation of the correct business strategies.
- Effectively manage operational budget and cost effectiveness.
- To ensure implementation and adherence to SHEQ; QMS and food safety.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production leadership role with in an FMCG environment overseeing baking plant/s
- Experience working in a high-speed manufacturing environment required

**Qualifications**:

- A relevant completed Food Technology Degree / B-Tech is essential as a minimum

**Additional Requirements**:

- Good understanding and knowledge of baking processes and ingredient science including fats
- Basic understanding of Chocolate and Jam manufacturing advantageous
- Hands on capabilities and skills in operating baking equipment is welcomed
- Good Excel and data analysis skills including statistical analysis
- Good written and numeracy skills
- Passionate about Food Science and Technology, specifically Baking
- Excellent People Management skills
- Understanding Process Flow
- Good IR knowledge and skills
- Good working knowledge of MS Office and Outlook
- Good knowledge of SHEQ and Continuous Improvement
- Safety and environmental exposure
- Lean Manufacturing Principles
- Experience in SAP Manufacturing & HR will be an added advantage.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of WCM or TPM
- Management Information Systems such as Wonderware or Shopware or SCADA
- Exposure to AIB / GMP’s and FSSC systems
- SOP’s; Work Instructions and OPL’s formalizing & training
- Must be able to lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA’s)
- Taking remedial, corrective and preventative actions on non-conformances

**Competencies**:

- Thinking Analytically
- Thinking Rationally
- Setting Directions
- Staying Composed
- Working Together
- Meeting Deadlines
- Minimizing Risk
- Planning & Organizing


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