Production Team Leader

2 weeks ago

Durban, 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.

An exciting opportunity exists for a **Team Leader **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED, Durban Tea Factory. **The successful incumbent will ensure that he/she safely produces the required quantities at the right time, quality, and at the right cost with labour within the budget.

**Line Manager**: Production Foreman

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

- ** Cost**
- Monitor and respond to daily variances to drive delivery when demands are above planned volumes
- Understand and plan production carefully considering the impact of promotional offers
- Cost Control - Waste, Stock, Time and labour utilization
- Conduct & Facilitate Stock Take
- Labour management (Kg/Man)
- Productivity initiatives
- Conduct & Facilitate Stock Take
- **
People**
- Share information and performance results
- Develop, train and motivate team members
- Ensure effective utilization of resources (labour, plant and equipment and Leave management)
- Effective Communication
- Ensure IR procedures are complied with
- Oversee development and training
- Ensure an effective, efficient and motivated production team
- Encourage innovation and continuous improvement
- Drive engagement culture among team members
- Company values applied and adhered to
- **
Health and Safety**
- Implement and maintain SHEQ practices
- Incident & accident investigation
- Near-misses & dialogues reporting
- Safety observations, Planned Job Observations (PJO’s) and risk assessment
- Safety Register reporting(checks are done and issues closed out)
- Waste Environmental Management at source
- Safety Meeting Attendance
- Compliance with legislative requirements
- ** Quality**
- Implement and maintain Food Safety, GMP and SHEQ practices as AIB & FSSC standards.
- Quality and Process Control (quality-at-source)
- Closeout NCRs (Corrective Action Requests and customer complaints)
- Compliance with legislative requirements;
- Sensory evaluation & attending KVI sessions (Head Office)
- Adhere to process parameters/control
- GMP management and housekeeping
- Production administration (start-up, monitoring, shutdown and cleaning)
- OPL sharing and training
- Customer complaints investigation
- Root cause analysis
- **
Speed/ Delivery**
- Implement and maintain production control systems
- Achieve shift production plan (SKU availability to meet customer requirements)
- Monitor and maintain product details, new and existing products
- Plan to enable efficient deployment of stocks in partnership with the distribution team
- Production administration
- Generate Job-cards
- Adherence to the production plan
- Manage authorized and unauthorized down-time/OEE
- Process management
- Generate packaging & raw material pick-lists
- Shopware accuracy
- **
World Class Manufacturing (WCM)**
- Initiate, lead and participate in problem solving
- Update visual performance indicator boards on shifts and weekly
- Conducts pre-shift meetings
- Lead and chair production daily meetings
- Daily 5S checklist completed and findings closed
- Conduct planned job observations with the purpose
- Participate in continuous improvement projects

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

- At least 5 years’ Production/Operations/Manufacturing Management experience in a unionized FMCG environment.
- Minimum 2 years experience in TPM / WCM / Lean manufacturing role within the FMCG
- Minimum 2 years experience in production supervisory role as well as a support function to production facilitating continuous improvement initiatives.
- Solid communication skills (written and oral) and interpersonal skills are required.
- Ability to effectively develop and/or train employees across all levels within the area of responsibility.

**Qualifications**:

- Matric / Grade 12
- Completed National Diploma OR BTech in Chemical Engineering/ Operations Management (Related/NQF5) or equivalent
- People Management Courses/programs would be advantageous

**Additional Requirements**:

- Process calculations
- Use of Information Systems
- Functioning of Production Lines
- Microsoft Excel
- Knowledge of HIRA / OHS
- Must be able to do shift work
- Must be able to work overtime

**Competencies**:

- Manage and share information
- Analyse and solve problems
- Manage people and teams
- Empower and develop others
- Show courage and confidence
- Remain composed and resilient
- Govern and follow rules
- Initiate and

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