Divisional Project 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.

An exciting opportunity exists for a **Divisional Project Manager **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED, Biscuits and Snacks**. The successful incumbent will be responsible for all capital expenditure in the Snackworks Division**,** and will report to the Divisional Engineering Executive.

**Line Manager**: Divisional Engineering Executive

**Number of Direct Reports**: 2

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

- Leverage your process expertise and ability to manage multiple complex projects within a manufacturing environment in order to effect capacity enabling changes across the Snackworks factories
- Lead the site project engineering teams
- Manage capital projects from the justification stage across the project cycle to accelerate equipment selection, commissioning, performance ramp up and maintenance and training integration by following sound project management principles
- Establish capital expenditure to improve health & safety, productivity, capacity and efficiency for each factory within the division
- Project planning and tracking to ensure deadlines and objectives are met
- Execute project follow up and ensure successful implementation
- Coordinate implementation of projects in terms of change management and training needs
- Lean manufacturing approach to the project life cycle
- Report to management with progress of current and planned projects
- Establish a 5-year plan for each factory
- Ensure that approved capital expenditure delivers the commitments at each factory within the division
- Implementation of appropriate manufacturing systems to enable process and operational improvements at each factory within the division

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

- 5+ Years’ experience within a similar role
- Relevant FMCG experience in the Food environment

**Qualifications**:

- Completed Higher National Diploma/ BTech or BSC Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
- A professional engineering qualification combined with keen business acumen and FMCG Food manufacturing experience is indispensable in this environment

**Additional Requirements**:

- MS Projects
- MS Office
- AutoCAD knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of FMCG plant equipment
- At least 5 years’ experience in project management
- Presentation skills
- Analytical/investigative nature
- Excellent interpersonal skills

**Competencies**:

- Meeting deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Planning and organising
- Thinking analytically
- Interpreting data
- Maintaining productivity
- Documenting facts
- Upholding Standards
- Minimising Risk

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