Foreman: Creamer Packaging

3 weeks ago

Kempton Park, 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 **Foreman Creamer Packaging **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED NBL Isando Coffee and Creamer. **The successful incumbent will be responsible for the efficient operations and maintenance of all packaging equipment. Managing area Artisans and ensuring Technical support availability.

**Line Manager**: Maintenance Manager

**Number of Direct Reports**: Millwrights, Artisans in the creamer section

**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:
**Health, Safety and Environment**
- Adhere to, and ensure compliance by subordinates to the company safety policies and procedures.
- Assist with attainment and maintenance of relevant health, safety and environmental management system standards for processing, utilities and buildings.
- Ensure facilities and infrastructure are conducive to employee health and wellness.

**Food Safety**
- Adhere to, and ensure compliance by subordinates to FSSC 22000, AIB and ISO principles.
- Ensure site infrastructure and equipment are installed and maintained in such a manner that Food Safety is not compromised.
- Ensure standard of utilities and processing equipment is in line with Food Safety Standards.

**Plant Availability and reliability**
- Oversee all relevant maintenance activities for Creamer Packing lines and equipment.
- Ensure daily plant inspections are conducted to guarantee maximum uptime and quality.
- Communicate with the Operations team in the case of disruption due to breakdowns.
- Conduct relevant inspections and examinations for legal compliance and safety.
- Assist and oversee high-level breakdowns to ensure quick turnaround times.
- Conduct root cause analysis and provide recommendations to reduce downtime.
- Develop and maintain a problem-solving culture within the department (direct reports) through facilitating and sustaining root cause analysis practices.
- Ensure that the job card processes including monitoring, allocation, close-out and backlog are up to date.
- Assist with reviewing OEM recommended spares and identification and classification of critical spares.
- Participate in scoping and procurement of new plant equipment to ensure adherence to site Engineering standards.
- Workshop housekeeping, GMP and environmental compliance and related activities must adhere to relevant standards.
- Input into development and coordination of major shutdowns and communication with all relevant stakeholders, with main focus on execution of plan.
- Assist with planning of new installations, upgrades and modifications to the existing plant in a safe and effective manner.

**Systems and reporting**
- Assist with the Computerised Maintenance Management System, ensuring reliability and integrity of information.
- Report on asset care schedule compliance and artisan utilisation.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant procedures.
- Raising and closing out of NCR’s.

**Management**
- Lead millwrights, artisans
- Ensuring appropriate resources for departmental requirements.
- Assist with updating and implementation of skills matrix as well as coordination of training.
- Plan and control engineering tasks; allocate resources to activities; control labour scheduling; overtime and cost control for area of responsibility.
- Planning, scheduling, monitoring and evaluating of artisan tasks according to the CMMS (Asset care system).
- Ensure that labour allocation and hours of work are in accordance with the Basic Conditions of Employment and Labour Relations Act.
- Review completed job cards and approve.
- Hold 1 on 1 discussions and evaluate IPA’s with artisans.C

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

- Minimum of 5 years’ post-trade test experience in FMCG / Manufacturing environment with a focus on packing machine maintenance.
- Minimum of 3 years in a supervisory role
- Computer literacy (Microsoft Office).

**Qualifications**:

- Trade tested artisan at an accredited training facility.
- Millwright, National diploma, N6 or equivalent qualification highly advantageous.
- Continual professional development in maintenance management and engineering standards.

**Additional Requirements**:

- Knowledge and experience on Computerised Maintenance Management System (i.e. SAP, Shopware or similar).
- Experience in a powder packing machinery.
- Extensive knowledge and experience of packing equipment relative to packaging machiner

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