Logistics Manager

**Salary**: Market related**

**Location**: Olifantsfontein**

**Industry**: Food Processing/Supply**

**Reference Number**: CWR.NRS.LM.28022024**

**COMPANY DESCRIPTION**:
Our client is a leading South African meat wholesaler supplying meat and other food products to sectors of the hotel, restaurant and hospitality industries. They are looking for a Logistics Manager to join their Gauteng team.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
**MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Dispatch**
- Plan, manage and evaluate all logistics operations.
- Manage, motivate and control all the staff working in your section on a daily basis.
- Check that staff are at work and report absentees timeously to HR.
- Ensure that staff wear clean undamaged uniforms as per company policy.
- Ensure that your line supervisors adhere to your instructions and perform their duties as per their job descriptions.
- Co-ordinate and handle the dispatch of goods.
- Plan the daily routes of all delivery vehicles.
- Ensure the sorting of picking slips into routes and ensure that all deliveries can be made with the available trucks, if there is a problem report to Operations Manager.
- Ensure the timely loading of vehicles according to planned routes.
- Ensure that all goods are double checked for deviations from quality standards before loading.
- Double check weight of products before loading.
- Manage the dispatch of late and in between orders.
- Handle and resolve customer enquiries about deliveries.
- Liaise with internal staff and managers, suppliers, logistics providers, transport companies and customers.
- Check to see that the trucks are back in the yard in time to be loaded, report to the Operations Manager if there are problems.
- Communicate with staff regarding which trucks to load first and get invoices and sort accordingly.
- Make sure that there is staff to help load, and start loading trucks until others are able to take over.
- Manage the documentation and allocation of all products returned from customers.
- Take all measures possible to prevent stock losses or theft of company property.
- Manage and ensure that all stock produced is collected and sorted into the different routes in the Dispatch freezer. STOCK CONTROL.

**Receiving**
- Co-ordinate and manage the receiving of goods plus storage of raw materials being delivered.
- Ensure the correct documentation of all goods received.
- Ensure that the weights and quantities of all goods received are checked and documented.
- Ensure the immediate labelling of all products received for traceability purposes.
- Manage the receiving of late and in between deliveries from suppliers.

**Quality / Food Safety and Health & Safety**
- Manage, maintain and enforce food safety procedures and requirements.
- Manage, maintain and enforce quality policies, procedures and requirements.
- Manage, maintain and enforce health and safety legal requirements plus company procedures.
- Ensure that all food safety and quality documents are completed timeously and handed to the HACCP section at the end of the week.
- Ensure that new templates for all food safety and quality documents are sourced from the HACCP section at the start of the working week

**Vehicles**
- Check and inspect all trucks for damage, cleanliness, general maintenance and refrigeration every Monday.
- Ensure that drivers do not idle any vehicle unnecessarily for long periods while on the premises.
- Check that trip sheets are completed daily.
- Check that all necessary equipment is available i.e. spare wheel, jack and emergency triangle.
- Ensure that all trucks are serviced within specified schedules.
- Ensure that all vehicles licenses are renewed prior to expiry.
- Ensure that all service records for all vehicles are completed / filed.
- Ensure that a petrol log is kept for each truck.
- Monitor vehicle movement on a continuous basis during the day and address deviations.
- Make sure that all drivers have valid PDP licenses and are renewed annually prior to expiry.
- Keep all truck & drivers documentation on file.

**General**
- Attend weekly management meeting with Operations manager, section managers and supervisors.
- Identify and resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports or customer issues.
- Implement and maintain best practice logistics principles, policies and procedures to improve operational and financial performance.
- Ensure that all expenses are documented and keep track of budget limits.
- Negotiate rates and contracts with transportation, fuel and logistics providers.
- Review impact of logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or carriers and report results to senior management.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and identify inefficiencies and cost optimization opportunities.
- Identify and resolve any inventory discrepancies and ensure inventory and system records agree.

**Housekeeping**
- Ensure that the Dispatch area, Dispatch freezer and yard areas are