Production Manager

6 months ago


Durban, South Africa RCL FOODS Careers Full time

**RCL Foods** is recruiting for a driven, highly energized, baking and people orientated **Production Manager** within the baking business unit.

This role will be based in **Durban** and reporting to the Production Manager.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Manufacturing goals**
- Identify Mfg. Performance Measurements (preliminary)
- Ensure manufacturing cost targets are met
- Ensure manufacturing delivery targets are fulfilled (on time in full)
- Ensure output quantity targets are met
- Ensure manufacturing quality targets are delivered
- Recommend revisions to detailed manufacturing standards, performance metrics, targets, goals and organisation structure
- Ensure maximum baking yield
- Ensure maximum plant and labour utilisation

**Manufacturing reports (analysis and strategy)**
- Report and explain manufacturing results against target
- Compare manufacturing capabilities to targets with focus on optimisation and improvement
- Identify manufacturing deficiencies and propose improvements
- Develop and implement manufacturing improvement programme
- Perform and report on competitive benchmarking analysis

**Manufacturing reports (operations) (to be presented daily/weekly/monthly)**
- Gather and report production operation information
- Collect labour costs, machine costs; explain trends and variances
- Calculate, monitor and manage yield, efficiency, adherence to schedule, consumption (energy, water, fuels, etc), changeover time, asset effectiveness, waste, safety performance, shift performance; explain trends and variances
- Perform root cause analysis and make recommendations

**Manufacturing Operations**
- Work with Maintenance Manager in the Installation of machines/equipment; plan and execute
- Improve Process; continuous evaluation and improvement
- Manage and communicate breakdown impact and expedite delivery
- Line scheduling maximising resource utilisation
- Material Availability - Stores
- Determine minimum stock levels and safety stock levels
- Ensure stock on hand matches to stock levels
- Ensure material availability at all times (zero stock outs)
- Determine optimal inventory days and run accordingly
- Ensure requisition of stock to shop floor aligns with production consumption
- All stock accounted for, variances explained and investigated ERP system responsibility

**Work closely with the cost accounting department**
- Reconcile and close production orders
- Monitor inventory and financial transaction ensuring all inventory transaction processed
- Ensure that all production variances are explained
- Update BOM when necessary to ensure accurate costings
- Ensure all damages and scrap accounted for within the system
- Ensure that all Production reporting is extracted direct from JDE (or via Hubble)
- Responsible for accurate and on time data off the factory floor into JDE

**General Audit Compliance**
**Responsible for ensuring the facility is audit ready at any point in time. This relates to**
- Health and safety audit
- Food safety audit
- Halaal
- Weights and measures
- DOL audits

**People Management**
- Set daily objectives for staff, ensuring full productivity and value add to the business
- Manage staff performance weekly and give regular feedback, taking disciplinary action when necessary and giving recognition where it’s due.
- Conduct formal performance reviews twice yearly with direct reports
- Ensure regular staff communication sessions
- Leave planning, ensuring no leave is lost
- Participate in recruitment of new employees
- Ensure new employees receive appropriate training

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Education** / **Qualifications**
- NQF level 5/6, Diploma or Degree in Operations Management
- SA Chamber of Baking Certificate - preferably Theory in Bread Making

**Experience**
- 5+ years manufacturing management experience.
- 3+ years perishable food manufacture and FMCG.

**Skills/Knowledge**
- Practical knowledge of ERP system, JDE advantageous
- Full understanding of FSMS and OHS systems
- Good computer literacy, especially Excel



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