Logistics Team Leader

**Job Number**
- 71070

**Job Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- Logistics Team Leader

**Computer Skills**
- SAGE,MS Office,Intermediate MS Excel

**Industry**
- Consumer Products - FMCG

**City**
- Johannesburg

**Province**
- Gauteng
- MISSION- Your mission is to co-ordinate and execute the receiving, storing and dispatching of products and to execute the administrative functions associated with these tasks in an effective and efficient manner while maintaining food safety policies, FEFO or FIFO and the quality assessment of products upon receipt, storage and despatch.- RESPONSIBILITY:
- You are responsible for:
- Fulfilling your functions within the rules, regulations, instructions, policies and procedures applicable to the company- Rendering professional duties of the highest standard and according to any lawful and reasonable requests and instructions issued to you.- Receiving, checking, storing and safekeeping of products.- Retrieving, checking, counting and despatching of all products leaving the Storage area.- Executing all administrative related tasks and functions associated with the storage function.- Cleanliness, hygiene and neatness of the receiving, dispatch and storage areas as a whole.- DUTIES:
- Your duties and responsibilities are to:
- MANAGEMENT TASKS:
- Co-ordinate the receiving and despatching of products and ensure the efficient handling of products thereby reducing damages with the drivers, checkers and general workers.- Account for all products, stock and any items received, issued and stored.- Coordinate the orderly stacking, storing and safekeeping of products.- Allocate and Supervise the picking and staging of packaging to production and outbound external storage and others, and ensure that the highest possible levels of productivity is maintained.- Manage the receiving, storing, housekeeping and dispatching operations of the storage facilities in order to achieve the prescribed objectives.- Manage and maintain a productive work environment.- TECHNICAL:
- Ensure proper stock rotation of products under your care.- Ensure that the correct quantity of products is received and dispatched according to instructions.- Communicate and Escalate if products in your custody are nearing best before dates.- Conduct a quality check of packaging upon receipt and ensure that these packaging received are of the correct specification and booked in accordingly. In this regard continuously liaise with the Admin team, quality team, Procurement team and to the production team.- Ensure pallets/products received are identified and labelled correctly and stored in the exact specified bin location.- Ensure that receiving clerks’ signs for all receipts and ensure that all documentation received is in order and thereafter forwarded it to the respective responsible people, in a timeous manner. (Procurement, Finance, Quality, Production and others)- Verify all paperwork with drivers/procurement and ensure that all products are properly counted and accounted for.- Ensure that all inbound (received) and outbound (dispatched) products are accurate and correspond with the relevant paperwork and are free of damage.- Ensure the efficient and safe operation of equipment.- Ensure the optimal utilisation of space. (Bin Locations, Staging Areas and Airlock)- Always ensure that documents match physical.- Participate and assist in conducting physical inventory count in a regular and consistent manner.- Maintain a clean, neat and orderly work area.- Complete all necessary records and reports in a timely and accurate fashion.- Participate in establishing work schedules, shift rosters etc, in regards to the forklift drivers, general workers and checkers.- Ensure that the schedules are correctly implemented and that jobs are assigned effectively and completed properly.- Assist in maintaining the security of the facilities under you care.- Conduct all operations in a manner that promotes safety and according to OSHA and MSDS standards.- Attend required staff and quality meetings.- Ensure that products can be located effectively and update and maintain the product locator system. (WMS and others).- Any other reasonable and lawful tasks, functions, orders and instructions issued to you.- ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain and build healthy Supplier / Customer / Client /Int erdepartmental/subordinates/coworkers relations.- Handle and resolve queries and complaints.- Continually maintain a professional and courteous relationship with fellow staff, suppliers and customers.- Ensure that you fulfil your Logistics/storage/receiving/dispatch/stock management responsibilities in the best interests of the company at all times without compromising standards or ethical requirements.- AUTHORITY:
- You are hereby authorised to execute the above-mentioned duties/responsibilities within the framework of company policies, procedures, rules, regulations and instructions.- You are delegated to sign the relevant documents directly pertaining t