Cold Store Supervisor and Manager

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Supervise the packing of products and stock in the freezers.
- Operating the forklift
- Loading and offloading trucks as required.
- Loading waste into waste containers for disposal
- Maintain workflow by motivating stackers and production stock pickers to work fast and correctly.
- Check that stackers and production stock pickers are at work and report absenteeism timeously to Section manager.
- Ensure that stackers, production stock pickers and you are wearing clean undamaged protective clothing as per company policy.
- Assist the Section managers in planning the picking of stock for daily production or deliveries - Assist the Section managers in planning the stacking of incoming stock and products in progress in the freezers daily.
- Report low stock levels to section manager on a regular basis.
- Communicate with Section managers, production stock controller and Final QC points about stock needed.
- Stack completed, work in progress orders and incoming stock neatly in the blast or holding freezer.
- Ensure product segregation i.e. stack products per line item and or animal species - Ensure that all products and pallets are clearly marked
- Ensure that all individual products are identified with a lot or batch number when stored - Ensure stock rotation when selecting products from the freezers - First in First out
- Pack and plan stock packing in such a manner that old stock can be used before new stock
- Ensure that the stackers and production stock pickers adhere to your instructions and perform their duties as per their job descriptions - Ensure controlled entrance by staff to both freezers.
- Ensure products is checked for deviations from quality standards such as labels, lot or batch numbers and packaging while stacking.
- Ensure good housekeeping practises in the blast and holding freezers.
- Implement and maintain measures to reduce wastage of and damage to stock being stored in the blast and holding freezers.
- Ensure that temperature controls for the blast and holding freezers and all products stored are adhered to
- Train new personnel in all stacking, storage, and packing actions

**Quality, Food Safety and Health & Safety**
- Manage, maintain, and enforce food safety procedures and requirements in the blast and holding freezers and for the stackers and the production stock pickers
- Manage, maintain, and enforce quality policies, procedures and requirements in the blast and holding freezers and for all products in these areas
- Manage, maintain, and enforce Health & Safety legal requirements plus company procedures in the blast and holding freezers
- Ensure that all food safety and quality documents are completed timeously.- **Equipment**
- Ensure that all equipment and utensils in your area are clean and in good working order.
- Assist the Section manager freezers with preventative and planned maintenance of the blast and holding freezer areas.
- Ensure that the forklift is operating properly.
- Report faulty machinery as per maintenance procedure to the Ops Team manager.
- General
- Attend weekly meetings with Section Supervisors
- Attend weekly management planning meeting with Logistics Manager - Identify and resolve any stock shortages or possible.
- Ensure that areas under your control or allocated to you are clean, neat and tidy at all times
- Ensure that the areas under your control are left in a clean and neat condition at the end of every working day
- Any shortfalls in products, orders or pallets coming through to your freezers to be reported to the Logistics Manager immediately.
- Minimize damage by controlling stacking and storing actions daily.
- No products to be stacked without correct labelling and marked paperwork in place.
- Ensure that all goods and completed orders are stacked neatly and on time
- Ensure that quality standards are maintained.
- Assist with month end stock take in your area of control