Warehouse Supervisor

Deli Spices has an opening for a Warehouse Manager position based in George, Western Cape.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To manage, control and oversee all products, materials, systems, processes, and procedures in the Warehouse, availability and picking of materials to meet customer requirements. Managing stock age, stock losses and wastage in alignment to Company allowed standards.

• Drive cost reduction whilst optimizing resources and meeting resource requirements continuously.
• Ensure All products, packing and consumables or machinery is received in full and in good order from local suppliers and 3rd party warehouses as well as from international suppliers (imports) and store correctly.
• Accurate stock control through cycle counts, FIFO principles and procedures, SYSPRO/WMS transactions.
• Adherence to Food Safety, Quality Assurance and Quality Control Systems.
• Drive Quality, Environmental Awareness, Safety, Security and Health in the workplace whilst assessing Risks continuously.
• People management through applied Human Resource and Industrial Relationship tools, policies, and procedures.

SCOPE OF JOB

Independence (Finance)

• Drive cost reduction whilst optimizing resources and meeting resource requirements continuously.
• Minimize accountable, unaccountable and wastage losses.
• Effective and efficient planning, allocation of resources to meet daily operational needs –labour, warehouse capacity, equipment, material handling equipment.
• Manage warehouse capacities and ensure adherence to Company standards.
• Maintain overtime alignment with the departmental set budget.
• Usage of casual labour in accordance with the departmental set budget.
• Usage of consumables within the set parameters per material and in alignment with the departmental set budget.
• Reduce waste in identifying and eliminating non-value adding activities in the operation through fostering an environment for innovativeness, trial-and-error and use of suggestion boxes and dynamic work teams.
• Abuse of material handling equipment and operational equipment investigated and recovered from negligent employees through the proper process.

Customer Centricity

• Ensure that all Customer SO requirements are managed and processed through the WMS processes and systems to be picked on time and in full.
• Ensure availability of Stock and resources to meet customer requirements.
• Ensure no picking errors.
• Ensure that all material movements done have an accompanying system movement.
• Ensure the correct stacking and storage practices are enforced to eliminate safety and product quality non-conformances.
• Ensure product handling equipment is maintained and in working order andthat equipment is serviced as per schedule.
• Ensure building and infrastructure non-conformances reported and fixed.

Operations and Process

• Ensure All Materials, Packaging Materials, and Consumables etc., are received, stored, handled, quality accepted, and issued per system and process policies and procedures.
• Adherence to all company policies and procedures regarding the receiving, handling, storage, quality acceptance, and issuing of all products and materials.
• Ensure that all material movements have an accompanying system movement.
• Ensure that all pallets and products are correctly labeled to ensure proper lot traceability throughout the value chain.
• Ensure the correct stacking and storage practices are enforced to eliminate safety and product quality non-conformances.
• Ensure correct Stock rotation and FIFO procedures is maintained as per required procedures.
• Manage all picking operations to ensure Customer orders are completed on time.
• Manage the Bulk to Pick face replenishment process to ensure stock availability for picking.
• Drive Quality, Environmental Awareness, Safety, Security whilst assessing Risks continuously.
• Ensure daily housekeeping is done according to the Master Cleaning Schedule and that inspections are done as per company procedures, and all deviations are rectified immediately.
• Building and infrastructure must be compliant with Food Safety Regulations. All deviations were reported, and maintenance was done to ensure continuous adherence.
• Ensure that broken pallets are removed from circulation to prevent damage and contamination of the finished products.
• Ensure that layer pads are placed between the product and the wooden pallets
• Ensure proper stacking and storage practices are carried out, and that employees are trained, and that refresher training is conducted annually.

People

• Align yourself to the performance driven culture through the implementation of performance management and talent management.
• Participate in development planning process.
• Align yourself to the Mane Code of Ethics.
• Align yourself to the Value System.
• Facilitate upskilling of your team through internal development processes and e-learning.

Corporate social responsibility

• Adhere to the Code of Ethics and drive ethical business practices across the group including the management of anti-competitive behavior.
• Participate in Group wellness and CSR activity and utilize group resources in this regard.
• Drive awareness of group energy consumption initiatives.
• Support the SHEQ and OHS landscape across the group.

VALUES, ETHICS &PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Ability to operate in a privately owned and managed entity.
• Ethically driven to achieve business results.
• Focus on sustainability to ensure business continuity.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels within the organisation.
• Must be able to work independently and also as part of a team organisation and collaborate across the business.
• Ability to work under pressure and make good decisions in pressurised situations.
• Ability to hold all employees accountable to deliver on their required outputs.
• A good communicator with the ability to read and write in English.
• Upholds the
  company´s values,
  rules, and policies and lives the MANE Way: Passionate about our customers' needs, operating with a family culture of respect and trust, and maintaining the highest ethical standards within a professionally managed business environment.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS LEVEL

Essential

• Matric and a minimum 5 years' experience within the Food Manufacturing / Processing / Warehousing Environment or equivalent experience
• Proven warehouse, stock and SHERQ experience
• Experienced in HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) and working in a regulated environment (e.g. Food Industry).
• Food Safety, General Manufacturing Principles experience
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft packages: Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Excellent knowledge of ERP systems– SYSPRO, Navision, WMS or similar.
• Proven people management skills.

Advantageous

• Spice industry experience