Production Shift Controller

6 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Lactalis South Africa Full time R60 000 - R85 000 per year
Job Description

Join Lactalis at our Bonnievale Plant in the White Mould department, where the main responsibilities include managing the team, ensuring material availability, driving line efficiencies, overseeing waste management and prevention, and conducting stock counts. Successful candidates must have at least 3 years of relevant experience in a food manufacturing environment and 2–3 years in a supervisory role. An NQF4 diploma is required, along with fluency in English and computer literacy



Duties & Responsibilities
  • Picking of Packaging for production line
  • Managing losses and reworks
  • Daily Completion of Shop Orders
  • Daily Stock Counts
  • Daily Investigation of packaging and shop order variants
  • Do quality checks during shifts, and react on non-conformances
  • Manage all production lines to achieve 70% on efficiencies
  • Keep rework generation below 3.5% and pig feed below 1%on all lines.
  • Make sure you always have enough cheese according to the demand of the recipe.
  • Monitor temperatures of blast chiller and spiral chiller daily.
  • This action include reworks, pig feed etc.
  • Monitor age of cheese vs recipe requirements
  • Check that the amount of cheese added in batches for cooking purpose
  • Check if powders are weighted off correctly.
  • Monitor the recipes and assure that all products cooked comply with company standards.
  • Monitor if dud detector, x-ray machine and check if it was calibrated on during the shift.
  • After CIP or when there is no production make sure all grinders, Stephan cookers, filling machines are manually clean Daily during CIP
  • Monitor cleaning by doing cleaning checks daily
  • Monitor FTE's daily
  • Ensure daily cleaning of all equipment in the Spreads department
  • All equipment must be cleaned daily on each shift
  • Monitor blender specifications, PH, Moist, Salt and fat by monitor the Lab result file. Do the same with final product.
  • On the blender file on Lab test results, there must be at all times a second test. Not only one test. Check
  • Pay special attention to the people work on the grinding of product, they must keep up with production. 
  • Also make sure that the cheese is available for them to use at all time.
  • Arrange with drivers to lower enough cheese to the floor so that grinder people can reach it with pallet truck.
  • Do not wait until the cheese is finish and then look for a driver.
  • The same rule count for powder and ingredients.
  • Report immediately to Coordinator when you are waiting for ingredients.
  • When doing the CIP, day or night check if FLASH tank on UHT are cleaned.
  • Check on each shift the Circuit A and B was opened cleaned and changed. Check rubbers and change.
  • Drains must be cleaned on each shift, complete also register on a daily base.
  • Ensure that all products that leave the department comply to specifications
  • Evaluate customer complaints weekly and take corrective action
  • Manage BPCS and OEE systems
  • Ensure that the machines are utilised at full capacity and that maximum production are achieved.
  • Analyse daily shift chemistry and production results.
  • Prepare the weekly shifts analysis and production planning.
  • Monitor total off-cuts, samples, reworks, pigfeed and COD's daily
  • Do monthly stock take and manages deviations.
  • Set out detailed responsibilities to subordinates
  • Lead, empower and organise subordinates
  • Ensure that ISO, NOSA and HACCP procedures are in place
  • Ensure sensory evaluations are done as per operational procedures, and that your department comply with standards.

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