Minimum Requirements

• Matric or recognised equivalent qualification
• Computer Literacy
• Numeracy and Literacy Proficient
• Mechanical engineering N3 – N6 advantageous
• Counterbalance Forklift License
• 2-3 years’ Experience in a food manufacturing environment in progressively responsible roles and in a supervisory role
• Experience as a key operator
• Must understand LEAN principles
• Knowledge of ERP System preferably SAP would be advantageous but extensive training will be given to the company
• Must be able to efficiently operate a PC, and have basic MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) skills

Duties and Responsibilities

Safety, Food Safety and People Management:

• Ensure full compliance to all national OHS Act requirements and Nando’s Feitoria Occupational Health and Safety & Food Safety regulations and policies
• Responsible and accountable for maintenance of the “5 s’” in your department
• Action all Internal and External Safety Audit action plans relating to your section
• Manage direct reports according to the basic employment regulations, company policies and prescribed demonstrated HR and operations best practices
• Attend daily production meetings providing input where required necessary
• Coordinate the activities of the team, ensuring that labour is utilised effectively and that objectives are communicated to aid in team and individual motivation
• Assess needs regarding the training and development plan, ensuring goals and objectives are communicated and reviewed to motivate, develop and retain staff
• Complete and sign off time sheets for the team and provide records to the production manager
• Assist or relieve operators, production operators and forklift driver as and when necessary
• Ad-hoc duties from time to time at the request of the Factory Manger or the Production Group Leader

Productivity Improvement and Implementation:

• Ensure achievement of target World Class OEE levels by the identification and elimination and documentation of “8 waste/loss buckets” areas of Lean Manufacturing
• Review daily production reports /data for GPM and OEE Reporting before submission to the Production Group Leader
• Verify all information to be correct on a shift report and ensure that data inputs and raw material actuals balance to ERP SAP and shopware records
• Effectively manage inventory levels in liaison with the Warehouse department
• Optimize labour complement and utilization to give best quality of product at minimum cost and line savings based on up-to-date plant diagnostics
• Ensure effective utilization of all lean manufacturing tools, e.g. mistake proofing, SMED, pull systems, Root Cause Problem Solving, optimized changeover principles
• Assist with continuous improvement projects till successful completion
• Prepare recipes, labels, spices and vegetables for hand over to Pre-weigher
• Collect required ingredients from raw material section using a folk lift
• Supervise the daily scale check and ensure scale is in a good condition
• Check that the cooking area pots have the required recipe on the screen
• Inform cookers when a batch is ready to be taken to the cooking area
• Monitor that the sequence of cooking procedures is followed correctly
• Supervise the cooking process; ensuring recipe, temperature and ingredients are correct
• Sign off each batch of ingredients released
• Capture stock movement in the system in accordance with standard procedure
• Keep accurate record of all batches released and used for each shift
• Perform handover process to the next shift

Quality Control, Inspections, PCD’S and QM System:

• Ensure all products are manufactured to Nando’s Quality process and procedure and product specifications as per production plan requirements.
• In partnership with materials procurement and quality, ensure inputs to the manufacturing processes consistently meet requirements, including mutually agreed specifications and all the specified BOM specifications
• Ensure all line operators are completing PCDs and related documentation correctly and timeously
• Maintain SOPs and process control sheets in compliance with QMS
• Participate in resolving customer complaints with QA to improve the production process

Reports and Internal Relations:

• Ensure daily reports are submitted on time
• Report scrap levels daily and submit the information to the production group leader for further review
• Ensure stock take is conducted when required
• Provide service excellence and promote teamwork, personal responsibility, and ownership
• Attend production meetings to assist production Group Leaders in the planning of the day-to-day schedule

Inventory:

• Ensure Shop Floor Control and transfer of RM & FG are completed daily
• Participate in the financial year end stock take

Internal audits and managing findings:

• Assist the Production Group Leader in ensuring internal audits are conducted for BRC/GMP/5S audits
• Drive the established KPIS in your team to monitor BRC/GMP/5S status, quality incidents or failures