Production Manager – FMCG (Ref: SFG100420)
SFG Engineering Services
Job requirements:
- Matric
- Qualification in Food/Production/Operations
- 2 – 3 Years’ FMCG experience as a Production Manager
- Valid Drivers License and own vehicle,
- Only Cape Town Candidates to apply
- Clear criminal record
Job responsibilities:
- Responsible for obtaining production plan from Factory and/or General Manager.
- Assist in planning production for the week if necessary.
- Communication with all relevant staff in department to ensure that required allocations are met.
- Communicate with relevant persons if stock levels are low
- Assist in the forecasting of stock (ingredients, packaging, labelling) to meet departments production needs.
- Supervise and assist in Start ups
- Recipe/Product make-up to be supervised
- Supervise where changeovers take place to ensure that sufficient cleaning takes place (if new allergen is introduced) and line set up complies
- Ensure that maximum trimming procedures where applicable are being used to ensure maximum yield
- Assisting in training of staff on product specifications.
- Responsible for caring out trial production runs to assist in the verification of new products.
- Report on daily production output
- Report on all daily waste/rejects
- Ensure that work area is correctly staffed
- Report absenteeism to HR
- Manage poor work performance/misconduct issues
- Rating of staff monthly and submitting score card timorously
- Identifying training needs and where growth is needed
- Identify staff with potential to grow
- Do continuous on-job training
- Continuous team competence improvement
- Identify training needs for specific staff
If you do not receive a response within 1 week of application, please consider your application unsuccessful