Factory Manager at Tiger Brands

Job at a Glance:

• Responsible for the management of the factory, including manufacturing, maintenance, dispatch, stores, quality control, and health and safety.

What You Will Do:

Throughput

• Monitor plant efficiency
• Number of mixing stoppages or breakdowns
• Resolve controls management

Yields and cost control

• Track and manage cost of production
• Ingredients
• Packaging
• Waste management
• Manage budgets
• Manage cost drivers
• Deploy cost saving strategies and plans
• Adhere to BMR to ensure audit requirements are met
• Manage and control labour cost in line with budget

Damages

• Conduct root cause analysis to determine why damages are occurring
• Implement and manage process and stakeholders to ensure issue is resolved
• Escalate to National office where CAPEX is required and complete CAPEX documentation

Quality

• Implement process checks to ensure recipes are aligned to standard
• Implement and ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)
• Ensure achievement of required score on Quality audits
• Consumer complaints

Logistics

• Manage departure times
• Ensure adherence to loading schedules
• Ensure conformance to quality standards
• Monitor inter-Bakery ordering and on time delivery

Bake Plan

• Ensure right product produced at right time
• Ensure sufficient levels of raw materials are available
• Ensure stock count is done and signed off daily

Hygiene

• Manage cleaning structures
• Enforce the use of correct PPE
• Manage stakeholders such as waste management, pest control.
• Ensure cleaning schedules are enforced and adhered to

Health, Safety and Environment

• Conduct monthly safety meetings
• Manage Safety Officers
• Ensure and maintain safe working conditions for employees and equipment based on risk assessments and compliance with OHS Act
• Instill an environmentally conscious mindset within the manufacturing environment (H2O, noise pollution, utilities, landfill)

People Management

• Promote a high-performance culture
• Engage regularly with employees through InfoCom's, union engagements.
• Identify and develop Talent and competency gap closing actions
• Ensure training is undertaken as per PDP’s
• Ensure workplace discipline and manage ER issues in line with Tiger Brands policies and procedures

What You Will Be Measured On:

• Expenses
• OEE
• Cost variances
• People Development
• Waste Management
• Quality
• PBIT
• Safety
• Lost time injuries
• Planned job observation
• SBO’s
• Near misses
• AM step implementation
• Cost savings / improvements

What You'll Bring to the Table:

Experience

• Minimum 10 years FMCG manufacturing experience (food manufacturing preferable)
• Minimum 5 years production/manufacturing management
• Engineering experience
• Finance

Cost management

Budgeting

P&L

• Excellent communications skills
• Relevant completed undergraduate qualification in Operations Management / Process Engineering
• Relevant postgraduate degree would be advantageous
• Experience in human capital management
• Asset maintenance and management