Founded in 1820 with a rich history spanning more than 195 years, Premier is entering a new and exciting period in our journey. In July 2014 we moved into our new corporate offices in Waterfall City just north of Johannesburg.
The past two years have seen a series of changes whereby Premier expanded from the traditional milling and baking business into suga...
At Premier, we recruit and invest in our employees for the long term. We believe that our growth depends on us having the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. We have a high-performance environment that attracts like-minded people who want to be their best everyday and in doing so we grow together. The Packing Manager role is responsible to lead a high-performance packing team to deliver packed grain products in line with stock management and buffer management system requirements. If you know you have what it takes, click apply and get your application rolling.
Qualification Requirements
Matric
LSS Greenbelt or Lean Leader (Essential)
Manufacturing Academy Certificate or Leadership/Supervisory Certificate equivalent (Desirable)
Advanced OSHACT certificate (Essential)
Food safety requirements (FSSC 22000) (Essential)
Experience Requirements
FMCG Packing Superintendent/Manager 2-3 Years (Essential)
Stock management system principles 2-3 Years (Essential)
Supervisory and Management principles and practices (Essential)
Financial acumen to support planning, budgeting, and cost controls (Essential)
Performance management principles (Essential)
Disciplinary and grievance management process requirements (Essential)
Continuous improvement processes (Desirable)
Health, Safety, Environment and Risk Management principles pertaining to industry (Essential)
Key Outputs
To ensure packing process delivers consistent high-quality packed products in line withrequired specifications by:
Performing resource planning needed for the packing process
Collaborating with the milling team to ensure adequate stock is produced
Managing packing materials
Collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the value chain.
Optimal mixing and blending if needed (plant specific)
Ensure best cost packing through planning, organising and managing the function in line with agreed expense budget and resource plans.
Ensure high performance culture in the packing team by:
building and motivating capability though competency-based selection
training and development, coaching, mentoring, performance management
effective communications
leading and participating in Invocoms and meetings as needed
ensuring good discipline and accountability
establishing good working relationships with union representatives
ensuring a conducive and safe working environment according to the Premier way.
To ensure full statutory and regulatory compliance to all health and safety and food safety requirements in line with Premier standards and SOP’s by ensuring training of relevant personnel, audits and corrective action of all findings in collaboration with the risk function.
To ensure continuous improvement of the packing process and function through:
Ensuring a culture of learning and continuous improvement in the Invocom
Perform route cause analysis when needed and ensure corrective action with relevant stakeholders
Driving continuous improvement of packing processes based on the feedback from quality and the packing team and doing internal and external benchmarking from time to time.
To ensure optimal plant asset management through implementation timeous corrective and preventative maintenance in accordance with company SOPs and maintenance system.
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