Production Coordinator (Spreads) at Lactalis South Africa

Job Description

• Join Lactalis at our Bonnievale Plant in the Spreads department with the main responsibilities will include analyse production results on a continuous basis with the aim to meet or better the goals on quality, volume, productivity, OEE and seconds per kilograms.
• Ensure that set departmental goals and focus points are known to your team through daily and monthly meetings.
• Successful candidates need to have at least 5 – 6 years' relevant experiences n dairy industry environment and at least 5 years experiences in a supervisory role and knowledge of complex equipment. Be fluent in English and be computer literate.

Required Skills

• NQF5 Manufacturing Management or equivalent
• Dairy qualification in cheese making
• At least 5 years experiences in a supervisory role
• At least 5 – 6 years' relevant experiences in dairy industry environment
• Knowledge of complex equipment and be able to operate all the equipment in the Spreads/SOS environment
• Computer literate
• Able to manage and build a successful team
• Interpersonal understanding, organizational awareness and direction will be advantageous.
• Willing to relocate to Bonnievale
• Knowledge of inventory and BPCS/WM9 systems
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Health and Safety requirements
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good problem-solving skills
• Assertiveness
• A valid Code EB driver’s license will be advantages

Personal Attributes:

• Good communicator
• Work independently
• High degree of accuracy and consistency
• Professional demeanour and approach
• Calm under pressure
• Honest, strong personal ethics and track record of working in a confidential environment
• Must be able to work under pressure
• Willing to do Ad hoc tasks

Duties & Responsibilities

• Complete and analyse daily technical data sheets. Point out trends for further action.
• Manage the overall SOS and Spreads, planning and people management.
• Drive all action plans, follow up on completion dates and push where targets are not met. (Quality) (Safety) (Sec per kg) (Volumes increase)
• Monitor pragma weekly to identify long outstanding job cards and monitor to see if there are job cards missing.
• Do weekly and monthly Safety Inspections, take immediate action where necessary and stop unsafe equipment. Must be done in detail. Ask for clarity if not clear.
• Weekly and Monthly Quality inspections to be done, take immediate action where Quality could cause harm to product or environment. Must be done in detail
• Monitor MBU`s, update and life with detail of what went wrong or well.
• Rack inspections, all racks safe to use and not rusted. Demarcation visible and readable.
• Daily door inspections are they closed at all time and in good operating state.
• Monitor bulk chemicals, is Acid diluted and no leaks and area is clean. Monitor CIP system on the lines
• Monitor product and packaging quality on all production lines in Process Spreads and SOS.
• Be involve each morning during sensory evaluation on all product of Process plant. Block product not on standard.
• Check on specific Quality control areas on the lines, Dud detectors, sanitising sprayers, cheese rejection on SOS and Spreads, chlorine water ppm, sanitizing units, temperatures on lines.
• Monitor cleaning equipment, in good usable order and needy stored on trolleys. Make sure the teams have suffusion cleaning equipment. Ensure protocols and procedures are followed.
• Air handling units to be taken off and cleaned every 3 months. (Blue Socks)
• Chiller room outside mould to be cleaned, clean inside and as empty as possible. No rejected or expired stock inside.
• Spiral chiller to be cleaned inside and outside on a weekly base and temperature monitoring during production
• Chemical room must be cleaned organised and locked at every moment of the day.
• Monitor waste area, organised and clean at all times.
• Set up daily weekly shift patterns. On time so people know where they will work in what period of time.
• Handle HR related hearings and Queries.
• Monitor and arrange cleaning of filters in the roof.
• Daily, weekly stock take, be involve in counts and explanations etc. Be involve in managing the yields.
• Cross inspection in respective areas on a weekly base.
• No person outside the plant with the same shoes as what they were inside, Also no white jackets outside.
• Secondary packing must be need at all times, organised with no unneeded items on the floor.
• All liquids to be in the correct holder and to be demarcated to state what liquid is inside the container.
• Foreign body inspection on a weekly base. Hand in or identify any critical objects such as blades, needles, glass etc.
• Check for Garlic Lemon Juice, is all in speck to use. Check on a daily base.
• All people to wear the correct PPE at every given time. Order when needed.
• Monitor raw material for traceability, demarcation in place on all product.
• Monitor the recipe`s to check if people work according to specifications.
• No untrained personal allowed to work on any equipment. Schedule training where to fill the acting pool so you will have enough trained people.
• Ad hoc tasks

Closing Date

• 2025/07/31