Career Opportunities at RCL Foods

RCL FOODS is searching for a Foreman: Boiler Shop to join our Engineering team at our Sugar Business Unit in Malelane. The role will be reporting to the Engineer.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Safely and effectively manage the Boiler Shop whilst keeping plant and equipment maintenance costs within budget constraints.
• Manage and lead a multi-disciplinary team focussing on boiler making and welding.
• Setting up of planned maintenance standards and schedules.
• Compiling and controlling expenditure on maintenance and operational and capital budgets.
• Provide technical input for setting up and optimisation of the plant performance.
• Maintain LTA below set targets.
• Functionally contribute to maintaining the integrity of the electrical and instrumentation infrastructure.
• Participate in planning of stop day tasks, off crop tasks, projects and ensure effective implementation.
• Maintain and update technical data drawings of plant equipment.
• Adhere to maintenance procedures to mitigate risk of plant breakdowns.
• Ensure that equipment, materials and rotables are available for factory performance.
• Manage departments recruitment, training and discipline, absences, leave, overtime etc.
• Report and investigate all accidents, incidents and implement preventative measures.
• Provide and maintain a safe and healthy working environment.

Minimum Requirements

• N2 Trade theory plus trade test certificate in Boiler Making.
• Proof of the successful completion of a formal Institutionalised Training Programme is essential.
• Minimum of five years post trade certification, as a trade tested Artisan Boilermaker.
• Supervisory Experience would be a distinct advantage.
• MS Office (Excel - intermediate; Word – intermediate; Outlook – intermediate)
• SAP Module (PM)
• Must be able to produce high quality workmanship.
• Knowledge of the Sugar Manufacturing process and Equipment would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of maintenance schedules and inspections.
• Knowledge of SHE procedures, budgeting, and cost control.
• To be considered for appointment, candidate must be a South African citizen.

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Job Description

• Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Maintains work flow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analysing production performance records and data; answering questions and responding to requests.
• Creates and revises systems and procedures by analysing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.
• Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Maintains working relationship with the union by following the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
• Resolves personnel problems by analysing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Duties & Responsibilities

• . Verbal and written communication
• . Computer literacy
• . Report writing
• . Interpersonal
• . Logical thinking
• . Analytical thinking
• . Decision making
• . Presentation and facilitation
• . Negotiation
• . Organizational awareness

Minimum Requirements

• Matric
• Relevant 3-years Degree/ Diploma (Operations / Management)as an added advantage.
• Extensive experience in Production in an FMCG environment
• At least 2 year working experience

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Our Talent Team is looking for someone who is brilliant at the basics to fill the role of Supply Planner with great attention to detail skills to join our Groceries Operating Unit. The role will report into the Supply Planning Manager and will be based in Randfontein

This position exists to develop and prepare both the short- and longer-term supply plan for Finished Goods, as well as packaging and ingredients, using the forward forecast and balancing it against supply constraints in order to optimise customer service at minimal cost. All this needs to be done taking into account product mix in order to maximise profit when making supply choices.

The role will require working closely with other supply planners, Stock allocation Planner, production, demand planners and the distribution team to proactively ensure that there are no interruptions in supply.

For the Grocery, Speciality BHS and Chicken Business Units, the packaging and ingredients planning will be done by the Material Requirements Planners due to the number of sku’s required to be planned.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Functional Strategy into Action
  • Facilitate integrated supply chain delivery by managing relationships and interaction with cross functional teams.
  • Ensure the agreed SIA is implemented through delivery of own and team targets
• Supply Planning – medium term
  • Develop the national supply plan across all assigned processing plants by balancing the forward demand plan against the processing plants capacity for the next 12 - 18 months.
  • Identify where targeted days cover and customer orders that cannot be met and make recommendations on how to achieve this. This may include recommending working additional shifts or overtime, making changes to the line setup or reallocation of resource. For all options, ensure that a cost assessment is provided to enable the best business decision
  • Manage stock in both quarantine and available for sale to ensure stock is released quickly enough to enable customer service level targets to be met.
  • Understand and use the latest planning standards (production line capacities, plant specialisation rules, warehouse space constraints) to generate the rough cut capacity supply plan.
  • Challenge the planning rates used with production managers where you find the supply bias is consistently positive or negative in order to get the most accurate forward plan.
• Short Term Supply Planning
  • On a weekly basis (and daily when stock shortages are experienced) review demand (demand forecasts and actual orders), stock cover requirements and stock holding positions to provide guidance on priorities, both by SKU or customer, and provide a clear steer to the distribution team on how to allocate stock.
  • Ensure all decisions made drive optimal customer service while maximising profitability and minimising transport costs between regions.
  • Determine the next day’s production based on a combination of actual sales orders, forward forecast and days cover targets.
  • Plan the plant for the next day’s production, as well as the requirement for the next 2-4 days ahead in order to limit volatility when actual customer orders land
• Finished Goods Stock Management using National Days Cover
  • Calculate the stock targets by SKU by using the relevant information to input in the inventory optimisation model (e.g. forecast accuracy, factory reliability, production cycle times, order lead time, customer service levels).
  • Propose stock level targets for agreement by the Supply Chain Management for both national and regional levels (for all stock holding points).
  • Review stock days targets on a periodic basis, at least once or twice a year
  • Make appropriate recommendation on stock where days cover either exceed maximum or are below minimum covers.
  • Pro-actively manage national stock covers within the targeted range, taking into account product innovation, discontinuations, slow moving and obsolete stock across all stock holding points.
  • Liaise with the distribution team to ensure that action is taken to prevent unnecessary costs and maintain a clean stock system.
• Sales and Operations Planning / iCSE
  • Develop the overall supply plan that will be used as input into the company wide S&OP / iCSE process.
  • Provide input into the Supply Planning Meetings and Supply Chain Review on where the risks are for shortages, excess stocks and potential write-offs are for Packaging and Ingredients, as well as for Finished Goods.
  • Identify gaps and opportunities and make appropriate recommendations to close these with the Supply Planning Manager
• Innovation/Discontinuation
  • Drive the coordination for delivery of innovation into the supply chain including attending the innovation meetings and representing the Supply Chain in these forums.
  • Actively manage down stock being discontinued, including working with distribution to exit a sku. Write-offs to be kept to a minimum or entirely avoided if possible. This includes investigating opportunities to use at other sites, working with the R&D team to possibly work away in other products, selling back to supplier.
  • Work closely with Marketing and R&D teams to ensure ingredient and packaging requirements for new product launches are received in order to meet launch deadlines.
  • Calculate estimated bleed outs of packaging and ingredients at the beginning of a project and where applicable provide timeous provisions for write-offs to the project team.
• Supply Chain Reporting
  • Update the scorecards with the relevant KPI's on a weekly/monthly basis and issue.
  • Issue the agreed national outbound supply chain reports on a week/monthly basis as appropriate.
  • Understand the variances against targets for key KPI's and provide explanations and corrective actions required.
  • Generate the agreed weekly supply planning packs/reports and associated minutes.
• Outbound Supply Chain Project Coordination
  • Be involved in projects that drive cost savings or system improvements (e.g.: SAP and other system tools).

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Duties & Responsibilities

Develop, maintain and drive implementation of SHERQ related national company policies, guideline procedures, standards to ensure legal compliance to food safety, quality, health and safety and environmental customer standards

Trend, analyse, interpret and prepare health and safety and environmental key performance indicator reports

Provide advisory services to other departments and staff functions in SHERQ matters

Track progress of serious and critical external SHERQ audit findings including legal compliances raised across Foods Division and identify trends and report to management

Liaise with relevant departments to achieve SHE legislative compliance to meet company objectives and mitigate risk

Conducts internal audits across Foods Division according to plan

Ensure team members accurately and regularly captures data onto the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.

• Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making
• Training of all employees with regards to SHERQ related matters.
• Provide Team leadership:
• Coach, support and train personnel at National Office and site SHEQ Co-ordinators and Risk Control Officers regarding Total Integrated Management System requirements to ensure compliance
• Effective Teamwork & Self Management:
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrates effective self management in terms of planning and prioritising, and self-development
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not met, the potential risks thereof and provide appropriate resolution
• Support and drive the business core values
• Manage colleagues and client’s expectations and communicate appropriately
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and “go the extra mile” to meet team targets and objectives
• Champions training and development of self and others through utilising available training opportunities or contributing to the development of new training solutions relating to product costing in collaboration with national training specialists.
• Participate and drive in regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.
• Maintain a basic appreciation and awareness of employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 3 – 5 years experience in a FMCG environment with preferably 3 years in an auditing role
• A tertiary qualification, minimum of a Diploma , Quality Management, Food Technology, Microbiology or Environmental Health
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 22 000, FSSC 22000, ISO 14001 and the ISO 45001 system development and implementation

Knowledge Requirements:

• ISO systems
• Industry Standards
• National Legislation
• Statutory Requirements
• Plants and Process Operations
• Quality Management
• Working knowledge of organizations strategies, policies, and operations

Experience and Training

Demonstrate the RCL Behaviours and additional competencies as below

• Attention to detail and able to work independently. Inquisitive approach with an emphasis on sound interaction with lower, middle, and senior management
• An understanding of multiple key performance indicators, inter-relationship, and bottom line sensitivity
• A sense of urgency; meet deadlines and drive for results
• Proactive and functions well under pressure
• PC expertise with emphasis on MS Office products and Excel is a prerequisite
• Strong auditing skills
• Presentation and reporting skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills