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Job Description

• We are seeking a proactive, detail-oriented and safety-conscious Quality Assurance & Health and Safety Officer to join our Warehouse team.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that warehouse operations comply with ISO 9001 Quality Management System requirements, Health & Safety legislation, company policies, procedures and operational standards.
• The role will focus on maintaining high standards of quality, safety, compliance, risk management and continuous improvement, while ensuring the warehouse is fully prepared for internal and external audits.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate.
• Relevant qualifications in Quality Management, Health & Safety, Occupational Health & Safety or a related field.
• Relevant Health & Safety certification.
• Valid First Aid certificate.
• Fire Fighting certificate will be advantageous.
• 2–3 years' relevant experience, preferably in a warehouse, logistics, manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Practical knowledge of ISO 9001/14001/45001 requirements.
• Experience in conducting inspections and risk assessments including ASIB
• Experience in incident/accident investigation will be advantageous.
• Experience with audits and corrective action management.
• Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office.

COMPETENCIES

• Safety and quality conscious
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive and preventative approach
• High level of integrity and accountability
• Assertive and confident
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to influence and engage employees
• Team player
• Ability to work independently
• Resilient and able to work under pressure
• Results driven
• Continuous improvement mindset

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Assurance & ISO 9001/14001/45001

• Maintain and monitor compliance with the ISO 9001/14001/45001 Quality Management System.
• Maintain and ASIB monitor compliance
• Ensure warehouse procedures and work instructions are implemented and consistently followed.
• Conduct regular quality inspections and compliance checks.
• Identify, record and report quality deviations and non-conformances.
• Monitor corrective and preventative actions and ensure timely closure.
• Maintain accurate quality records and documentation.
• Assist with internal and external ISO audits.
• Ensure the warehouse is 100% audit-ready for the annual external ISO 9001/14001/45001 audit.
• Assist with investigating customer complaints, quality issues and process failures.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in warehouse processes.
• Check security cameras for any non-compliance

Health & Safety

• Ensure compliance with applicable Occupational Health and Safety legislation and company safety requirements.
• Conduct regular Health & Safety inspections throughout the warehouse.
• Monthly H&S meetings with H&S reps and reporting possible issues
• Identify hazards, unsafe conditions and unsafe working practices.
• Conduct and maintain workplace risk assessments.
• Monitor compliance with PPE requirements and safe working procedures.
• Assist with accident, incident and near-miss investigations.
• Ensure corrective actions arising from safety inspections and investigations are followed through.
• Monitor warehouse housekeeping and ensure work areas, walkways and emergency exits remain safe and accessible.
• Assist with emergency preparedness, fire inspections and evacuation drills.
• Promote a strong safety culture and encourage employees to report hazards and near misses.
• Ensure that all contractors comply with all H&S requirements including up to date safety files
• Check security cameras for any non-compliance

Warehouse Compliance

• Monitor compliance with operational procedures relating to receiving, handling, sorting, pressing, storage and dispatch.
• Monitor safe handling and storage of wool bales and other materials.
• Monitor forklift, vehicle and pedestrian safety within the warehouse.
• Identify operational risks that may affect product quality or employee safety.
• Ensure non-conforming products or processes are identified and appropriately controlled.
• Work closely with Warehouse Management and employees to resolve quality and safety issues.
• Ensure that all forklifts and machinery load mass certificates are kept up to date
• Reporting any issues with machinery and forklifts

Training & Awareness

• Conduct Health & Safety inductions for new employees and contractors.
• Conduct regular toolbox talks and safety awareness sessions.
• Communicate quality and ISO 9001/1400/45001 requirements to warehouse employees.
• Promote employee awareness of safe working practices and quality standards.
• Maintain training and attendance records.
• Ensuring that all forklift drivers’ licenses are renewed and up to date

Reporting & Administration

• Maintain accurate Quality Assurance and Health & Safety registers and records.
• Compile regular reports on quality, safety, incidents, inspections and corrective actions.
• Track outstanding audit findings and corrective actions.
• Provide management with recommendations regarding quality, safety and compliance risks.
• Ensure all required documentation is accurate, current and readily available for audits.

Closing Date 10 September 2026

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About the Risk, Insights & Assurance Function

• Internal audit at BKB is being built as a modern, data-led function — organised around two streams that work together. The Continuous Monitoring stream provides ongoing, branch-level and operational assurance through dashboards, exception reporting, and pattern detection.
• The Analytics stream delivers cyclical audits of business cycles, subsidiaries, and entity-level controls through population-based testing, data-led methodology, and analytical depth that goes beyond traditional sample-based audit work. The function also carries out investigations across both streams when control breakdowns produce specific events — going into the circumstances of a specific incident to understand what really happened and why.
• This vacancy is aligned to the Analytics stream. We are looking for someone who will thrive in a function that values diagnostic insight as much as assurance — someone who genuinely enjoys interrogating data, spotting patterns, and using analytical rigour to surface what the business could not see on its own.

Key Purpose of the Role

• The Senior Internal Auditor: Insights & Assurance leads end-to-end audit engagements within the Analytics stream — from scoping and risk assessment through to fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.
• The role brings technical depth, analytical capability, and the professional judgement to navigate complex audit work independently. It also reviews the work of junior team members, mentors trainees and Internal Auditors, and contributes meaningfully to the function's methodology, coverage strategy, and continuous improvement.

What this role offers

• This role offers something quite specific — the chance to work as an internal audit professional in a function that has deliberately built its approach around depth, data, and diagnostic insight.
• We interrogate the processes, controls, and operations that produce the numbers. We work with full populations of data rather than samples where the data supports it. We frame findings around root cause and systemic pattern, not isolated incidents. We use analytics, exception reporting, and dashboards to see patterns the business cannot see on its own. And we sit close enough to the business to understand why something is happening, not just what is happening.
• The role gives you the space to develop expertise that is difficult to build elsewhere — practical fluency in data-led audit methodology, direct exposure to how a diversified agricultural business actually operates, cross-stream work across continuous monitoring and analytics, meaningful investigation work when control breakdowns require root-cause understanding, and the opportunity to help shape a function that is actively evolving.
• A candidate who is curious about how a business works underneath the numbers, who enjoys interrogating data patterns methodically, and who is energised by a team that is actively building something will find this the right place.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting Science, Internal Auditing, or equivalent.
• Completed professional designation: CA (SA), CIA, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum 3 years' relevant audit experience, including completion of external audit articles or an equivalent professional training programme.
• Demonstrated capability in independent audit delivery, with exposure to data-led audit methodology.
• Understanding of the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and modern internal audit methodology.
• Experience in the agricultural or retail industry is beneficial but not required.
• Availability to travel.

Data and Analytical Capability (a strong preference for this role)

The Analytics stream's methodology is built on interrogating full populations of data rather than samples. The successful candidate will bring, or grow into, the following:

• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, complex formulas, and large-dataset manipulation.
• Practical experience with SQL (Microsoft SQL Server preferably), Alteryx, or an equivalent data analysis / logic tool. Alteryx and similar drag-and-drop tools count — what we look for is the ability to apply logic and reasoning to data, not necessarily coding from scratch.
• Openness to learning or developing Python skills for audit analytics over time.
• Experience with any other data analysis or logic tool (ACL, IDEA, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent) will be advantageous.
• Genuine curiosity about data trends, anomalies, and patterns — combined with the discipline to interrogate them methodically rather than accept surface-level explanations.
• An analytical mindset that reaches for root cause rather than symptom, and that frames findings around systemic patterns rather than isolated incidents.

Competencies

• Detail orientation — meticulous, methodical, and thorough. The role requires the discipline to interrogate data carefully and follow trails to their conclusion.
• Analytical thinking, with the ability to work through complex datasets and identify patterns that matter to the business.
• Big-picture orientation and business understanding.
• Stakeholder engagement and clear communication.
• Report writing and structured presentation of findings.
• Assertiveness — the ability to hold the line on difficult findings while remaining constructive.
• Mentoring and supportive coaching of junior team members.
• Openness to change and continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end audit engagements within the Analytics stream — scoping, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.
• Design audit approach and test plans, with population-based and data-led methods used wherever practical.
• Perform fieldwork to a high technical standard, gathering and documenting evidence in line with the function's methodology.
• Interrogate data trends and anomalies methodically to identify systemic patterns and root causes rather than isolated control issues.
• Review the working papers and findings of Internal Auditors and Graduate Trainees before submission to the Manager.
• Present findings and lead engagement discussions with management, holding the line on difficult findings while remaining constructive.
• Contribute actively to the function's coverage thinking and methodology development.
• Mentor and support Internal Auditors and Graduate Trainees, particularly on data-led methodology.
• Adhere to the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and maintain independence and objectivity at all times.

Remuneration: Market-related package. Candidates are asked to indicate their remuneration expectations on application.

Closing Date 30 September 2026

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Job Description

• BKB is seeking an energetic Loadmaster to join our team.  The successful candidate will be responsible for the driving of the truck, loading and offloading of livestock, as well as building pens, for Special and Stud auctions and to ensure that all auctions run smoothly. 
• In addition, the candidate will also be responsible for the planning, coordination and overall marketing action of any type of Livestock auctions. 
• The position will be based in Cradock and will require regular travel throughout the Central region.

REQUIREMENTS 

• Grade 12
• At least 3 years’ experience in the Livestock environment
• Valid EC license
• Valid PDP (Public Driver’s Permit)
• Must be fluent in Afrikaans, English and Xhosa would be advantageous

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Structured approach to operational challenges
• Atttention to detail
• Proven interpersonal skills
• Good administrative skills
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Analytical thinking
• Excellent written and verbal skills

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for effective and efficient logistics and administrative processes.
• Loading and offloading of livestock equipment at auctions and building of pens
• Completion and submission of proper accounts and offloading tickets
• Ensure all equipment and gates are maintained which includes welding
• General auction site organization and related functions
• Management of wage employees
• Ensure maintenance and cleanliness of company vehicles by following Company procedures
• Management of diesel consumption
• Planning and coordination of auction dates
• Compilation of pamphlets and catalogues for auction
• Planning and record keeping of auction equipment and materials
• Gathering of information and documentation required for auctions
• Responsible for advertising of auctions
• Ensure a positive image of the organisation through professional, effective and efficient client services
• Procurement of sponsors for catalogues and BKB functions
• Obtain quotations from printers for pamphlets, catalogues and auction-related printing
• Distribution of marketing material to relevant parties
• Responsible for the effective execution of digital auctions
• Coordinate communication with the company’s livestock clients in terms of digital media requirements
• Assist with the procurement and management of new buyers and sellers
• Planning and organising of refreshments for commercial auctions
• Organising of vehicle services, licensing and roadworthiness of vehicle/trucks

Closing Date 11 September 2026