Fresh Job Vacancies at Lactalis South Africa

Job Description    

• The purpose of the role is to give accurate reporting of production/management accounting information with a strong focus on costing. Analysing and reporting the daily, monthly results will be important in order to support and development of the Business Unit,training of Staff on inventory system and reports, chairing departmental stock flow meetings, stock take participation, assisting with GMP reports and material loss tracking and driving continuous improvement and accuracy of information.

Required Skills    

• Formal Accounting Qualification or equivalent
• Must have 3 years financial experiences working in a FMCG environment
• Develop partnership roles with Plant Manager/ Production Managers/Controllers/ Financial Manager
• To have presentation skills
• Must be a self-motivator with good planning, organising and admin skills
• Able to work independently and must have strong interpersonal skills and analytical skills
• Must be accurate and pay attention to detail
• Must be a good communicator
• Computer literate in MS Office (Excel advanced skills

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Analysing daily, monthly and yearly results of production
• Monthly reporting and annual budgeting
• Training of Staff on inventory system and reports
• Chairing departmental stock flow meetings
• Stock take participation
• Assisting with GMP reports and material loss tracking
• Driving continuous improvement and accuracy of information
• Focus on accurate routings and costing of products within BPCS, updating BOM’s
• Support Production Managers by providing information and assisting production clerks with any capturing/system problems
• Financial & reporting tasks
• Ensure that effective internal control procedures are in place on all financial functions or cycles (i.e. stock, assets and other)
• Assist in supplying accurate information to optimise recipes
• Support role for forecast
• Weekly KPI Reports, understanding how department are tracking on KPI
• Improvement and actions plans to be implemented

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Job Description    
Join Lactalis SA Cape Town DC as a Driver Code 14 in the Distribution department reporting directly to the Distribution Controller. Successful candidates need to have a valid code 14 driver's license with PrDP. Candidate must also have the ability to analyse problems and potential to take charge of a situation. Ability to analyse problems and potential to take charge of a situation. Good communication and interpersonal skills. Be customer service-orientated. Ability and knowledge to perform pre-trip vehicle check. This exciting career opportunity at will enable you to play your part in ensuring that the company achieves its objectives.

Required Skills    

•  Successful candidates need to have Grade 12 or equivalent and a
•  Valid code 14 driver's license with PrDP.
•  Good communication and interpersonal skills 
•  Be customer service orientated 
•  Knowledgeable of Safety procedures on the road.
•  Medical fitness as per road traffic regulations.
•  Ability and knowledge to perform pre-trip vehicle check.
•  Ability to analyse problems and potential to take charge of a situation. 
•  The ability to consistently produce accurate, neat, and thorough work in relation to documentation. 

Duties & Responsibilities    

•  Execution of the Route Plan
•  Preservation of stock in transit 
•  Monitoring and recording the cool unit reading. 
•  Deliveries, collection of return stock and completion of relevant documentation. 
•  Vehicle handling and safe driving - Follow all road safety procedures and adhere to legislation. 
•  Drive vehicle with due caution and care. 
•  Building and maintaining a positive image at all times.

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Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our Ice Cream Plant in Cape Town as a General Worker. Successful candidates must have Grade 10 or higher. This exciting career opportunity at Lactalis SA will enable you to play your part in ensuring that the company achieves its challenging objectives during the next phase of its growth in South Africa.

Required Skills    

•  Grade 10 or equivalent
•  Knowledge and experience in a FMCG environment.
•  Attention to detail
•  2 - 4 years’ experience in a food related industry would be desirable
•  Must be willing to work overtime, weekends, public holidays if and when required, shifts.
•  Must be a team player.
•  Must have a sense of urgency.
•  Be able to do repetitive and routine work.
•  Capability and capacity to learn quickly to apply learning's into roles of responsibilities.
•  Be able to work everywhere and prioritize workloads. 
•  Able to work under pressure.
•  Excellent problem -solving skills. 

Duties & Responsibilities    

•  Ensuring the highest standard of ice cream processes is met.
•  Ensuring that product quality and consistency is met at all times.
•  Follow the correct cleaning procedures for specified equipment as stipulated.
•  Adherence to and application of site safety regulations and policies.
•  Ensuring compliance of the products to the highest quality norms.
•  Assist in general housekeeping of department.

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Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our Ice Cream Plant in Cape Town as a Machine Attendant, responsible for Identifying machine and packaging related non-conformance, troubleshooting breakdowns, monitoring of the production process and general housekeeping on and around the machine. Must have at least 2 years experiences within a manufacturing environment. 

Required Skills    

•  Grade 10 or equivalent.
•  At least 4 years experiences within a ice cream manufacturing environment.
•  Quality driven individual. 
•  Willingness to do repetitive work. 
•  Punctuality and attendance reliability is essential. 
•  Must be willing to work overtime, weekends, public holidays if and when required, shifts.
•  Ability to work in a team as well as independent. 
•  Be accurate and pay attention to detail. 
•  Be able to prioritize workloads and work under pressure.
•  Excellent problem solving skills. 

Duties & Responsibilities    

•  Ordering of materials. 
•  Quality checks to be done on materials. 
•  Pre start-up checks and maintaining of the necessary equipment to be done.
•  Adhere to all safety (SHER) and FSSC2200 requirements in the area.
•  Ensure that all safety checks are adhered to and in place.
•  Fill in all relevant documentation daily.  
•  Traceability codes should be recorded and documented to assist with problem solving.
•  Make sure that the highest product quality is achieved and waste kept at a minimum.
•  Ensure that accurate stock-taking is recorded on the relevant control document.
•  Ensure that area are neat and tidy end of shift.

Ad-hoc duties:

•  Daily checks and records to be updated and signed off. 
•  Familiar with offloading procedure of milk receiving and documentation.
•  Ordering of materials required for the daily mixing production. 
•  Make-up of batches according to the recipes sheets per product required. 
•  Assemble of equipment in the blending room.
•  Blending of materials in the blending room. 
•  Assist with the soft serve process and requirements when needed. 
•  Assist Bulk operators when required and needed.
•  Operating and problem solving of fruit feeder.
•  Understanding the metal detector requirements and processes.
•  Be knowledgeable of date-coder and box-coder. 
•  Familiar with the flavour room process with making up of colours and batches.
•  Adhere to cleaning schedules and procedures (Monthly Deep Clean)

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Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our Ice Cream Plant in Cape Town as an Operator. The Operator position plays a critical role in the production process and general housekeeping around the production area. Ensures compliance to production planning requirements. 

Required Skills    

•  At least 5 years experiences within the Ice Cream manufacturing environment
•  Quality driven individual.
•  Willingness to do repetitive work. 
•  Punctuality and attendance reliability is essential. 
•  Must be willing to work overtime, weekends, public holidays, shifts and/ or flexible hours.  
•  Ability to work in a team as well as independent. 
•  Be accurate and pay attention to detail. 
•  Be able to prioritize workloads and work under pressure.
•  Excellent problem solving skills. 
•  Have completed the basic dairy course. 

Duties & Responsibilities    

•  Daily checks and records to be updated and signed off.
•  Familiar with offloading procedure of milk receiving and documentation.
•  Ordering of materials required for the daily mixing production.
•  Make-up of batches according to the recipes sheets per product required.
•  Assemble of equipment in the blending room.
•  Blending of materials in the blending room.
•  Ensure that divert test is done daily before start of processing. 
•  CIP of empty ageing vats
•  Directly control and operate the mixing process.
•  End of shift: CIP’s (pasteuriser, homogeniser, buttermelter, milk silo’s, ageing vats, flavour vats, conitnuous freezers, soft serve, catta, vegetable tank). 
•  Sanitize of Plant to take place after the CIP process.
•  Adhere and participate in internal audits: FSSC 22000  
•  Comply with all SHER requirements.
•  Participate in continuous improvement processes.
•  Ensure neat housekeeping of the ice cream processing areas at all times.
•  Control and update all relevant documentation including check sheets

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Job Description    

• Join Lactalis at our site in the Western Cape and take on the challenge of a Production Controller. This exciting career opportunity at Lactalis SA will enable you to play your part in ensuring that the company achieves its challenging objectives during the next phase of its growth in South Africa.

Required Skills    

•  Diploma or equivalent qualification.
•  NQF 2 Dairy Primary Processing training
•  Experience in managing a team. 
•  Food Safety System related training
•  Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
•  Strong knowledge of production processes and operations
•  Ability to have a good mathematical acumen
•  Accurate stock counting and controls of materials 
•   Practical working experience on production machine equipment that is PLC controlled, be familiar with HMI (Human Machine Interface panels), SCADA, WW or similar and being able to navigate through various levels of menus with confidence
•   Exposure to food processing will be an advantage
•   Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
•   Able to work independently and manage multiple tasks
•   The work will include shifts, overtime and working on public holidays

Duties & Responsibilities    

•  Oversee daily production operations, including scheduling, planning, and organizing.
•  Monitor production schedules to ensure that orders are filled on time and in full
•  Control production losses and efficiency by minimizing waste
•  Supervising and motivating the relevant production team.
•  Ensure that regulations and product quality to the highest standard.
•  Minimizing and eliminating non-conformance through process and quality improvements.
•  Problem solving by determining root cause of failure and take the necessary corrective action.
•  Developing and training of operators, machine attendants and general workers.
•  Ensuring control records are correct and updated.
•  Controlling of product and technology innovation.
•  Ensure that good hygiene practices are adhered and maintained.
•  Ensuring the application and adherence of FSSC2200 & SHER.