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Job Description    

• To lead engineering operations across four production sites, managing teams of Plant Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Planners, and Project Coordinators. The role requires strategic oversight of CAPEX planning (annual and 5-year horizons), operational engineering, and maintenance excellence. The engineering manager  must demonstrate strong leadership, technical depth, and business acumen to drive performance and ensure compliance.

Minimum Requirements    

• Degree or Diploma in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• GCC Factories certification.
• 10+ years’ trade experience, with at least 5 years in a management role.
• Strong technical knowledge (mechanical, electrical, refrigeration) and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management abilities.
• A proactive, solutions-driven mindset with a focus on efficiency and quality.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Project Planning

• Lead the scoping, prioritization, and execution of business projects in collaboration with commercial teams and support departments.
• Develop and maintain annual and 5-year CAPEX plans, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operational needs, and sustainability goals.
• Implement and uphold project governance frameworks to ensure transparency, compliance, and traceability across all project phases.
• Drive complex projects thru legal contracting acting or support as representer for RCL
• Ensure projects are scope according to health & Safety / Food Safety / Environmental regulations that builds into sustainability
• Drive weekly KPI reporting on project status, budget adherence, and strategic focus areas, presented by the plant engineers/maintenance managers and site teams during Business Unit (BU) meetings.
• Ensure all projects meet internal standards for food safety, health & safety, and regulatory compliance by driving the management of change thru SHEQX
• Champion continuous improvement and innovation through engineering-led initiatives that enhance plant performance and support new business development. Followed by implementing strong value driven KPI’s

Maintenance

• Develop and implement an effective Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) system across all facilities to minimize reactive maintenance and reduce R&M costs.
• Oversee major repairs and ensure all utilities and infrastructure are maintained to high standards of reliability and safety.
• Ensure all buildings and accessories comply with risk, security, safety, health, HACCP, ISO22000, ISO14000, ISO18000, and SANS 10400 standards.
• Ensure all electrical installations meet SANS 10142 and statutory requirements.
• Drive asset efficiency and utilization to reduce unit costs and improve plant performance.
• Promote and embed sustainable maintenance practices across all sites.
• Manage and hold Plant Engineers and Maintenance Managers accountable for:
• Execution of planned maintenance programs.
• Alignment of maintenance practices and procurement with business standards.
• Completion of work requests, preventative schedules, and breakdown responses.
• Compliance with safety regulations and food safety requirements.
• Ensure the Planner develops and maintains a comprehensive work schedule for all maintenance activities.
• Conduct regular inspections, organize engineering staff meetings, and ensure neatness and upkeep of buildings and premises.
• Coordinate and manage repairs, inspections, and maintenance of all plant equipment and grounds.
• Be available for callouts and weekend work when necessary to ensure continuity of operations.
• Determine and manage material, equipment, and supply needs for maintenance tasks

Risk Management

• In terms of design use and maintenance, ensure all facilities comply with health, safety, security, and other legal requirements.
• Drive fire compliances for all sites
• Oversee incidents reports to ensure all mitigation and risk preventions are complying with mitigation factors to be implemented.
• Support plant engineers and maintenance managers as GMR2.1 appointees, including their support of the appointed GMR2.7
• Ensure all operational equipment comply with operational documentation (Safe work operational procedure)

Food Safety Management

• Ensure facilities and equipment in operational areas comply with major food safety requirements to comply with the FSCC 22000 certification.
• Ensure projects are scoped according to the Woolworths hygienic design guidelines
• Ensure engineering teams oversee critical control points (CCPs) and food safety-related equipment are maintained and calibrated
• Work closely with Quality Assurance, Production, and SHEQ teams to ensure integrated food safety management.
• Participate in HACCP reviews and food safety risk assessments.
• Support training and development of site engineering teams on food safety engineering principles.
• Drive and ensure NCRs are closed on a weekly basis on all the sites with develop KPI’s

Operational Engineering Management

• Drive the daily / weekly maintenance planning process for the plant – prioritizing, scheduling, and allocation of tasks to different discipline of the engineering department, with the assistance of the planner.
• Drive and delivery the agreed strategy to reduce plant down time and improve efficiencies of machines and lines.

Deadline:2nd November,2025

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Job Description    

Equipment calibration:

• Assist with workflow for the equipment calibrations (Mass pieces; scales; pH meter; hygrometer; Lux meter; Metal detectors & Magnet thermometers) according to log sheet
• Ensure the calibration log sheet is up to date
• Call & communicate with suppliers of all the equipment (Mass pieces; scales; pH meter; hygrometer; Lux Meter, Magnets; Metal detectors & thermometers) that needs to be calibrated to come on site and do calibration. (
• Arrange and send equipment for calibration
• Verify that weekly thermometer verification is done and sign off record
• Ensure verification and calibration records and Certificates Updates and Filing
• Maintaining the calibration file.
• Ensuring hand-held measuring devices are sent for calibration.

Opening of NCR’s, Follow up of NCR’s, Weekly NCR Tracker

• Assist QAT’s to log all complaints onto the SheqX system.
• Raise all internal/external audits NCRs onto the SheqX
• Tracking of corrective actions and preventative actions
• Facilitate the weekly technical reports and tracker
• Update the customer complaints dashboard &  RTVs tracker as the complaints come through.
• Update the NCR tracker and share weekly
• Update yearly internal audit schedule
• Assist with Internal Audits
• Assisting with documentation, records and files during both internal and external audits
• Compile audit action plans
• Obtaining sales reports for monthly report
• Creating BR’s on the tracker & Workflows (e.g., For Orders)
• Creating workflows for Service providers, ensuring invoices are receipted.
• Ordering of consumables &  stationery & updating the consumables tracker
• Upload SHEQ documents on Sheq-x
• Updating & controlling documents for QFSMS
• Assist with Monthly reports
• Trending micro results (Environmental Swab Results: TVC, Coliforms, E. coli); Hand Swab Capturing, Product Results, Water Results, Listeria Results, Cleaning Efficiency
• Assist with Traceability study documentation

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric/ Grade 12
• National Diploma in Food Technology/Biotechnology or Equivalent
• Computer literacy (MS Office, Excel, Power point)
• Interna auditing will be an advantage

Deadline:31st October,2025

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Job Description    

• Ensuring all trucks are despatched timeously in the morning.
• Arranging replacements of despatch staff where necessary.
• Ensuring that the despatch team is always wearing uniform.
• Arranging internal distribution labour where necessary.
• Ensuring that the despatch recon document is completed daily.
• Maintaining prescribed records of goods received and despatched.
• Enhance excellent customer service in the despatch department.
• Reconcile/ oversee despatch foreman recons daily.
• Ensure all data captured is correct.
• Verify production transfers daily and confirm returns to despatch.
• Balance despatch recons’ daily sales with van sheets daily sales per route.
• Count and record all returns to stock of all drivers on the return slip.
• Oversee stock variances and report to management.

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric
• National Diploma in related field would be added advantage
• Must have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role

Deadline:31st October,2025

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• RCL FOODS is seeking to appoint a Route Controller to join our  Baking Team. The role will be based in (Pretoria Bakery) Krugersdorp Depot and will report into the Depot Controller. The successful incumbents will be responsible for effectively managing the Despatch Function and Driver Salesman, crate stock and Drivers Balances and to support the sales function from a back-end perspective to increase sales within designated routes and responsible for addressing regular operational needs of customers, monitoring and ensuring improved route optimisation and driver efficiency.

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric 
• Diploma/Degree in Logistics , Sales or Management will be an advantage.
• Valid Driver's License  
• SYSPRO experience would be an advantage. 
• 3 – 5 years’ experience within the Food Manufacturing environment
• Strong leadership skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Target driven
• Computer literate.
• Organized and systems orientated.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Must be a self-starter and have the ability to use own initiative.
• Must be able to communicate with people on all levels.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Responsible for addressing regular operational needs of customers, monitoring and ensuring improved route optimisation and driver efficiency: 

• To support the Sales Rep in providing adequate route optimisation and rationalisation solutions
• To ensure our customer needs are met within a viable business framework
• To provide a link between despatch and drivers for a seamless transition of products
• To provide key trade intel and address regular customer service requirements

Ensure efficient and cost effective product distribution

• Ensure driver teams deliver according to mapped and optimised routes
• Ensuring all new and old customers are plotted on the VeZa or existing optimisation system in line with distribution goals
• Ensure orders are geared towards improving truck utilisation and loaves/km 

Ensuring balancing of orders placed, delivered and returned 

• With sales support team ensure customer order patterns are accurate to deliver a precise bake plan
• Daily monitoring and tracking of returns
• Crafting and actioning plans to drastically improve returns

Managing driver shorts and crate shorts 

• Daily monitoring and tracking of driver crates and shorts as per agreed targets
• Crafting and driving innovative ways to reduce these numbers

Submitting frequent (daily) sales figures from drivers

• Ensuring driver teams sales are in line with sales targets
• Sourcing and distribution of key trade intelligence 
• Providing actionable plans for improvements and combating competitor activities

Ensuring the capturing and allocation of all customer details 

• Ensuring all customer details and classifications are loaded correctly on new accounts and are correctly listed on existing accounts

Ensuring driver competency and delivery time management 

• Support, train, discipline and lead the driver & van assistant teams to deliver sales excellence 
• Ensure timeous driver dispatch from the bakery with correct invoicing
• Employ efficient route riding system in order to see all customers within each quarter
• Execute driver team performance scorecard to deliver sales excellence i.e., Customer ratings, delivery times, peer review, sales growth, etc.

Trade Price monitoring

• Submission of frequent (at least weekly) price surveys
• Monitoring our RSP’s and executing pricing strategy, policy and mandate  

Deadline:31st October,2025

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• We are in search of a Commercial Manager: Net Revenue Management to join our Commercial Division. The role will be based in Westville and report to the Commercial Executive.
• We are looking for an individual with a strong growth mindset and entrepreneurial flair. The individual will be instrumental in shaping and instilling Net Revenue Management principles across the business, driving better performance & capability.

Minimum Requirements    

• BCom (Hons) / CIMA or Qualified CA (SA) 5 years’ experience (including exposure to FMCG environments)
• Experience in Net Revenue Management with evidence of value creation for the Business, Shoppers and Customers.
• Experience in designing and optimising trading terms
• Indepth understanding of Promotional management and ROI’s
• Excellent Analytical skills.
• Ability to lead and drive strong Execution.
• Entrepreneurial mentality with the ability to translate market and organisational data into insights and action.
• Excellent communicator & collaborator with a strength in influencing leadership.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects within deadlines in a fast-paced lean organization.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Co-ordinate and Drive Net Revenue Management in RCL Foods.
• Design and Deploy NRM training, toolkits and scorecards.
• Partner the Customer, Marketing, Customer Marketing, Commercial Finance and Consumer Insights teams.
• Drive Net Sales and Gross Margin improvement to achieve company financial goals.
• Leverage Data and Analytics to generate insights on all NRM levers.
• Identifying opportunity areas that will help grow the business through NRM.
• Trade spend optimisation.
• Consumer Promotion optimisation - Identifying ROI maximisation opportunities across channels and categories.
• Understand the best depth and frequency of Consumer Promotions and drive conversations with the customer teams.
• Ensure spends are adhering to company/brand objectives and strategies
• Anticipate how sales proposals will impact both RCL and the customer’s P&L and balances those concerns

Deadline:3rd November,2025

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• We are in search of a Commercial Manager: Governance and Controls to join our Commercial Division. The role will be based in Westville and report to the Commercial Executive.
• The purpose of the role is to lead the governance, administration, and strategic oversight of sales-related costs across the business. This role ensures that all sales expenditures are justified, transparent, and aligned with commercial objectives, while supporting the development and enforcement of trading terms, cost controls, and performance reporting.

Minimum Requirements    

• Minimum 5 years in Commercial Finance, Sales Operations, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of sales cost structures and trading terms.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling.
• Proficiency in ERP/CRM systems (e.g., SAP, Salesforce) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• CIMA, CA(SA), or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience in FMCG, retail, or B2B sales environment

Duties & Responsibilities    

Policy Development

• Define and maintain governance policies for sales costs and trading terms.
• Enforce governance frameworks for customer spend, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

Forecasting & Financial Planning

• Collaborate with Growth, Commercial, and Finance teams on annual and quarterly forecasts.
• Forecast promotional and incentive spend using pipeline and market data.
• Prepare year-end accrual packs and reconcile actual vs. accrued spend.
• Input into reports on customer profitability, spend trends, and ROI.
• Use financial data to guide decision-making and strategic adjustments

Cost Tracking, Categorization & Controls

• Implement systems to track promotional sales costs
• Ensure accurate allocation of costs across regions, products, and channels.
• Monitor spend against budget and flag variances.
• Conduct periodic audits and maintain audit trails.

Trading Term & Contract Governance

• Maintain a centralized repository of customer trading terms and agreements.
• Ensure terms are financially sound, documented, and consistently applied.
• Track expiry, renewal, renegotiation timelines, and utilization.
• Collaborate with Legal and Finance to ensure contracts are auditable and enforceable.

Customer Spend Analysis & Optimization

• Monitor and analyze customer spending patterns and profitability.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize discount structures.
• Flag accounts with declining margins or excessive spend.

Reporting, Dashboards & Insights

• Develop dashboards for cost-to-revenue ratios, ROI, and compliance.
• Provide monthly spend reports and executive summaries.
• Support governance forums with insights and recommendations.

Training, Communication & Support

• Train teams on cost governance policies and tools.
• Communicate updates and provide quick-reference guides.
• Foster a culture of accountability and ownership.
• Provide helpdesk support and onboarding refreshers.

Performance Management & Accountability

• Include cost administration duties in job descriptions and performance reviews.
• Reward cost-efficient behaviour and address non-compliance.
• Escalate issues to leadership and governance forums.

Credit Management

• Support the Credit Management in the development of processes and reporting frameworks that enhance visibility, accountability, and governance of customer-related credit decisions

Year-End & Completeness Controls

• Ensure spend is recorded in the correct accounting period.
• Reconcile actual spend vs. accrued amounts and explain variances.
• Prepare year-end accrual pack with supporting calculations and approvals.
• Ensure alignment with external audit requirements.

Deadline:3rd November,2025

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Job Description    
Machine Operation

• Set up the machine to ensure the required quality standard of product.
• Monitor the speed and state of the machine to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Highlight and pinpoint problem areas on machinery in order for corrective or preventative action to be carried out.
• Report any deviations from quality and food safety standards to Production, QA and Engineering management.
• Adhere to the ISO 14000,18000 and 22000 standards in terms of production and machinery operation.

Health and Safety Compliance

• Report unsafe conditions and acts to management.
• Start up and shut down machines in a safe manner as required by Standard Operating Procedures.
• Conduct regular safety inspections on machinery in line with Occupational Health and Safety requirements.

Machine Maintenance

• Conduct routine and first line maintenance on machinery to ensure machinery is mechanically and functionally sound.
• Assist artisans in attending to machine breakdowns.
• Conduct basic fault-finding on machinery.
• Isolate machine and remove components that require cleaning, lubrication and inspection.

Housekeeping

• Ensure the workstation is clean, neat and tidy and in line with food safety standards.
• Clean the machine in line with operating guidelines and food safety requirements.
• Administration
• Complete checklists and records for traceability and audit purposes.

Team Coordination

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning, 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 clients’ expectations and communicate appropriately.
• Demonstrate willingness to help others and “go the extra mile” to meet team targets and objectives.
• Champion training and development of self and others through utilising available training opportunities or contributing to the development of new training solutions in collaboration with national training specialists.
• Participate in and drive regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.

KPI’s

• Machine availability/uptime
• Housekeeping standards adherence
• Machine performance/productivity

Minimum Requirements    

• Grade 12 and two years’ experience in a FMCG or mechanical environment
• A first line maintenance course of equivalent would be preferable

Deadline:3rd November,2025

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•  A vacancy exists for a Diesel Mechanic who will be based at our Operating Site in Nelspruit (Piet Retief) . The position will report to the Transport Manager.

Purpose of the position:

• The successful incumbent will be responsible for servicing, maintenance and repairs of a fleet of commercial vehicles and LDV’S.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Qualified Diesel Mechanic (N3 and Trade Test Certificate)
• 3 years’ hands on experience with all Isuzu makes and models trucks and Isuzu LDV’S
• Auto electrical experience will be an advantage

knowledge and skills requirements

• Auto electrical work
• Code C1 driver’s license with valued PDP
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Computer literate
• Attention to detail is essential
• Must be reliable and accountable and able to work independently
• Must have own tools
• Must be able to work under pressure
• Must be willing to work extended hours when required

Duties & Responsibilities    

key job responsibilities

• Service and maintenance of the vehicle fleet consisting of trucks and LDV’S and mobile equipment etc.
• Roadside assistance (breakdowns)
• Minor auto electrical work
• Complete job cards timeously
• Keep all amin functions up to date
• Accident & incident investigations
• Perform standby duties
• Working weekends
• Involved in all safety aspects in the workshop and on side

Deadline:6th November,2025