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Job Description    

• Ensure that all manufacturing equipment’s are serviced and maintained according to specifications and in line with good engineering practice . Knowledge of conveyor belts, wire meshes modular belts, bearings, make use mechanical tools such as spanners, hammers, taps, hacksaws, grease guns, allen keys, pipe wrenches, bearing pulleys, heaters, dissembling and assembling machines

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric / Grade 12
• N3 Qualification or
• NCV Technical qualifications
• 2 - 5 years’ experience on production line machines as an operator

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Repair failures on equipment’s to restore functionality of the equipment
• Carry out preventative maintenance work to ensure that equipment’s performs are at ultimate output
• Carry out root cause analysis to prevent re-occurrence of failures
• Ensure job cards are completed timeously and all relevant information is Captured
• Carry out daily inspections on the machines and report any defects that may have noticed
• Be able carry out Stripping of production machineries for cleaning, sanitising and Greasing when required to work graveyard shift
• Assist with production lines start-ups and preparations on Sunday night
• Ensure all equipment is made safe before work is carried out and all safety equipment are functional at all times 
• Decide on which parts needs replacement and any additional work required
• Decide on additional activity that is required to improve performance
• Assist production team in machine start-ups and set-ups every morning
• To organise and pre-planned maintenance activities on the basis of repairing plant machineries
• Assist with covering up electrical parts before cleaning takes place in the machineries after production
• To comply with the requirements of Health and Safety, other relevant legislation and RCL Foods policies and when carrying out maintenance repairs on production lines
• Check oil levels according to specifications and carry out lubrication schedules
• Adhere Quality and Food Safety requirements
• Ensure ongoing implementation (and where possible improvement) of the Quality and Food Safety system through the systematic implementation of the relevant food safety requirements as defined in the Food Safety RACI Matrix and relevant policies and procedures (SOP’s).

Deadline:14th April,2026

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• The purpose of the role is to drive and facilitate the demand planning and where applicable, demand management process, in order to enable visibility of expected demand to the business and in particular to the supply chain. This forward forecast will be used to improve the business decision making process around product mix, product prioritisation and cost/profitability choices; and to drive up customer service levels by enabling the supply planners to plan out unnecessary operational costs and supply risks. The role will require a strong working relationship with customer, marketing, supply planning, distribution, and commercial teams.

Minimum Requirements    

• 2 Years Demand Planning experience ideal.
• 2-3 previous Supply Chain experience would be an advantage, particularly in Supply Planning or Distribution Planning; or Customer Marketing experience.
• Bachelor of Commerce/Economics Degree, or related Supply Chain National Diploma (e.g.: SAPICS CPIM).
• Experience with Barnton systems (advantageous).
• Solid understanding of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• Proven ability to engage and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated adaptability in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to deliver impactful and persuasive insights.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Functional Strategy into Action Operationalisation

• Work closely with customer, marketing, and commercial teams along with other senior managers in the Supply Chain and Customer teams to cocreate the forward demand plan based on a 1-2 year's view of requirements. This will be used as key input into the business volume plans to be used for budget and quarterly planning.
• Facilitate integrated supply chain delivery by managing relationships and interaction within the extended supply chain, distribution and customer teams.
• Collaborate with the supply chain and customer teams to drive up customer service levels and volumes sold.
• Coordinate and drive supply chain and other collaborative customer projects when applicable.

Demand Analysis:

• On a weekly and monthly basis analyse actual demand to generate the forward forecast, make recommendations, and drive continuous improvements in order to gain concensus with cross functional teams on the forward forecast (including base & event).
• Understand what is causing differences between what was forecasted vs what was actually ordered, and use this to drive discussions with the front-end team, challenging their assumptions and making suggestions on how to improve accuracy of the forecast.
• For price sensitive product groups (like value chicken and sugar) ensure that pricing information and competitor information is gathered as part of understanding gaps to forecast, as well as impact on stock builds or stock shortages.
• For Make to Order production, closely watch the forward forecast vs historical demand to ensure that there is a good correlation between the two.

Generating Base Demand:

• Analyse historical demand and remove anomalies (including outliers) from the norm using historical information, knowledge of the category and by getting input from the customer teams, in order to generate a sound base demand forecast.
• Identify the most appropriate statistical forecasting model for each product group in order to generate an accurate base forecast, 12 months rolling forward.
• Generate the base demand plan using the most appropriate statistical forecasting algorithm and make adjustments where necessary.
• Understand any variance between actual customer demand and the statistical forecast and make appropriate challenges, changes and recommendations to the base forecast.

Events/Promotions:

• Use the promotions grid and related discussion that are provided by the customer team as input into the event forecast.
• Work closely with the customer team to document the assumptions for each promotion, driving clarity on volume, price and customers.
• Challenge all promotional volume increases when history shows that these have not been achieved before; or if historical the promotions have delivered higher volumes, also challenge to get the volumes increased.
• Present the proposed forecast along with assumptions to get a consensus forecast to be used by the business. This will be done at the monthly Demand Planning meeting.

Publishing and Reporting on the Forecast

• Publish the agreed forecast in the appropriate format to ensure transparency and one set of numbers.
• Using the agreed forecasting KPI’s (Forecast Bias, Forecast Sku Compliance and Customer Service level) to drive improvement in the forecasts and to minimise volatility. Use these KPI’s to assist when analysing the historical data while generating the forecast.
• Publish the forecasting KPI’s in the agreed format, in line with the agreed timeline for weekly reports and monthly scorecards.

Interfacing to the Supply Planning & Distribution Replenishment Planning

• The Operational Forecast will be interfaced to the Supply Planning and Distribution teams daily.
• The demand team needs to liaise with the Replenishment Planning teams to ensure that at the national sku level, all numbers match.
• For value chicken specifically, the demand planner needs to focus in more detail on the following:
• Liasing with distribution stock allocation planner regarding regional storage planning and storage.
• Understanding stock builds and comparing to the forecast bias to ensure stock is sold when it should be and in the region it was planned to be sold.
• Work closely with supply planning to understand stock builds and space constraints.
• Clear understanding of price sensitivity and relativity to stock builds/stock outs.
• Close liason with supply planner to plan packaging/ingredients change overs during innovation, renovation or discontinuation.
• Fresh Retail: focus on promo grid and drive the sales team to meet the demand plan, through regular feedback.
• In times of stock shortage, agree allocation with front end team and work with the stock allocations planner to input into allocation tool. Drive the regional allocation of stock.

Promotional Effectiveness:

• Work with the Customer team to determine promotional activities volume and track the effectiveness of the promotion (costs vs. promotional volume increment). Question the promotional volume based on the success/failure of past promotions.

Innovation and Discontinuation Management:

• Work with Marketing, Customer, Supply Planning, R&D and commercial teams to develop the anticipated forecast for new products using appropriate forecast copied from other products plus appropriate market intelligence (eg: store listing, pipe fill, DC ordering).
• Document all assumptions.
• Track and publish agreed KPI’s for each new innovation.
• When discontinuing a product, work closely with the Customer and Supply Planning team to ensure accurate bleedout forecasts to enable a smooth run-out process.

Portfolio Management:

• Complete the data analysis to provide input into discussion on portfolio management.
• Review the product portfolio at least annually and raise the discussion with business teams on where opportunities exist to remove SKU’s from the portfolio using agreed guidelines.
• Complete the necessary documentation and workflows for all proposed discontinued products, once the business unit team has approved all costs where applicable for the discontinuation.

S&OP Business Planning Process:

• The S&OP business planning process begins with the demand plan.
• Work closely with the Demand Planning manager to deliver the DEM Planning pack, ensuring that the information is available on time and is accurate.
• Using the forecasting and customer service KPI’s, work closely with the Supply Planning team to deliver improvements in customer service, particularly by providing insight into stock holding by branches to ensure that promotions are delivered.
• Provide the required data to the Commercial team in the appropriate format to enable the annual and quarterly budget planning process.

Master Data & Hierarchies:

• Maintain the product hierarchy master data in accordance with both demand planning and business requirements.
• Maintain the master data integrity for Random Weight products, as well as alternate units of measure.
• Manage the master data integrity through exception reporting to avoid delays in demand planning tools ability to forecast at SKU and customer level.
• Provide input into Customer Hieracharies when requested.

Deadline:19th April,2026

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• The purpose of the role is to manage and control the national fixed assets, additions and disposals; and balance/reconcile the fixed asset register. The role will be based in Malelane and report to the Finance Manager.

Minimum Requirements    

• Com Degree in Accounting, with experience in fixed assets.
• MS Office with proficiency in MS Excel.
• Hands-on experience with SAP (advantageous).
• Knowledge of fixed asset management principles, IFRS and tax regulations and requirements.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Action-oriented, self-starter with initiative and assertiveness.
• To be considered for appointment, candidate must be a South African citizen.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Asset Management: Control and maintain the company’s fixed assets, including additions, disposals, and reconciliations of the fixed asset register.
• Additions and Capitalisation: Manage CAPEX processes by ensuring requests are appropriately approved, projects are opened, useful lives reviewed, funds transferred, and assets are timeously capitalised.
• Monthly Processing: Oversee depreciation runs, finance lease postings, and settlement runs.
• Reporting: Prepare month-end, year-end, forecasting, budgeting, taxation and ad-hoc reports.
• Physical Asset Verification: Coordinate and supervise annual physical asset verification and useful life assessment.
• Compliance: Maintain the Fixed Asset Register in accordance with SARS and IFRS requirements.
• Data Integrity: Ensure accurate and timely data capturing to support reliable reporting and decision-making.
• Leadership: Manage and provide guidance to the Fixed Asset Team.
• SAP Super-User: Maintain and optimise SAP fixed asset functionality, supporting team members and resolving system-related queries.
• SAP S/4Hana: Play a pivotal role in preparing and migrating Fixed Assets to SAP S/4Hana, ensuring a smooth transition and alignment with best practices.
• Audit: Support audits and implementing corrective actions to address findings and strengthen controls.

Deadline:19th April,2026

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• We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Junior Demand Planner (12-month Fixed Term Contract) to join our dynamic Supply Chain team. In this role you will be responsible to deliver a base forecast with promotional uplift to facilitate the S&OP process and enable visibility of unconstrained demand to the business unit.  

Minimum Requirements    

• Bachelor of Commerce/Economics Degree, or related Supply Chain Degree.
• 2 years’ experience in Demand Planning or Supply Chain Role and have worked in a FMCG company.
• Intermediate ability in Excel is a prerequisite.

Knowledge and skills

• Critical thinking skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• S&OP process awareness.
• A Strong ability to analyse numbers and understand trends.
• Excellent attention to detail and able to work independently.
• Good communication skills: Strong verbal and written communication.
• Strong relationship building and Inquisitive approach with an emphasis on sound interaction and excellent relationship with the front-end team.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Junior Demand Planner:

• Running the Activity and Demand reviews as part of the monthly S&OP process to highlight the forward Forecasted volumes and assumptions to the Business unit.
• Work with Customer teams to understand and comment on the monthly sales performance and the impact to the category 12-month volume outlook
• Work closely with the front-end team to generate and maintain the 12-month rolling forecast including uplift for promotions (document the assumptions including promo mechanics, volume, price and regions).
• Use historical data on comparative promotional volume to improve the accuracy of the agreed promotion uplift.
• Review the promotional uplift expectations vs forecast assumption once promo has ended.
• Manage Forecast Bias and Accuracy across the SKU and customer portfolio by monitoring sales vs forecast weekly and monthly and making adjustments to the forecast where required.
• Generate and maintain statistical baseline forecasts in the system.
• Cleansing of sales history, at a weekly level, based on insights from customer teams.
• Publish the forecast and KPI’s in the agreed format, in line with the agreed timeline for weekly reports and monthly scorecards.
• Work with the cross-functional team on all new innovations, including Masterdata creation, volume assumptions, discontinuation of current products.
• Monitor and track progress of innovation vs the forecasted volumes and highlight and risks to the business regarding under/oversells.
• Maintain the product hierarchy master data in accordance with both demand planning and business requirements.
• Work with the Master Data team to ensure hierarchy changes are appropriately actioned and communicated to the business.
• Provide input into Customer Hierarchies when requested.

Ad hoc / Other:

• Maintain all weekly and monthly reports, files and documents centrally and in an organized fashion on SharePoint.

Deadline:20th April,2026

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• RCL FOODS is seeking Interns to join our Groceries Operating Unit based in Randfontein. The successful incumbents will gain On-the-Job training, mentorship and exposure to industry standards. They will also get an opportunty to be part of a collborative culture while working on meaningful projects that add value to the business.

Minimum Requirements    
Currently studying towards a Diploma in one of the following areas of study:

• Food Technology/Biotechnology
• Chemistry/Microbiology
• Chemical Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Operations Management
• Procurement/Supply Chain Management
• Official letter from tertiary institution confirming requirement of 12 months’ work integrated learning (WIL)
• Must not have previously completed WIL
• Strong academic records
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Deadline:17th April,2026

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• The purpose of this role is to safely operate, set up and maintain allocated equipment in the packing hall in order to ensure efficiently packed finished products, according to production requirements.

Minimum Requirements    

• N3 NQF Level 3 Matric M/S 1 years’ experience

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Performs the pre-start inspection, start up and shut down on all related machinery as per Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Obtains materials from storage areas as soon as pre-determined low levels are reached and notifies the relevant personnel if material is not available.
• Assists Line Operator at end of production order and ensures that stock recon is done for packaging and returned to warehouse
• Ensures that machinery and equipment in area of responsibility is operated, maintained and changed over efficiently as per SOP.
• Makes adjustments to settings of equipment as per SOP.
• Performs Autonomous Maintenance tasks up to and including AM Step 3 Activities.
• Escalates any issues on the line needing attention to Line Operator or Production Shift Manager.
• Initiates first level of problem solving (e.g. 5 Why) using structured problem-solving techniques and proposes continuous improvements.
• Adheres to Company emergency procedures, safety rules and regulations and eliminates potential SHE hazards in work area.
• Conducts visual quality checks of process material, and finished products as per quality standard, records findings and takes appropriate action when parameters are exceeded (e.g. stops the line and adjust)

Deadline:24th April,2026

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Job Description    

• RCL FOODS is seeking a SHER Administrator to join our RCL FOODS Division.  The role will be based in Pretoria West and report to the Risk Control Officer. RCL FOODS is looking for an individual who has strong work ethic, is able to interact on all levels of the organization and is able to compile, trend and review the FSMS and SHE Data.
• RCL FOODS entrusts the responsible individual with effective administration, maintenance, and monitoring of Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) systems to ensure full legal, ISO and internal compliance. The role supports site SHE performance through accurate data management, reporting, audit support, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications

• Matric
• National Diploma: Safety Management 
• BTech IN SHE or a relevent Technical Field e.g. Engineering would be advantageous
• SAMTRAC (or equivalent) will be an added advantage
• FSSC 22000, ISO 45001, ISO 14001 Training
• Internal Audit Training

Experience

• 2 - 3 years'experience in SHEQ Administration
• Working knowledge of OHS Act, COIDA, Environmental Legislation (NEMA), ISO 14001 & ISO 45001
• Experience in working principles of the Food Manufacturing Industry will be an added advantage

Knowledge

• Good understanding of HACCP, GMP
• Good understanding of SHE Systems
• COmputer literate: MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, SAP
• Good understanding of a food manufacturing environment

Duties & Responsibilities    
Key Responsibilities   

• Administer and maintain SHE administrative systems and trackers to ensure 100% SHE scorecard compliance.
• Capture, update, and verify SHE data weekly, including training matrices, inspections, incidents, NCRs and corrective actions.
• Manage SHEQX system administration, including uploads, system audits, data verification, and closure tracking of NCRs.
• Coordinate SHE training, inductions and competency administration, ensuring certifications are issued, filed, and renewed timeously.
• Capture and track incidents, near misses, first aid cases, IOD documentation and SHE inspection deviations.
• Support ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Management Systems through internal audits, audit evidence compilation and corrective action tracking.
• Maintain legal compliance and statutory registers, ensuring certificates, inspections and calibrations are current.
• Compile and submit accurate SHE reports, KPIs, graphs and trend analyses to site and SHE management.
• Coordinate SHE communication initiatives, including notice boards, SHE Committee minutes, awareness campaigns and digital platforms.
• Provide operational SHE support, contribute to risk assessments, continuous improvement initiatives, and digitisation efforts.

Deadline: 17th April,2026

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Job Description    

• RCL Foods is recruiting for a driven, highly energized, fleet focused Mechanic Assistant within the baking business unit.
• The suitable candidate will be required to carry out maintenance & preventive service in accordance to the maintenance schedule plan and breakdowns and attend to afterhours breakdowns on local delivery fleet.
• This role will be based in Durban and reporting to the Transport Manager.

Minimum Requirements    
Education and Qualification:

• Matric
• Diesel Mechanic Qualification Advantageous

Experience and Training:

• 2-3 years’ experience in a FMCG workshop environment.
• Experience with FAW; Fuso; Hino and Nissan Trucks (Advantageous)

Behavior Standards

• Be brilliant at the basics
• Lead with integrity, respect and energy
• Take accountability for results and people

Knowledge

• Various makes of delivery vehicles

Attributes

• Initiative and assertive
• Tolerant of stress and pressure
• Proactive
• Attention to detail
• Deadline driven
• People orientated
• Results/Goal oriented

Duties & Responsibilities    
Fleet Maintenance

• Ensure workshop is clean and maintain housekeeping as per HSEMS requirement.
• Dispose waste in designated area as per HSEMS requirement
• Follow lead mechanic instruction.
• Assist lead mechanic when required.
• Carry out duties assigned by mechanic in efficient and safe manner
• Maintain proper handling of all equipment, especially mechanical and electronic gauges in order to avoid failures.
• Achieving the knowledge of Mechanic assistant (Technical and Safety).
• Carry out all work activities in a safe manner.
• Follow all company procedures and controls.
• Maintain good housekeeping at work site and accommodation on daily basis.

Deadline:27th April,2026

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Minimum Requirements    

• CA(SA) / CIMA Accounting degree, essential.
• Sound financial and commercial accounting experience with at least 5 years practical experience.
• Advanced MS Excel & SAP experience is a prerequisite.
• The ability to pay attention to detail and accuracy is critical to this position.
• The individual needs to be an action-orientated, self-starter with good communication skills.
• High interest in financial modelling to handle upcoming projects SAP analytics, SAP4HANA.
• To be considered for appointment, candidate must be a South African citizen.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Engage with operations to maintain a comprehensive understanding of operational activities and provide an overall commercial / financial management service.
• Manage costs with liaison with departmental managers.
• Maintain the production order process & ensure the ongoing relevance of the Activity Based Costing model.
• Compile weekly and monthly management reports & explain deviations.
• Compile annual business plans and periodic forecasting. 
• Manage the capital expenditure process. 
• Enforcing company policies & procedures. 
• Continuous drive to reduce working capital. 
• Continuous drive on automation of reporting.
• Continuous drive to identify continuous improvement opportunities. 
• Ad-hoc support to Operations & Commercial Teams.  

Deadline:26th April,2026