Jobs at AVI Limited

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

• To effectively empower and develop staff through goal setting and performance management in-order to enable them to contribute effectively and make the right decisions.
• Ensuring high efficiency, excellent quality and low waste.
• To ensure optimal production through effective liaison with all other support functions.
• Manage and ensure cost effective labour usage in accordance with MANMAPS.
• Analysing and resolving production history in order to minimize potential risk.
• To ensure that operating specifications are in place and are achievable (correctly implemented).
• To ensure the right talent are recruited and identified for development.
• Implementation of the correct business strategies.
• Effectively manage operational budget and cost effectiveness.
• To ensure implementation and adherence to SHEQ; QMS and food safety.

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a production leadership role with in an FMCG environment overseeing baking plant/s
• Experience working in a high-speed manufacturing environment required

Qualifications:

• A relevant completed Food Technology Degree / B-Tech is essential as a minimum

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Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:

Receiving of finished and componentry products (locally produced and imported) and merchandising

• Ensure that the correct procedure for receiving of Finished Goods from Production, Overseas, Merchandising and from external suppliers as well as issuing stock to production

Safe stacking of products

• Adhere to the procedure for generic stacking (SSOP-13) to ensure safe, accurate putting away of stock and the easy retrieval thereof

Supply of stacked products to Picking

• Ensure that the procedure for Replenishing of Picking bins is being followed at all times to provide a speedy availability of products to the picking bins

Maintaining of housekeeping and safety standards

• Keeping racking, aisles and stacked products neat, tidy and dust free
• Seeing that products and cartons are sealed properly and in a good saleable condition
• Use the correct material handling equipment to reach higher stacking levels, ensuring that the correct safety procedures are adhered to
• Follow the company’s safety procedure and to report unsafe conditions and incidents

Queries

• All queries related to the receiving, putting away and retrieval of stock must be resolved immediately, alternatively, they must be escalated to the Supervisor

Ad Hoc duties

• Remove empty pallets to the back yard
• Assist with the picking of reservations
• Keep yard tidy
• Assist with the controlling and stacking of new cartons
• Assist, when required, with the replenishment off stacked stock to
• The picking lines
• Maintain materials handling equipment as per procedure
• Assist with the loading of any large consignments into containers

Attend green area meetings

To participate in green areas:

• Discuss any problems that may occur
• Make suggestions in terms of work flow improvements
• Ensure that green area is always neat and tidy
• Adhere to green area’s code of conduct for a meeting

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience within a Warehouse operations environment
• Must have RF scanner experience
• Valid Reach Truck License

Qualifications:

• Grade 12

Additional Requirements:

• MS Office
• SAP

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Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

• Responsible for the entire procure to pay process within profile
• Processing and matching of all invoices using 3 way matching technique
• Request for invoices, proof of deliveries and supporting documents for any and all unprocessed documents from suppliers, buyers and or site personnel
• Resolve all supplier reconciling items and supplier queries within the month and ensure that suppliers are paid timeously on due dates in accordance with set trading terms
• Reconcile supplier accounts monthly and ensure that the account is in a current state
• Ensure that purchase orders, receipt report (GR/IR), age analysis, MRBR reports (blocked invoices) etc. are reviewed and resolved timeously 

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Accounts Payable / Creditors Clerk
• Experience working within a Manufacturing environment
• Experience working in a high volumes environment – manually capturing no less than 500 invoices per month
• Experience dealing with multiple departments and multiple stakeholders within your organisation 
• Experience with invoice capturing to reconciliations
• SAP ERP experience 

Qualifications:

• Matric/Grade 12
• A financial qualification would be advantageous

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Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:

Capacity requirement planning

• Manage daily available capacity of staff and machinery across Consumable & Aerosol stores
• Ensure that all the warehousing and stores activities linked to the following functions are correctly and timeously performed:
• Goods Receiving, Stacking, Picking and Cycle counting.
• Monitor workload both scheduled and unscheduled and make recommendations on how to overcome any short-to-term capacity constraints.
• Identify and analyse resources, which are bottlenecks and make recommendations on how these bottlenecks and constraints can be overcome.
• Identify potential skills shortages and recommend a plan of action to remedy this threat.
• Identifying specific areas within the process, which, if improved, would enhance productivity.

Human Resource Management

• Ensure on an ongoing basis that all training requirements for subordinates are identified, planned, scheduled, executed and training records updated once training has been completed.
• Regularly review the performance of sub ordinates to ensure that the minimum requirements for all their relevant Key Performance Areas are met. Submit reports of these review meetings.
• Inform sub ordinates regarding ways of improving productivity in their work areas.
• Draw and review the relevant reports on an appropriate frequency to ensure that tasks are being carried out by the storemen timeously.
• Effective time management and prioritising of tasks to meet the operational objectives.
• Conduct investigations and initiate disciplinary procedures as and when required.

Hygiene and Safety and Good Manufacturing Practice

• Identify, write and maintain any necessary procedures applicable to a particular store.
• Ensure that all procedures and training is relevant and managed through Q-pulse.
• Ensure that the Hygiene and Safety policies and procedures are being adhered to at all times.
• Ensure that the working environment reflect a world class warehousing environment.
• Ensure that all materials handling equipment are in a good working condition and regularly maintained.
• Ensure that non-conformances of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audits are actioned timeously to eliminate the problem and its possible recurrence.
• Ensure that all incidents and accidents are reported, investigated, documented and submitted to the relevant persons.
• Ensure that the non-conformances of Safety and Company Risk Management (CRM) audits are actioned timeously to eliminate the problem and its possible recurrence.

Problem solving and trouble shooting

• Liaise with the different internal departments and suppliers to resolve problems, which affect the efficient and productive running of the department.
• Facilitate meetings between individuals and groups on matters of mutual interest, to the benefit of the efficient and productive running of the department.

Inventory Management

• Ensure the secure, accurate and safe storage of inventory.
• Ensure that all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) are strictly adhered to.
• Ensure that all relevant SAP transactions are completed accurately and timeously.
• Ensure that cycle counting is conducted at the appropriate interval and that variances are investigated and resolved in a timeous manner.

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                  

• Minimum 3-4 years’ work experience in a logistics, distribution or warehouse environment
• Minimum 2 years’ experience managing a team

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 / Matric
• Minimum NQF5 qualification in Logistics, Supply Chain or Warehousing

Additional Requirements:

• SAP knowledge

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Key Responsibilities:

Safety, Health, and Environment:

• Enforce correct PPE usage and compliance with safety protocols.
• Promote a strong safety culture, ensuring each shift has a designated SHE rep, first aider, and fire fighter.
• Conduct emergency evacuation drills and complete near-miss reports.
• Ensure timely resolution of safety and health incidents and lead COVID-19 compliance efforts.
• Conduct weekly toolbox talks and ensure proper waste segregation and disposal.

Production Management:

• Lead production teams to meet daily shift targets as per SKU specifications.
• Ensure rapid response to equipment breakdowns and labour availability.
• Oversee pre-checks on machines and manage support departments to provide top service.
• Track hourly production output and monitor adherence to the production plan.
• Maintain high product quality standards and ensure first-time-right production.

Cost Control:

• Optimize labour management, including controlling overtime and absenteeism.
• Lead efforts to reduce waste, participate in troubleshooting, and manage start-up times.
• Plan for efficient changeovers, ensuring minimal downtime and smooth production transitions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance plant efficiency.

Quality and Food Safety:

• Ensure seamless maintenance handovers and proper storage of safety equipment and chemicals.
• Conduct daily equipment inspections and maintain high hygiene standards during production runs.
• Lead quality checks and empower operators to take ownership of their output.
• Ensure non-conforming products are addressed and corrected swiftly.

People Management:

• Lead and develop your team with a genuine concern for their growth and well-being.
• Provide ongoing training, coaching, and development using IDP and Skills Matrix frameworks.
• Ensure team members are multi-skilled and well-equipped to meet operational demands.
• Offer recognition, reward, and constructive feedback, while holding individuals accountable for their performance.
• Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging team suggestions and ideas.

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in production within the FMCG industry.
• 1-2 years of supervisory experience in a complex manufacturing structure.

Qualifications:

• Relevant completed 3-4 year qualification in Logistics / Business Management / Production / Operations Management / Supply Chain Management
• Or a National Diploma in Chemical, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.

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Job Specification:
Key Performance Areas:

Production and Machinery

• Ensure that production machines reach the yield target standards as set.
• Utilising the 5 Why analysis tool to analyse the root cause of the breakdowns and investigating, testing, implementing and monitoring solutions to reduce breakdown frequency.
• Adherence to Job card maintenance system and completion of job cards timeously.
• Ensure breakdowns are attended to immediately and root cause determined with relevant rectification made.
• Responsible for the safe maintenance practice to keep working environment safe and clean by complying with procedures, rules and regulations.
• Responsible for maintaining the continuity among work teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities and continuing needs.

People and Team Management – Training

• Mentoring and skills development of apprentices on all processing machinery and equipment.
• Coach and provide feedback on areas of development.
• Contributing to the team effort by accomplishing engineering department target results as needed.

Maintenance

• Identifying maintenance, shutdown and refurbishment needs as well as planning, scheduling and executing planned maintenance.
• Reconditioning of Baader and Trio equipment;
• Responsible for the troubleshooting, repairing and servicing of Baader production machinery, equipment, systems and infrastructure mechanically;
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling maintenance cost;
• Dealing with emergency breakdowns, unplanned maintenance problems and repairs of machines;
• Responsible for the troubleshooting, repairing and servicing of Trio production machinery, equipment, systems and infrastructure mechanically;

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience of Baarder and Trio equipment
• Skilled mechanical and technical abilities

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• Trade Test qualification

Additional requirements:

• Overtime required