Jobs at Distell

The purpose of the position is to ensure superior customer service through managing an effective warehouse and customer delivery operation.

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure cost effective warehousing and customer delivery operation:
  • Maintain highest possible level of customer service (Internal and external).
  • Ensure customer complaints are solved swiftly and efficiently.
  • Ensure that proper controls are exercised with the administration of full returns, credits, cancellations and stock transfers
  • Achieve the highest possible operational efficiencies by reducing the cents per litre cost of warehousing and customer deliveries by increasing productivity and by keeping expenses and losses to a minimum
  • Manage the receiving od stock from supply plants and ensure correct storage location
  • Plan and perform weekly/monthly stock counts
  • Effectively plan the assembly and dispatch of customer orders and ensure effective functioning of inbound, outbound and bottle sorting operations.
  • Reduce write-offs and losses to a minimum
  • Vehicle, Material Handling Equipment and Site Maintenance.
  • Ensure outsourced work is performed productively and efficiently
  • Drive delivery compliance to Roadshow guidelines
• Maintain the Quality Management System by adhering to all relevant Standard Operating Procedures; Health, Risk & Safety Regulations as well as to the ISO and ICC standards
• Establish and sustain competent, motivated people.
• Innovation and Business Improvements
• Effectively liaise with other departments.
• Perform administration and reporting effectively
• Leadership behaviour reflecting company values and team orientation.

The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience:

• Minimum of Grade 12 or equivalent qualification.
• A relevant tertiary qualification would be advantageous.
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience within a warehouse environment.
• Competence in the use of the Microsoft Office package (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook).
• Competence in the use of SAP (Materials Management module) would be highly advantageous.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and strong administrative ability.
• Sound interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Willing and able to work extended hours (overtime when required).
• Valid Code 08 Drivers Licence

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Applications are invited for the above mentioned position to be based in Sec Production, Wadeville. This person will report to the Packaging Manager.

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Achieve production requirements against targets:
• Adherence to Production plan
• Adherence to MPS
• LM Variance
• C/L
• OEE
• ME
• Efficient Asset utilization
• Achieve product quality
• Managing people.
• Managing capital and NPD projects, trials and feasibility studies.
• Manage plan and control annual budgets.
• See to annual maintenance plan of all equipment within department. (Adherence to Planned maintenance)
• Management of all quality systems ISO 9001/2000.
• Develop and implement annual departmental business plans and assist in site’s business plan.
• To establish a positive and disciplined environment with the workers and manage all HR issues within department.
• To effectively manage performance and drive MDWT processes.
• See to skills development within department.
• Actively participate in daily and weekly management meetings.
• Must be able to work under pressure and see to queries associated with department.
• Innovation and business improvements in support of operational and segment goals.

The Successful Candidate Must Have The Following Experience/skills

• Strong leadership capabilities
• Strong technical aptitude
• Degree as minimum qualification (NQF7 equivalent or above)
• Packaging experience
• World Class Manufactruing exposure (such as 52, problem solving, visual management)
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years supervisory / management role
• Strong RCA (root cause analysis) abilities
• People management and leadership skills
• Proven computer literacy in SAP & MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• The successful candidate must be innovative and drive best practices

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The Data Engineer is responsible for managing, optimising, overseeing and monitoring of data retrieval, storage and distribution throughout the organisation.

Key performance areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze and understand business requirements in the SAP planning, reporting, and analytics space
• Develop, construct, test and maintain architectures, more specifically relevant databases and large scale processing systems
• Data extraction from on-premise and hosted systems and repositories using various ETL tools
• Create, maintain and optimize process chains to ensure data is loaded within the available window
• Data modeling of Transaction and Master Data, construction of ADSO’s
• Quality assure system configuration and development
• Ensure proper data governance principles are applied in development practices
• Perform user support by diagnosing and resolving system problems
• Guide fellow BI team members to develop the best technical design, in conjunction with the Data Architect
• Knowledge transfer to users , fellow team members and support resources
• On-going system administration and maintenance
• Stay informed on new developments in analytics space; Educate organisation on available and emerging toolsets; Identify opportunities for improvement; Develop proof-of-concept to help illustrate useful approaches to applying technology to solve business problems.

The Successful Candidate Must Have The Following Experience/skills

• Bachelor degree in information systems, computer science, or a comparable education
• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• Very good knowledge and hands-on experience of SAP BW on HANA
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing principals
• Good understanding of SQL. Java & C# experience will be beneficial
• Working knowledge of Integrated Planning in SAP BW (BW-IP)
  • FOX Coding
  • Data Slice
• SAP ERP experience with FI, CO, and SD modules would be beneficial
• Experience in integrating and extracting data from source systems ECC, CRM, SD, FI/CO, SCM, using standard/generic extractors (ABAP) and other tools
• Data Services experience will be beneficial
  • SAP Data Services 4.0 or higher
  • DS Formulae
  • Integration BW / FTP / OLTP/Web service etc.
• Knowledge of non-SAP reporting tools and how they integrate with SAP and HANA data will be beneficial
• Ability to work with both Agile & Waterfall methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills.
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, business owners
• High analytical skills
• High degree of initiative in driving projects to completion
• Customer Orientated
• Team player