Latest Jobs at RCL Foods

• Our Talent Team is on the hunt for a Quality Assurance Technologist for their Baking Division. The role will be based in Rustenburg and will report into the QA Food Safety Manager.
• The incumbent will be responsible to manage the daily activities of the Sunbake Rustenburg QA Department, to support the achievement of agreed Quality and Food Safety goals and objectives. Enforce compliance to company policies and procedures relevant to the maintenance of Third Party and Customer Standards. To ensure that all purchase orders and invoices are handled to ensure on-time payment to suppliers and external labs. The QAT will be expected to act as a Senior QAT when required.

Minimum Requirements    

• Sc. Consumer Science/ Food Science/ B.Tech. Food Technology.
• Must have experience in ISO 22000 implementation/ FSSC 22000.
• Must have minimum 3 years + Food Safety, Quality and QA experience.
• Must have experience as Lead Auditor.
• Computer literate.
• Legislative process experience required.
• Experience with ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, QMS and HACCP programs.
• Willing and capable of learning new skills.
• Proven knowledge and experience of scientific testing techniques.
• Ability to interpret results of analytical and microbiological testing.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Manage all activities related to Quality and Food Safety at Sunbake Rustenburg Site.
• Implementation and maintenance of FSSC 22000.
• Implement and maintenance of a Quality Management Systems.
• Implementation and maintenance of customer requirements.
• Managing of suppliers.
• Managing external service providers (Pest Control, Cleaning, PPE, etc).
• Ensure final product quality and safety standards are adhered to.
• Positive release of final products.
• Managing Food Safety Team.
• Conducting Food Safety and Management review meetings.
• Ensure all labour, testing, consumable and equipment maintenance costs remain within budget.
• Effective control of non-conforming product.
• Manage daily activity of direct reports but not restricted to: task assignment, holiday scheduling, initial approval of overtime, purchasing, efficient deployment of resources and initial contact for disciplinary issues.
• Manage the training, development and performance of direct reports.

Quality Assurance:

• To implement and maintain relevant Quality Management systems, including customer requirements. To manage all activities related to QMS, Customer requirements and relevant interested third party.
• To manage all activities related to releasing of final and raw products., e.g. QC tests and external testing.
• To identify relevant national legislations relevant to Sunbake Bushbuckridge and implement effectively.
• Ensure the implementation and application of the appropriate policies, procedures, test methods (including GLP, PRP’S, QMS) to achieve and maintain third party and customer standards
• To drive activities related to resolving the non-conformance issues to support the reduction of Inventory costs.
• To provide Laboratory expertise and technical support to resolve customer complaints and implement corrective actions to prevent re-occurrence.
• Manage the internal/external sampling and testing of materials in accordance with test plans.
• Manage purchasing of laboratory consumables and ensure invoices are processed in a timely manner, in accordance with budgetary constraints.
• Maintain appropriate information systems (QA Databases, SHERQX, test plans, methods and procedures, calibrations) to ensure compliance to regulatory, customer and third-party requirements.

Food Safety:

• Implement and maintain Food Safety systems based on FSSC 22000, Customer requirements.
• Identify relevant food safety team members and appoint them.
• Manage the training needs of Food Safety Team Members.
• To conduct monthly food safety and annual management review meetings. To ensure minutes are kept of these activities.
• Manage customer complaints by means of investigations to prevent the re-occurrence.
• Manager internal corrective action process to prevent the re-occurrence.
• Implement and manage relevant PRP’s (Pest Control, Cleaning and Sanitation, GMP, etc).
• Conduct supplier audits when required.
• Conduct monthly food safety audits and assist the relevant departments to implement effective corrective actions.
• Manage all food safety related audits (external and internal), always ensure compliance to standards.

Deadline:4th May,2026

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• RCL FOODS is looking for a Learning and Development Coordinator to be based in Durban and report to the Learning and Development Specialist.
• The successful incumbent will be actively involved in the planning, design, coordinating, and execution of a variety of learning activities, which consists in scheduling employees on relevant training programs and communicating requirements and details to employees and training providers within agreed timescales, while being responsible for the day to day running of relevant learning management system/s, e-learning platform/s, and compliance systems while effectively fulfilling SETA compliance processes and auditing tasks. To apply sound influencing skills when liaising with internal and external key stakeholders, including Senior staff at SETA’s and customers to sign up for courses and to drive for increased absorption and completion rates of e-learning systems.

Minimum Requirements    

• Degree/Diploma in Human Resource Management or equivalent qualification.
• 3-5 years of Learning & Development, training facilitation or related experience.
• Valid Code EB drivers’ license.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Learning Coordination:

• Provide coordination support to staff and managers in the planning and delivery of a large volume of learning and development events (including Senior Management programmes).
• Obtain authorisation with respect to learning events and oversees the processing of payment as per organisational procedure (quotations, BRs, order numbers & invoices).
• Control training documentation ensuring that Attendance Registers & Invoices for associated costs are prepared to be captured into the HR Management system.
• Oversee the process for certificates of attendance for in-house training events to be generated.

Collates information on training needs and competency requirements into skills matrixes:

• Conduct post-mortem impact studies and surveys. Collate learning evaluation feedback to enable amendments to programmes and facilitators to be made in a timely manner.
• Oversee and execute the preparation of learning and development materials to a consistently high standard and ensure that they reach the delegates/facilitators/venues within agreed timescales.

Oversee and execute Learning Programme Implementation and Quality control:

• Involved with the design and development of courses to meet identified training needs and assessed suitability of external training courses.
• Schedule staff to attend internal and external learning events in accordance with the wider learning and development strategy (C Band upwards or specific projects allocated).
• Communicate programme requirements and details to employees and training providers within agreed timescales.
• Coordinate learning event arrangements; including venue, travel and catering requirements for a large volume of learning and development events in compliance with organisational policies and procedures.
• Set up training rooms, as required, for learning events.
• Observe and monitors the effectiveness of courses.

Responsible for the launch and running of Digital Learning for respective BU and function as technical support facilitators:

• Coordinate Digital Platform communication drive to all relevant stakeholders within different BU.
• Manages the back end of all digital and e-learning platforms.
• Does methodical fault find support potential system issues.
• Performs day-to-day user support function and assists with queries that may arise timeously.
• Builds curated e-learning paths to be pushed to various learner communities.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting for all digital platforms.
• Track activation and usage percentages of users and produce monthly presentation decks on the utilisation of e-learning platforms.
• Deliver technical support for Virtual Learning and D & I Inclusivity Circle conversations as hosted in Zoom and MS Teams.

Learning Systems Quality Assurance:

• Control the production and maintenance of large volumes of accurate electronic and manual learning and development records in compliance with organisational policies and procedures.
• Quality Assure detailed Learning and Development data and information sheets for audit purposes. B-BBEE, ISO, SARS, SETA, Sustainability and Management reporting.
• Participate in ISO, B-BBEE and supplier audits and ensure audit recommendations are actioned.
• Regularly audit system integrity to ensure ISO compliance.
• Controls learning administration and record keeping.

Responsible for maintaining the HR Manage system by communicating/scheduling regular updates for the L&D teams as and when required:

• Day-to-day control of the system.
• Coordinate and schedule training for the L&D team for new users and/or upgrades with Personnel Resolution.
• Ensure correct governance of the software and compliance to the business rules of the system and correctly influence relevant stakeholders to keep to the aforementioned.
• Implement regular audits for records and maintenance of the system.
• Upload and maintain Learning Interventions and Service Providers for all BU within L&D in accordance with our naming convention rules.
• Manage all queries and provide timeous feedback to all HRM users.
• Manages information on the HR Manage system by tracking attendance and programme information, running reports and fielding questions to provide support to the learning manager for statistical and management reporting purposes.

Budget Control:

• Capture and track all budget activities in support of the BU Learning Specialists and Learning Manager.
• Participate in budget discussions with the finance teams.
• Prepare reports relevant to the budget for respective cost centres.
• Respond to enquiries related to budget issues.
• Analyse budgets to maintain control expenditure by regularly monitoring and updating the budget tracker and monthly collation of SAP reports.
• Assist Learning Specialist to plan for the quarterly forecast.
• Provide regular updates to L&D Manager on budget expenditure.

Support to SDF Role:

• Performs the support to SDF role within RCL FOODS for the respective BUs.
• Support the SDF to Draw and collate data from the systems to compile and prepare the annual mandatory reporting namely the WSP (workplace skills plan) & ATR (Annual Training Report) for submission to the SETA.
• Methodically completes the DG applications with SDF as and when SETA window periods open.
• Advise the L&D team on the quality assurance requirements set by the SETA.
• Supports the SDF with Capturing, uploading and submission of the information directly onto the SETA’s Electronic management system.
• Support the SDF to Monitor, track and claim all discretionary & mandatory grants and benefits from Agriseta/FOODBevSETA/ SETA for respective project codes awarded.
• Works with Finance to produce invoices for all relevant pivotal tranche claims and track the SETA payments and schedules thereof.

Stakeholder Relationships:

• Coordinate supplier relationships as well as multiple service relationships within the Learning team.
• Interacts with internal clients and staff to influence course attendance numbers, user adoption rates, course completion and active engagement of e-learning in relation to licence allocation numbers.
• Maintain relationships with senior staff members at the respective SETAs to influence the timely and steady payment of discretionary SETA grants.

Support with Legislative and Management reporting:

• Accurately coordinate, consolidate and manage complex information required for the annual SARS audit processes for Learnership Tax rebates.
• Assemble relevant SETA information, and assist to produce statutory reports to be submitted in terms of the Skills Development Act and the Skills Development Levies Act.
• Compile and collate B-BBEE data schedules and relevant information, producing reports as required for the B-BBEE Verification audit as required by the BBBEE Act and Codes, Skills Development Act and the Skills Development Levies Act.
• Support with data collection, analysis and collation for Monthly Management reporting.

Deadline:10th May,2026

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Job Description    

• RCL Foods is looking for a qualified and experienced Engineer: Raw House and Refinery to be based at our Malelane Sugar Plant. The primary objective of this position is providing sound technical leadership and direction within the mechanical department.

Minimum Requirements    

• BSc/BTech/BEng Mechanical Engineering Degree
• 10-week SMRI Course
• Working experience as a Mechanical Plant Engineer in the Heavy Engineering Manufacturing sector
• 2–3 Years’ Sugar Milling Experience will be advantageous
• Project Management Experience
• A GCC (Factories) will be advantageous

Sound knowledge and proven track record on:

• Various material conveying systems
• Pumps, Steam Turbines, Water-tube Boilers, Compressor systems and Steam systems.
• Engineering design, fabrication, and contractor management.
• Maintenance philosophies and maintenance systems

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Providing sound technical leadership and direction within the mechanical department
• Ensuring that plant maintenance, production and project objectives are achieved within the operational, engineering, financial and statutory constraints through optimal use of people and resources.
• Assure SHE and statutory compliance.
• Compile and control expenditure on maintenance, operational, materials, employment, and capital budgets.
• Ensure adherence to group specifications and Engineering standards to improve plant safety and equipment reliability.
• Adhere to maintenance procedures to mitigate risk of plant breakdowns.
• Provide technical input and support for setting up and optimisation of the plant
• Ensure minimal losses through effective maintenance and controls.
• Develop off-crop as well as short and long stops plans and ensure implementation.
• Develop capital improvement plan and manage various projects within the plant.
• Minimizing LTA below set targets and Maximising Overall Time Efficiency (OTE)
• Management of team (performance management, discipline, recruitment, training & development, leave, etc).
• Report and investigate accidents, incidents and implement preventative measures.  
• Maintain high quality work standards, comply with safety standards and requirements.
• Improve and maintain housekeeping in area of responsibility.

Deadline:9th May,2026