Latest Vacancies at RCL Foods

Purpose of the role

Responsible for the Despatch Department to deliver daily OTIF for Rustenburg bakery and its 2 Depots including bakeouts to the rest of the Sunbake network as a supply bakery.

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric
• Post matric qualification in Supply Chain or related field
• Computer literacy proficiency
• Minimum 5 yrs exp in a dispatch, logistics and distribution environment
• Supervisory experience

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Manage local feeders and route trucks to maintain 100% OTIF.
• Stock Management and rotation
• Coordinate loadings and departures for feeders to sister bakeries.
• Crate Management to ensure optimum production time.
• Seamless and flexible shift patterns in line with legislation and minimize overtime
• Manage a pool of Shunter Drivers, Dispatch Supervisors, Receiving Clerks and Loaders
• Seamless and flexible shift patterns in line with legislation and minimize overtime.
• Coordinate daily, weekly, and monthly rooster and prepare timesheets for payroll
• Responsible for leading and guiding a team of despatch people.
• Determine loading and departures for feeders to sister bakeries
• Will be required to work some weekends

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Minimum Requirements    

• Matric
• National Diploma in Safety Management/Environmental Science
• SEMTRAC will be an advantage.
• Advanced OSH training
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a FMCG environment.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• PPE ordering and issuing.
• Conducting H & S inductions
• Contractor Management (LOG, PLI and 37.2 agreement as minimum requirements)
• Participate in monthly departmental meetings.
• Conduct monthly internal departmental safety audit.
• Assist in collecting information for sustainability.
• Arrange hazardous waste collection on a quarterly basis.
• Share and track toolbox talks weekly.
• Investigate all incidents onsite and recommend the implementation of control measures.
• Track all incidents that occur on site and ensure that action is taken where necessary.
• Arrange H & S trainings according to the training matrix.
• Ensures that all appointment letters are up to date.
• Assist Departmental Heads with Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
• Implementing Toolbox talks based on the incidents.
• Tracking completion of safe Working Procedure as well as Planned Task Observation

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Minimum Requirements    

• BTech/B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering/Sugar Technology qualifications.
• At least 6 years’ experience in a Sugar manufacturing environment.
• At least 3 years Sugar Manufacturing experience as an Assistant Production Manager or Process Engineer responsible for Rawhouse and/or Refinery.
• Understanding and knowledge of Sugar manufacturing process and operational parameters.
• Candidates must have intermediate MS Office skills.
• Working knowledge of SAP system will be an added advantage.
• Self-starting, action-orientated individuals with well-developed communication skills should apply.
• The ability to pay attention to detail and accuracy is critical to this position.
• To be considered for appointment, candidate must be a South African citizen.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Optimize factory throughput and recoveries to achieve production targets.
• Manage and control the quality of sugar produced to meet the required specifications.
• Issue work notifications to maintenance when required.
• Manage Process LTA and UDL to minimum and maximize Overall Time Efficiency (OTE).
• Provide technical support to the process team.
• Compile and control the process operational budgets.
• Play a role in planning of Process Off Crop, short & long stops work and implementation.
• Develop capital improvement plan and manage various projects within the plant.
• 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, and ensure good housekeeping in area of responsibility.

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Minimum Requirements    

• Tertiary qualification in Finance/Accounting
• Knowledge on IFRS would be advantageous
• 1 – 3 years relevant work experience
• Experience with handling insurance claims and / or working in a financial environment would be desirable.
• MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook) competence essential.
• SAP Experience would be an advantage.
• Ability to take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and
• Can demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning and prioritising, and self-development.
• Ability to follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Manage colleagues and client’s expectations and communicate appropriately.
• Must demonstrate the ability to problem solve effectively.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Fixed Asset Life Cycle Administration
• Capture details into investment orders for release by the Fixed Asset Accountant.
• Capitalise and capture completed projects / assets once checked and authorised by the Fixed Asset Accountant.
• Retire sold/redundant assets once checked and authorised by the Fixed Asset Accountant.
• Post intra-company transfers based on authorised documentation.

Asset Verification

• Print and distribute fixed asset reports for physical verification of the Group’s fixed assets by operations.
• Ensure signed, authorised physical verifications are received back from all relevant operations.
• Follow up on documentation required to action amendments resulting from the physical verification.

Reporting Administration

• Assist the Fixed Asset Accountant with compilation of information for any fixed asset reports required.

General Administration

• File and safeguard records within area of responsibility.
• Compile ad hoc spreadsheets and analysis when required.

Information and Data management

• Capture data accurately and regularly onto SAP to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.

Teamwork and Self-Management

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management in terms of planning and 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 client’s 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.
• Participate in, and drive regular performance appraisals and ensure that own targets and goals are clear and achievable.

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The objectives are the following: 

• To provide engineering leadership for the Grocery manufacturing facility by effectively managing asset care, maintenance, and capital projects to reduce the cost of manufacture, to improve quality and to improve asset performance.
• To provide hands-on leadership for the day-to-day maintenance operation to reduce engineering downtime across all
• Support the Manufacturing Executive in delivering the site strategy.

Minimum Requirements    

Qualifications

• 10 years functional experience of which least 5 years should be at engineering management level in which a position of similar complexity has been held.
• A Degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial or Electrical Engineering.
• Completed GCC Certification.
• A Diploma with GCC is also acceptable.

Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of mechanical, refrigeration and electrical engineering associated with large utility and services operation and complex production processes.
• Strong packing line experience, ideally on bottling, VFFS and Tub filling lines
• Exchange information in a clear and concise manner (both written and verbal) to senior staff and subordinates.
• Work flexible hours and some weekends as required.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Thorough understanding of the Labour Relations Act.
• Constantly looking and finding ways to improve plant efficiency and effectiveness.
• Regularly reviews and monitor progress, taking action to reschedule and re-prioritise (must be able to “think on their feet”).
• Understand the full implications of potential problems and minimise their impact.
• Recommend solutions bases on rigorous and sound information research.
• Strong WCM experience

Problem Solving:

• Must be able to handle problems encountered with utilities and services machinery and production machinery and find a solution with immediacy.
• Must be able to handle problems for which there are known industry solutions and for which solutions need to be sought.
• Must be able to handle complex problems which require a calm and disciplined collaborative approach to seeking solutions (collaboration beyond the Operating Unit).

Skills/Characteristics

• Attention to detail with ability to communicate complex things in a simple manner.
• Energetic and enthusiastic
• Practical and logical.
• Strong analytical skills to provide insights and be solutions driven.
• Effective people management at all levels
• Initiative and resilience
• Patience and adaptability
• Ability to challenge status quo and come up with innovative solutions to complex problems

Duties & Responsibilities    

Leadership:

• Focus engineering maintenance resources on increasing Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and decreasing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
• Control costs and enhance value addition through engineering spending.
• Identify productivity and savings projects within engineering.
• Successfully execute capital expenditure and cost reduction initiatives.
• Reduce operational and environmental risks while enhancing safety and product quality.
• Drive team performance, accountability, and development.
• Provide operational insights to improve performance.
• Define and implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Lead from the shop floor to achieve production throughput, safety, and quality goals.
• Ensure succession planning and development of leaders.
• Promote diversity and training opportunities within the team.
• Conduct regular performance appraisals and foster a culture of high performance.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams and daily operational meetings effectively.
• Maintain team integrity and address corrective actions promptly.

Asset Care and Asset Performance:

• Implement strategies to continuously improve asset performance.
• Utilize engineering team and OEMs efficiently to reduce maintenance costs and downtime.
• Ensure compliance with safety, health, and environmental standards.
• Coordinate repairs, maintenance, and inspections effectively.
• Manage weekend maintenance tasks and projects within budget.
• Oversee renovations and construction projects.
• Inspect major contract work on various systems.

Operational Engineering Management:

• Fulfill legal and statutory requirements.
• Ensure health and safety compliance for all equipment and plants.
• Plan and prioritize maintenance tasks.
• Maintain discipline and standards within the engineering team.
• Address audit findings promptly.

Project Management:

• Strategize capital expenditure to enhance efficiency and reduce downtime.
• Manage fixed asset register and project documentation.
• Conduct project meetings and prepare necessary documentation.
• Investigate incidents and ensure safety control of contractors.

Management of Safety, Health, Environment, Risk, and Quality (SHERQ):

• Ensure legislative standards are met and actions taken timely.
• Monitor and manage sustainability practices.
• Identify operational risks and implement mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance with safety procedures and regulations.
• Maintain security access and escalate concerns promptly.

Financial Management:

• Manage maintenance and engineering labor costs for optimal asset utilization.
• Report on actual cost KPIs versus budget and address non-conformance.
• Authorize and monitor plant engineering expenses.
• Implement cost-cutting initiatives without compromising long-term sustainability.
• Allocate spend to high-priority areas.
• Manage Capex documentation and supplier contracts effectively.
• Conduct audits of equipment spares inventory regularly.

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Minimum Requirements    

• Matric 
• Qualified Electrician 
• 5 years experience working with filling and packing high speed machines. 

Competencies: 

• Systematic approach to problem solving 
• Experience with lean manufacturing methodologies (TPM, WCM, RCM) 
• Logical reasoning 
• Communication and collaborating with teams to solve issues 
• Sound knowledge of medium and low voltage electrical equipment and components (Motors, VSD’s, Starters,PLC’s, HMI, SCADA, Instruments) 
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings 
• Sound knowledge of applicable electrical standards and regulations 
• Ability to faultfind on interconnected and complex systems 
• Understands food safety and applicable requirements

Duties & Responsibilities    

Maintenance 

• Designing improvements on electrical systems 
• Reading and interpreting electrical schematics and wiring diagrams 
• Performing routine maintenance on electrical systems and equipment 
• Identifying and repairing breakdowns, faults and malfunctions 
• Testing and inspecting electrical and control systems 
• Ensuring new and existing installations comply with applicable standards and regulations. 
• Manages obsolesce and technology advancements for electrical and control equipment and components. 
• Maintains inventory of critical electrical spares through collaboration with suppliers and engineering stores Motors, VSD’s, Controllers, HMI’s, Field instruments, PLC’s, Control cards, Lead and coordinate periodic instruments calibrations 
• Resolve deviations noted on the thermal (Infra-red) imaging report to prevent failure of electrical components. 
• Maintain luminairs in area of responsibility 

Safety 

• Maintain electrical and control panels in accordance with electrical machinery regulations 
• Identify and resolve or report safety deviations in the factory in accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act provisions 

Quality and Food Safety 

• Ensure ongoing implementation (and where possible improvement) of the Quality and Food Safety system through the systematic implementation of the relevant food safety requirements. 
• Striclty apply the requirements as defined in the Food Safety RACI Matrix and relevant policies and procedures (SOP’s). 

Customer Relationships 

Internal 

• Frequent liaison with production teams, Maintenance planning and engineering stores. 

External 

• Contractors and service providers. 

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Job Description

The purpose of the role is to ensure effective Human Resource support to the respective business units through adequate delivery of HR Services, practices and procedures.

Minimum Requirements    

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or other relevant qualification.
• Valid driver’s license & willing to travel.
• Minimum of 3- 5 years HR Generalist experience.
• Sound knowledge of HR practices and principles.
• Sound knowledge of Labour Legislation.
• CCMA experience (including arbitration process) would be advantageous.
• SAP experience would be advantageous.
• Intermediate Excel experience.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiating and conflict resolution skills.
• Must be able to plan ahead and manage time.
• Must be proactive and deadline driven.
• To be considered for appointment, candidate must be a South African citizen.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Advise line management on effective Human Resource Management.
• Provide employee relations advice to line managers regarding disciplinary cases and grievances processes.
• Review practices to ensure statutory compliance and regularly provide guidance to line managers.
• Participate in consultations with organized labour.
• Build strong social partnership with recognised union and its officials.
• Co-ordinate the Recruitment Processes in line with Company policy.
• Analyse the skills and qualities required for each particular job and develop job profiles.
• Coordinate planned and unplanned OD initiatives.
• Coordinate the performance appraisal process.
• Partner with Learning team to optimise learning opportunities in the business.
• Help build a high-performance culture in the business.
• Ensure statutory compliance to EE Act, BCEA, LRA, SDA and OHS Act.
• Drive RCL EE policy and targets.
• Coordinate and record EE quarterly meetings.
• Drive the succession planning for the site/region and support the Talent & Organisational Review process.
• Ensure organisational structures are kept up to date.
• Coordinate terminations and exit interviews.
• Ensure the accurate capturing of HR information and data into SAP and assure the integrity of the data.
• Effectively and timeously resolve employee queries.
• Provide monthly HR Reports to assist line managers with decision making.

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Job Description

The purpose of the role is to ensure effective Human Resources support to the business unit/factory through adequate delivery of HR Services, practices, procedures.

Minimum Requirements    

• Degree in Human Resource Management is required.
• Valid Code EB driver’s license.
• Must have at least 3-5 years’ experience as an HR generalist.
• The ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
• Must be people-orientated, results-focused and deadline-driven.
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Microsoft PowerPoint.
• A high level of confidentiality is required.
• Excellent time management and planning skills.

Duties & Responsibilities    

Employee Relations:

• Provide advice to line managers regarding the conduct and misconduct management processes.
• Provide advice to line managers and investigate/process disciplinary cases.
• Provide advice to line managers and investigate/process grievances.
• Review practices to ensure statutory compliance and regularly provide guidance to line managers. 
• Coach Line Managers on effective delivery of Disciplinary hearings.

Resourcing:

Process permissions to recruit (workflow).

• Process the offers of employment/negotiation.
• Ensure that the Resourcing process is adhered to and jobs are timeously advertised on the eRecruitment and tracked.
• Manage and conduct interviews with Line Managers and selection tests and make recommendations to Line for all C Band and lower positions.
• Supervise the orientation of new employees.
• Manage probationary reviews, employee evaluations, and terminations.
• Ensure that the site job profiles are relevant and up to date and where job evaluation is required necessary arrangements are made with the Line Manager and HRBP.

Talent Management:

• Coach Line Manager on Performance Management Process and Talent & Org Review process.
• Facilitate Consistency Reviews and Talent & Org Review meetings.
• Coordinate the performance appraisal documents and consolidate performance ratings.
• Drive the succession planning for the site/region.

Organisational Design:

• Liaise with Line Managers to get the rationale for proposed positions, draw up new proposed org and submit to HRBP for sign-off.
• Manage and update business organizational structure on SAP and ensure that all structures are updated and fit for purpose. 
• Drive change management initiatives in line with the business and organizational objectives.

Training Development:

• Compile training matrix from Appraisal doc.
• Facilitate HR training including Adhoc refresher for employees and Line Managers.
• Drive Development Plans for all employees in C Band positions.

HR Administration:

• Manage new employee onboarding process.
• Manage terminations and exit interviews.
• Manage the capturing of HR information and data into the relevant systems and assure the integrity of the data.
• Provide advice and information to management and employees on HR policies and procedures, including equal opportunity, anti-discrimination, and occupational health and safety programmmes.
• Advise management on work matters, career development, personal problems, and industrial matters.
• Counsel employees on policies and rules relating to employment policies and programmes, and on the company’s rules and regulations.
• Prepare and process employment and personnel reports and surveys.
• Provide advice and assistance to staff members regarding possible discrimination on the basis of race, religion, non-relevant physical or mental disability, sex, and age.
• Quarterly checks on allowances (e.g.: cold allowance) and compare with actual employees working in the department.
• Run and analyse HR reports and discuss with business.

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Job Description   

RCL FOODS entrusts the responsible individual to maximize customer service by allocating stock fairly across all orders received from direct customers and distribution requirements planning, as well as planning stock to storage, while constantly considering the opportunities for cost saving within the distribution network. 

Minimum Requirements    

• Minimum qualification-Matric
• Excel experience-required
• SAP experience-preferred
• Knowledge of pallet management, purchase oders, reconciliations
• Minumum 2 years relevant experience

Duties & Responsibilities    

Pallets and Crates

• Weekly pallet recon (MCC vs. MB51) + daily risk report with no old outstaniding  items- daily  balance to be kept investigated.
• Detail variances & unresolved queries to be investigated
• Daily redeems of crates & pallets
• Resol,ving customer queries on credits crates returned
• Balancing of SAP to CHEP
• Ensure completeness of pallet control
• Weekly: Clover crates report to be compared to SAP-MB51 listing
• Daily production requirements- crates and pallets
• Weekly Clover crates order

Trip recon

• Control of trip reconciliation process by ensuring no longer outstanding POD's, completeness of records, completeness of credit processing (ZSDTR11 & ZSDTR2B)
• Filing & Scanning

Month end

• Assure that all Clover claims have been processed
• Arrange and get approval for Counters before stock count
• Prepair stock count papers for Counters
• Process credits for crates and pallets on SAP before stock count starts
• Monthly crates- and palltes recon to be finalized on stock count day
• Chep inventory to be completed
• Accruals to be prepared for Consumer
• Monthly stock count verification

Credits & Purchasing

• Daily Vector Logistics workflows for approval- Consumer Vnedors ( oders and Grv's done by Consumer)
• Follow up on oustanding invoices

Other Admin & Finance duties

• Daily weekly and monthly reporting as required
• Daily fuel recon done
• Diesel vehicle check list
• Weekly Clover / SAP variances to be investigated and reportedÁssist with other duties as required
• Health and Safety: Weekly crates and palltes inspection: Stacking

Competencies required

• Attention to detail
• Brilliant at basics
• Deadline driven
• Drive efficiencies