Open Vacancies at Puratos

POSITION OVERVIEW

• Facilitating learning to learners daily at the Bakery School and ensuring that all moderation and assessment procedures are adhered to.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensuring that all moderation and assessment procedures are adhered to.
• Facilitating learning to learners daily.
• Planning and preparing lessons as per curriculum.
• Completing training as per curriculum supplied.
• Providing monthly reports.
• Rolling out developmental plan for learners.
• Achieving agreed outcomes on a quarterly basis.
• Updating learner tracking documents.
• Perform other duties as per operational requirements.

JOB MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Matric (Grade 12).
• Must have a relevant Bakery qualification (Confectionary, Pastry and Chocolate)
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Product knowledge of Bakery, Pastry, and chocolate industry.
• Relevant experience in a training environment.
• Be in possession of a Moderator and Assessor qualification.
• Have previous experience in training learners & facilitating learners of classes up to 25 in numbers.
• Computer literacy: MS Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Written comprehension – the ability to read and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Good communication skills - English is a prerequisite.
• Ability to read and write in English and any other language(s)
• Good personality, hardworking, teamwork, service orientated, creative, innovative, trustworthy, open to learn from feedback.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Collaborating Effectively:  Ability to think and act as one team in a spirit of trust and respect. Being open to different ideas. Building formal and informal relationship networks.
• Communicating Effectively: Developing and delivering communications in diverse modes that generate a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Driving Performance: Showing ambition and going the extra mile in achieving expected results. Driving sustainable operational excellence through diligent planning, prioritization, monitoring & effective use of resources.
• Improving Continuously: Being passionate about achieving high quality standards for oneself and the organization. Constantly looking for and taking advantage of improvement opportunities
• Managing Customer Needs: Being able and eager to find out what the internal or external customer wants and needs and to act accordingly. Making the life of the customer easier. Fostering a customer centric culture.
• Ethical, honest and utmost integrity - sharing Puratos values.

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POSITION OVERVIEW

Reporting directly to the Branch Manager/National Operations Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:

• To provide customer service through efficient delivery of products to customers.

KEY TASKS

Manage delivery of products to customers

• Assess daily transport requirements based on Truck Routing done on the previous day by Route Planners
• Oversee and assist in loading of products onto trucks
• Supervise Pullers in cleaning of cages after loading of trucks is completed

Ensure transport availability

• Hold Meetings with Transport Supervisor to schedule vehicles for service

​​​​​​​Attend to logistic enquires and vehicle breakdowns

• Attend to queries from Telesales, Sales Reps, Drivers and Customers regarding deliveries
• Respond to Bidtrack Vehicle Tracking enquiries regarding delivery trucks
• Attend to all Vehicle Breakdowns reported

Manage staff and admin related matters

• Compile Timesheets for all staff in Warehouse and Distribution department
• Process all staff leave application forms submitted by Warehouse & Distribution staff and forward to Payroll Office
• Attend to all staff queries from Warehouse & Distribution staff
• Recruit casual staff
• Arrange transport for all delivery drivers arriving after 7PM
• Complete night-out Allowance forms for country drivers
• Supervise duties of staff reporting directly to Distribution manager
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Attend and Conduct Key Operations Meetings

• Attend Sales meeting every 2nd week
• Hold departmental meetings with Drivers and Truck Assistants every weeks on Monday mornings
• Hold departmental meetings with Pullers every week

Manage Food Safety

• Implementation and control of the food safety system
• Coordinate the work of warehouse staff in relation to food safety tasks.
• Ensure that all records in relation to food safety are maintained
• Carry out Food Safety training sessions
• Act as food safety representative during audits.
• Follow up on all Audit Non-Conformance

Manage Health and Safety

• Ensure that the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act are complied with
• Ensure all health and safety precautionary measures are implemented
• Carry out Health and Safety training for staff     

Perform other duties as per operational requirements.

JOB REQUIREMENT

• Matric (Grade 12) and knowledge of Freight Transport Systems; National Diploma in Logistics is preferred.
• 3-5 years’ in a logistics environment.
• Computer literacy: MS Office suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word), SharePoint and WMS (Johannesburg branch only)
• Communicate with staff at all levels; communicate with persons outside the organisation; negotiate with customers; establish and maintain interpersonal relationships.
• Written comprehension – the ability to read and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Good communication skills - English is a prerequisite.
• Ability to read and write in English and any other language(s)
• Good personality, hardworking, team work, service orientated, creative, innovative, trustworthy, open to learn from feedback.

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POSITION OVERVIEW

Based at Port Elizabeth to further strengthen our Operations team, we are currently seeking a:

WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR – (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)

Reporting directly to the Operations Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:

• Assist the Operations Manager in maintaining the smooth operation of a fast-moving environment.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide a safe working environment, adhering to Occupational Health and Safety, and Food Safety Environmental procedures, and ensuring they are always understood and practiced by the team 
• Plan, co-ordinate and monitor the receipt, storage and dispatch of goods.
• Ensure orders are processed efficiently and that the delivery of goods meets customers timescales/requirements.
• Supervise and control order picking, goods in, goods out operations to ensure accuracy with minimum handling and stock damage.
• Organize, facilitate and manage stock takes at regular intervals
• Ensure that all relevant procedures and processes are followed and adhered to in line with the Company’s procedures and requirements
• Deliver the product to the customer on time, every time using appropriate methods.
• Operate Bidtrack delivery tracking systems in order to monitor company vehicles.
• Ensure that internal delivery processes are adhered to support dispatch time windows.
• Monitoring daily fuel consumptions.
• Control of Forklift Truck management to ensure full operational capacity and achieve daily targets.
• Oversee any planned maintenance of vehicles, machinery and equipment.
• Ensure security of Warehouse environment and maintain access control, ensuring 5S housekeeping standards are maintained at all times.
• Monitor and maintain stock accuracy by ensuring the physical stock is in line with the warehouse management system and ensure all stock movements are recorded to ensure accuracy.
• Assist the POD controller
• Perform other duties assigned by your Line Manager.

PROFILE

• Matric (Grade 12)/ relevant Logistics or Operations qualification(s)
• Warehouse Logistics/ Management experience.
• Valid Forklift License.
• Code 10 driver’s license will be an advantage.
• Able to communicate clearly and fluently in English & Afrikaans
• Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Ability to sustain and develop team working and team-based problem solving.
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure / cost of poor quality.
• Able to achieve results by setting high standards and committing to clear objectives.
• Driving performances: results-driven, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
• Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
• Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment, builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.

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Reporting to the Sales Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:

• Liaising with all customers, must drive to achieve sales against budget, manage and execute all sales plans against business strategy.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Product knowledge of bakery, patissirie and chocolate industry.
• Follow a daily customer calling cycle to obtain, capture, process and follow-up on orders.
• Prepare and control quotation and follow-up therefore.
• Ensure customer data and contract pricing are kept updated.
• Assist customer with queries.
• Coordinate with other departments for the orders processing, information processing and requests from customers. 
• Other tasks assigned by Manager.

PROFILE

• Matric (Grade 12) and a National Diploma in Sales/Marketing or Food Science
• Experience:  3-5 years in Sales and Bakery sector; B2B is preferable; Food sector (FMCG Market) is preferable
• Languages: English is a prerequisite
• Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Other expertise: Business & result driven, presentation skill, strong interpersonal skills: establishes easily contacts, sales and negotiation skills, team player.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Collaborating effectively: spontaneously helps team members, networking, sharing info/results.
• Communicating effectively: actively listening, negotiating, reporting provides clear explanations that are easy to follow.
• Driving performances: results-driven, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
• Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
• Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.