Production Manager (Meat)

SUMMARY:
A leading FMCG company based in Johannesburg CBD is seeking a skilled Production Manager with in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the Meat industry. This role involves managing, supervising, and controlling production processes to ensure that production targets are consistently met and exceeded.

POSITION INFO:
Education:
- Certificate or Diploma in Production Management.

Skills/Experience required:
- Minimum of 10 years in a similar position in a meat industry with high volume, short shelf life chilled product.
- Butcher experience – good knife skills
- Training employee on knife skills
- People Management
- Hands-on on the production floor.
- Must know the value of the cuts.
- Meat pricing and costing experience.
- Very good yield knowledge.
- Must have boning hall extension and lay-out experience.
- Must have experience in line layout (what will work and what wont)
- Must have experience in a change-over from FQ to HQ’s
- Needs to be able to talk through efficiencies on the line

Job Description:
- Day to day supervision of production process, ensuring all KPI’s are followed and the highest standards in food manufacturing and safety are observed.
- Co-ordinate and operate the production line in terms of people, product, and equipment and maintain all associated paperwork.
- Report all aspects of production to the Factory Manager on a daily basis.
- Ensure that factory raw material inventory for the carcass chiller is maintained correctly.
- Responsible for maintaining all yields and improving them where possible.

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