Team Leader - FMCG Cooking

SUMMARY:
Responsible for day-to-day management of the food manufacturing process, ensuring achievement of a daily plan, in compliance with business KPI’s, health and safety objectives. Responsible for supporting the Production Group Leader in achieving production targets and efficiencies. Assisting the Production Group Leader with the day-to-day management (including people management) and reporting for the areas under their responsibility.

POSITION INFO:
Food  Manufacturing Team Leader experience is required!

Education (Formal Qualification Required) Minimum

• Matric or recognised equivalent qualification.
• Computer Literacy.
• Numeracy and Literacy Proficient
• IDEAL REQUIREMENTS
• Mechanical engineering N3 – N6 advantageous

• Experience in a manufacturing environment in progressively responsible roles.
• Supervisory Management or equivalent would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience as a key operator.
• 2 – 3 years FMCG/Manufacturing experience
• 2 - 3 years COOKING TEAM LEADER 
• Minimum 2 years’ experience within a Manufacturing / production related facility.
• Must understand LEAN principles.
• Knowledge of ERP System preferably SAP would be advantageous but extensive training will be given to the company.
• Must be able to efficiently operate a PC, and have basic MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) skills.

• Safety, Food Safety and People Management
• Ensure full compliance to all national OHS Act requirements and Occupational Health and Safety & Food Safety regulations and policies.
• Responsible and accountable for maintenance in your department.
• Action all Internal and External Safety Audit action plans relating to the section.
• Manage direct reports according to the basic employment regulations, company policies and prescribed demonstrated HR and operations best practices; (absenteeism, safety, food safety, production and quality procedures, grievances etc.)
• Attend daily production meetings providing input where required necessary.
• Coordinate the activities of the team, ensuring that labour is utilised effectively and that objectives are communicated to aid in team and individual motivation.
• Assess needs regarding the training and development plan, ensuring goals and objectives are communicated and reviewed to motivate, develop and retain staff.
• Complete and sign off time sheets for the team and provide records to the production manager.
• Assist or relieve operators, production operators and forklift driver as and when necessary.

• Ad-hoc duties from time to time at the request of the Factory Manager or the Production Group Leader.
• Productivity Improvement and Implementation
• Ensure achievement of target World Class Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) levels by the identification and elimination and documentation of “8 waste/loss buckets” areas of Lean Manufacturing.
• Review daily production reports /data 
• Reporting before submission to the Production Group Leader.
• Verify all information to be correct on a shift report and ensure that data inputs and raw material actuals balance to ERP SAP and shopware records.
• Effectively manage inventory levels in liaison with the Warehouse department.
• Optimize labour complement and utilization to give best quality of product at minimum cost and line savings based on up-to-date plant diagnostics.
• Ensure effective utilization of all lean manufacturing tools, e.g. mistake proofing, SMED, pull systems, Root Cause Problem Solving, optimized changeover principles.

• Assist with continuous improvement projects till successful completion.
• Prepare recipes, labels, spices and vegetables for hand over to Pre-weigher.
• Collect required ingredients from raw material section using a folk lift.
• Supervise the daily scale check and ensure scale is in a good condition.
• Check that the cooking area pots have the required recipe on the screen 
• Inform cookers when a batch is ready to be taken to the cooking area.
• Monitor that the sequence of cooking procedures is followed correctly.
• Supervise the cooking process; ensuring recipe, temperature and ingredients are correct.

• Ensure all products are manufactured to the organisation's Quality process and procedure and product specifications as per production plan requirements.
• Evidence of any deviation to be corrected immediately.
• In partnership with materials procurement and quality, ensure inputs to the manufacturing processes consistently meet requirements, including mutually agreed specifications and all the specified BOM specifications.
• Ensure all line operators are completing PCDs and related documentation correctly and timeously if assistance required liaise with QA.
• Maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and process control sheets in compliance with Quality Management Systems.
• Participate in resolving customer complaints with QA to improve both the production process and enable an understanding of customer requirements.

• Ensure daily reports are submitted on time.
• Report scrap levels daily and submit the information to the production group leader for further review.
• Ensure stock take is conducted when required.
• Provide service excellence and promote teamwork, personal responsibility, and ownership.
• Attend production meetings to assist production Group Leaders in the planning of the day-to-day schedule.
• Inventory
• Ensure Shop Floor Control 
• Participate in the financial year end stock take.

• Assist the Production Group Leader in ensuring internal audits are conducted and involve teams in improvement actions.
• Drive the established KPIS in your team to monitor quality incidents or failures.

• Technical
• Good people skills
• Respect
• Troubleshooting
• Effective communication, both verbal and written in English
• Team-player
• Organizing tasks
• Analyze and resolve problems with minimum support
• Self-motivated

• Manufacturing/FMCG experience