Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with the Business analytics team to produce a monthly production forecast based on key channel’s needs. (Distributors/Key accounts, Butcher shops, Horeca/VVIP).

• Direct and co-ordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods.

• Enforce safety and sanitation procedures and regulations in the workplace.

• Develop the work schedules and duty roster to ensure maximum production outputs and efficiency.

• Production planning to ensure use of energy efficient work schedules and duty rotas

• Plan and establish work schedules and assignments and production sequences to meet production goals.

• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.

• Coordinate new product evaluation and testing.

• Work closely with quality assurance manager to ensure food safety standards are maintained throughout the production cycle and process.

• Conflict resolution and maintaining of team engagement in the production environment.

Qualifications:

• Must have a higher diploma or equivalent bachelor’s degree of science in food science and technology with a bias in food production.

• Knowledge of project management tools and reporting.

• Proficient in Microsoft office and SAP.

• Minimum of five years’ experience in a manufacturing environment, experience in food production would have an added advantage.

Competencies:

• Dependability – The holder must be reliable, responsible and dependable in fulfilling obligations

• Leadership – Exercise mature leadership and a willingness to take charge and offer direction

• Self-Control – Job entails ability to work under pressure maintain

• Attention to detail – Job requires being careful and detail