Senior Production Manager Job Pinetown South Africa,Manufacturing / Production

Location: Pinetown

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To manage all poultry and sauce production operations at the Distribution Centre (DC), ensuring production output benchmarks, yield targets, product specifications, food safety, hygiene standards, stock accuracy, traceability, people performance and SOP compliance are consistently achieved across all production departments

Maintaining housekeeping and hygiene standards across all production areas at all times

Ensuring Daily Deep Cleaning and Weekly Acid Washing are completed and verified without exception

Maintaining zero cross-contamination incidents through strict color-coding and 3-Bucket System compliance

Ensuring personal hygiene, PPE and handwashing compliance across all production staff

Achieving production output benchmarks across all production lines

Achieving required yield targets across poultry smalls and other applicable production categories

Maintaining product specification compliance for fillets, strips and chicken products

Maintaining stock accuracy, variance control and full traceability

Managing supplier claims and NCRs within specified timelines

Ensuring accurate daily reporting, effective staff management and continuous employee training

REQUIREMENTS:

A well experienced production manager (experienced in planning and forecasting)

Must have a solid understanding of production yield

HACCP certification

Tertiary qualification in Food Technology, Food Science, Production/Operations or Quality Management

Working knowledge of R638 (SA food premises hygiene regulations)

A high degree of professionalism

Management level - Management of staff (conflict management skills in a diverse employment arena)

Computer literate – MS Office

SAGE – advantageous

Solid track record of work experience

No criminal record

Poultry and cold chain experience

Must be well experienced from the food processing background preferably poultry (3 yrs+)

Strong managerial skills especially on the HR and IR side (able to issue warnings, etc.)