Production Manager
Production Manager
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Job Description
Purpose of the job:
Manage the production team responsible to manufacture bread to the desired quality specifications on time and in full within the required costs also ensuring a highperformance culture (The Premier way).
What will you do:
- Ensure optimal production efficiencies and effectiveness by overseeing the production team and processes in line with agreed Premier standard operating procedures food and health and safety requirements as well as cost and quality requirements.
- To ensure baking process delivers consistent highquality products within specifications in collaboration with the maintenance manager by:
- Ensuring adherence to baking process parameters.
- Identifying exceptions and variations in process and correct.
- Identifying exceptions and variations in equipment and report these to the maintenance manager to correct.
- Support route cause analysis when needed to address and correct.
- Follow up and check that problem has been addressed and that baking process is back within parameters.
- Driving a quality mindset within production in collaboration with the quality control department in dealing with nonconforming products or customer complaints and collaborating on ways to improve quality.
- Driving continuous improvement of production processes based on the feedback from quality and the production team and doing internal and external benchmarking from time to time.
- Ensure cost effective raw material management by:
- Correct and timely procurement of raw materials within specifications from preferred and approved providers
- Reporting nonconforming products to Quality Control department to address as and when required.
- Ensuring storeman receives and checking deliveries against order and raw material specifications
- Monitoring and managing stock levels in line with baking plans and demand
- Ensure high performance culture and teamwork in the production team by: building and motivating capability though competencybased selection
- training and development coaching mentoring performance management
- effective communications
- leading and participating in Invocom and meetings as needed
- ensuring good discipline and accountability
- establishing good working relationships with union representatives
- ensuring a conducive and safe working environment according to the Premier way
- To ensure full statutory compliance to all health and safety and food safety requirements in line with Premier standards and SOPs by ensuring training of relevant persons audits and corrective action of all findings in collaboration with the risk function
- Ensure cost effective production through planning organising and managing the function to support optimal production in line with designed capacity of the plant agreed budget resource plans and targets.
- Factory environment hot and noisy
- Overtime and unusual working hours (night shift after hours weekends and public holidays)
- Conduct Audits awareness training and compliance of Food Safety requirements maintenance compliance and Health and Safety awareness within area of responsibility.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
