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Junior Industrial Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Howick - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
m 25000 - 25000
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
29 September 2026 (6 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
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Job Summary
Our KZN Midlands based food manufacuring client requires a junior industrial engineer to design and build end-to-end visability of the the production processes across the supply chain and to optimise these processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design build and be responsible for end-to-end visibility of material and product movements across raw material receiving production WIP finished goods warehouse and dispatch.
- Produce and be responsible for the daily mass balance: calculate raw materials used against finished goods produced investigate and resolve variances and report the outcome each operating day.
- Identify gaps between physical stock movement and system records at each stage of the value chain and ensure transactions are captured accurately and on time.
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports (ERP/MES plus Excel/BI tools) tracking material flow production yield WIP levels stock accuracy and dispatch performance.
- Investigate variances (raw material usage against BOM WIP discrepancies finished goods count differences) establish root cause and drive corrective action with the relevant teams.
- Map and critically review the processes behind movement recording and the daily mass balance and redesign them to reduce the effort required to run them.
- Remove duplicate capture manual re-keying and off-system workarounds by simplifying and automating data capture and reporting wherever practical.
- Improve the accuracy of data at source so that the system reflects the floor without downstream correction.
- Standardise and document data capture procedures (SOPs) at each stage and align data capturers across the supply chain on correct system use.
- Baseline and then measure the effort (time and manual handling) and the accuracy of each process before and after change so that improvement is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- Support inventory accuracy through cycle counts and stock takes across raw materials WIP and finished goods across all sites.
- Use the visibility platform to identify bottlenecks waste and process breakdowns and support continuous improvement projects across the value chain.
- BEng/BTech/BSc in Industrial Engineering or a closely related field.
- Minimum 3 years experience in a manufacturing FMCG or food production environment.
- Working knowledge of ERP/MES systems and production/stock reporting (Syspro experience not required).
- Strong Excel skills (pivot tables lookups data cleaning); exposure to Power BI or similar BI tools advantageous.
- Understanding of end-to-end production and supply chain processes: receiving production WIP warehousing and dispatch.
- Working knowledge of mass balance / yield reconciliation principles in a manufacturing environment.
- Valid drivers licence and own transport given multi-site travel requirements.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
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