- Manage and lead subordinates and activities in all aspects of the Butchery and DC facility the Factory Shop.
- Create and implement operational changes on an operative level.
- Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating activities in the Butchery and DC (Distribution Centre).
- Measuring all activities and processes within the Butchery and DC (Distribution Centre) facility and provide weekly report to Management.
- Ensure that products planned for processing in the butchery are manufactured in accordance with the plan.
- Manage the butchery and DC (Distribution Centre) targets and ensure targets are communicated to staff and staff are benchmarked vs targets.
- Ensure that correct spec raw material is used in the butchery for processing of fresh meat.
- Compliance to Hygiene, HACCP, Food safety and Health and safety policies and procedures.
- Compliance to all internal and external audits ensuring continues certification - Food Safety /OHSA.
- Implementing and maintaining corrective and preventative actions.
- Develop a culture based on open/honest involvement of all team members that demonstrates the value of their input/engagement in improving performance.
- Training and development of Foreman/Supervisors in their various tasks and ensure all instructions are adhered to.
- Measure and report staff productivity, work quality and engage and remedial actions timeously.
- Machinery is maintained according to planned maintenance schedule.
- Maintain housekeeping principles
- Responsible for Food Safety and Quality of the butchery and DC (Distribution Centre).
- Safeguard all assets and staff against damage, theft or injury.
- Structure of Department (Organogram) / KPI's and Reporting.
- Review/Revise Standard Operating Procedures and ensure standard operating procedures are adhered to.
- Cost Management of products and assist with new product costing models.
- NPD/ RND - New Product development/Research and development of new products for the Factory Shop.
- Develop and manage departmental budget including capital expenditures and cost management.
- Analyze budget of the department and continuously control production cost and identify/rectify waste measures.
- Focus on growing business and revenue by implementing necessary changes in the Butchery and DC (Distribution Centre).
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Key performance areas |
Processing/Butchery: - Manage the pre-operational checks of equipment are conducted at start of shift and ensuring all necessary integrity checks are signed off by Ecowise and the maintenance team.
- Develop a full understanding/competency of machine and equipment set-up per product profile planned for meat processing.
- Plan headcount of Butchery and DC (Distribution) facility to ensure all equipment/facility planned is equipped with the correct man power.
- Maximize equipment/machine's capacity utilization in the butchery environment.
- Maximize overall operating efficiency OOE. Maximizing the percentage so that employees are adding value the majority of time they are clocked in and present.
- Monitor and control that production targets are met as per daily planning schedule.
- Manage the meat processing process, monitoring of deviations in the daily operational targets i.e. efficiencies and waste through putting remedies in place to control deviations.
- Yield management of the production facility and identifying non-conformances and implement corrective action plans. (First pass Yield) - Products manufactured/processed correctly and in spec the first time in the meat processing process.
- Standard production yields, cooking losses etc. are ascertained and documented.
- Yield losses are continuously improved, investigated and methodologies sought to improve yields.
- Manage reduction of scrap meat in the Butchery and DC (Distribution Centre) - Continues improvement driven.
- Ensure works force understands the expectations and that performance vs expectations are clearly understood.
- Record keeping of all downtime (Man, Machine, and System).
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Inventory Management : (Distribution Centre and Butchery): - Manage all stock movement within the Butchery and DC (Distribution Centre) facility.
- Monitor and control meat processing batches, ensuring batches are closed after shift and yields out of spec is verified investigated with a corrective action.
- Investigate, reduce and eliminate cost center variances ensuring stock accuracy at all times.
- Control daily stock per Shift - Stock batches for operational areas and email to planning department.
- Ensure DC Management system is utilized effectively for correct stock control.
- Administrate and coordinate monthly stock take as per stock take procedure.
- Managing Dispatch of bulk stock through the bulk sales facility as per SOP.
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Receiving: (DC (D |