Maintenance Manager II (Temporary 5 Months) – Gqeberha Mill
Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
We are looking for a temporary Maintenance Manager to join our dynamic team. The successful incumbent will be responsible for overseeing the safe operation and maintenance of the plant and the equipment. Ensuring that the relevant statutory regulations are adhered to (GMR2). Ensuring that preventative maintenance is implemented and upheld to enable maximum production availability and efficiency. To manage technical, process and internal projects and equipment upgrades and enhancements to achieve significant benefits. Control the maintenance and energy budget. Ensure occupational health, safety & environment standards are in place and upheld. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Preventative maintenance plan upheld for maximum production uptime.
- Manage technical, process and internal projects to improve OEE and system improvements.
- Develop and control maintenance budget, month by month.
- Ensure Occupational health, safety and environment standards are in place as SHE Coordinator.
- Implemented equipment upgrades and enhancements, including capex projects.
- Control consumables inventory of the maintenance department.
- People management and development.
- Continuous improvement projects to save on energy and maintenance costs and to increase the throughput through the factory.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role
- Technical Trade or National Training Certificate – (National diploma electrical engineering or mechanical engineer)
- GCC would be advantageous
- Milling or Pasta Making Process Experience would be advantageous
- Experience in maintenance management in the FMCG environment.
- People management skills.
- Budget management.
- Safety background.
HR Specialist – Claremont Bakery
Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for an HR Specialist: Claremont Bakery to join our team. The role partners with specific areas of the business to deliver the full employee life cycle whilst delivering on business imperatives. The role delivers on all HR requirement including Recruitment, Development, Talent Management, Compensation & Benefits, Industrial Relations, Culture & Engagement, Communication, Legal compliance, Ethics, HR Administration and Change projects.
Main purpose of the role:
- Ensuring HR strategy & key processes are well institutionalized and executed & providing full range of HR services by understanding, responding and proactively acting on insights, expectations, needs and requirements including contractors .
- Managing every aspect of employee development and relations Serving as an employee champion to ensure that processes and relationships are fair and equitable while utilizing key HR tools & processes to ensure all employees are fully engaged in and committed to the business growth
- Demonstrating leadership & providing guidance to establish & maintain quality balance with business & developmental agendas of line managers & leaders.
- Providing coaching and feedback to the managers on execution of HR programs; evaluating effectiveness, reviewing and seeking improvements on the execution of the systems and processes
Accountabilities:
- Drive Talent Acquisition for the defined business area using a variety of techniques.
- Ensure compliance with Employment Equity targets, Procedures, Entry requirements, Strategic Workforce Plan and headcount budget (AOP). Custodian of high quality talent for the business.
- Manage a high quality and thorough administrative process for all HR related processes including payroll documentation, take-ons, promotions and separations.
- Support employee capability building and skills development through identified Learning & Development programmes.
- Manage employee relations within assigned business area.
- Scheduling and management of the monthly Management Union meeting, and regular Employment Equity Forums.
- Actively manage a constructive union relationship.
- Manage disciplinary matters and grievances within the policy timeframes, decisively and in accordance to Labour Legislation.
- Assist in the preparation and representation of cases at the CCMA.
- Drive the Pepsico Performance Management Cycle within the assigned business area.
- Ensure all employees have PDRs with objectives that are regularly and fairly reviewed.
- Monitor system inputs and compliance.
- Drive the Pepsico Talent Management cycle with the assigned business areas.
- Talent mapping conducted and key action agreed and monitored.
- Drive the Communication and facilitation of the Employee Wellness Programme Deployment within the assigned area. Helps managers who have identified employees in need of the intervention. Works with the service provider to ensure that the required intervention happens. Help re-integrate employees back to work life.
- Conducts Stay, Exit and OHS Interviews. Results used to draw up action plans that are agreed with line managers and actively monitored.
- Co-develop the site culture and engagement plan with the HR Manager. Actively drive the plan to ensure continuous improvement in employee morale and engagement.
- Monthly reporting completed.
- Prepares for and co-ordinate activities in preparation for Legal and Governance HR Audits.
- Conducts comparative analysis, trends and reports on Employment Equity statistics, incidents of discipline, union growth, exits and related key matters. Gives insights on site dynamics and ER matters. Provides intelligence on matters outside of the domain of HR but with probable impact on site relationships.
- Co ordinates and executes planned change management activities to support organisational or operational changes and/or Projects.
Qualifications
- B Tech or Degree in Social Sciences/HR Management/Business Management
- 5 years year experience in an HR role servicing a business area
- Knowledge and experience with Labour Legislation. Previous exposure to disciplinary cases and CCMA preparation and procedures. Experience with BBBEE principles
- Experience in working with shop stewards
- Proven track record in Recruitment of staff
- Compensation and benefits knowledge
- Coaching skills and experience preferred
- Knowledge of change theory, career pathing, employee motivation theory, leadership principles
- Sound ability to translate HR theory into practice
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Strong Excel and Power Point skills required
- Strong Influencer
Clerk General III (Recon) – Epping Bakery
Responsibilities
- Accurate in dealing with Drivers Recons
- CSA Controls
- Admin anchor Grading
- Recon Queries, driver age analysis, Short loads, Outstanding invoices
- Excellent verbal written and communication skills
- Ability to work independently, prioritize and manage tasks to meet deadlines and expectations with minimal supervision
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification – Matric & Certificate in Business Administration, Accountancy
- Previous experience working in an office setting
- 2 – 3 years relevant experience within the office environment
- Computer skills including SAP, MS Office, E Mails, other systems
EHS Coordinator – Aliwal North Mill
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:
- Update and implement SHE procedures.
- Facilitate safety committee meetings.
- Investigate and report SHE incidents.
- Conduct internal & assist external SHE audits.
- Train employees on SHE systems, policies and procedures.
- Managed compliance requirements with local authorities.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role
- Minimum of 4-5 years’ experience as an EHS coordinator.
- Detailed knowledge of relevant regulations such as OSHA, NEMA and all other applicable regulations in terms of safety.
- Grade 12.
- Diploma or Degree Qualification in Health and Safety or relevant qualification.
- The ability to read and interpret safety data sheets.
- Proficiency in computer programs such as MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Millwright – Bloemfontein Bakery
Responsibilities
- Attends to all plant breakdowns following or informed by diagnosis conducted.
- In the event of mechanical modifications, follows defined procedures in updating relevant documentation and equipment records.
- Proactively escalates equipment problems to ensure minimal time stoppages.
- Maintains IPS standards on the respective lines.
- Clearly demarcates workstation in accordance with procedures in the event of major work to minimise disruptions and possible injuries as a result of human traffic and area being used as thoroughfare.
- Adheres to AIB and relevant food safety programmes and environmental protocols.
- Completes documentation of work done and close out on ad hoc call outs.
- Updates parts/spares records in conjunction with the stores (OEM, machined and generic spares/parts).
- Monitors equipment performance after attending to and fixing problems.
- Ensures that scheduled maintenance in terms of Engineering plans is conducted as prescribed following defined protocols and compliance to GMPs.
- Ensures that machined spares are available as and when required and shall schedule time to execute this one.
- Completes job cards and parts requisition documents timeously to improve on mean time to repair thus ensuring high plant availability.
- Dismantle machinery or equipment.
- Assembled, installed and aligned equipment and machinery.
- Moved machinery and equipment.
- Constructed foundation for machines.
- Repaired and lubricated machinery and equipment.
- Repaired basic electrical circuitry and components.
- Tested units to evaluate electrical & mechanical operations.
- Set programmable logical circuits (PLC’s).
- Achieved individual and team goals.
- Improved personal effectiveness.
- Transferred knowledge and skills.
- Organised own work.
- Applied practices, policies, standards, procedures and methods.
- Resolved work area problems.
- Reported progress.
- Adhered to legal requirements.
- Maintained internal stakeholder relations, incl. shop stewards.
- Satisfied ‘customers’.
- Maintained manager and peer relationships.
- Communicated work related information.
- Initiated continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Qualifications: Technical Trade or NTC
- 5 years’ experience
Senior Manager: Innovation, Commercialization & Growth Platforms – AMESA Foods Category – Johannesburg/Cape Town/Cairo or Gurgaon
Responsibilities
This is a critical Innovation & Commercialization leadership role, specifically accountable for the Foods Category Innovation agenda across the AMESA Sector. Underpinning the Category model, this role will focus on overall governance of the Hopper / Pipeline, ensuring multi-market leverage, rapid roll-out and winning execution of innovations to deliver the Innovation financial performance and broader KPIs. The role will also be responsible for leading key Growth Platform Innovations through program management excellence.
Key accountabilities are as follows:
Foods Category Innovation Commercialization:
Core responsibility is to enable the growth agenda and underpin the operating model by supporting the commercialization of the AMESA Foods Category Innovation pipeline, ensuring operational excellence in the BUs (Egypt, Middle East, Pakistan, South Africa, WECA, India)
- Provide unique, 3-Lens Innovation leadership expertise across the Desirability, Feasibility & Viability lenses at Hopper, pipeline & project level. Identify the key tensions between a winning consumer proposition, the ability to make/move/sell and the financial viability for PEP, retailers from the outset to deliver a winning, sustainable proposition. This enables key trade-offs to be made early and ensures the Hopper is human centric, strategically sound & affordable and that project teams are set up for success from the start. Ensuring that pep+ is front & center of the 3-Lenses is also a key responsibility of the role.
- Intentionally Scale Human Centric Solutions – Identify winning innovations from across the enterprise that can be Lift & Scaled across the Sector by leveraging PepsiCo’s digitalized, always-on innovation Hopper, and connectivity with Global functional peers. Support the Desirability assessment of the innovations (category readiness, strategic brand fit, concept appeal) in partnership with Sector/BU marketing teams, drive the Feasibility & Viability assessments, and develop an E2E roll-out master plan and associated capability investments. Define the appropriate governance to ensure delivery to roadmap.
- Drive Bold Choices & Winning Execution:
- Support the AMESA Foods Innovation & Commercialization Snr Director to define the role of innovation within the Sector Foods growth algorithm that is consistent with the portfolio & brand growth strategies. Embed & drive PepsiCo’s key innovation KPIs, including: incremental, profitable growth (incr NR & GM) ; Hopper/Pipeline sufficiency (Inc NR vs algo need) ; stickability (HH penetration, ROS, NR growth); Simplify to Grow (incr NR per project).
- Creatively orchestrate the development of the Sector Foods Innovation Hopper, in partnership with Marketing, R&D & Supply Chain, with particular focus on ensuring innovation sufficiency, scalability, identifying critical platform capability investments and driving trade-offs / phasing.
- Support the Foods Category Innovation governance to ensure an effective Category Innovation Board decision making forum to ensure that all projects are cross-functionally aligned with appropriate trade-offs made between initiatives and brands and that critical risks and issues can be discussed, prior to final decisions being made.
- Own Foods Category Portfolio Analysis & Reporting, systematically assess & report Innovation health & performance including as part of monthly, quarterly and annual Innovation planning processes, ensuring flawless execution vs KPIs (business & process) to drive change and continuous improvement e.g. Speed to Market, on-time execution. Own Foods myInnovation data and Innovation forecasting and reporting as the ‘single version of truth’
Growth Platforms Innovation Commercialization:
- Deliver best-in-class innovation Program Management expertise for the Foods Growth Platforms to accelerate growth over the Strategic Plan horizon. This involves partnering with the Sector Category Marketing team, specifically leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects, driving end-to-end unlocks and overcoming any challenges so that the innovations can be launched.
- Unite the 3-lenses (Desirability, Feasibility, Viability) to build viable, platformable commercial solutions that drive scale & balance risk – understand and manage gaps, risks, resources and trade-offs required for each roadmap and ensure cross-functional teams make the best business choices; Lead the program delivery through effective project management techniques
- Integrate E2E cross-functional interdependencies into front-end ideation to build program road-maps with smart execution. Manage the scope, milestone & critical path analysis, risks, stakeholder engagement and project budget & P&L. Bring together all elements across Marketing, Sales, R&D, Supply Chain & Finance to deliver projects to agreed scope, on budget, on time. Rapidly identify & course correct risks & opportunities both pre & post launch to maximize scale & success of the project.
- Integrate E2E governance with core business processes through clear success criteria – manage integrated, cross-functional engagement on a daily basis with stakeholders to secure commitments, ensure alignment and build detailed strategy and roadmaps for each of the solutions in development across these horizons; Lead the transition to local BU ownership for successful propositions, including the Stage-Gate integration process and other key business processes required locally
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- Minimum 12 years business experience, preferably in consumer (Marketing or Insights) or Supply Chain roles
- Minimum Bachelors Degree education, ideally in Business studies, Engineering or Finance
- High level of business acumen – must be commercially & organizationally savvy and financially astute. Understanding of the E2E innovation process, from idea to launch, including knowledge of P&L fundamentals, Supply Chain & GTM an advantage
- Results-oriented with a high degree of personal initiative and leadership – can operate well within a low resource, fast-paced cross-functional environment
- Exceptional leader with strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to influence at all levels and comfortable managing conflict
- Proven commercial project leadership/management skills, ability to manage complex functional interdependencies in project timelines
- Strong process thinker committed to driving process efficiency, strength in data analysis and interpretation in order to develop business recommendations and strong analytical thinking to comprehend potential challenges, and propose feasible solutions
Diesel Mechanic (Temporary) – Ellisras DC Bread
Responsibilities
- Repair and maintain vehicle or other engines & related mechanical components
- Testing Engines of vehicle and other mechanical components
- Tune engines to achieve smooth running
- Retest Systems include road testing
Qualifications
- N3 Certificate and Trade Testing
- 4-5 Years experience
- Vehicle Maintenance skills
- Computer Literacy
Quality Supervisor – Upington Dried Fruit Plant
Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
We are looking for a Quality Control/Assurance Supervisor to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located at the Upington Plant and reporting to the Quality Assurance & Food Safety Manager. To motivate and guide a team of Lab Technicians in order to achieve required outputs against cost, quality, service and people. In addition a Quality Assurance Supervisor must have the ability to conduct trouble shooting and lead improvement projects to be able to deliver better than planned results as well as support with customer complaints and questionnaires and root cause analysis.
The successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:
- To manage the laboratory testing as well as the staff compliment in the laboratories to ensure that the daily/weekly/monthly plan is on target.
- To ensure the optimum utilisation of shift labour by effective labour planning and training and development of employees
- Micro analysis in house and manage external lab results.
- To follow up on daily NCRs and ensure that the correct process is followed as per procedure including the signing off of NCRs
- To track effectiveness of product holds by ensuring communication with relevant teams.
- To attend daily shift
- To ensure packaging quality is in place per shift: weigh control checks, packet quality assessment, case counts, date code checks during the shift.
- To sign off Lab calibration checks.
- Provide feedback monthly on training and support requirements.
- To manage Allergen changes
- To ensure food safety is maintained through CP and CCP verifications and audits.
- To ensure quality through auditing, investigations, troubleshooting, proposing corrective actions, and coordinating projects to foster continuous improvement.
- To ensure that AIB, food safety and quality standards are maintained throughout.
- The jobholder must ensure the achievement of PDR goals. (Key performance areas)
- To conduct job observations for improvement.
- To manage career development discussions.
- Compliance to PEM, Cleaning and sanitation program
- Consolidation of lab results
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role
- Relevant degree or diploma
- Computer literate, MS Office.
- Communication and Leadership Skills
- Food Safety & Quality Systems
- Science and Technology expertise.
- FMCG Environment
- Quality Systems Management.
- Quality Information Management.
- Quality Assurance.
- Understanding of Manufacturing Quality Standards.
- Food Safety and Hygiene.
- Employee relations.
- Change management
- Integrity
- Participative Management
- Adaptability
- Excellence
- Delegation
- Verbal communication
- Attention to detail
- Escalation
Franchise Finance Business Partner – WECA
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and supports the development of the AOP and Forecast for Franchise
- Timely, well developed Plans that facilitate the achievement of business objectives
- Leads the development of a balanced financial algorithm in alignment with BU
- Financial and Strategic support to all functions across BU for Pack Price Strategy, product innovation and initiatives
- Supports and co-ordinates presentations
- Provide analysis of current business results vs. Plan/Forecast highlighting opportunities and risks
- Provide full support to the business leaders in evaluating the productivity initiatives and assess the impact on the financials
- Review and challenge the planned assumptions with the budget owners and ensure they are in line with the company’s direction and targets
2. Perform business assessments by providing value added diagnosis:
- Ensure the analysis of relevant and reliable financial information for all ‘stakeholders’
- Track year to date performance and by key entity. Understand variances and analyze business drivers of same.
- Conduct regular financial reviews with Franchise BP and BUCFO
- Trend analysis (volume, pricing, costs) to assess accuracy of targets and recommend opportunities for improvement
- Keep track of risks and opportunities to better assess outlook of performance
- Assess reinvestments proposals, evaluate impact on PI and Bottler financial performance and make recommendations for approval accordingly
- Support the monthly and year-end closing process and prepare clear and detailed explanation on the results to be provided in the monthly review forum
- Track & analyze the actual spending by plant flow results & identify the reason of deviation vs. plan/ PY
- Work closely with the control team to proactively identify actual vs. Forecast gaps and adjust for them
3. BU Planning Deliverables – MBR / QBR / Forecasts / Case Sales
- Support FBP in the MBR & QBR review within the BU and ensure qualitative submission.
- Ensure processes are in place to meet Case Sales, DII requirements.
- Consistent delivery of Forecast commitments of Net Revenue, NOPBT & OCF
4. Best Practice Tools
- Implement Best Practice tools which improve the accuracy, timelines and cost effectiveness of financials
- Implement processes that support efficient financial analyse systems and which are responsive to the needs of customers, suppliers and internal partners
5. People Capability
- Execution of development plans & Bench building
Qualifications
- +6 years Finance Experience in FMCG
- Bachelors degree in Accounting/Finance
- Leadership Experience
- FOBO/Commercial experience
- Financial Planning & Analysis experience
- Cross functional Knowledge Supply Chain/Commercial
- Strong project management skills
- Influence & Impact
- Digital Savvy
Commercial Enabling Clerk – Cape Town HQ
Responsibilities
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
- Access CRM and check for new sales deals requests that requires uploading to SAP
- Check if deal sheet is completed correctly and if promotional deals are within guardrail pricing
- Ensuring sales deals are captured accurately & timely in the SAP system and within the agreed SLA
- Uploads new deal into SAP and change CRM status to “In Process” and assign to a Releasing Team Member
Pricing Checks
- Provide on-going administering and monitoring of all released sales deals by performing a pricing check to ensure sales deal is recording correct on invoice pricing
- Electronic record keeping of all performed pricing checks as supporting evidence relating to sales deals
Reporting
- Compile and distribute an Expiry Sales Deals report – Done weekly with follow-ups to ensure deals are submitted within SLA
- Compile and distribute an Open Sales Orders with Zero Discounts report – Daily with follow-ups to ensure pricing records accurately in sales orders
- Guardrail Control – daily control of pricing outside of pre-approved guardrail pricing (Foods & Beverages excl Snacks)
Pricing Claims
- Administration of pricing claims to ensure claims are closed-off
- Process enhancements to reduce pricing claims
Other Responsibilities
- Pricing and Sales Deals: SOX & GCS control execution
- Direct support to Customer Managers with regards to pricing
- Customer Contracts (Trade Agreements) – ensuring accurate recording of on invoice discounts and allowances for accounting and tax purposes
Qualifications
- Qualification – Matric but a tertiary qualification in either Business Management/Marketing & Sales/Finance would be advantageous
- Commercial and Financial Acumen within an FMCG environment with at least 2 years experience
- Systems and Process Orientation
- Results Focused
- Communication Skills (Written & Verbal)
- Technical Skills (MS Office, SAP, SAP BI & SAP CRM)
- Ownership & Integrity
- Customer Centric Orientation
- Flexibility
- Ability to work under pressure
Maintenance Manager I – Malmesbury Pasta
Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
We are looking for a Maintenance Manager to join our dynamic team. The successful incumbent will be responsible for overseeing the safe operation and maintenance of the plant and the equipment. Ensuring that the relevant statutory regulations are adhered to (GMR2). Ensuring that preventative maintenance is implemented and upheld to enable maximum production availability and efficiency. To manage technical, process and internal projects and equipment upgrades and enhancements to achieve significant benefits. Control the maintenance and energy budget. Ensure occupational health, safety & environment standards are in place and upheld. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Preventative maintenance plan upheld for maximum production uptime.
- Manage technical, process and internal projects to improve OEE and system improvements.
- Develop and control maintenance budget, month by month.
- Ensure Occupational health, safety and environment standards are in place as SHE Coordinator.
- Implemented equipment upgrades and enhancements, including capex projects.
- Control consumables inventory of the maintenance department.
- People management and development.
- Continuous improvement projects to save on energy and maintenance costs and to increase the throughput through the factory.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role
- Technical Trade or National Training Certificate – (National diploma electrical engineering or mechanical engineer)
- GCC would be advantageous
- Milling or Pasta Making Process Experience would be advantageous
- Experience in maintenance management in the FMCG environment.
- People management skills.
- Budget management.
- Safety background.
Millwright – Worcester Bakery
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Perform planned maintenance on machinery & equipment
- Install and commission machinery and equipment
- Use, install and apply fault finding on programmed logical control circuits (PLC’s)
- Fit, inspect, test and repair MCC, circuits & wiring systems and electrical equipment
- Execute pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical repairs
- Dismantle, fit & assemble machinery and parts
Qualifications
- 5 years experience within a Manufacturing environment
- Technical Trade N3
- Sound understanding of AIB & FSSC 22000 Standards and OSHA regulations
Driver Salesman – Witbank DC Bread
Responsibilities
- Ensuring timeous delivery of goods to the customer.
- Good management of money on routes as per the procedure of the company.
- Good understanding of customer service.
- Ability to identify gaps/opportunities in the local market.
- Balancing Driver’s books – basic knowledge of reconciliation process.
- Being accountable for respective route allocated to the Driver.
- Minimising Driver’s Shorts.
- Liaising with relevant Sales Representative.
- Good Crate Control.
Qualifications
- Matric or NQF3.
- Driver’s License (Code 10) and PDP.
- Good Mathematics skills.
- Good communication skills (preferably at least two Official South African languages, English as One).
- Good understanding of customer service.
Creditors Clerk – Cape Town HQ
Responsibilities
Main Tasks:
- Invoice Indexing & Processing – large volume invoices
- Basic Knowledge of Automated invoice processing
- Process Director > invoice management
- Resolve complex invoicing queries timeously
As required by management:
- Daily focus on Age Analysis, as required
- Statement reconciliations, as needed
- EFT payments – loading payment batches on SAP
- GRIR maintenance
Qualifications
- Diploma in Accounting or 5 years+ accounts payable experience (Preferably in a FMCG environment)
- SAP Knowledge will be an advantage
- Strong Accounting Background
- Excel experience
- High Accuracy and handle big volumes
- Attention to detail
Process Controller I – Atlantis Weetbix Plant
Responsibilities
- Received consumables are administered & stored.
- Record consumable movement.
- Control issuing of consumables.
- Maintain store hygiene and housekeeping.
- Hyster maintenance.
Qualifications
Job Family Competencies
- Computer skills incl SAP MM & SD
- Knowledge of PFG’s manufacturing & logistics practices
- Knowledge of PFG’s quality standards
- Knowledge of PFG’s technical practices & processes
- Knowledge of relevant SHE legislation
Work Level Competencies
- Knowledge of procedures and standards
- Basic Problem solving and decision making skills
- Basic Interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Emotional Intelligence
- Plan and organise own work
Communication skills – literate
- Financial awareness and skill
- Analytical thinking
- Goal orientation
- Information processing
- Team player
- Time management
- Persuasiveness