Rainbow Vacancies – June

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Admin Clerk – Carton Freezer

Role Purpose:

• To perform broad production support and data compilation and consolidation functions within the processing plant

Required Qualifications:

• Grade 12

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 1 year experience. 

Key Responsibilties:

• Start-up of production scales daily.
• Calculate daily attendance of staff on shift.
• Hourly scale and date checks.
• Distribute documents to stock control department.
• Resolving of stock exception report.
• Reconcile work in process vs actual stock.
• Timeliness and accuracy of mandatory submissions and reports.
• Data integrity, accuracy of employee leave and attendance data.
• Reconciliation of stocks (internal/external).
• Accuracy of filing.
 

Knowledge and Competencies:

• Knowledge of spreadsheets, processing control and related procedures.
• Knowledge of Anzio system.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Logical thinking and good numeracy skills.

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Dairy Technical Advisor- KZN

Epol’s Animal Feed Division is currently recruiting for an experienced Technical Advisor to manage the sales of our dairy customer base as well as bag resellers and farmers in the area. The role will be required to generate sales for bags and bulk for the region in line with the business plan and also provide technical advice to dairy customers.

Qualification & Experience:

• BSc Degree in Agricultural / Animal Science or related qualification
• 3-5 years of related sales experience in the feed industry or Agri/livestock industry will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical advisor will be responsible for marketing and sales of bagged and bulk feed product.
• Provide clients with strategic consulting on Animal Feeds Products
• Be proficient in gathering, analysing and interpreting marketing and sales data
• Visiting current and potential clients to evaluate needs or promote products
• Develop innovative regional sales strategies to achieve sales targets
• Gathering data/ samples on farms to enable the business to come up with feed solutions for customers.
• To provide on farm feed formulations

Key qualities required:

• Customer service oriented
• Ability to work independently.
• Highly motivated individual with an appetite for sales and building external sales and growth.
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Assertive and presentable

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Operations Manager – Wolwehoek 

Purpose: 
To manage the Added Value Wolwehoek site in the most cost effective way ensuring maximum efficiency and optimal mix whilst maintaining compliance with legislation, customer specifications, and quality and company standards in order to achieve production plan targets.

Requirements: 

• A Diploma/ Degree in production management
• 7 years relevant operational experience in an FMCG manufacturing environment with at least 5 years in a management position

Key Responsibilities: 

Production Planning

• Input into the strategy for the Added Value Wolwehoek Site perspective by researching and considering best practice, local conditions, trends, as well as competitor activity.
• Provide input into annual SIA’s and execute on annual objectives.
• Input into identifying ways to fine tune systems in line with changing work practices
• Provide input and contribute to the relationship between cross functional processing teams to ensure an integrated approach in mobilising the total plan.
• Identify innovative ways to use minimum resources to achieve maximum outputs.
• Put guidelines in place to ensure the optimal use of available resources within the Processing Department.
• Put guidelines in place to assist Management in ensuring the right mix using minimal resources.
• Set production targets aligned to the objectives of the plant. Monitor performance and adjust production plans weekly to ensure annual targets will be met.
• Respond to factors that cause variances against planned production versus size of birds and adjust liaise with Production Planners to change the production plan accordingly.
• Collaborate with other business unit heads to determine the capability of the plants, and make recommendations to increase capacity.

Operations Management

• Contribute towards and drive continuous improvement and innovation at process and procedure level to enhance effectiveness, efficiency and performance in the Added Value Wolwehoek Site
• Ensure that the Processing Department has the capacity to deliver against the Processing Plan.
• Establish the most efficient use of resources, i.e. cost, people, time etc. for the Processing Department, and allocate work accordingly:

• Work closely with Planning Department to align production capacities and product mix requirements.
• Manage labour resources within budget to obtain required outputs.
• Continuously gather information received from Processing Managers and evaluate situations on an on-going basis, taking necessary steps to improve efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Continuously adjust manloading and equipment availability to meet the constant changing production plan and priorities.
• Report on a weekly basis on actual Processing KPIs versus budget and address non-conformances promptly.

• Analyse downtime, provide valid explanations for loss of production and put action plans in place to prevent reoccurrence.
• Liaise with New Product Development to ensure appropriate staff, equipment and materials are available to run successful trials.
• Guide and prepare the Processing team for customer and statutory audits.
• Support the plant management system to ensure SIC delivery.
• Oversee the performance of equipment:
• Work closely with the Engineering Foreman to ensure that equipment performance and maintenance priorities are aligned and changed to meet production requirements.
• Liaise with Engineering to ensure that an equipment maintenance programme is formulated and implemented to maintain the working condition of equipment and schedule routine or non-routine maintenance.
• Monitor the execution of the maintenance programme to guarantee equipment performance as a key enabler of production outputs.

Safety, Health, Risk and Quality Oversight

• Input into the establishment of systems and sound practices in order to comply with best practices, legislation or other regulations / guidelines.
• Monitor the Processing team to ensure all legislative and industry standards are achieved and prompt action is taken where required to ensure there are no areas of non-compliance.

• Chair and facilitate regular safety meetings and ensure action points are delivered upon.
• Drive the adherence and maintenance of ISO 22 000/ 14 000/ 18000 standards within the Total Integrated Management System throughout Processing.
• Ensure that documentation required for the Total Integrated Management System is applied consistently throughout Processing.
• Drive in-process quality control in line with the supply chain and external customer requirements throughout the processing plant.
• Ensure environmentally sustainable practices are implemented and adhered to and that resource usage is managed effectively (e.g. conservation of water, electricity and gas).
• Drive Processing’s appearance and image through maintaining and enforcing high housekeeping standards.
• Legal Compliance Agenda and Document to be managed

Financial Management

• Assume overall responsibility for the budget for the Processing Department:
• Input into the forecasting, planning, development and review of the annual budget for the factory from a Processing perspective.
• Report on and manage all input costs within the Processing Department and manage any over and under spend appropriately to ensure that issues are addressed before significant financial loss occurs.
• Authorize expenses within the Processing Department and within level of authority and monitor spending activity.
• Innovate and implement cost containment measures within the Processing Department.
• Implement business improvement / cost saving initiatives within the Processing Department for both plants.
• Input into the 5 year Capex review plan.
• Provide the Head Of Added Value Business Unit: Operations with a business case to motivate and justify Capex spend in the Processing Department.

Contract Management

• Liaise with Procurement for the selection of contractors / service providers as required.
• Work in conjunction with Procurement to develop SLA’s for suppliers / contracts for the Processing Department.
• Manage contractors and outsourced activity within the Processing Department against standard.
• Enter negotiations with labour brokers and devise the outsourced labour strategy for the Processing Department to ensure the plants run at full capacity.

Project Management

• Manage project plans in conjunction with project teams.
• Oversee project implementation within the Processing Department.
• Ensure processing data is captured regularly and accurately into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision-making.
• Use relevant information from IT systems to analyse and to make the right decisions with regard to operational management and costs in the Processing Department across both plants.
• Analyse volumes and quality and adjust processing practices as required to ensure performance delivers the right volume and quality of product at the right time.

Technical Training

• Lead and manage the regional training team that is responsible for GMP, Health and Safety, Food Safety, and all SOP’s thereby ensuring legislative audit requirements are met and relevant documents are kept.
• Manage and oversee the on-site technical training and technical administration to build a talent pool with the required capacity.

Staff Management

• Proactively manage capacity through the management of external labour brokers to ensure a constant pool of available resources as required to execute the production plan.
• With support from HR, employ staff in vacant and approved posts.
• Implement Employment Equity within area of responsibility to ensure diversity is achieved at all levels.
• Evaluate, assess and manage people performance:

• Set boundaries within which direct reports will operate.
• Enable direct reports to do their work by monitoring, coaching and problem solving.
• Equip people with the necessary skills and tools to enable them to perform effectively.
• Identify, accumulate and analyse statistics that reflect on the team’s performance.
• Conduct regular performance appraisals with subordinates and ensure that the process is cascaded throughout the team.
• Actively manage non-performance.
• Manage the employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy:

• Chair or initiate disciplinary hearings as needed according to RPM standards.
• Develop sound relationships with Unions to minimise industrial conflict.

• Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise, and sharing and providing relevant information.
• Develop supportive relationships with reports and encourage a team spirit.
• Manage the technical training department.
• Authorise leave, ensuring sufficient capacity to meet production targets.

• Assume overall responsibility for training and development of Processing staff:
• Continually assess the technical competence of the team and take steps to develop their knowledge and skill.
• Identify training needs of the team and liaise with the Learning Department in order to action.
• Ensure training and development plans are implemented.
• Coach and support team members where necessary to achieve individual and plant objectives.
• Coordinate subordinate career path planning.
• Manage and deliver on the Processing teams succession plans to enable the development of a future generation of leaders and specialists and ensure optimal turnover and retention levels.

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Storeman (Packaging and Ingredients)

Role Purpose:

To issue and record stock items for the Packaging and Ingredients store.

Minimum Requirements:

Grade 12

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Highly developed sense of order.
• Be able to take initiative.
• Accurate.
• Teamwork skills.
• Must be multi-skilled.
• Must be able to work under pressure.
• Well-developed reading, listening and communication skills.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Help customers at the issue and receiving counter in a friendly and professional manner.
• Check signatures on SSR’s to ensure authorisation.
• Capturing of SSR’s and invoices on a daily basis.
• Assist with the loading and off-loading of both stock and non-stock items.
• Ensure that all SSR’s captured must be checked daily against Inventory Journal printout.
• Assist with quarterly stock counts.
• Maintain a high level of housekeeping in the stores area.
• Complete GRA’s for all returns and repairs.
• Ensure that all stock is binned neatly and correctly on a daily basis.
• Ensure compliance with SHERQ procedures.
• Ensure that Rainbow ethical standards and the requirements of the RPM are adhered to.
• Report and or escalate any areas of non-compliance appropriately.
• Ensure team members accurately and regularly captures data onto the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.
• Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making.
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrates effective self management in terms of planning and prioritising.
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained.

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HR Administrator

Role of the purpose

To provide day to day human resource administrative support and contribute to the long‐term development and effective service delivery of the HR function.

Education and Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in Human Resource Management
• Valid drivers’ license
• 2 years’ experience in a similar environment

Knowledge

• CCMA exposure would be an advantage
• SAP knowledge and experience would be an advantage
• HR principles and practices
• Employment and labor legislation
• Business unit processes
• Health and safety policies and procedures

Key Responsibilities

Human Resources Administration

• Provide day to day human resource administrative support & contribute to the long-term development of the HR function.
• Provide all recruitment administration support for A and B band appointments.
• Ensure all work references and background checks (criminal, qualification etc.) are carried out fully and timeously.
• Manage the new joiner process from offer letter through to joining instructions and induction (A- B band appointments).
• Provide HR support, advice to employees/line managers, explaining policies, procedures in a timely and effective manner.
• Handle leave processes & queries (family responsibility, maternity, paternity, adoption, parental, union etc.).
• Handle health, safety, IOD processes and queries, and Clinic Matters.
• Enter data into the HR system, ensuring accurate records are maintained.
• Maintaining personnel filing system and safeguard the files and documentation.
• Manage and provide relevant data for weekly, monthly and annual reporting to the relevant team members/customers.
• Run and share with relevant team members and customers – daily, weekly and monthly reports.
• Liaise with payroll to address related queries and distribute Pay-slips.
• Process Medical Aid / Retirement Fund entries and withdrawals.
• Manage, handle and process death and disability claim documents.
• Capture disciplinary records into SAP and Administer the recording of absence.
• Administer employee study applications (CAS), bursary documentation. Work closely with L&D team to coordinate training (venue bookings, schedule sessions, communicate with relevant people etc.).

Employee Relations

• Provide support in investigations for disciplinary and grievance procedures.
• Manage IR cases within HR Admin scope. 
• Distribute/disseminate policies and convey related communication.
• Answer all channeled HR administration-related queries from employees and managers in the business and ensure their
  resolution in accordance with service standards.

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We wish you all the best with your applications