Vacancy: Senior Packhouse Manager
The purpose of the role is to manage the packing facility and related quality and protocol measures, operational teams and processes to meet packhouse requirements in a safe and efficient manner including human resources and customer services.
Company: Indigo Fruit Farming BBI Packhouse (Hoedspruit)
Posting date: 08/02/2022
Posting expiry date: 22/02/2022
Job purpose:
To manage the packing facility and related quality and protocol measures, operational teams and processes to meet Packhouse requirements in a safe and efficient manner including human resources and customer services. Suitable candidates will need to have the following minimum qualification and relevant experience:
Qualifications and Experience
• National Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or Business Development or related • 5 – 10 years of experience in a Senior Packhouse Manager role or similar within the food, beverages or manufacturing facility • Relevant marketing and farming experience in Citrus agriculture will be an advantage. • Excellent knowledge of BRC, HACCP, and Global Gap Accreditation • Production management experience is essential • Excellent written and verbal communication skill
Key Accountability Areas Operations
• Drive the implementation of the business unit strategy to ensure overall success of the business
• Excellent mechanical aptitude of packhouse equipment and maintenance requirements
• Setting and maintaining correct sorting and packing targets and standards to maximise net farming income
• Design and implement Packing Programmes
• Maintenance Management
• Development and improvement of systems ensuring the creation and implementation of a strategy designed to grow the business
• Optimal utilisation of all resources, capacity and costs
• Design and implement more efficient procedures and processes
• Project Planning (3-5-year forecast / Capex)
• Plan, assign and direct work to team members
• Monitoring and analysing volumes and throughput vs capacity
• Verifying stocks and investigating delays
• Managing the volumes of fruit.
• Computing the quantities, qualities and types of materials required by production programmes.
• Monitoring and evaluating service delivery of suppliers
• Directing, supervising and evaluating the work activities of professional clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel
• Align the business unit strategy with the organisational strategy, goals and objectives.
Financial Management
• Manage budgets and cost drivers (e.g. labour, packing material, chemicals, Overtime, Tipping Cost etc)
• Ensure finance policy & procedures are complied with in operational packhouse
• Review monthly operational costs compared to plan, introduce measures if parameters are exceeded
• Controlling expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources Controlling chemical stock and overseeing the mixture thereof.
Monitoring and Measuring Performance and Quality
• Understand all performance and quality measurements
• Assist in the establishment of performance management system
• Measure Production (Productivity) and review packhouse performance on daily, monthly and annual basis yearly sales performance of branches to ensure long term business goals and objectives are met
• Overall service delivery and quality management
• Oversee daily operations of the business unit
• Responsible for maintaining good quality according to packing standards
• Monitor correct packaging material, correct PLU, fruit quality packed, packing patterns used and carton weights.
Human Resources/ Industrial Relations
• Managing staff and maintaining high levels of discipline
• Perform supervisory responsibilities complying with organizations policies and applicable laws
• Conducting and facilitating necessary disciplinary processes
• Identifying and assisting in training requirements of packhouse personnel
• Performance Management – measure and review performance with individuals and teams against set objectives quarterly and annually
• Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff
• Manage staff members by rewarding and disciplining staff members, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Fostering a healthy Teamwork environment
Customer Service and Communication
• Be able to liaise with all suppliers and maintain correct working capital levels for all consumables and packaging materials
• Meet all handling and packing protocols.
• Be able to implement and maintain Good Manufacturing Practices for Food Safety, including HACCP, GLOBALGAP
• Maintain and implement Health and Safety standards
• Understand and manage packhouse information and tracking systems Skills and Competencies
• Self-disciplined
• Detail-orientated
• Coping under pressure
• Positive work attitude relationships and handle customer questions or complaints
• Leadership and people management skills
• Results Orientated
• Stakeholder Management
• Facilitation and project management skills
Candidates meeting the above criteria, may apply in confidence enclosing a detailed CV by email to recruitment@indigofruit.co.za Applications close on the 25th of February 2022. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. If the company does not contact you on or before the 25th of February 2022, kindly consider your application as being unsuccessful.
