Main purpose of the job:

Manage all operations within the production facility by planning, directing and coordinating all daily operational activities. Formulating and implementing policies, managing the optimum utilisation of plant equipment, raw materials, and human resources. Ensuring that all products are produced safely to the highest standard of quality and meeting customer specifications.

Preferred Minimum Requirements:

• Matric
• Tertiary Qualification: Food Technology/Production Management /Supply Chain Management/Finance/Engineering/Quality
• Minimum of 5 years managerial experience

Responsibilities

• Production Planning: Developing detailed production schedules to meet demand and minimize downtime.
• Managing Operations: Overseeing daily operational activities to ensure that production processes run smoothly and efficiently.
• Quality Control: Implementing and monitoring quality control procedures to ensure products meet safety and quality standards.
• Resource Management: Managing the use of raw materials, equipment, and human resources to optimize production efficiency and reduce waste.
• Policy Implementation: Establishing and implementing policies and procedures to maintain compliance with industry regulations and standards.
• Team Leadership: Leading, training, and motivating staff to achieve production goals and maintain a safe working environment.
• Cost Management: Monitoring production costs and implementing cost-saving measures to stay within budget.
• Process Improvement: Continuously seeking ways to improve production processes, enhance product quality and increase efficiency.
• Problem-Solving: Addressing and resolving any issues that arise during the production process to minimize disruptions.
• Administration: Ensure administrative procedures are performed, and documents are traceable.
• Reporting: Preparing and presenting reports on production performance, including metrics on efficiency, quality, costs, safety, and people.
• People Management: Ensure people management processes are implemented and managed - workforce planning, recruitment, and selection, learning and development, performance management and employee relations, etc. effectively, in line with organizational policies, procedures, and improvement initiatives.
• Ensure a Safe and Healthy Working Environment: Developing and implementing production safety procedures and systems in line with Group OSHACT and NOSA policies and practices.
• Risk Management: Identifies risks in the production facility.
• Fair Cape Way: Provide leadership to the team, defining objectives to be achieved by the department and creating an environment conducive to effective teamwork and innovation.

Skills

• Insight – Demonstrates deep understanding and awareness to anticipate challenges and opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking – Analyses complex situations and develops long-term, effective solutions.
• Adaptability – Adjusts to changing circumstances with a positive and flexible approach.
• Information Sharing – Ensures individuals have the relevant information to make informed decisions.
• Decisiveness – Makes timely and effective decisions, even in uncertain situations.
• Drive & Resilience – Maintains optimism and persistence in the face of challenges, always seeking solutions.
• Accountability – Takes ownership of actions and holds others responsible for their commitments.
• Building Trust – Fosters confidence among stakeholders through transparency, integrity, and reliability.
• Effective Communication – Conveys ideas clearly and persuasively, both verbally and in writing.

Purpose of the Job:

To promote quality throughout Fruitique by assuring compliance to an effective quality management system and the continuous improvement of processes through the facilitation of problem solving and the process of change management

Preferred Requirements:

• BSc Degree,Chemistry or Biochemistry or Microbiology or Food Science/Food Technology Diploma
• Additional qualification: Total Quality Management Certificate, HACCP Certificate, Management Certificate.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of ISO, HACCP, GMP, Food Technology, World class manufacturing and quality practices and models
• Specific product and process knowledge
• Personnel and human resources practices
• Management systems
• Administration and Management
• Problem Solving Tools
• Budgets, Basic accounting, Mathematics
• Operations management
• Audit Compliance, BCEA, LRA

Skills

• Quality Management and Quality Control systems development and implementation in line with best practice
• Managing and leading teams towards high performance
• QC skills and use of apparatus
• Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information
• Conflict handling
• Basic accounting principles
• Advanced Computer Skills
• Budget development and management
• Presentation skills
• Audits
• Administration Management
• Project management skills
• Systems Analysis

Purpose of the position:

The Storage Coordinator plans, organizes and monitors the receiving, storage and distribution of all abstracts ensuring a smooth and consistent operation. Minimum

Requirements:

• Grade 11

Knowledge

• Understanding of Warehouse Management and Supply Chain principles

• Administration and management Knowledge

• Customer Service

• inventory management

• Personnel and human resources practices

• Basic Production and processing knowledge

• Audit compliance, HACCP, ISO, GMP, OHS

• Supplier agreement concept.

Skills

• Intermediate computer skills

• Administration skills

• Analysis and interpretation of information

• Problem identification and Basic accounting

• Monitoring

• Conflict handling

• Negotiation Skills

Main purpose of the job:

To ensure that all equipment/Assets in the designated plant operate in an optimized condition, plan, perform and control of the maintenance function of the designated plant.

Preferred Requirements:

• N3 Level plus trade test (electrical)
• N3 Level plus trade test (Fitter, Fitter and Turner)
• Introduction training as per company standards
• Full competence within this role would typically be developed over a period of 2 years in a food manufacturing environment

Knowledge

• Engineering and Technology
• Engineering Science
• Electrical, Computers and electronics
• Principles involved in production
• Quality control, and other techniques to maximize the effective manufacture of food and beverage products.
• Mathematics
• Production and processing
• Technical regulations
• Health and Safety Practices
• Basic Risk management
• OHS act, HACCP, ISO, GMP Exceptional knowledge of the relevant engineering/technical processes in own environment
• Understanding of equipment and machines used in the operation

Skills

• Reading and interpret technical drawings/ electrical diagrams
• Evaluate, install and operate electrical components or equipment
• Investigative, Analytical, Ability to use problem solving tools
• Troubleshooting, Repairing, Judgement and decision-making 2
• Complex Problem solving - critical thinking, Equipment maintenance, Operation monitoring, Investigative, Analysing, Time management, Learning to learn, Quality control, Equipment analysis
• Ability to identify reasons for and implications of engineering/technical problems
• Ability to solve engineering/technical problems
• Arithmetic ability
• Ability to improve utilisation and output of equipment etc

Main purpose of the Job:

Operate forklift and assist store staff with movement of stocks as per work schedule.

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12
• Valid forklift licence
• Basic Health and Safety 
• Basic Induction Training and the ability to operate Forklift optimally and safely.

Knowledge

• Warehouse policies and procedures,
• Stock handling procedures
• Warehouse Layout
• Product Knowledge
• Knowledge of Health and Safety Principles and practices
• GMP and housekeeping principles and practices

Skills

• Ability to operating Forklift
• Monitoring skills
• Literate and numerate

Shift/Call outs:

• Shift work required

Purpose of the Job:

To operate and maintain packaging line to achieve maximum effectiveness at minimum cost, meet production requirement as per production plan.

Preferred Requirements:

• Matric with Maths and Science
• or N3 plus National Certificate in Food and Beverage Packaging Operations
• Team Leader training

Knowledge:

• Good Manufacturing Principles and practices
• HACCP Health and Safety, Process, product and packaging materials specifications
• Machine Start-up, change over, shut down best practices.
• Clean in place principles and procedures.

Skills:

• Prepare and start up equipment.
• Conduct machine changeovers and first line maintenance
• Follow cleaning and CIP procedures, and shutting down of equipment 
• Basic computer skills
• Basic technical skills
• Basic mechanical skills
• Mathematics and numeracy
• Continuous process minding
• Ability to do Fault finding on packaging machines

Main purpose of the Job:

To manage and lead team members to ensure maximum utilisation of all equipment, raws and packs/materials and labour to produce quality products at the lowest possible cost.

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12
• National Diploma: Food Technology/Production/Food & Beverage Packaging Operations or Technical Qualification
• Teamleader/Management/Supervisory Training Essential

Knowledge:

• Engineering/Mechanical

• Material requirement planning
• Plant capacity and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Product and process specific knowledge
• Knowledge and interpretation of advance process control
• Principals of microbiology, biochemistry
• Understanding of processing equipment, CIP Procedures, HACCP, Waste management, GMP, Quality Control and quality assurance and raw material functions
• Intermediate knowledge of instrumentation, system fault finding, Health & Safety practices, food legislation

Skills:

• • Managing and leading teams towards high performance
• Implementation of World class and Lean manufacturing processes and structures
• Controlling equipment and processes
• Monitoring processes materials and surroundings
• Fault finding
• Communicating with supervisors and team members
• Assessing the resources required to perform a work activity
• Scheduling work activities
• Testing
• Leadership abilities
• Training skills

Main purpose of the job:

Operate the Cooling process with maximum effectiveness complying to policies, procedures and standards consistently

Preferred Requirements:

• Matric

• In-house induction training

• Basic work procedures and manufacturing policies, procedures, and standards Knowledge

• Knowledge of the operating procedures, product, packaging requirements, packaging and product specifications and materials, quality procedures, cleaning procedures, health and safety procedures, personal hygiene standards, HACCP, GMP and general manufacturing practices within our environment

Skills

• Ability to follow operational guidelines

• Ability to follow cleaning and CIP procedures, start-up and shutting down of equipment procedures

• Continuous process minding.

Main purpose of the job:

Receive, store, and issue materials and other items from Dry Store and Dry Additive Store with maximum effectiveness complying to policies, procedures and standards consistently.

Preferred Requirements:

• Matric

• In-house induction training on basics of work procedures and stores policies, practices and standards

Knowledge:

• Knowledge understanding of stores stock control and principles

• Knowledge of the store’s procedures, product, packaging requirements, packaging and product specifications and materials, quality procedures, cleaning procedures, health and safety procedures, personal hygiene standards, HACCP, GMP and general warehouse practices within our environment Skills

• Ability to operate and control the Can Store

• Ability to follow cleaning procedures, continuous process minding.

Main purpose of the job:

• A Junior Content Producer (also referred to as a Creative Content Assistant) is responsible for developing and creating content that can be used across a variety of media including digital, social media, broadcast, business applications or in print.
• Working with the customer/client brief, they research, prepare, and develop the media messaging to maximise audience engagement, capturing the strategy and objectives of the brand and needs of the customer they are representing.
• The content they create can be used as part of media, advertising, and marketing campaigns or within business application.
• They must capture what is exciting about a campaign and design the elements that can be used across media platforms and channels.
• Junior Content Producers collaborate with designers and developers authoring languages to create content for the World Wide Web, which may include video, images, text (or “copy”) and web pages and social media content, so an enthusiasm for technology and creating great online experiences is a must.
• They can work in advertising, marketing, or digital agencies, or in interactive roles for broadcasters.
• Junior Content Producers may progress into Content Creation/Development roles at more senior levels across the industry, including with digital agencies, broadcasters, and publisher

Preferred Requirements

• Grade12
• IT qualification advantageous

Skills and Responsibilities

Content Planning

• Interpret the objectives of the client’s/customer’s brief
• Research ideas and concepts to meet the brief
• Analyse the differences between media campaigns aimed at retention, acquisition, and conversion of customers for clients
• Identify & recommend the appropriate platform/s or channel/s to use for the media campaign
• Present ideas, pitches, and proposals for creative content to be further developed
• Ensure that the content being developed is organised, structured, and labelled effectively and in a logical manner that allows for efficient search and retrieval

Content Development

• Storyboard and outline script their ideas for content to be developed
• Operate effectively within the production workflow
• Obtain media assets for use within content creation
• Ensure content is accessible to all end users and language best practice is applied
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with clients, colleagues, and suppliers
• Understand the user experience to ensure content is focused on maximising engagement

Content Creation and Evaluation

• Write and edit copy for use in print and online
• Use industry standard packages to edit and post produce content
• Prepare media assets for use
• Manage media assets correctly, within agreed taxonomies and file types
• Optimise webpage content to ensure high rankings in search engine results
• Use industry standard tools and content management systems to manage content
• Assist in hosting message boards and engaging with audiences through social media
• Respond to audience feedback in a timely and appropriate manner
• Use lessons learned to evaluate the success of the campaign and identify areas for improvement for future campaigns

Industry Awareness

• Develop, maintain, and use professional networks
• Develop and maintain own competence and knowledge in specialist areas
• Follow health and safety procedures in the workplace

Application Management

• Among the most robust responsibilities of an application developer is application management. As the name implies, a soft skill that application developers must present is an organized ability to manage the application lifecycle, and people involved in the process, to ensure smooth deployment and post-deployment modifications

Understanding the Application Deployment Lifecycle

• The application deployment lifecycle typically involves the following key stages: Initial Planning > Design > Development > Testing > Deployment > Support.

Responsible for writing and creating of SOP

• Step-by-step instructions guide to help an employee or business in performing specific operations smoothly. The main objective needs to ensure uniform and quality output, while simultaneously reducing miscommunication and ambiguity for any system or application.
• SOPs are detail-oriented documents and provide step-by-step instructions as to how employees within an organization must go about completing certain tasks and processes.
• Documentation of business application and logistics that are involved developing an application or maintenance thereof for future development of referencing.

Behaviours

• Junior Content Producers will be expected to demonstrate:
• A passion for creating content for creative and digital media
• An ability to work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a team
• The ability to build and maintain positive relationships with customers
• A strong work ethic and commitment to meet the standards required
• Recognition and compliance with equality and diversity in the workplace