Materials Controller

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

A Tissue manufacturing company in Kempton Park is looking for a Materials Controller with 3 - 5 years of experience within paper/tissue or FMCG industry.

Job description/responsibilities:

• Supervise and handle the stacking of all raw materials in as far as safety and FIFO (first in first out) are concerned.
• Process all wadding materials related transactions on the system.
• Supervise and handle the process of material transfers to the machines and finished goods transfers to the storage area.
• Ensure correctness of transactions in WMS as well as in SYSPRO.
• Ensure that the machine operational staff record material flow correctly from/to the different warehouses and bin locations.
• Reconcile physical and system stock daily.
• Prepare for and execute stock counts.
• Ensure high standards of housekeeping at all times.
• Ensure all rejected raw materials have correctly completed NCR’s daily.
• Arrange with group supply planner to have rejected materials uplifted daily and to prevent backlogs in returns of poor raw materials.
• Ensure pallet stocks are always sufficient to keep supply to the converting factory without interruptions – especially ahead of weekends.
• Immediately report to maintenance and follow up daily breakdowns to MHE – where needed make immediate plans for cover to prevent impact to operations.
• Ensure that all materials are stores in a manner that prevents damage.
• Ensure that all stock is properly labelled with the company’s stock codes for easy identification and count.
• Ensure that all redundant materials are kept separate from good stock and a strategy is decided on how to manage the stock – write off, sell, re-use etc.
• Advise the group supply planner in writing of all BOM’s that are not accurate – using the trial kit process to highlight errors in an urgent manner.
• Drive compliance by the converting plant in running out poly and wadding materials fully and to prevent waste – escalation via communication to group supply planner daily.
• Ensure that all butt reels or rejected reels from machines are wrapped, labelled with the wadding code and reel number, and are weighed and placed into the correct hold location.
• Drive QA to ally a properly completed NCR to all reels removed from the rewinders – escalate noncompliance via communication to head of QA and group supply planner.

The Controller will be responsible for supervising the incoming wadding & raw material process and reconcile same, handle the returns of wadding rejected as well as other materials to ensure sufficient wadding is done daily to prevent night shift shuttling.

Job Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

Qualifications: Grade 12 (Matric). Studies in a supply chain related field (BPIM or PPIM) would be an advantage.

Experience: Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience in a FMCG manufacturing and materials management environment.

Skills:

• Self-confident, initiative, and good interpersonal skills
• Good administration skills
• Computer literacy on MICROSOFT office
• ERP system knowledge, preferably SYSPRO
• Ability to adhere to procedures and controls and to set these controls.
• Self-confident, problem solving and trouble shooting ability as far as system.
• Self-disciplined and motivated
• Innovative ‘can do’ approach – sees the challenge not the problem.
• Physically fit and able to perform physical lifting as required ad hoc.
• Able to manage a team through example but apply the disciplinary process where required.
• Safe work process adherence.
• ERP system procedures and adherence thereto.