Production Supervisor (Blending & Milling)

Duties & Responsibilities:

Core duties include Ensuring that all aspects of production processes and the Shift team are efficiently and effectively supervised in order to meet production objectives from a quantity and quality perspective within the appropriate time scales and following the agreed standards.
* Production plan is maintained by assessment against daily shift production plan and priorities on an ongoing basis and reported on in need to manage.
* Unplanned downtime of machines and equipment must < 60 minutes per shift.
* Timeous reporting of faults or maintenance required must be evident with a proactive stance.
* The flow of products from blending to packing to completion is streamlined within minimum bottlenecks evident.
* Tonnage of product on the blenders is as per the daily production requirements.
* Ensure that on-holds or rejected items are managed and minimized by ensuring the continuous quality standard are maintained.
* No more than 2 per 6-month period.
* Ensure all relevant works orders are closed timeously and production reports are completed are as per management requirements.
Quality adherence:
* Ensure that all EHACCP is completed timeously and accurately 100% of the time.
* Adherence to HACCP & AIB standards timeously and accurately to ensure accreditation is achieved.
People Management & Communication:
* Ensure employee attendance is managed and that individual problem areas are addressed as they occur and reported on to management or HR in need.
* Ensure that employees on your shift are utilised to their full potential and where required ensure that they are appropriately trained to use machinery and on processes.
* Attending to staff performance and conduct issues as they arise in an appropriate and acceptable manner.
* Ensuring that employees are motivated to perform their duties and managed accordingly.
* Attending to employee performance assessments and training and development needs by utilizing process and system in a timeous and meaningful manner.
* Providing feedback to employees and management.
* Conducting meetings at the start of the shift to ensure all resource areas'' needs and priorities are communicated & understood.
* This must include a full handover from previous shifts.

Key Skills