Shift Co-ordinator

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

Requirements:

• Service requirements are clearly communicated to internal and external clients to ensure standards are met
• Service level agreements are in place and deviations are addressed
• Service delivery expected from internal, external clients are clearly understood and service level agreements are delivered upon.
• Communication between departments are promoted to ensure achievement of overall objective of the group and each business unit.
• The daily production plan is communicated clearly and effectively to the process operators/ supervisors to allow effective preplanning (ensure preplanning meetings held)
• Production log form previous shift is interpreted, concerns are communicated and highlighted to the team
• Raw Material requirements are confirmed, raw materials obtained and any barriers are communicated to the relevant role players.
• Equipment checks are performance before start up documentation completed (inclusive of quality/cleaning checks)
• Labour resources are assessed to ensure availability of manpower
• Plant Cleaning and CIP procedures and schedules are adhered to as per WI
• Machines and equipment are clean correctly (according to work instructions) as per cleaning schedule
• All Cleaning Schedules are maintained, and documentation completed and traceable and signed off
• Deviations are addressed, procedures enforced to ensure consistent adherence to CIP process
• Relevant checks are performed to ensure the standard of the CIP is maintained
• Improvements are identified in cases of contamination and new work procedures are drafted, communicated and adhered too.

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,
• Principles of microbiology, biochemistry, understanding of processing equipment,
• Clean in Place (CIP) procedures,
• HACCP,
• Waste management,
• GMP
• Quality control and quality assurance,
• Raw material functions,
• Intermediate knowledge instrumentation,
• System fault finding,
• health and 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 ability,
• Training skills.

Qualifications:

• Team leading/Management experience essential