Shift Supervisor

SUMMARY:
Southern Oil Pty Ltd, an established company and market leader in the manufacturing of Canola oil and related products in the retail, food services, and bulk sectors, has the following exciting career opportunity in Darling.

POSITION INFO:

Short Summary:

The main responsibility of this position is to take charge of all Production Stations per shift. It will be required of this position to ensure all procedures regarding equipment setup and operations, reporting regarding shift activities, autonomous maintenance, quality, housekeeping, food safety, health and safety, and reporting regarding the production lines is adhered to during the shift. This position will assist the Production Engineer to ensure the product is packed according to a planned schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Manufacture product according to the production plan as instructed by the Production Engineer. This position will be required to set up all line equipment and to take charge of changeovers on all Production Stations and report to the Production Engineer any deviations or challenges faced if necessary. This will include receiving, weighing, mixing, sheeting, baking, frying, seasoning, packaging ext.
• Must ensure production line is optimally controlled through correct setup of each station.
• This position will be responsible to ensure the correct makeup of blends as per the production schedule. The shift supervisor will take charge of the makeup of all blends according to correct procedure and requirements and will ensure availability for the production line.
• This position will be responsible for the effective operation of all production stations and will ensure maximum efficiencies during the shift. This will include:
  • Reacting to deviation.
  • Optimal setup of equipment and continuous monitoring thereof.
  • Limiting of all wastage.
  • Fault finding and reporting to the Production Engineer if not able to solve the problem
  • Efficient handling of machine downtime. Ensure downtime is minimized by ensuring any unknown deviations are reported immediately to the next level of support.
  • Assisting Production Engineers and maintenance contractors with corrective actions.
• This position will be responsible for communicating required maintenance within the plant and equipment.
• Report maintenance issues to Production Engineer and/ or Maintenance Contractor if not able to resolve the problem. It will be required from this position to ensure the necessary support is available to the Maintenance Contractor at all times when working on the equipment.
• This position will ensure the final product is packed within the correct configuration during palletizing. This includes boxes, pallets ext.
• This person will ensure continuous quality checks are being performed. The following QC responsibilities will be required by this position:
  • Correct handling and monitoring of Critical Control Points (CCP’s) and Operational Prerequisite Plans (oPRP’s) and to take action if any deviations occur.
  • Dough moisture checks, sheeted chips thickness checks, and raw ingredient quantities.
  • Barcode stickers, pallet batch ID, retention samples, personnel hygiene checklist, master cleaning schedules, glass and hard plastic register, production quality, QC verification, and corrective actions to packed products specs, barcode, and date coding changes are correct.
• This person will ensure all damaged material is stored in the correct identified containers and is reported accurately at end of each shift.
• After each production run, this person will be responsible for all wasted raw material identified and returned to storage.
• This position will be responsible for effective housekeeping of the plant and all areas of responsibility which can include:
  • All staff has the correct PPE clothing to perform cleaning.
  • Correct cleaning equipment is available. Reporting of all default cleaning equipment to the bottling manager and ensure replacement to prevent any holdups or non-compliances.
  • Performing cleaning tasks according to the correct procedure and work instructions.
  • The correct type and amount of chemical is available and used to do the cleaning as prescribed in the work instruction.
  • Safe handling of the chemicals used.
• This position will be responsible for leading and motivating all teams per shift, and the effective time management of the teams.
• This position will be required to ensure all logs, inspections downtime reporting are completed per shift and maintained up to date per shift.
• The person needs to be available for all training as required and scheduled by Management.
• It will be expected from this person to assist the Production Engineer to train all personnel regarding their operational functions, equipment operation, quality requirements, food and safety requirements.
• This person will need to comply with safety, food safety, and environmental procedure and as per the SOILL Policy. It can be expected from all employees to be appointed with certain responsibilities as required by OSH Act, Food Safety Regulations, and Environmental Regulations.
• Any other reasonable relevant task allocated by Production Engineer as required by Plant Operations.

• Minimum of a Grade 12
• Electrical/ Mechanical tertiary technical qualification an advantage
• Conversant in Afrikaans or English
• Previous experience within an FMCG environment
• Knowledge of Food Safety (FSSC/ FSA)
• Knowledge of OEE Management
• Labour Relations and Staff Discipline
• On the job training of staff

• Must be able to lead a small team
• Must be able to work well in a team
• Good time management
• Disciplined and reliable

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