Bakery Plant Operations Manager: Quality, Safety & Efficiency

PepsiCo; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo in South Africa’s Eastern Cape is seeking a plant supervisor to coordinate bakery operations and ensure manufacturing performance, quality, safety, and sustainability standards are met. You will optimize staffing, equipment use and production efficiency while driving cost-aware improvements.

You will lead a team of frontline supervisors, monitor line performance, analyze daily reports, and implement improvements across quality, safety and environmental areas.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Ops/Production/Engineering Management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of quality assurance standards and systems.
• Computer literate (Access and MS Office)
• Knowledge of safety regulations
• Sound Employee relations knowledge
• Successfully works with others in a Management role: Quality, Facilities, Engineering, Raw Materials Stores and Distribution.
• Minimum 5 years' experience within a manufacturing environment of which at least 3 years at managerial level.

Responsibilities

• Manage quality product through continual monitoring of the line performance through the optimization of quality vs. cost relationship.
• Effective utilisation of labour hours to maximise product yields and minimise breakage and waste.
• Ensure that adequate staffing is available to execute operational plans and that manning levels are at specification.
• Ensure that development and training needs of FLEs and direct reports are fulfilled.
• Ensure that discipline is maintained through the effective use of the disciplinary code and adherence to the PepsiCo Code of Conduct.
• Maximise quality cases produced per hour.
• Accurately compile and analyse daily production line reports in a timely manner.
• Evaluate and categorize all downtime occurring during a shift.
• Prepare a weekly performance report and feedback performance-related issues to the site leadership team.
• Analyze the weekly direct cost variance report and reconcile previous production week performance to standard.
• Check and ensure that all housekeeping, food safety and occupational safety standards are adhered to.
• Improve plant audit performance and work environment.
• Direct supervisory staff (FLMs) in identifying and correcting any unsafe conditions.
• Identify opportunities to improve production processes and/or operating methods.
• Improve on all quality weak link targets in AOP.

Skills

Quality standards knowledge

Safety regulations knowledge

Employee relations & management

Interdepartmental collaboration

Education

Tertiary qualification in Ops/Production/Engineering Management or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Access

Job description

PepsiCo in South Africa’s Eastern Cape is seeking a plant supervisor to coordinate bakery operations and ensure manufacturing performance, quality, safety, and sustainability standards are met. You will optimize staffing, equipment use and production efficiency while driving cost-aware improvements.

You will lead a team of frontline supervisors, monitor line performance, analyze daily reports, and implement improvements across quality, safety and environmental areas.