Farm Operations Manager (Fruit production)

Insight Recruitment; George; On-site; ZAR 446,000 - 614,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Recruitment seeks an Operations Manager to lead farm and pack-house activities in the Western Cape. You will coordinate daily operations, manage junior managers and staff, and ensure a smooth workflow aligned with customer orders.

You will monitor labour, timekeeping, invoicing inputs, and reporting to directors, while driving process improvements and audit readiness (Global GAP). Typically Monday to Friday with weekend cover during peak periods; salary R40k–R55k per month depending on

Responsibilities

• Overall coordination of daily farm and pack-house operations
• Management and accountability of junior managers, supervisors and operational staff
• Pack-house workflow - output, labour efficiency, quality and dispatch performance
• Coordination between harvest, pack-house capacity and customer orders
• Customer order coordination and routine operational customer communication
• Oversight of invoicing inputs, timekeeping and payroll inputs
• Maintenance coordination and follow-up
• Labour deployment, attendance and productivity monitoring
• Operational systems, reporting, documentation and process improvement
• Global GAP and other audit/compliance readiness
• Staff coordination and operational discipline
• Staff transport
• Providing concise operational reporting to the directors
• Identifying and resolving operational issues before they require owner intervention

Job description

Key responsibilities:

• Overall coordination of daily farm and pack-house operations
• Management and accountability of junior managers, supervisors and operational staff
• Pack-house workflow - output, labour efficiency, quality and dispatch performance
• Coordination between harvest, pack-house capacity and customer orders
• Customer order coordination and routine operational customer communication
• Oversight of invoicing inputs, timekeeping and payroll inputs
• Maintenance coordination and follow-up
• Labour deployment, attendance and productivity monitoring
• Operational systems, reporting, documentation and process improvement
• Global GAP and other audit/compliance readiness
• Staff coordination and operational discipline
• Staff transport
• Providing concise operational reporting to the directors
• Identifying and resolving operational issues before they require owner intervention

You will generally work Monday to Friday, but will need to be available for planned weekend cover and additional hours during peak periods.

Salary: R40 to R55k per month, depending on experience and proven capability, with potential performance-related incentive.