Warehouse Manager

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 400 000 - 500 000; Full time

Job summary

A food safety management company in Cape Town seeks a dedicated supervisor to oversee the packing and storage of products in the freezers. Key responsibilities include managing food safety procedures, ensuring efficient workflow, and coordinating with staff to maintain high standards of quality. The ideal candidate must have experience in a production environment and be skilled in team leadership and training.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a warehouse or production environment.
• Knowledge of food safety and quality standards.
• Ability to supervise and train staff as needed.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the packing and storage of products in the freezers.
• Manage and enforce food safety procedures.
• Assist in planning stock handling and storage.
• Ensure proper equipment maintenance.
• Attend meetings for planning and coordination.

Skills

Forklift operation

Team leadership

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Food safety knowledge

Job description

Supervise the packing of products and stock in the freezers.

• Operate the forklift.
• Load and offload trucks as required.
• Load waste into waste containers for disposal.
• Maintain workflow by motivating stackers and production stock pickers to work fast and correctly.
• Check that stackers and production stock pickers are at work and report absenteeism timeously to Section Manager.
• Ensure that stackers, production stock pickers and you are wearing clean undamaged protective clothing as per company policy.
• Assist the Section Managers in planning the picking of stock for daily production or deliveries.
• Assist the Section Managers in planning the stacking of incoming stock and products in progress in the freezers daily.
• Report low stock levels to Section Manager on a regular basis.
• Communicate with Section Managers, Production Stock Controller and Final QC points about stock needed.
• Stack completed, work in progress orders and incoming stock neatly in the blast or holding freezer.
• Ensure product segregation i.e. stack products per line item and/or animal species.
• Ensure that all products and pallets are clearly marked.
• Ensure that all individual products are identified with a lot or batch number when stored.
• Ensure stock rotation when selecting products from the freezers First in First Out.
• Pack and plan stock packing in such a manner that old stock can be used before new stock.
• Ensure that the stackers and production stock pickers adhere to your instructions and perform their duties as per their job descriptions.
• Ensure controlled entrance by staff to both freezers.
• Ensure products are checked for deviations from quality standards such as labels, lot or batch numbers and packaging while stacking.
• Ensure good housekeeping practices in the blast and holding freezers.
• Implement and maintain measures to reduce wastage of and damage to stock being stored in the blast and holding freezers.
• Ensure that temperature controls for the blast and holding freezers and all products stored are adhered to.
• Train new personnel in all stacking, storage and packing actions.

Quality, Food Safety and Health & Safety

• Manage, maintain and enforce food safety procedures and requirements in the blast and holding freezers and for the stackers and the production stock pickers.
• Manage, maintain and enforce quality policies, procedures and requirements in the blast and holding freezers and for all products in these areas.
• Manage, maintain and enforce Health & Safety legal requirements plus company procedures in the blast and holding freezers.
• Ensure that all food safety and quality documents are completed timeously.

Equipment

• Ensure that all equipment and utensils in your area are clean and in good working order.
• Assist the Section Manager Band saws, mincing and sausages and freezers with preventative and planned maintenance of the blast and holding freezer areas.
• Ensure that the forklift is operating properly.
• Report faulty machinery as per maintenance procedure to the Section Manager.

General

• Attend weekly meetings with Section Supervisors.
• Attend weekly management planning meetings with Logistics Manager.
• Identify and resolve any stock shortages or possible issues.
• Ensure that areas under your control or allocated to you are clean, neat and tidy always.
• Ensure that the areas under your control are left in a clean and neat condition at the end of every working day.
• Report any shortfalls in products, orders or pallets coming through to your freezers to the Logistics Manager immediately.
• Minimize damage by controlling stacking and storing actions daily.
• Ensure that no products are stacked without correct labelling and marked paperwork in place.
• Ensure that all goods and completed orders are stacked neatly and on time.
• Ensure that quality standards are maintained.
• Assist with month-end stock takes in your area of control.