Production jobs in United States

Main purpose of the job :

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

• Matric
• National Diploma : Food Technology / Production Certificate or Diploma
• National Certificate in Food and Beverage Packaging Operation
• Technical Qualification
• Team Leader / Management / Supervisory Training essential
• Full competence within this role would typically be developed over a period of 5 years from a Matric level or 1 -2 years from a diploma level
• Team leading / Management experience essential

• 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

• 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