Shift Team Leader at Seven Up Bottling Company

Job Summary

• Plans, organizes, supervises and controls the activity of the production for their assigned area of coverage on his or her shift, in order to fulfil the production plan at a high-quality level, with high level safety compliance and optimum costs, according to company standards.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a coach to all operators on the shop floor.
• Follows up with technical team to ensure that breakdowns are resolved promptly and permanently
• Drives start up timing as per plan after every production run on lines in assigned area of coverage.
• Responsible for reduction of all waste across the shop floor (crown, closure, syrup, sugar, label, shrink film etc.).
• Ensures GMP/GHK standards are adhered to in his Shift, hands over his area with 100% compliance to GMP/GHK, executes GMP Audit as per planned weekly calendar, executes CAP as part of implementation from GMP/GHK Audit
• Understands and controls main cost drivers on the line, addresses excess manning in his shift.
• Understands the monetary impact of raw material losses on product and plant profitability.
• Leads by example and effectively communicates the actions which put the Quality First (product, behaviour, communication, etc.)
• Ensures Production personnel wears clean uniform, 100% Compliance to PPE for all Personnel in the Production area.
• Drives compliance to food safety standards on the production lines. eg. No Jewellery worn in production areas, bearded cover to be worn etc.
• Ensures zero tolerance to drinking / eating on production lines, prompt cleaning of production lines is completed during his shift.
• Reports all near misses/Non-conformance in his shift and follows through with responsible persons for resolution.
• Ensures all quality control parameters and variables are within acceptable targets in his/her Shift (e.g. Brix, Fill Height, carbonation, torque etc.)
• Is responsible for raw and packaging material on the shop floor, ensures materials are properly staged and is accountable for the usage of same materials
• Ensures that product is available as at when due and delays that may affect production continuity are promptly escalated to line manager.
• Manages, the return of all scrap materials like sugar bags, kegs, drums etc. for their area of coverage during shift production run. Ensures these scraps are properly documented and accounted for.
• Responsible for the conduct of operators and all shift team members in their area of coverage during shift production run.
• Tracks and ensure calibration of all the measuring and weighing equipment under direct control of the production department are carried out regularly.
• To submit the required data for the preparation of daily, weekly, monthly or any periodic reports to the line manager.

Requirements

• A minimum of HND or Bsc in Food Sciences, Engineering or General Sciences.
• 3– 5 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience.
• Knowledge of bottling operations
• Understanding of financial impact of decisions
• Ability to build and leverage relationships to improve results
• Open-minded and willing to experiment and try new things and improvement initiatives.
• Good understanding and experience of current WC manufacturing methodologies.
• Good understanding of HQSE modalities and codes.
• Good understanding of achieving GMP and GHK standards
• Good oral communication, influencing and relationship skills.