Logistics Supervisor

Job Description

As a Logistics Supervisor, you will:

Supervise the Logistics shift team responsible to manufacture confectionary goods to the desired quality specifications, on time and in full within the required costs as per the production plan, also maintaining the production equipment.

• Ensure optimal confectionery production process efficiencies and effectiveness by ensuring production on time and in full as per plan and quality specifications.
• Coordinating shift production team and other areas in the confectionery supply chain to ensure optimal production and timeous delivery.
• Supporting the maintenance department by coordinating autonomous maintenance and housekeeping during the shift as per maintenance plans.
• Recording all relevant production process KPI’s and information in order to provide full and accurate post-shift handover to the production manager.
• To ensure confectionery process delivers consistent high-quality products within specifications in collaboration with the maintenance manager by:
• Ensuring adherence to production process parameters.
• Identifying exceptions and variations in process and correcting them.
• Identifying exceptions and variations in equipment and reporting these to the maintenance manager to correct.
• Supporting root cause analysis when needed to address and correct issues.
• Following up and checking that problems have been addressed and that production process is back within parameters.
• Driving a quality mindset within production in collaboration with the quality control department in dealing with non-conforming products or customer complaints and collaborating on ways to improve quality.
• Ensuring all production process control documentation is completed and controlled as per SOP for recall & traceability purposes.
• Ensure high performance production shift team by:
• Adequate resourcing for each shift and managing absenteeism and leave rosters for the team.
• Guiding and assisting team to meet their targets through regular coaching, assistance, and on-the-job training of employees.
• Conducting INVOCOMs and ensuring that records are kept and shared across the team and that action plans agreed to within INVOCOMs are delivered upon.

Qualification Requirements

• Grade 12

Experience Requirements

• FMCG Plant Production management experience - 3-5 Years – Essential

Key Outputs

• To ensure full statutory compliance to all health and safety and food safety requirements in line with Premier standards and SOP’s by ensuring training of relevant persons, observation, coaching and assessment of SOPs as per requirements and team educational plan.
• Driving continuous improvement of confectionery production processes by:
• Actioning team improvement suggestions or reporting them to the relevant managers to investigate for implementations.
• Continuously monitoring daily WIP.
• Support continuous operations and optimal working conditions by liaising with other HOD’s and supervisors as needed to maintain operations.
• Getting support to address team issues and resolve problems reported.
• Reporting continuous improvement ideas appropriately.