Packing and Warehouse Manager

Minimum requirements:

• Relevant Bachelors Degree / Diploma or equivalent
• 5+ years operations, packing and warehouse experience
• 3+ years at management level
• Computer literacy
• Operations, Budgeting & Cost management
• Analytical & Problem solving
• People & Team management
• Planning
• Safety Management
• Surveillance Skills
• Inventory Control

Required personal attributes for this role:

• Customer service orientated
• Brand conscious
• Deadline orientated
• Drive continuous improvement
• Focus on quality
• Problem solving
• Productivity focused

Role and responsibilities:

• Packing to consistent pack presentation and product profile.
• All packed products must comply with the agreed product specification.
• Ensure reduced damages of product within packing
• Optimise packing efficiency of all packers and ensure OEE benchmarks are achieved all times.
• Reduce waste, spillage and rejections of products.
• Job card management
• Loss of production hours managed and reduced
• Provide a flexible, reliable and efficient service and good communication.
• Optimize variable and fixed costs
• Stock management to ensure loss control.
• Ensure weight of packed products is in compliance with CO standards and better than Trade Metrology Standards.
• Ensure reduced damages of product with the warehouse
• Ensure Forklift useful live is optimized to balance operating profit and resale value.
• Optimize forklift variable and fixed costs without long term loss of resale value or reliability
• Ensure Driver behaviour drives down costs while still maintaining customer service and long term forklift value
• Ensure Customer Service standards are met flexible, reliable, efficient and cost effective service with fast turnaround time and good communication
• Ensure accurate planning.
• Department budgeting and execution
• Managing, training, assessing staff
• Ensure adherence to SMETA objectives