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New Zealand

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Leading the team to consistently achieve KPI’s, highlighting daily events and providing quantifiable measures of strategy success, namely:­ On Time In Full­ Waste­ Operational Performance Indicator­ Loss Prevention­ Productivity and line utilisation­ Complaints per million­ Absenteeism • Advocating compliance to Quality Control, GMP and food safety systems, as well as following company protocol to ensure product consistency• Ensuring effective and efficient handover techniques at key interfaces i.e. shift handover, daily direction setting, quality and safety talks to each team on handovers• Updating and engaging the team on new product development trials, driving effective time and changeover management as well as providing timely feedback to the teams on future developments• Developing and reviewing short to medium term strategies with Production Managers, to improve plant performance and to ensure alignment with developments and direction of the business• Completing a development plan to train and empower employees to make quality decisions and assume role responsibility and accountability• Rewarding the efforts of achievers, focusing on talent management and where required, bringing internal and external talent into the team• Developing, introducing and maintaining visual workplace KPI’S for the production teams• Ensuring that production teams operate within the fixed cost and labour budgets, delivering spend, assisting with variance investigations, and implementing action plans to address any shortfalls• Ensuring adherence to the production schedule, monitoring and updating it as necessary using the SAP planning system• Appropriately managing SHE within the workplace via the tools, systems and policies provided by the company• Actively promoting safety within the workplace around hazard identification, safety initiatives and talks• Proactively promoting sustainability of resources

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Reporting to the Production Manager• Developing plans to improve plant performance by utilising modern manufacturing techniques to continuously improve the way the production team and plant operate• Participating in New Product Development (NPD) trials and management of change• Ensuring that production teams operate within the labour budget and spend• Developing and reviewing short to medium-term strategies to improve plant performance to drive alignment with developments and direction of the business• Actively promoting safety within the workplace around B.B.S., hazard identification, risk assessments, safety initiatives and talks• Working closely with the engineering team to proactively identify and communicate opportunities that prevent quality deviations, downtime, waste and customer complaints• Utilising my technical skill to openly communicate, understand, apply and involve my knowledge and experience in the collective decision-making process• Developing, introducing and maintaining visual workplace KPI’S for the production teams• Ensuring that the production schedule is optimised to meet both efficiency and customer requirements• Attending training in Nigeria on supply chain management• Developing and building on the core competency of quality management• Attending training on effectively leading teams

Durban Area, South Africa

• Maximising the effectiveness of production team, equipment and materials to produce products within planned schedules• Developing and tracking focussed improvement projects to reduce production costs• Controlling inventory and raw material handling• Ensuring safe work environment through compliance with the OHS act• Coaching and mentoring team in best practice methods (both MTC and WCM)• Driving project management, implementing continuous improvement initiatives, enabling teams to work smarter and not harder• Ensuring all health and safety policies and procedures are adhered to any given time• Measuring and managing the business within the confines of the operating budget, tracking and reporting deviations, and developing corrective action plans• Utilising overall knowledge of end-to-end supply chain management• Effectively and efficiently managing up to 20 operatives and processes on a manufacturing line• Manufacturing beer and cider of impeccable quality for both local and international export• Managing and measuring the business within the operating budget, maintaining goal alignment and having corrective actions in place to achieve KPI’s• Supervising compliance to quality control, MPI & GMP food safety audits, executing quality walks and talks, and complying with company protocol to ensure product consistency• Developing a skills matrix for the purpose of professional development, and utilising S.M.E’s (Subject Matter Experts) for up-skilling and cross-skilling• Developing and reviewing new operational standards, including work instructions and quick fix routines for production lines

Durban Area, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech) Degree In Management, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Done through correspondance

Diploma In Packaging Management

Nqf 4 Engineering Certificate, Mechanical Engineering, N4

Education record