Lucerne Pack located in the Robertson area, currently has the following position available.

Production Manager
(Citrus and Stone Fruit)

Job purpose:

• Responsible for planning, organising and managing all production-related activities on the allocated production area.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure that hourly and daily production and quality targets are met
• Identify areas and reasons for poor production and address them
• Ensuring the adherence to local and international food safety standards and BRC requirements
• Assurance of continuous quality measures
• Record all relevant production and technical data
• Maintain and utilize various reports as dashboards in order to measure against targets
• Identify development areas and manage people performance
• Pro-active planning of staff, stock and other resources with internal departments
• Effective control of all employee relations, disciplinary, grievance and absenteeism related matters
• Present daily production progress and planning reports at Management meetings
• Ensure effective communication with clients

Requirements:

• The candidate must have passed Grade 12 (Matric)
• Tertiary qualification in Production/Operations management will be an advantage.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience managing a large team in a production environment/warehouse
• Proven Computer literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook). Ability to draw reports on excel
• Drivers’ License

The successful candidate must be willing to work night /day shifts.