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Full-time
bachelor degree
Posted 7d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Production Group Lead will oversee Liquids and Spray Drying operations to ensure safety, quality, and production targets are met. This role involves driving continuous improvement, managing team performance, and maintaining strict adherence to GMP and site safety policies.
Requirements
Candidates should possess a diploma in a relevant field such as Industrial/Chemical Engineering or Food Technology. A minimum of 5 years of experience in a process environment, including at least 3 years in a supervisory capacity, is required.
Full job description
Requisition ID 65664
Position Type FT Permanent
Workplace Arrangement #LI-Onsite
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
About the role
This role will lead and develop production teams to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives across Liquids and Spray Drying operations. Drive continuous improvement, resolve operational issues through root cause analysis, maintain GMP compliance, and oversee team performance, training, and adherence to site policies and procedures.
Location Durban, South Africa
Reporting to Production Manager
Key responsibilities
Lead Liquids and Spray Drying production teams to execute production plans and deliver production targets, ensuring efficient and effective use of resources to meet production targets.
Perform Root Cause Analysis and solve problems that impact safety, quality, costs, and delivery and ensure that unresolved problems are escalated to the site leadership team.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure safety, quality, cost, and customer service goals are met.
Continually oversee and ensure that GMP compliance for the equipment, facility and operations is maintained within established internal programs and regulatory codes.
Protect the health and safety of all Production employees through instituting and adherence to site safety culture.
Complete shift reports as required, including the maintenance of production tracking records, reports and spreadsheets to provide information and data for monthly reporting of production efficiency and monthly KPIs.
Review relevant site policies & procedures and ensure the requirements they specify are documented in standard work and trained out to Team Leaders & Members.
Train new and existing team members on equipment and operational processes. Maintain and update operating procedures and work instructions to achieve quality and safety standards.
Maintain product quality and adherence to GMP through management of the team and process to deliver agreed product specifications as defined in quality standards and policies.
Manage on-going performance of direct reports, including initiating disciplinary procedures as per the disciplinary policy where necessary.
Qualifications and skills
Preferably a diploma in Industrial/Chemical Engineering, Production Management, Food Technology, Engineering, Operations Management or Equivalent.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a process environment, at least three years of which in a Team Lead or Supervisory role.
Preferably experience within a Food Manufacturing Plant.
SAP knowledge will be a bonus.
Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.
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Production Group LeadBeverageLiquidsSpray DryingGMPRoot Cause AnalysisContinuous ImprovementIndustrial EngineeringChemical EngineeringFood TechnologyOperations ManagementFood ManufacturingSAPKPISafety CultureStandard Work
We help nourish people, society and our planet with great-tasting, nutritious and sustainable solutions.
Industry
Food and Beverage Services
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
Naas
LinkedIn followers
690,855
Total funding
$8M
Every day, millions of people across the world consume foods and beverages containing our taste and nutrition solutions. Our portfolio spans food, beverage, biotechnology, pharma, and proactive health.
We are committed to making the world of food and beverage better for everyone, and dedicated to our Purpose, Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life.
We are a company rich in heritage and resources. Over the past five decades, our focus on changing lifestyles, the globalisation of food tastes and ever-evolving consumer needs has brought us to a market-leading global position.
Today, we are firmly established as a world leader in the food, beverage and pharma industries, with 19,000+ staff, 119 manufacturing facilities, and 60+ technology and innovation centres globally.
We are proud to provide our customers – some of the world’s best-known food, beverage and pharma brands – with the expertise, insights and know-how they need to deliver products that people enjoy and feel better about consuming.
Learn more about us on www.kerry.com
Offices: Naas, IE · Singapore, SG · San Juan del Rio, MX · Beloit, US · Jakarta, ID
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