Job Description

AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.
NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.
An exciting opportunity exists for a Divisional Project Manager at NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED, Biscuits and Snacks. The successful incumbent will be responsible for all capital expenditure in the Snackworks Division, and will report to the Divisional Engineering Executive.
Line Manager: Divisional Engineering Executive
Number of Direct Reports: 2
Job Specification: Key Performance Areas:

• Leverage your process expertise and ability to manage multiple complex projects within a manufacturing environment in order to effect capacity enabling changes across the Snackworks factories
• Apply your productivity-focused project management skills to implement solutions across the sites
• Lead the site project engineering teams
• Manage capital projects from the justification stage across the project cycle to accelerate equipment selection, commissioning, performance ramp up and maintenance and training integration by following sound project management principles
• Establish capital expenditure to improve health & safety, productivity, capacity and efficiency for each factory within the division
• Project planning and tracking to ensure deadlines and objectives are met
• Execute project follow up and ensure successful implementation
• Coordinate implementation of projects in terms of change management and training needs
• Lean manufacturing approach to the project life cycle
• Report to management with progress of current and planned projects
• Establish a 5-year plan for each factory
• Ensure that approved capital expenditure delivers the commitments at each factory within the division
• Implementation of appropriate manufacturing systems to enable process and operational improvements at each factory within the division

• 5+ Yearsxe2x80x99 experience within a similar role
• Relevant FMCG experience in the Food environment

• Completed Higher National Diploma/ BTech or BSC Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical)
• A professional engineering qualification combined with keen business acumen and FMCG Food manufacturing experience is indispensable in this environment

• MS Projects
• MS Office
• AutoCAD knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of FMCG plant equipment
• At least 5 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in project management
• Presentation skills
• Analytical/investigative nature
• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Meeting deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Planning and organising
• Thinking analytically
• Interpreting data
• Maintaining productivity
• Documenting facts
• Upholding Standards
• Minimising Risk