Job Description

DO YOU HAVE THE APPITITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC?

Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.

Founded in Belgium in 1919, From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.

We've evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. It's with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and let's continue building the next 100 years of shared success!

Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Based at Port Elizabeth to further strengthen our Operations team, we are currently seeking a:

WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR - (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)

Reporting directly to the Operations Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:

• Assist the Operations Manager in maintaining the smooth operation of a fast-moving environment.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide a safe working environment, adhering to Occupational Health and Safety, and Food Safety Environmental procedures, and ensuring they are always understood and practiced by the team
• Plan, co-ordinate and monitor the receipt, storage and dispatch of goods.
• Ensure orders are processed efficiently and that the delivery of goods meets customers timescales/requirements.
• Supervise and control order picking, goods in, goods out operations to ensure accuracy with minimum handling and stock damage.
• Organize, facilitate and manage stock takes at regular intervals
• Ensure that all relevant procedures and processes are followed and adhered to in line with the Company's procedures and requirements
• Deliver the product to the customer on time, every time using appropriate methods.
• Operate Bidtrack delivery tracking systems in order to monitor company vehicles.
• Ensure that internal delivery processes are adhered to support dispatch time windows.
• Monitoring daily fuel consumptions.
• Control of Forklift Truck management to ensure full operational capacity and achieve daily targets.
• Oversee any planned maintenance of vehicles, machinery and equipment.
• Ensure security of Warehouse environment and maintain access control, ensuring 5S housekeeping standards are maintained at all times.
• Monitor and maintain stock accuracy by ensuring the physical stock is in line with the warehouse management system and ensure all stock movements are recorded to ensure accuracy.
• Assist the POD controller
• Perform other duties assigned by your Line Manager.

PROFILE

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Warehouse Logistics/ Management experience.
• Valid Forklift License.
• Code 10 driver's license will be an advantage.
• Able to communicate clearly and fluently in English & Afrikaans
• Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Ability to sustain and develop team working and team-based problem solving.
• Good understanding of customer deliverables and the impact of failure / cost of poor quality.
• Able to achieve results by setting high standards and committing to clear objectives.
• Driving performances: results-driven, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
• Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
• Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment, builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.

Offer

Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape.

Interested persons who meet the requirements may apply

Closing Date: 24 August 2023

Interested internal applicant please SuccessFactors to put in your applications, for Warehouse and Production staff use the company website

Puratos