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General Details
Location:
Germiston, East Rand
Advertised By:Agency
Company Name:Executive Placements
Job Type:Full-Time
Description
What You Will Be Accountable For
Plant Performance
  • Deliver production targets without daily firefighting
  • Improve overall equipment effectiveness, reduce downtime, and stabilise output
  • Build processes that make performance predictable
Food Safety & Quality
  • Ensure full compliance with FSSC 22000 and HACCP
  • Maintain audit readiness as a standard, not an event
  • Own product quality and customer complaints
Commercial & Cost Ownership
  • Understand cost per ton, margin, and cost drivers
  • Actively reduce waste, inefficiencies, and unnecessary cost
  • Translate operational decisions into financial outcomes
Strategic Direction
  • Identify constraints limiting growth
  • Drive capacity improvements and process optimisation
  • Support capital decisions with clear operational logic
Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Align Production, QA, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Sales
  • Remove bottlenecks between departments
  • Ensure production delivers what the business actually needs

Team Leadership
  • Lead through the Production Manager, not around them
  • Build accountability and discipline in the plant
  • Develop people who can run the operation without constant intervention

Compensation
  • All-inclusive CTC package: R700,000 R840,000 per annum
This role is suited to someone ready to step toward General Management responsibility.

Minimum Requirements
  • Degree in Mechanical or Process Engineering
  • Minimum 10 years experience in food manufacturing or packaging
  • Strong hands-on experience in:
  • Juice, dairy, beverage, or liquid processing environments (advantageous)
  • Strong working knowledge of FSSC 22000 and HACCP

What We Expect
  • You understand production because you have worked in it
  • You can walk into a plant and identify problems quickly
  • You take ownership of results, not just processes
  • You are comfortable making decisions with real consequences
  • You focus on root cause, not symptoms
  • You have worked with operators and general workers and can get results through them
  • You can simplify processes rather than over-engineer them
  • You are as comfortable discussing cost and margin as you are discussing throughput

This Role Is Not For
  • Managers who have not spent meaningful time on the plant floor
  • Candidates who rely on reporting rather than execution
  • Individuals who avoid accountability for outcomes
  • People who need structured environments to f
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