Warehouse Manager

Salary:
Market related

Location:
Cape Town

Job type :
Permanent

Industry:
Food Processing / Supply

Reference:
CWR.NRS.WM.

Our client is a leading South African meat wholesaler supplying meat and other food products to sectors of the hotel, restaurant and hospitality industries. They are looking for a Warehouse Manager to join their Cape Town team.

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, excellent organizational abilities, and a thorough understanding of stock control processes. This role requires someone who can effectively manage a team, optimize warehouse operations, and ensure accurate inventory management.

• Supervise the packing of products and stock in the freezers.
• Operating the forklift.
• Loading and offloading trucks as required.
• Loading waste into waste containers for disposal.
• Maintain workflow by motivating stackers and production stock pickers to work fast and correctly.
• Check that stackers and production stock pickers are at work and report absenteeism timeously to Section manager.
• Ensure that stackers, production stock pickers and you are wearing clean undamaged protective clothing as per company policy.
• Assist the Section managers in planning the picking of stock for daily production or deliveries.
• Assist the Section managers in planning the stacking of incoming stock and products in progress in the freezers daily.
• Report low stock levels to section manager on a regular basis.
• Communicate with Section managers, production stock controller and Final QC points about stock needed.
• Stack completed, work in progress orders and incoming stock neatly in the blast or holding freezer.
• Ensure product segregation i.e. stack products per line item and or animal species.
• Ensure that all products and pallets are clearly marked.
• Ensure that all individual products are identified with a lot or batch number when stored.
• Ensure stock rotation when selecting products from the freezers – First in First out.
• Pack and plan stock packing in such a manner that old stock can be used before new stock.
• Ensure that the stackers and production stock pickers adhere to your instructions and perform their duties as per their job descriptions.
• Ensure controlled entrance by staff to both freezers.
• Ensure products are checked for deviations from quality standards such as labels, lot or batch numbers and packaging while stacking.
• Ensure good housekeeping practices in the blast and holding freezers.
• Implement and maintain measures to reduce wastage of and damage to stock being stored in the blast and holding freezers.
• Ensure that temperature controls for the blast and holding freezers and all products stored are adhered to.
• Train new personnel in all stacking, storage and packing actions.

• Manage, maintain and enforce food safety procedures and requirements in the blast and holding freezers and for the stackers and the production stock pickers.
• Manage, maintain and enforce quality policies, procedures and requirements in the blast and holding freezers and for all products in this areas.
• Manage, maintain and enforce Health & Safety legal requirements plus company procedures in the blast and holding freezers.
• Ensure that all food safety and quality documents are completed timeously.

• Ensure that all equipment and utensils in your area are clean and in good working order.
• Assist the Section manager – Band saws, mincing and sausages and freezers with preventative and planned maintenance of the blast and holding freezer areas.
• Ensure that the forklift is operating properly.
• Report faulty machinery as per maintenance procedure to the section manager

• Attend weekly meetings with Section Supervisors.
• Attend weekly management planning meeting with Logistics Manager.
• Identify and resolve any stock shortages or possible.
• Ensure that areas under your control or allocated to you are clean, neat and tidy always.
• Ensure that the areas under your control are left in a clean and neat condition at the end of every working day.
• Any shortfalls in products, orders or pallets coming through to your freezers to be reported to the…