Team Leader Packaging at The Coca-Cola Company

Job Description    
Key Purpose Statement.

• The primary role of the team leader packaging is to lead the teams in the execution of the production plan, ensuring that product meets all quality specifications, asset care through autonomous maintenance tasks and the resolution of production problems.

Company Overview

• Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent.  CCBA is a market leader in the NARTD non-alcoholic ready to drink market in Africa. CCBA has an extensive footprint in Africa, employing approximately 14 000 employees in Africa.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    

People Practices

• Check and ensure that team members carry out required quality checks and that the information is recorded on the appropriate systems.
• Develop team members and ensure that training needs are identified and closed out via one-on-one’s and performance reviews.
• Drives performance management practices (e.g. Performance Management Way - leading the development of team goals and carrying out team meetings and team goal review sessions.

To drive WCM initiatives on own shift

• Conducts work practice maturity assessments and/or line walkabouts for own shift to ensure that best practices are being applied correctly and are entrenched
• Benchmarking best practice 
• Opportunities identified and implemented

Operating and Process Control

• Decide on course of action to resolve problems where production problems have been escalated
• Identify the need for updating of work instructions and ensure resources are made available to do the update
• Ensure safety and housekeeping standards are adhered to and address food safety issues cascaded

Maintenance of Plant and Equipment

• Participates in maintenance planning meetings to highlights maintenance problems requiring attention.
• Communicate the maintenance plan to team members
• Ensures that the line is ready for maintenance and that it starts up on time post maintenance
• Plan the allocation of team members to specific autonomous maintenance tasks

Quality Control and Analysis

• Ensure that the team members understand and adhere to quality standards
• Verifies that team members carry out routine quality checks and analysis according to the work instructions.
• Carry out quality trend analysis to identify problems and decide on appropriate course of action to resolve issues

Communication

• Communicate team goals and regularly review to ensure team alignment
• Prepare for the daily shift meeting by reviewing past shift performance and identifying issues for team discussion.
• Ensure that visual management boards are updated prior shift meetings
• Lead the daily shift meeting, making use of a standard agenda, and ensuring that team members actively partake.

Problem solving

• Where problems have been escalated, decide on an appropriate course of action; e.g. calling in specialist resources.
• Where problems have been resolved, verify that the problem has been eliminated and ensure that work instructions are updated

Continuous Improvement

• Ensure that SIC mechanisms are in place to track and monitor waste (e.g. mass balance)
• Ensure that waste reduction and process improvement goals are incorporated into team goals, and the team understands these goals.

Skills, Experience & Education    

Qualifications.

• Degree in Food Science or Relevant Engineering Course

Experience

• 3 years of experience in Busy FMCG environment

Deadline: 13TH OF AUGUST 2023