- Johannesburg
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Manufacturing
- Reference: 2348954
Vacancy Details
Employer: PROFICOS PTY LTD
- Ensure that warehouse operates at peak efficiency- by making sure it is organised, training warehouse employees where needed and managing operational goals
- Ensuring that SOPs are being followed
- Train and manage the warehouse team to solve day to day operational issues and reach short and long term performance goals
- Oversee daily operations while controlling and managing inventory and logistics
- Review and prepare work flows and space allocations
- Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by enforcing company standards and procedures
- Ensure that the inventory system is up to date
Assistant planning
- Assist production manager and ensure that packaging is prepared
- Be able to work closely with production manager to ensure quick turn around of products
- Report any issues that might cause a delay
- Be able to understand all processes and activities in terms of planning production
- Assist in planning and pushing where gaps are noticed
- Working together with the whole team to obtain the same objective – great customer service but of the highest quality
- Planning and placing order requests for packaging required for orders where needed
Responsibilities :
· Supervise Daily warehouse activities , getting involved where hands are needed – not afraid to lift boxes and work with team
· Ensuring Quality of goods entering warehouse is up to standard as per retention samples
· Ensuring the correct amount of packaging is received as per order and reporting such
· Managing a team of warehouse employees and ensuring they all are working efficiently
· Organising warehouse in a logical manner, inventory control , shipping, preparing orders for international and local clients.
· Making sure that inflow is up to date
· Preparing Stock on hand reports to clients (SOH) , ensuring they make sense and are correct – making sure warehouse team has given correct information
· Preparing picking lists as per orders and making sure that the stock is prepared in advance for orders in months ahead
· Ensuring GRNS are captured timeously and the relevant paperwork handed over to accounts
· Ensuring paperwork is filled out accurately
· Able to communicate with the team efficiently
· Able to communicate with clients where packaging issues arise, so they can provide the correct packaging
· Preparing packaging in advance according to picking lists and alerting client and or suppliers so that issues can be rectified before production commences
· Communicating to production manager and team where there are issues
Required Skills
- Warehouse Manager: 1 to 2 years
- Computer Skills (Windows): 1 to 2 years
Candidate Requirements
- Proven experience in warehouse operations, preferably within packaging, FMCG, or manufacturing
- Experience handling packaging materials (e.g., bottles, cartons, labels, closures)
- Previous supervisory or team leadership experience
- Strong understanding of warehouse processes (receiving, storage, picking, dispatch)
- Inventory management and stock control experience
- Familiarity with ERP/WMS systems
- Knowledge of health & safety standards and compliance requirements
- Understanding of packaging handling and storage requirements
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Excellent organisational and time management abilities
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Effective communication and stakeholder coordination
- Experience in cosmetic, pharmaceutical, or FMCG environments
- Knowledge of GMP or ISO standards
- Forklift licence or equipment handling certification
- Experience with packaging quality control processes
Technical Skills
Soft Skills
Preferred / Advantageous
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