Lizwi Brian Khoza
Shift Coordinator
Durban
Summary
Experienced shift management professional prepared for leadership. Skilled in team coordination, problem-solving, and effective communication. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Reliable, adaptable, and adept at managing changing needs. Proficient in conflict resolution, schedule management, and operational efficiency.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Shift Coordinator
Unilever
11.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Manufacturing&Production
- Overseeing production: Supervising the production process during their designated shift, ensuring efficient and effective operations.
- Team management: Leading and coordinating a team of production staff, including machine operators, shift artisans and quality control inspectors.
- Scheduling and planning: Coordinating with the production planning team to ensure that production schedules are met, and resources are allocated efficiently.
- Quality control: Monitoring product quality and implementing corrective actions as needed to maintain high standards.
- Health and safety: Ensuring a safe working environment and enforcing safety regulations and procedures.
- Communication: Liaising with other departments, such as Engineering, Logistics and Quality Assurance, to ensure smooth operations.
- Problem-solving: Identifying and resolving production-related issues, such as equipment malfunctions or material shortages.
- Reporting and analysis: Providing shift reports and data analysis to support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Compliance: Ensuring adherence to company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Training and development: Supporting the training and development of production staff to enhance skills and knowledge.
- Cost Control: Manage overtime, material usages on the line(waste tracker) and conducting monthly stock count.
- FMCG
- Developed strong working relationships with peers from other departments to facilitate smooth interdepartmental coordination during shift transitions or special projects.
- Consistently enforced company policies and procedures while remaining sensitive to individual needs of staff members when addressing disciplinary matters or resolving conflicts.
- Coordinated cross-departmental collaboration for seamless operations during shifts.
- Participated in hiring decisions, conducting interviews, and evaluating potential candidates to ensure appropriate staffing levels were maintained on each shift.
- Provided regular updates to senior management regarding shift performance metrics, identifying trends or concerns that needed attention or remediation efforts.
- Managed shift operations, supplied resources and monitored team performance to keep business profitable and running smoothly.
Senior Process Leader
RCL Foods
11.2020 - 10.2022
- Company Overview: FMCG
- Discuss weekly production plan with the Planner.
- Drive processing asset productivity through agreed KPIs and efficiencies.
- Manage labour resources within budget to obtain required outputs.
- Discuss availability of raw materials vs. planned production.
- Monitor performance of all departments.
- Report and manage all input costs within area of responsibility and manage any over and under spend appropriately to ensure that issues are addressed before significant financial loss occurs.
- Hold meetings with Process Leaders to discuss weekly performance and areas of improvements.
- Analyse downtime, provide valid explanations for loss of production and put action plans in place to prevent recurrence.
- Conduct cost saving projects.
- Drive closure of non-conformances (i.e.: Environmental, Food Safety, etc.)
- Drive development and training of employees.
- Chair or initiate disciplinary hearings as needed according to RPM standards.
- Ensure that documentation required for the Total Integrated Management System is applied consistently throughout Processing.
- Drive in-process quality control in line with the supply chain and external customer requirements throughout the processing plant.
- Responsible for cost control (wastage, manload, reworks, etc.…)
- Work closely with the engineering department to ensure that equipment performance and maintenance priorities are aligned and changed to meet production requirements.
- Manage the employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and Company policy.
- FMCG
- Improved efficiency and effectiveness of performance and management of processes across departments.
- Managed change among staff to achieve buy-in and cooperation and overcome resistance.
Process Leader
RCL Foods
11.2017 - 10.2020
- Company Overview: FMCG
- Production Planning: Obtain the daily production plan from the Processing Manager.
- Communicate the objectives of the plan to the team on shift to ensure understanding.
- Report deviations to the production plan (as a result of breakdowns, manpower shortages etc.) immediately to the Processing Manager.
- Operations Management: Discuss the details of the production plan at the beginning of each shift.
- Monitor the performance of lines in own area of responsibility throughout the shift to ensure the most efficient use of resources, i.e. cost, people, time etc.
- Manage lines and use available resources to achieve production targets at the lowest possible cost, and ensure that workflow continues without interruption.
- Check that best operating practices are adhered to and that the relevant data is recorded appropriately.
- Maintain safety standards in accordance to SOP’s.
- Monitor food safety.
- Identify processes and procedures where safety, health and the quality of work may be improved.
- Cost control: Effectively manage raw material usage and cost on an on-going basis.
- Correctly calculate raw material requirements to ensure that supply is sufficient to meet demands.
- Identify and take action to prevent the wastage of materials / product.
- Ensure that the machinery and equipment required for production are working properly to enable correct levels of production output.
- Control costs through the choice of lower cost options / more effective processes and procedures.
- Team Supervision: Ensure area of responsibility is sufficiently resourced at all times to achieve production targets.
- With support from HR and the Processing Manager, employ staff in vacant and approved posts.
- Monitor and control people performance.
- Supervise the activities of the team to ensure production targets are met.
- Take corrective action where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy.
- Chair or initiate disciplinary hearings as needed according to RPM standards.
- Authorise all time sheets and attendance registers on a daily basis.
- Manage leave and general time management issues in line with company policy.
- Authorise leave application forms and submit to the Processing Manager for final authorisation.
- Drive training and development of staff in area of responsibility.
- FMCG
Snr Pack Lab Technician
SA Breweries (Rosslyn)
06.2013 - 10.2016
- Company Overview: FMCG
- Co-ordinating internal training and compiling of training records for different process areas.
- Calibration, maintenance and verification of instruments.
- Conducting Loss & Waste Analysis for different process areas and compiling reports.
- Conducting various new product and cost saving trials.
- Co-ordinating and conducting RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for trade and internal complaints.
- Co-ordinating the corrective action and non-conformance system.
- Co-ordinating monthly supplier meetings.
- Collection and storage of retention samples.
- CO2 Reference system management.
- Compiling daily Quality reports for meetings with Lab Manager and Unit Managers.
- Co-ordinate internal audits (cGMP, Health& safety and QMS audits) and compile reports.
- Systems knowledge: 1. SAP (Basic) 2. LIMS 3. EQMS.
- FMCG
Education
ND. - Analytical Chemistry
Durban University of Technology
01.2004 - 07.2008
NQF4. - Administration Management
Growth Factor
03.2019 - 05.2022
Grade 12 - undefined
Umlazi Comtech High School
Skills
Scheduling and planning
Workplace safety
Team development
Quality controls
Strong leadership
Decision-making capacity
Budgeting and cost control
Employee engagement
Positive attitude
Team leadership
Operations management
Employee relations
Accomplishments
- Promoted to a Senior Process Leader, 11/01/20
- Rosslyn Taster of the Quarter, F’15
- Qualified SABMILLER Advanced Taster
- SAB Prospecton F’12 Quarter 1 Quality Champion, 07/22/11
Additional Training Courses
- TACCP/VACCP Training
- CGMP Training
- HACCP
- ISO 9001:2004
- ISO 14001:2003
- OHSAS 18001
- ISO 22000
- FSSC 22000
Middle Name
Brian
Personal Information
- ID Number: 8506065383083
- Ethnicity: African
- Date of Birth: 06/06/85
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
Timeline
Shift Coordinator
Unilever
11.2022 - Current
Senior Process Leader
RCL Foods
11.2020 - 10.2022
NQF4. - Administration Management
Growth Factor
03.2019 - 05.2022
Process Leader
RCL Foods
11.2017 - 10.2020
Snr Pack Lab Technician
SA Breweries (Rosslyn)
06.2013 - 10.2016
ND. - Analytical Chemistry
Durban University of Technology
01.2004 - 07.2008
Grade 12 - undefined
Umlazi Comtech High School
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