Siphiwe Nkosinathi Sokhela

Work History

Production Manager

Oya Sweet PTY Ltd

Johannesburg

02.2025 - Current

Production managers ensure that manufacturing processes run reliably and efficiently. Responsibilities of the job include: planning and organizing production schedules, assessing project and resource requirements, estimating, negotiating and agreeing budgets and timescales with clients and managers, ensuring that health and safety regulations are met, determining quality control standards, overseeing production processes, renegotiating timescales or schedules as necessary, selecting, ordering and purchasing materials, organizing the repair and routine maintenance of production equipment, liaising with buyers and marketing and sales staff, supervising and managing the work of junior staff, organizing relevant training sessions.

Team Manager

Mister Sweet - Premier Foods

09.2015 - 01.2025

To manage, direct and monitor the performance of subordinates to ensure that critical performance areas and targets are achieved.
Ensuring that the Work Instruction requirements are always adhered to.
Maintaining machine efficiencies, product quality and output requirements.
Conduct random inspections of production equipment and to ensure that maintenance inspections on the various equipment are carried out as required for scheduled maintenance.
Ensure that production is scheduled to allow the Maintenance Teams to do scheduled maintenance work.
Ensure that sufficient labour of the correct calibre is available within team to meet the daily production requirements and to recruit competent personnel when required.
Monitor the attendance and time keeping of team to minimise disruptions and where necessary initiate appropriate corrective action.
Ensure that the relevant information about labour is forwarded to the Human Resource department to be captured.
Maintain good housekeeping practices through the effective implementation of housekeeping principles to ensure that the subsequent monitoring of housekeeping standards through weekly housekeeping inspections and completion of the relevant Housekeeping Reports take place.
Ensure that Work Standards and Standard Operating Procedures are regularly reviewed and where possible improved.
Monitor and investigate instances of high/low variances on raw materials against amounts budgeted.
Monitor material usage to ensure that budgeted figures are achieved.
Monitor and control waste within the Department to ensure that optimum efficiencies are maintained on machine.
Ensure that the team is aware of waste levels and that investigations are conducted, and corrective action taken when instances of waste occur.
Ensure that sub-standard raw materials are isolated to minimise their effect on product quality.
Monitor Floor Stock Materials and ensure that the correct figures are reported on.
Ensure a high standard of product quality.
Ensuring that the Operators, through the conducting of random checks of their Process Control Sheets timeously carry out all process control checks.
Where necessary revising Process Control Sheets to ensure that adequate testing of product takes place to ensure standards are maintained.
Ensuring that corrective action is promptly taken where equipment is found to be faulty to minimise the effect of downtime.
Ensure that through proper maintenance the machines are at an optimum condition to avoid poor quality products being manufactured.
Ensuring that substandard raw materials are dealt with.
Maintain good interpersonal relations within the Department.
Adequately utilising the skills of subordinates to ensure that training plans for subordinates are developed, based on multiskilling requirements and Skills Inventories.
Ensure that the Skills Inventories are monitored to establish what training and development is required and must be undertaken in the Department.
Ensure that training is scheduled and undertaken against gaps identified as a result of staff movements and competency assessments.
Ensure that the Company's Disciplinary Code and Procedure are consistently and fairly applied to maintain discipline within the workplace.

Lab Technician

Tiger Brands Snack and Treats

08.2009 - 01.2015

Supervise and direct quality assurance technicians/auditors who are responsible for enforcing Good Manufacturing Practices and other quality-related policies to meet product quality standards.
Review Production Batch Records and other manufacturing-related documents to verify compliance and record keeping for all mandated manufacturing processes, quality checks, testing, sampling, and sanitation activities.
Audit quality control of raw materials, packaging components, labels, and finished products to ensure compliance with established specifications and regulatory standards.
Follow up with implemented programs (GMPs, Good Hygiene Practices, HACCP, Allergen Control, Cleaning and Sanitation, Pest Control, Equipment Calibration, Organic Certification, etc.) to ensure compliance by all employees and other personnel in the manufacturing facility.
Assist in the coordination of testing results involving finished products, raw materials, and packaging components and the appropriate release and hold programs associated with these materials.
Oversee the 'On Hold' product program, including the status, release, and destruction of 'Rejected' products.
Assist in investigating and correcting quality-related issues (including customer complaints) through collaboration with other departments.
Share knowledge, skills, and information with other personnel in the Quality Systems & Regulatory Compliance Department and across functional areas.
Assist in the implementation of policies, operating procedures, quality systems and programs which ensure proper testing, evaluation, inspection, and technical support to meet product quality standards.
Ensure good performance by quality assurance by mentoring, training, setting expectations, providing accountability, and performing evaluations.
Maintain a fair and professional work environment that focuses the business objectives, but also balances quality of work-life factors for employees.
Perform other duties as directed by the Quality Systems & Regulatory Compliance Department management.

Summary

Overview

Work History

Production Manager

Team Manager

Lab Technician

Education

Diploma - Operations Management

B-Tech - Operations Management

Management development Program - undefined

Supervisors Training Program - undefined

Yellow Belt Program - undefined

Skills

Computer Literacy - General Office Package

Personal Information

Timeline

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