Zacharia Letlhogonolo Tshabalala
Red consultant
Sandton Alexandra
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Production and Distribution Manager
Wynberg Chickens
06.2022 - 02.2025
- Optimising work force, plant, machinery and equipment whilst ensuring that the working environment is safe and hygenic.
- Planning and Organising production schedules daily.
- Set objectives and implement action plans for achieving set targets.
- Create work shifts to ensure optimal food production operations.
- Oversee that there is an accurate and up to date inventory listing or raw materials and processed food product.
- Reporting daily challenges and throughput on daily basis.
- Assuring that health and safety rules are adhered to.
- Sending weekly and monthly report to the CEO and managing costs and unnecessary overtime.
- Liaise with finance manager and Admin manager weekly to plan production against orders.
- Ensure Optimal product quality.
- Implement standards procedure and processes for the manufacture of high quality food product.
- Monitor work flow.
- Motivate and supervise work crew to ensure daily production targets and achieved.
- Oversee the hiring orientation and training of technical and non technical food manufacturing personnel.
- Direct and supervise the activities of food production staff.
- Ensure product and raw materials are stored properly at optimum conditions.
- Forecast to discover potential risks and possible problems.
- Liaise with finance Admin manager monthly to identify changing clients needs and adjust accordingly to ensure these needs are met.
- Review quality reports daily (Receiving, dispatch, cutting brine and packaging) quality department to monitor the various aspects of food processing to ensure final product meets set specification.
- Oversee that the maintenance, repair and replacement of production equipment to ensure smooth work operations.
- Continuous improvement in all production results through adequate and accurate administration.
- Monitoring production quality to minimise customer complaints and regrets.
- Stock Management.
- Set and enforce health and safety procedures and guidelines for operations.
- Ensure manufacturing and processing staff wear appropriate sanitary and protective gear to ensure health and safety.
- Ensure that proposed standard are consistently applied.
- Enforcing HACCP procedures and undergoing food safety audit.
- Prepare and present periodic reports to update company management on food production.
- Accurate record keeping.
- Maintenance of trucks and services records.
- General Management of food safety and health systems.
Production supervisor /Manager
Quantum Foods
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Supervise, control and oversee all daily functions required at the Bloemfontein packstation.
- Leading team of 58 employees (production, sales, admin and distribution).
- Ordering and monitoring of package and keeping good relationship with clients.
- Standing in for operations manager on her absence.
- Ordering of eggs and making assurance of the forecasts for weekly basis.
- Ensuring discipline within a packstation.
- Assuring that health and safety rules are adhered to.
- Sending monthly report to the operations manager and managing costs and unnecessary overtime.
- Initiating and chairing disciplinary hearings.
- Preparing for audits and assuring that the company complies with government legislation etc.
Operations Lead
Phakisa Holdings
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Clients: RCL Foods-Chicken(Rustenburg), RCL Foods-Sunbake(Rustenburg, Stillfontein and Mahikeng), RCL Foods-Farm (Bosfontein, Magalis, Koster)
- Supervise, control and oversee all daily functions required by the main SLA between Phakisa and all the clients within North West province.
- To ensure positive service experience from the clients and the workforce that Phakisa is managing on behalf of the clients.
- Represent Phakisa management on the absence of the Regional HOD in all operations related matters.
- Coach, motivates and evaluate CLO's and shift controllers.
- Assist them with planning and problem solving.
- Make assurance that Phakisa comply with the required laid down standards, and the clients ancillary operations.
Supervisor and Acting Senior Supervisor
Rainbow chickens
10.2014 - 12.2020
- Production numbers and line speed.
- Production equipment reliability eg monitoring downtime.
- Labour cost.
- Overtime.
- Casual compliments actual v/s budget.
- Implementation and procedures.
- Train new workers in slaughtering, dressing and packaging duties.
- Observes and evaluates performance of workers to ensure conformance to processing.
- Monitor performance of team members to ensure efficiencies are archived.
- Motivate employees to maximise productivity.
- Take corrective action in the form of counseling and coaching when performance and behaviour is not in accordance with the required targets and code of conduct.
- Monitor timekeeping and absenteeism.
- Handle employee's problems and queries.
- Coordinate production start ups, shutdowns, and changeovers in the line with company's policies.
- Ensure all employees attend the induction and other training programmes as per the organisational requirements.
- Ensure that all SHEQ requirements are always adhered to and take the necessary corrective action when needed.
- Conduct toolbox talks with employees daily.
- Monitor appearance of employees and their use of PPE and ensure that the required PPE is always worn.
- Monitor employees using equipment to ensure safety standards are always maintained.
- Take necessary precautions to control and safeguard company's assets.
- Schedule employees on the relevant health and safety training to ensure legislative standards are maintained.
- Ensure housekeeping is completed on an ongoing basis so that the plant is kept clean.
- Supervise employees to prevent damage or cross contamination of products in line with the relevant quality policies and procedures.
- Complete all documentation staff overtime sheets accurately and in full.
- Complete and update the prescribed reports and documentation manually or on a computer system.
- Coordinate and control the quality of work performed by the team you supervise to ensure compliance to company's policy and processes.
- Report on the work activities of the team you supervise.
- Resolve or escalate problems with the work performed by employees you supervise.
- Perform work activities in a way that limits.
- Plan, monitor, coordinate and control the quality of a team's work activities to satisfy internal and external clients.
- Apply or initiate corrective and supportive action when required for employees you supervise.
- Monitor and record the time and attendance of employees you supervise.
- Provide 'on the job' training and guidance to employees you supervise.
- Complete own training successfully as per an agreed personal development plan (PDP).
- May also substitute for line workers in emergencies.
- Perform other duties as required by line manager.
- Immediately solve on initiate resolutions of all operational and resource problems or issues within the shift.
Quality monitor
Rainbow chickens
09.2011 - 09.2014
- Collection of microbiological samples from the factory internal auditing.
- Health and safety management.
- KPI and other audits preparation.
- KFC stores audits and preparations of weekly reports.
- Plant trials involvement.
- Liaison with Eco first on site pest control management.
- Training new quality assurance recruits for quality monitoring, good in manufacturing practices, HACCP, and other technical applications.
- Online meat observation and food quality assistance with the line manager involved for the customer specification to be aligned and temperature checks to be accurate.
General worker
Rainbow Chickens
11.2010 - 09.2011
- Working as a scale operator and a Packer.
- Led a team of 31 employees on the absence of a process leader.
- Drawing material from stores and monitor production process flow.
General worker
Rainbow Chickens (under Phakisa)
05.2004 - 10.2010
- Worker inside the plant as a chiller attendant.
- Assurance of daily chiller rotation until he was appointed as a driver.
- Delivering letters from our plant to head office.
Education
Management certificate (NQF4) -
Boikagong
01.2016 - 01.2018
Incident Investigation - undefined
Isomark
Food Safety Supervision - undefined
safekey
Poultry Meat examiner - undefined
QAMS
Administration Management - undefined
Red Consultant
IR and ER Training - undefined
in house
ISO 90001 - undefined
in house
Computer Literacy - undefined
MS office
Skills
Motivator
Personal Information
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: African
- Marital Status: Single
- Religion: Christian
Timeline
Production and Distribution Manager
Wynberg Chickens
06.2022 - 02.2025
Production supervisor /Manager
Quantum Foods
08.2021 - 05.2022
Operations Lead
Phakisa Holdings
12.2020 - 08.2021
Management certificate (NQF4) -
Boikagong
01.2016 - 01.2018
Supervisor and Acting Senior Supervisor
Rainbow chickens
10.2014 - 12.2020
Quality monitor
Rainbow chickens
09.2011 - 09.2014
General worker
Rainbow Chickens
11.2010 - 09.2011
General worker
Rainbow Chickens (under Phakisa)
05.2004 - 10.2010
Incident Investigation - undefined
Isomark
Food Safety Supervision - undefined
safekey
Poultry Meat examiner - undefined
QAMS
Administration Management - undefined
Red Consultant
IR and ER Training - undefined
in house
ISO 90001 - undefined
in house
Computer Literacy - undefined
MS office
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