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
Assertiveness
Accountability
Positive Relationships
Decision making
Effective communication
Empathy and emotional intelligence
Delegation skills
Problem solving abilities
Recognition and appreciation
Adaptability
Support for professional development
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