Grading & Counting Team Lead

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in food Processing, Aquaculture, Fisheries, Production Management, Operations Management, or any related field.
• Full Grade 12 Certificate
• Minimum of 3 Years work Experience and experience in an FMCG will be an added advantage.
• Must be a registered member of the relevant professional body.
• Academic Credentials must be certified with ZAQA

Job role

• Ensuring employees are at their station on time and throughout the shift 
• Ensuring permission is granted for employees to leave their station 
• Reporting on efficiency and work completed. Reporting on weekly and monthly performance and challenges 
• Planning for the following day, week, month and quarter is done effectively 
• Ensure quality and speed of work is optimized 
• Ensure all SOP’s and rules are adhered to by their team 
• Understands the concept of a bottleneck and ensure their sections do not become a bottleneck. 
• Order and issue equipment used, and ensure they are not wasted or lost and expected lifespans are achieved 
• Ensuring the team is always wearing required PPE and that H&S and hygiene standards are adhered to 
• Handling team discipline and performance. 
• Handling leaves and team absence schedules and planning to achieve the target. 
• Coordination and teamwork with other middle management staff and sub departments 
• Understands harvest target for the day. 
• Understands FIFO and adheres to this. 
• Escalating issues, they cannot solve immediately and effectively 
• Holds good morals and fixes or intervenes in problems seen outside of their section or department 
• Ensures grading stations are arranged ahead of time for the workday 
• Ensure graders are allocated to specific stations and teams are assigned accordingly for an extended period 
• Ensure the flow of fish is good to the stations utilizing the flag method 
• Cross check temperatures of fish to ensure cold temperature is maintained 
• Ensuring each team grades one box to completion before raising a flag and proceeding to the second box 
• Cross checks and reports on the accuracy and speed of grading 
• Ensures no fish is sitting on the stations and that it moves onto the next step effectively 
• Ensures ice and slurry reclaimed is circulated back to the receiving station or ice slurry preparation station and not wasted 
• Ensures cleanliness is maintained in the station throughout the shift and thoroughly cleaned after the shift