Current Vacancies at MCC Label

The Regional Procurement Manager - Africa will lead the efforts for 3 Countries and 5 plants of material acquisition, managing inventory and execution of local MRO spend and implementing continued cost savings in the area of direct, indirect materials and freight. This role will also implement structure and process to leverage across all facilities within the region. 

Key Performance Areas:

• Safety: Assure the safety, protection, and efficient use of financial, physical, and human resources of the organization, as it relates to incoming raw materials and purchases. 
• Regional implementation and alignment on Global strategies
• In conjunction with the category leaders, drive cost reductions through the identification of new suppliers / alternate materials, leveraging suppliers to drive down Total Cost of Ownership.
• Develop, promote, and lead the qualification of new suppliers in a cross-functional team for your region.
• Lead/execute local & region-wide and cross functional initiatives (RFQs, 2nd source qualifications, supplier relationship management programs, risk assessments etc.).
• Negotiate/award contracts & select suppliers in line with global/regional strategies and supporting larger global negotiations.
• Identify improvement areas & develop improvement plans/countermeasures.
• Manage inventory to achieve stated targets and reductions while maintaining adequate supply and OTIF.
• Within the context of QSTP (Quality, Service, Innovation and Price/Value) ensure Quality and Service are on the highest levels within the supplier base.
• Financial: Provide input related to supply, materials, and logistics to establish and achieve the approved budget. Provide input to the annual capital expenditures budget. 
• Metrics: calculate & monitor costs during a purchase order period and achieve operating metrics & expense budget. Establish and monitor annual goals and objectives for the Purchasing function.
• Operations: Support the operations and growth of the organization by developing vendor accountability systems and contingency plans that ensure quality, capability, and capacity. 
• Customer: Support a customer-focused culture for operations. 
• Customer Service: Contribute to company cross-functional teams to achieve the overall effectiveness of customer relationships. 
• Capacity: Create, establish and manage the capacity and capability of the vendors that provide raw materials to meet fluctuating customer demands and growth of the organization, minimizing business risk. 
• People: Foster a network of highly trained plant buyers capable of carrying out the Purchasing and Logistics goals and objectives in support of the annual and long-term growth plans of the organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Create a culture of relentless pursuit of continuous improvement, including contributing to and supporting product development, new business development and the operations objectives as well as Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing. 
• Auditing and Reconciliation: Resolve any issues with vendors, including accounts payable terms, price discrepancies, quality, and delivery. 
• Values: Model the Corporate Values and Principles, including instilling a high performance, people-driven culture, providing high expectation.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills required:

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA preferred, business experience, relevant industry experience, and proven ability to manage projects.
• Experience in packaging industry is desired, but not a must-have.
• 10+ years of progressive, sourcing, and contracting experience, including extensive experience developing and executing strategic sourcing plans.
• 10+ years working in a global/multinational corporate environment.
• 10+ years materials and inventory management.
• Articulate, clear, persuasive, and passionate in the spoken and written word, being fluent in English.
• Perform advanced mathematical calculations. 
• Analytical, rational, logical, fact-driven, and reality driven decision making. 
• Literate in Microsoft Office and ERP systems.
• Proven track record of negotiating, managerial and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Relate and communicate regularly with peers/colleagues at pan-EMEAAA and global level.
• Travel within the region and globally.

Other considerations:

• MCC offers a competitive package and generous benefits.
• Hybrid working environment.
• Intellectually stimulating work environment
• Continuous personal development and international training opportunities

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MCC Paarl is looking for a Maintenance Manager. This person is responsible for coordinating and supervising the maintenance team, managing mechanical and electrical maintenance tasks, adhering to safety regulations, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement within the company. Your focus will be on delivering excellent service to internal customers while meeting performance expectations.

Responsibilities:

People Management:

• Coordinate and supervise the maintenance team to take care of all production equipment and machinery.
• Manage job cards, ensuring accurate documentation of work performed, parts used, and time taken.
• Foster teamwork and promote cross-departmental collaboration to drive continual improvement.
• Active member of the day-to-day maintenance activities.

Process/Productivity:

• Oversee all mechanical and electrical maintenance activities.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations as per OHSAct regulations.
• Maintain high standards of maintenance and housekeeping practices.
• Coordinate responsibilities for effective manning, stock control and housekeeping of the maintenance workshop.
• Implement and uphold the principles of the MCC quality program.
• Coordinate and perform routine and preventative maintenance and be available for overtime work if necessary.
• Develop an understanding of Lean Manufacturing principles and actively participate in continual improvement initiatives.

Safety:

• Ensure site compliance to all OHS Act regulations.
• GMR 2.1 appointment.

Customer Satisfaction (Internal and/or External):

• Attend to callouts, root cause analysis, problem solving and preventative action, as and when required.
• Provide training on the handling and use of specialized equipment.
• Manage stock levels of mechanical, electrical, consumables and other spare parts to ensure availability.
• Proactively manufacture and/or order parts to minimize downtime.

Financials:

• Maintain cost control on all maintenance expenses, call-outs and overtime to within monthly budgets and KPIs.

Projects:

• Implement capex projects.
• Initiate and implement productivity improvement projects.

General Maintenance of:

• Buildings and terrain
• Plant Services

Qualifications:

• Minimum N6 Fitting & Turning or N6 Electrical qualification.
• Qualifications in Mechanical or Electrical trade.
• Supervision experience will be advantageous.
• Minimum 10 years working experience in a technical department.

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The EMEA IT Business Systems division is looking for adding a Technical Business Analyst, who will work on activities related to the support, improvement and roll outs of several business IT systems throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in projects for the implementation and evolution of business systems (ERP, BI, MIS, Scheduling, Data Collection, etc.) for plants located in Europe and Africa
• Roll out standard processes/configurations and identify functionality gapsy
• Analysing and reviewing the Business Requirements and client change requests, and assess their nature (development request, defect, set up error) and priority of the request.
• Documenting of business requirements using project management methodology
• Providing development team with detailed specifications and exhaustive test cases
• Delivering client trainings
• Carry out support activities for business systems, using ticketing systems
• Support continuous improvement initiatives, through the analysis and optimization of processes
• Contribute to the evolution of business systems through their configuration, the development of reports, the creation of interfaces to third parties.
• Testing and production of new releases or patches
• Constant collaboration with colleagues located in different globally distributed groups

SKILL & EXPERIENCES

• At least 3 years of work experience related to the implementation and support of complex business systems, such as ERP or similar
• Very familiar with report development, including use of Crystal Reports would be considered a plus.
• Expert knowledge of SQL language and ability to navigate and extract and import data to and from database.
• Write SQL queries.
• Problem solving mind.
• Client focused mind set
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to present complex information in a clear and structured way
• Autonomous, rigorous and well organized
• Resilient under pressure
• Ability to work on own initiative and adhere to deadlines, flexible and adaptable
• Eager to learn and self-train on new business areas within the label printing industry
• Ready to travel around Europe and Africa, up to 20% of the working time if allowed by security conditions

OPTIONAL BUT DESIRED

• Production management systems (Scheduling, MRP, data collections, quality management in Printing or other manufacturing environment.
• EFI Radius
• Process description notations (BPMN, flow chart)
• Agile methodologies
• ServiceNow or another ticketing system

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Job purpose:

• Manage quality department and all quality related processes in line with ISO and industry standards so to provide the necessary environment for excellent quality production.

Key performance areas

Supervision:

• Manage the quality team and laboratory.
• Ensures that the shopfloor performs within set quality guidelines by providing or co-authoring standard operating procedures.

Quality:

• Understand and implement the quality strategy.
• Ensure full compliance to all quality systems and processes.
• Ensuring that products adhere to agreed quality standards.
• Management of internal and external non-conformances in an effective and timely manner.
• Implementing methods to inspect, test and evaluate products and production equipment.
• Approve finished products assuring that the product conforms to technical specifications and drawings.
• Assist production lines with unforeseen quality challenges, provide guidance and implement corrective actions.
• Preparing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data
• Working according to deadlines for the delivery of products
• Training and managing production line staff in production practices and quality assessment of goods.
• Tracking products through the manufacturing process to guarantee that each part of the process is correct.
• Performing detailed and recorded inspections of final products so the products are up to industry and company standards.

Customer Service:

• Partners with key stakeholders to:
• Defines proactive, strategic initiatives towards improving and maintaining quality products.
• Provides contribution towards business development activities relative to product quality.
• Supports in customer negotiations with respect to quality issues ad closures.
• Acts as a Lead Solution Manage

Requirements

• Minimum educational qualifications / experience required:
• Minimum NQF Level 5 tertiary qualification in relevant technical / production / quality / engineering / food field
• Qualified Flexographic printer is advantageous.
• Advanced knowledge in quality systems is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in quality control and assurance systems and processes
• Experience in flexographic printing processes and materials advantageous
• Experience in the packaging and labeling industry advantageous
• Knowledge and / or experience in safety, health and environment is advantageous.

Key competencies/skills/ attributes required:

• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work with limited supervision.
• Good Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Excellent root cause and problem solving skills
• Adaptability
• Analytical skills
• Assertive
• Innovative
• Good Computer Skills (MS Office)
• Decisive Insight
• Good customer engagement

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The Role

The printing specification engineer will work closely with the Technical Team to generate, manage and update specifications for all product items printed at MCC Label Johannesburg. Information is controlled using the Specification Management System (Radius), an integrated part of the material requirement planning (MRP) business system. Additional responsibilities include ordering new tooling items and liaising with the scheduler and Production departments to advise of tooling availability and lead times.

Interface with internal stakeholders in exploring label technologies, clarifying specifications, resolving challenges, and delivering innovative label solutions while ensuring MCC executes specifications profitably.

Key Performance Areas:

• Establish layout and tooling requirements on new label profiles.
• Liaise with procurement, supply chain and planning on material needs.
• Ordering new tooling items and liaising with planning and Production departments to advise on availability and lead times.
• Coordinate with external and intercompany tooling suppliers.
• Manage internal and external tooling costs and tracking to ensure recovery.
• Build product specs on Radius, ensure 100% accuracy and conduct root-cause analysis on specification non-conformances.
• Participate in art reviews and meetings to coordinate projects by understanding ink, coating, adhesive and substrate requirements to develop innovative and sustainable label specifications.
• Coordinate and control specifications following the technical and plant ISO 9001:2015 processes and procedures.
• Communicate, coordinate and collaborate with all affected internal departments (customer service, pre-press, sales and production) as needed in technical issue resolution and best-practice manufacturing methods, including developing and documenting specifications and/or requirements for a given product.
• Serve as an internal and external technical resource in troubleshooting specification-related print issues, including ink, adhesive, and substrate materials, manufacturing, and quality processes, as well as determining root causes of observed problems; recommend and implement solutions.
• Assist in training new internal personnel with client interface to familiarise them with the product specifications.

Experience/ Skills required

• Qualification or Strong background in Packaging/Printing Industry
• 5 - 8 years' experience in Labels Printing, Production and Customer Support.
• Multiple Printing processes and material/substrate knowledge will be advantageous.
• Industry background and strong understanding of inks, adhesives, coatings, lamination, gravure, flexography and other printing methods, curable coatings, converting, die-cutting, film/substrates, labels/packaging and related materials required.
• In-depth technical knowledge of machinery and technology in a printing environment.
• Poses strong communication skills with industry contacts to serve as a technical advisory resource with a keen sense of follow-up/follow-through.
• Ability to lead and coordinate multiple projects across teams, and manage competing priorities.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience analysing technical manufacturing issues and implementing solutions.
• Strong proficiency with MS Office Suite, including intermediate ability with Excel (pivot tables, macros, formulas)
• Self-starter: possess a strong sense of urgency and ability to prioritise and transition to new tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to relay technical information to non-technical industry colleagues.

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The Production Operations Manager leads and manages all assigned production operations responsibilities for safety, quality, engineering, planning, productivity, people management, cost management and continuous improvement for all production operations and related services. This position serves as strategic leader, coach, and driver of MCC Johannesburg’s strategic initiatives in the plant.

Key responsibillities:

• Safety: Champion all aspects of personal and Plant Safety. Instill a sense of self responsibility for safety among employees. Exhibit a safety-first attitude in all that is done and assure the safety of the employees and the safe use of the equipment, including housekeeping and environmental compliance. Lead plant safety team. Personally, comply and ensure employee compliance with all workplace and product safety standards and procedures.
• Quality: Optimize the production process to assure that quality is built-in, not inspected in. Quality levels must meet plant requirements. Support quality initiatives and corrective actions to drive a culture that supports our Quality Statement and helps employees learn and improve. Partner with the QA Manager to support quality initiatives and corrective actions. Comply with quality assurance specifications of the customer and MCC including but not limited to handling procedures, paperwork requirements, etc. Compliance with all data integrity, product safety, and all standards required.
• Operations: Support the goals of the Plant by developing operational capability and capacity through leveraging technologies, people, continuous improvement and lean manufacturing principles
• Financial: Help establish and achieve the approved budget of the Plant, including developing and providing justification for the capital expenditures budget of the Plant
• Customer Service: Instill a customer-centered culture for the Plant. Support efforts to achieve excellent on-time and in full performance. Contribute to company cross-functional teams, to achieve the overall effectiveness of customer relationships.
• Performance Metrics: Establish, monitor and achieve Plant operating metrics and expense budget. Establish and monitor annual goals and objectives for the plant. Communicate KPI goals. Drive accountability throughout your department(s).
• Capacity/Throughput: Manage the capacity and capability of the Plant working with the Production Planner, Sales and Plant Management team to meet fluctuating customer demands, optimizing profitability and lead time expectations. Minimize WIP between unit operations.
• People: Build, develop and manage a high performing team to instill ownership of production objectives through selection, performance assessments, talent management, training, and development of associates down to the production associate level. Lead team to be capable of carrying out the short and long-term strategies of the plant.Lean Manufacturing: Support a culture of relentless pursuit of continuous improvement. Work with the Lead CI person to coordinate efforts in the plant under the direction of the General Manager. Utilize Lean tools of kaizen, 6S and Gemba to drive improvements in operations.
• Technical Knowledge: Develop and continually improve technical knowledge of processes and new technologies in order to continually improve and problem solve.
• Values: Model the Corporate Values – Creativity, Achievement, Passion, Perseverance, and Integrity – including instilling a high performance, people-driven culture, providing high expectations and high support.
• Other: Additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

•  Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or similar field.
• 10+ years manufacturing experience, with proven ability to effectively lead a well-run, continually improving operation.
• Experience with a manufacturing Safety Program required.
• Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma experience preferred. Formal certification is a plus.
• Must be strong in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Working knowledge of budgets and financial statements.
• Rational, fact-driven decision-making skills.
• High level of accuracy, strong attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to analyse data, draw conclusions, make recommendations, and present findings.
• Candidate must be a self-starter with strong organizational and planning skills.
• Experience in leading projects, delegating, and seeing problems through to resolution.
• Articulate, clear, persuasive and passionate in the spoken and written word; able to create and lead a vision with a team.
• Must be able to make effective and persuasive presentations on controversial or complex topics
• Must be able to relate to people at all levels of the organization, including diverse cultures.
• Assertive and solution focused.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Positive attitude, team player, proven leadership skills. Ability to lead, oversee, and develop others.
• Travel to vendors and other facilities may be required.