Jobs at RCL Foods

Job Description    

• RCL FOODS is seeking an Instrumentation Technician for our Talent Pool.
• RCL FOODS is looking for an incumbent to be responsible for the implementation of new electrical machinery and equipment, and upgrade electrical machinery and equipment on a software and hardware level. Perform maintenance of all electrical machinery, equipment, processes and software applications according to SANS codes for a hazardous site on a higher level than electricians. Give a higher level of support to electrical staff and solve higher-level problems.

Minimum Requirements    

• National N6 Diploma and Trade test or National Diploma in Electrical Engineering (Process Instrumentation)
• Minimum 5 - 8 years of working experience in the following areas:
• General factory maintenance
• Reading and interpretation of electrical drawings
• Wide range of instrumentation experience 
• Knowledge of SCADA systems
• Knowledge of PLC programming experience
• Experience in PLC, VSD Drives, Fans, Process Optimization, and Compressors would be highly advantageous
• Previous experience as an instrumentation technician in the milling industry will be highly advantageous
• Implementation of small projects
• Advanced computer literacy (MS Word/Excel/Outlook)
• Minimum 5 years of Siemens PLC S7 (1500, 1200) and TIA portal experience. 
• Minimum 5 years of Wonderware System Platform and InTouch experience.
• Valid Code B driver’s license.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Disseminate best practices in all instrumentation aspects.
• System troubleshooting and hardware problems resolution, calibrating and maintaining all equipment within the control solution.
• Assist with onsite project commissioning and ensuring adherence to RCL FOODS standards and change procedures. 
• Ensure cost-effective and efficient maintenance of all electrical, instrumentation, computer, network, and PLC equipment.
• Ensure that all breakdowns are attended to in a cost-effective manner.
• Be proactive in identifying potential faults and breakdowns before it occurs.
• Willing to do stand-by duty.
• Ensure all callouts are attended to in a timeous manner.
• Willing to perform work outside of regular working hours (overtime).
• Practice and enforce RCL Foods Milling codes of safety and housekeeping. 
• Ensure occupational health and safety electrical installation regulations and electrical machinery acts are adhered to.
• Ensure that SANS 10142 wiring regulations are adhered to. Ensure that SANS 10108 hazardous location regulations are complied with. 
• Ensure that all information submitted on work orders is complete and correct.
• Ensure that all completed work orders/documentation is submitted to the foreman for checking. 
• Respond quickly to work requests/defects. 
• Ensure that all promises/commitments made are kept. 
• Inspect all new electrical installations as per the maintenance manager’s instructions. 
• Ensure that all PLC and SCADA applications are backed up and up to date.
• Recommend changes in PLCs and SCADA through the change request procedure.
• Ensure correct devices, machinery, and software applications are installed for the correct processes.
• Ensure proper functionality and maintenance of UPS systems.
• Assist with the service of fire alarm panels.

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Job Description    

• We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Distribution Manager to lead our distribution teams at both our bakery and depots. Your primary goal will be to ensure efficient distribution processes to meet customer service levels and sales targets while adhering to safety, health, and food safety standards. Collaborating closely with various departments, you will drive continuous improvement and effective communication throughout the distribution network.

Minimum Requirements    
Education and Qualification:

• Matric
• Diploma/Degree in Logistics/Supply Chain Management preferred.

Knowledge and Skill:

• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities
• Minimum 5 years distribution experience in the bread baking industry, with managerial experience
• Continuous improvement and safety experience in manufacturing/distribution
• Exposure to unionized environments

Problem Solving:

• Making operational decisions within responsibility
• Driving business agenda and maintaining effective relationships
• Addressing uncomfortable realities and acting on insights

Customer Relationships:

• Internal: Sales, Finance, Production, HR, Transport, Health & Safety, Food Safety
• External: Suppliers, Government Agencies

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Distribution Strategy: Collaborate with Bakery Manager to develop and implement innovative distribution strategies.
• Product Management: Oversee receiving, storage, transfer, and management of products to maintain integrity and maximize customer service.
• Loading and Off-loading: Ensure timely loading of trucks and maintain accurate records of goods received and dispatched.
• Route Planning: Conduct regular reviews to optimize route efficiency and minimize costs.
• Enterprise System Utilization: Make effective use of Syspro environment for financial controls.
• Communication: Maintain effective communication with cross-functional teams.
• Debrief Processes: Lead daily debrief processes to review sales, service levels, and operational metrics.
• Reconciliations: Ensure daily completion of despatch recon documents and investigate any discrepancies.
• Fleet Management: Collaborate with Transport Manager to optimize fleet service levels.
• Crate Management: Manage bread crates to minimize replacements and ensure cost-effective service levels.
• Driver and Outsourced Distributor Management: Oversee driver performance and adherence to company policies.
• Returns Management: Manage product returns process to minimize losses and ensure accurate reconciliation.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive performance metrics and implement improvement initiatives.
• Safety, Health, and Environment: Ensure compliance with safety, health, and environmental regulations.
• Food Safety and Quality Management Support: Support food safety and quality management systems.
• Human Resource Management: Lead HR functions including recruitment, performance management, and training.
• Product Innovation Support: Support demand team in new product development.
• Project Management: Utilize resources effectively to deliver distribution strategy.
• Financial/Commercial Management: Maintain budgeting and cost control processes.
• Contract Management: Manage contracts and service level agreements effectively

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Job Description    

• RCL FOODS is seeking to employ an experienced Credit Controller to join our Logistics Division, VECTOR LOGISTICS. 
• The purpose of the job is to facilitate the achievement of customer collection targets, essential to the profitability of the Company, which are met as well as manage overdue accounts, in order to reduce the Company’s risk and minimize losses.

As a Credit Controller, the job holder is expected to:

• make operational decisions that fall within the ambit of responsibility to meet deadlines and quality and output requirements.
• solve operational and resourcing problems within the ambit of responsibility.
• identify and implement limited innovations, particularly those that will improve output and lower costs.

The role will be based in Bedfordview and report to the Credit Supervisor / Manager.

Minimum Requirements    

• Relevant Finance Diploma or Degree
• At least 3 years experience in credit and FMCG – Makro 

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Credit Control
• Generate and dispatch invoices or PoDs on time to enable payment.
• Receive remittance advices from customers and allocate appropriately.
• Process all discounts and rebates for the Credit Supervisor to release before close of month-end.
• Clear all allocated cash in the General Ledger.
• Prepare stock tolerance journals accurately, matching all debits and credits on the SAP system.
• Prepare General Ledger accounts for authorisation and release before statements are run.
• Run statements on SAP prior to agreed monthly deadlines and distribute them to customers.

Customer Administration

• Maintain compliance to credit limits for each customer and highlight possible non-conformance to the responsible supervisor before they exceed defined limits.
• Liaise with customers to inform them of the balances once statements have been distributed, to ensure interim payment is made, or to assist with application/documents for increases in credit limits where indicated by the credit analysis report.
• Report on all transactions on 60 days plus to the Credit Supervisor.
• Process ‘stop supply’ instructions on SAP where customer non-payment payment has occurred, ensuring that all of the necessary instructions and authorisations have been received.
• Where possible, liaise with customers to rectify account problems before “stop supply” instructions are implemented.
• Advise customers when the account has been blocked and ensure that all necessary internal departments are aware of the status of the customer/account.

Claim Processing

• Investigate pricing claims on SAP, print invoices, and review deals on the system.
• Obtain authorisation for valid deals on the prepared pricing cover sheet and distribute them within the department.
• Schedule the claim on SAP for pricing where no valid deal exists and provide supporting documentation to the relevant team members for processing.
• Manage stock claims (returns, damaged stock, shortage, etc.) by initiating the document flow.
• Assess if credit has been passed on queries and, if not, submit supporting documents electronically to the relevant site.
• Ensure stock claims are tracked on SAP and that queries are finalised.
• Manage invalid claims by providing the necessary proof or backup documents to the customer.

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Job Description    

• Vector Logistics, a division of RCL FOODS, a progressive and constantly growing company and we welcome passionate and ambitious individuals that are constantly looking beyond what’s now to co-create what’s next.
• Vector Logistics is seeking an Admin Controller – Finance to join our Vector Logistics Division in Polokwane. The role will be reporting into the Regional Finance Manager.

Minimum Requirements    

•  Minimum B.Com Accounting/Management Accounting majors or equivalent degree
•  5 years management accounting experience - critical
• Management / Supervisory experience – 5 reports
• Some experience/exposure in an FMCG environment, preferably in logistics
• SAP Experience 

Duties & Responsibilities    
Strategy Operationalisation

• Work in conjunction with the Logistics Manager to find opportunities to promote and drive cost saving initiatives
• Work closely with the cross functional teams to ensure the delivery of an integrated supply chain benefit.
• 3rd party contract management. Ensure contract SLA is adhered to at all times
• Manage ad hoc projects as assigned by the Regional financial manager.

Adherence to policies and standards

• Assist with the administration of HACCP and Health & Safety.
• Internal audit support and compliance with Vector policies and procedures. Ensure smooth running of yearly audit through proper preparation.
• Ensure admin findings are corrected and process updated.
• Management of disaster recovery policies and procedures.
• Maintaining Sustainability registers and reducing waste.
• Ensure procedures and items in admin controller’s checklist are consistently adhered to
• Ensure local tax structures are adhered to

 Monthly Reporting

• Compile monthly commentary on month’s performance
• Conduct the cost variance analysis by investigating major variances against budgets, targets and prior years.
• Compile appropriate reports that highlight issues to management based on findings.
• Monitor capacity utilisation of major assets across the business and provide feedback to senior management regarding under/over capacity situations and possible capex or lease requirements.
• Compile and analysis various reports for the month-end pack as well as other ad hoc reports and presentations for leadership and Exco meetings.

Budgeting/Capex

• Assume responsibility for compiling key aspects of the annual financial budget.
• Ensure adherence to set deadlines and timeframes as agreed by the Business
• Gather information for analysis and interpretation.
• Plan and allocate tasks and monitor progress according to set timelines and ensure feedback to Senior Management.
• Ensure all budgeted capex’s, when spent is correctly processed for management approval with backing motivations

Cost Control

• Analyse costs against budget/forecast and investigate variances on a monthly basis.
• Continuously consider cost saving opportunities or areas where waste/inefficiencies can be eliminated and influence corrective action by line management.

Stock Management

• Print reports before stocktake
• Oversee the physical count of stock
• Review, investigate all discrepancies and implement corrective action as and when required.
• Ensure all stock GRV‘d into SAP correctly and GRIR process is completed within the required timeframe.
• Provide the necessary information and actions taken with regards to weekly/monthly stock adjustments.
• Manage Chep pallet and crate position linked to KPI requirement’s.

 Trip Recon and claims

• Ensure trips are reconciled, claims are investigated and finalised within the allocated timeframe.
• Liaise with other departments to ensure POD’s are collected for all shipments.
• Liaise with Debtors and SO to ensure queries for depot are resolved timeously.

Information and Data Management  

• Ensure team members accurately and regularly capture data into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.
• Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making
   

Team Supervision

• Lead subordinates towards meeting strategy and targets through regular communication and utilisation of full organisational talent management tool set.
• Conduct performance appraisals and supervise team succession and resource planning.
• Provide and schedule training based on team members’ development requirements and legislation.
• Coach and support team members where necessary to achieve objectives.Manage the employee relations climate and ensure corrective action is taken where required in line with relevant legislation and company policy.
• Build a high energy team to deliver accurate financial reporting and a culture of corporate governance compliance.
• Manage the activities of the team and ensure internal customer service requirements are met.
• Manage leave and general time management issues in line with organisational deliverables.

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Job Description    

• RCL FOODS is Looking for a young professional to Join our fantastic Customer team!
• An organised individual, passionate about sales that will provide effective support to the Customer team through accurate checking of deals, processing of claims and rebates and to provide a sales information service to the business.

Do you think you have what it takes?

Minimum Requirements    

• Matric/Grade 12 Senior Certificate
• Completed/Studying towards Administration, Sales and Marketing Diploma/Certificate or equivalent 3year Diploma.
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint
• Durban Based

Duties & Responsibilities    

Key Responsibilities:

• Input pricing & deals into the system.
• Capture, load and input deals into system.
• Manage and collate price changes and deals and implement into them the system to reflect between Shoprite and Customers.
• Assist with internal stakeholder communication of queries, notifications and changes.
• Maintain electronic and paper-based customer records and information.
• Verify pricing discounts with relevant account manager and implement.
• Load deals for customer & inquire out of strategy pricing with the National Accounts Manager.
• On a weekly basis, investigate SAP order discrepancies and liaise with National Account Manager and Channel manager, and implement corrective action.

Claim Management:

• Receive claims.
• Verify all claims submitted by Vector are price related claims.
• Investigate possible causes of claims, calculate correct costing of claims and confirm values being claimed.
• Gather all relevant evidence and supporting documentation for valid and invalid claims.
• Ensure that all claims are updated and submitted timeously to relevant parties.
• Follow-up with Customers on outstanding invalid claims
• Ensure that all outstanding claims are signed off and submitted for payments.
• Clear claims from system within 60 days

General Administration:

• Co-ordinate, plan and prepare for all meetings and presentations.
• Process expense claims for managers (cell phone, excess travel, etc).
• Manage stationery resources.
• Track and capture team expenditure into the system.
• Prepare sales and promotional documentation for management meetings.
• Monitor Customer monthly tracking reports.
• Track customer promotion performance.

KPIs

• 100% accuracy on pricing schedules
• 100% accuracy of promotional grids
• Customer resolution speed between 24 and 48 hours
• Working closely with different account managers
• Solving claims within a 60-day period or as agreed with NAM.
• Timeously deliver reports i.e. monthly, weekly, customer tracking reports
• In house activity tracking reports.