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Humanity SA

Factory Manager

Humanity SA

  • Undisclosed
  • Permanent Management position
  • Cape Town International Airport
  • Posted 27 Apr 2026 by Humanity SA
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2637900 - Ref Mal
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About the position

A leading food manufacturing business, supplying innovative prepared food and beverage solutions in a high-volume, 7-day operational environment, is seeking an experienced Factory Manager to lead manufacturing operations within its Fresh Juice & Beverage facility.
This role is responsible for overseeing end-to-end factory operations, driving continuous improvement, ensuring food safety and quality compliance, and delivering operational, cost and service targets through strong leadership and execution.

Educational Requirements & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree or similar in Manufacturing, Operations Management, Engineering or Industrial Engineering
  • Minimum 8-10 years' proven experience within an FMCG environment
  • Management experience essential, with a minimum of 5 years in a senior management role
  • In-depth understanding of food manufacturing processes and manufacturing excellence
  • Proven experience implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Automation / Industry 4.0 exposure (desirable)

Key AccountabilitiesFood Safety, Quality & Compliance

  • Ensure the plant operates in full compliance with food safety, health & safety and environmental legislation and standards (e.g. FSSC 22000, ISO 45001, HACCP)
  • Ensure all products consistently meet agreed quality specifications and customer requirements, with minimal quality complaints and rework

Service Delivery & Operational Performance

  • Achieve required OTIF service levels across all SKUs
  • Deliver agreed factory cost targets (COS and overheads) and support margin and profitability goals
  • Drive continuous improvement in OEE, yield, labour productivity, waste/scrap, downtime and capacity utilisation across day and night shifts

Production Planning & Execution

  • Approve and oversee daily and weekly production schedules for all shifts
  • Ensure optimum line loading, changeover planning and capacity utilisation
  • Proactively manage deviations such as breakdowns, material shortages and absenteeism

People Leadership & Culture

  • Build, lead and retain a high-performing, engaged production team aligned to company values and safety culture
  • Lead, coach and develop Production Managers and their teams
  • Set clear objectives and performance standards, and manage performance effectively
  • Ensure strong communication, handovers and engagement across all shifts

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

  • Drive systematic CI and problem-solving to improve safety, quality, cost, service and sustainability
  • Lead structured root cause analysis for recurring operational issues
  • Sponsor CI projects with measurable benefits and frontline team involvement

Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Care

  • Work closely with Engineering to ensure equipment and utilities reliability and availability
  • Support preventive and predictive maintenance planning, shutdowns and capital projects
  • Provide operational input into equipment selection, layout changes, capacity expansions and automation initiatives

Risk Management, Governance & Reporting

  • Identify and manage operational risks and ensure robust contingency plans
  • Ensure compliance with internal policies, audits and governance standards
  • Prepare and present regular operational performance reviews, including KPI trends, risks and improvement plans

Leadership & Behavioural Competencies

  • Strong people leadership with the ability to lead through others
  • Decisive and resilient decision-making under pressure
  • Strong execution focus aligned to business strategy
  • Continuous improvement mindset
  • Effective cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills
  • Clear, consistent communicator across all levels
  • High levels of integrity and compliance focus

Desired Skills:

  • Factory Management
  • Food Manufacturing
  • Production schedules
  • Continuous improvement work

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Humanity is a consciousness based company that provides intuitive, creative and inspired human management solutions to those who accept that 21st century organisations need to seek superior results through culture and conscious leadership. You see, at Humanity, we go a significant step beyond the methods that have been tried and tested over the last 50 years. Through the use of our Performance Predictor Model and Consciousness Quotient tool CQ™, we are now able to predict the performance of different candidates for any defined job in the context of the organisation. The implications are massive. Imagine the productivity, the creativity, and the passion. Imagine beating your projected revenues and margins became a rule. It is in our ability to source and match individuals to companies and jobs more precisely than our competitors that is the source of our competitive advantage. Our Performance Predictor™ model is able to match more precisely the needs of the 21st century job to the individual. We can do this because we comprehensively pre-test all our candidates for both functional and behavioural competence before we assess your company and job needs on the same basis. What you need to know about Humanity 101 •We are a retained specialist search recruitment agency for Africa •We partner with our clients to source the best talent using our ground breaking methodology •Key to our methodology is the fact that we go beyond functional competence to measure every candidate’s behavioral competence before we attempt to make a match •Our fees are between 20% and 25%, we justify our fees with our approach and groundbreaking methodology. What other recruitment agency does this? None, but they expect high fees. •We offer an extended guarantee of 6 months for ALL our placements •We are ASPO certified •We are a level 3 BEE company •We are not positioned to work on assignments of less than R450k •We will call in a variety of vertical markets and place across most horizontal specialisations. •Our website is where we hope to start our relationship with our candidates. •We take the business of recruiting very seriously, but we believe will can still have fun while we are doing it. •We are not your typical recruitment agency!! Use us once and we guarantee you wont use another recruiter again. •Our belief in this holistic ‘matchmaking’ philosophy is so strong that you will find its visual presence in our logo. •Based on a Celtic love knot, the Humanity logo portrays the three crucial aspects: mind, body and soul which need to be in harmony with the job to create the peace, joy and love that high performing employees express when they say, “I LOVE my job”.

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