AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world-class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Technical Trainer at NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED (NBL) Isando, Coffee and Creamer Factory.  The purpose of the role is to provide operational training services to the Quality, Engineering, and Logistics & Manufacturing departments in an effort to address legislative, statutory and business competence requirements.                                                                                                                      

Line Manager: Manufacturing Manager 

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

1. Technical training support provided to the business unit or site

• Define training needs through line discussions or gap analysis
• Identification of skills and performance gaps
• Review of existing training processes, material and assessments available
• Develop solutions to close the gap
• Identify suitable partners to assist in closing gaps
• Ensure support staff and key stakeholders are adequately trained to assess/coach/develop staff and/or material
• Monitor and assess training and assessment plans and roll out
• Manage or escalate challenges that may arise and ensure issues are addressed

2. Skills capability developed on-site (for Operators, Senior Operators and Artisans)

• Identify training needs or gaps
• Monitor nomination forms and conduct on-the-job training.
• Arrange classroom training where required
• Answer questions and help resolve issues that arise
• Arrange training with the OEMs where required

3. Execution of training strategy and associated action plans to address training/competence development needs

• Identify training needs or respond to request from employee or manager, site Human Resources, Operations Executive or Manufacturing Manager
• Establish short, medium and long term training requirements for site aligned to business goals and strategy
• Conduct research to provide suitable solutions

4. Planning, training and assessment of operational training using Standard Operating Procedures/Working Instructions (SOPs / WIs) and assessment tools.

• Maintenance of operational skills matrix and assessment records
• Develop and reviewing existing SOPs/ WI’s and amending where necessary
• Draw up operational training schedule or plan
• Develop assessment tools
• Conduct operational training and assessment
• Manage and report on-the-job training records
• Manage the implementation of planned job observations
• Captures operational training and assessment records

5. Ensure site compliance to training standards, including the development of training and assessment tools by:

• Scoping and mapping the production lines to determine required competencies
• Assessing Senior Operators, Supervisors, Engineering Technical staff and Operators against required competencies, set on the skills matrix

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

The successful incumbent will be required to have a minimum of 3 years working experience in the following:

• Learning and development
• FMCG and/or manufacturing
• Assessor/Moderator experience

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Professional registration with SETA as an Assessor and Trainer
• National Diploma / BTech / BSc in Engineering Studies (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Instrumentation or Chemical)

Advantageous:

• Professional registration with SETA as a Moderator
• NQF 5 - National Certificate in Occupationally-Directed Education, Training and Development Practices (OD-EDTP)
• Registered as a Skills Development Facilitator would be ideal
• National Artisan Moderation Body (NAMB) Assessor and/or Trade Test Official Moderator

Additional Requirements:

• Understanding of and ability to develop skills matrices and learning tools
• Understanding principles of out-come Based education, facilitation, assessment and moderation of assessments in the workplace.
• Knowledge of best practice in terms of work instructions and SOP development
• Project management would be advantageous
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

We are committed to the growth of internal employees and it is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal candidates will be considered first before reviewing external applications. All external applications will be considered in line with our Employment Equity targets.

For more information about AVI LIMITED please visit our website on www.avi.co.za