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The Shift Miller is a critical operational role in a grain or flour manufacturing facility, responsible for overseeing the entire milling process during their assigned shift to ensure the production of quality products that meet specific standards and customer specifications. This position involves a blend of technical expertise, quality control, maintenance, and, often, personnel supervision.
Purpose of the Role
To ensure the efficient and safe operation of the milling plant by optimising production performance, maintaining product quality, minimising operational losses and ensuring compliance with food safety, health and safety, and company standards. The role is responsible for achieving production targets, maintaining equipment efficiency and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the milling environment.
Key Responsibilities
1. Asset and Equipment Management
- Ensure optimal utilisation and continuous availability of milling equipment to achieve production targets.
- Minimise equipment downtime through proactive monitoring, preventative maintenance coordination and timely reporting of faults.
- Support initiatives aimed at reducing milling and engineering costs.
- Ensure machinery operates efficiently and within established production parameters.
2. Inventory and Stock Management
- Maintain finished product, consumable, vitamin and additive stock levels in accordance with agreed inventory targets.
- Monitor stock usage and ensure accurate inventory control and reporting.
- Identify and minimise manufacturing losses, waste and stock variances.
- Support effective stock rotation and material utilisation.
3. Financial and Operational Efficiency
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production efficiency and reduce operating costs.
- Minimise product losses, waste and inventory write-offs.
- Achieve targeted manufacturing efficiencies while maintaining quality specifications.
- Optimise resource utilisation to support cost-effective milling operations.
4. Corporate Governance and Compliance
- Ensure adherence to Tiger Brands' policies, procedures and operational standards.
- Maintain accurate operational records and ensure compliance with internal control requirements.
- Promote ethical conduct, accountability and responsible business practices.
5. Health, Safety, Risk and Environmental Management
- Ensure compliance with statutory, occupational health and safety, environmental and company requirements.
- Identify, report and address workplace hazards and operational risks.
- Maintain readiness for internal and external audits and contribute towards achieving targeted audit scores.
- Promote a safe working environment through adherence to established safety procedures.
6. Quality Assurance and Food Safety
- Maintain compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), food safety standards and applicable legislation.
- Monitor milling processes to ensure consistent finished product quality.
- Identify and address product deviations to minimise non-conformances and customer complaints.
- Support corrective and preventative actions to maintain quality standards.
7. Training, Leadership and Teamwork
- Support the development and continuous improvement of operational skills within the milling team.
- Collaborate with maintenance, quality and production teams to improve plant availability and production efficiency.
- Promote teamwork, accountability, positive employee engagement and a high-performance culture.
- Contribute to reducing product deviations through effective communication and operational discipline.
8. Milling Operations and Production Performance
- Ensure milling operations achieve targeted manufacturing efficiencies within prescribed quality specifications.
- Optimise milling equipment performance to achieve design capacity.
- Maintain milling downtime below 0.5% of total scheduled milling hours.
- Monitor production performance, identify operational inefficiencies and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure consistent production output while maintaining safety, quality and cost standards.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- Qualified Wheat and/or Maize Miller with a recognised SAGMA/GMF trade qualification.
- Qualification in both Wheat and Maize Milling will be advantageous.
- Approximately 5 years' relevant experience within the milling industry, preferably wheat milling.
- Sound knowledge of milling processes, production optimisation and equipment performance.
- Knowledge of grain fumigation, insect infestation prevention and pest management practices.
- Understanding of food safety, quality assurance and manufacturing compliance requirements.
- Willingness and availability to work shifts, weekends and public holidays as operationally required.
Key Skills and Competencies
Technical and Professional Competencies
- Strong understanding of wheat milling operations and production processes.
- Sound analytical, troubleshooting and decision-making abilities.
- Knowledge of production efficiencies, quality control and inventory management.
- Ability to identify operational risks and implement sustainable solutions.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Leadership and Personal Effectiveness
- Demonstrates accountability and takes ownership of responsibilities.
- Results-driven with a proactive and solution-oriented approach.
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently.
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- Assertive, diplomatic and professional in dealing with stakeholders.
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure and meet operational deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Demonstrates integrity, adaptability, teamwork and a willingness to learn.
- Ability to anticipate challenges and contribute to long-term operational improvements.
Working Conditions
Industry: FMCG – Wheat Milling
Location: Tiger Brands – Bellville Milling
Working Hours: Shift work, including weekends and public holidays, as required by operational demands.
In accordance with the employment equity plan of Tiger Brands and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but is not limited, to candidates from under-represented designated groups.
