Experience

Astral Foods Ltd.

• South Africa
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Production Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present

• Laying Farm Manager

  • Mar 2018 - Dec 2019

  As a Laying Farm Manager in one of the biggest poultry farms in South Africa. My daily Responsibilities consist of: • Accountable for the entire production of the laying farm. (i.e transfers, losses security, administration, housekeeping, sales, risk management & labour complement• Managing staff, production, maintenance and health & safety.• Implementation & maintaining 20 keys in all 8 sites and office block.• Responsible for budget.• Training, motivation and supervision of employees• Inspection the risk assessment• Ensuring that biosecurity procedures and policies and other company procedures are followed• Monitoring of diseases affecting poultry production• Application of sanitary and quality standards• Record keeping in terms of production, expenditure and sales• Responsible for budget• Teaching people about health and safety rules and regulations• Vaccination programming• Counting of daily, weekly and monthly production reports (plotting production graphs)• Fixing poultry houses equipment• Making sure that there’s a smooth running of work at rearing and laying sites• Updating AFS and daily production files• Attending production meetings• Presenting production graphs• Mentoring and training of foreman and staff

• Trainee Farm Manager

  • Nov 2017 - Feb 2018

  Relieving Farm Managers.Running the Rearing and Laying Production sites and reporting back to management.Running and compiling daily,weekly and monthly production reports.Presentations on board production meetings.Training foreman to be more skillful poultry farmers.Encouraging staff and foreman to optimize production.

• Breeder Farm Laying Foreman

  • Apr 2016 - Oct 2017

  Managing laying breeder site with a capacity of 34 000 chickens.Responsible for housekeeping Stockman-shipTraining staff on SOP’s and 20 keys Maximizing Egg Production Reporting and fixing breakdowns