Material Support Coordinator

Job Description

Material Support Coordinator, Epping Plant, Cape Town

Job posting closing date: 21st August, end of day

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

This position is responsible for 1) controlling all material under the jurisdiction of production, this includes all material issues, returns & physical stock on the production floor and 2) coordinating and reporting on daily production.

In this role, you will:

Liaising with Planning to agree on all material requirements for production

Checking & controlling production material floor stock

Daily floor stock counts at required times (Including adhering to month end deadlines)

Ensuring that all required materials are issued a shift in advance

Ensuring that all material returns & NCRs are processed and captured correctly on SAP

Tracking all consumption & returns of material on SAP: finishing materials and raw materials

Investigate material variances daily, including analysis of material quality

Assist operations team with material trials

Reconciliation of physical material stock to SAP after every Production run & ensuring that all adjustments were processed on SAP (Diaper raw material to be reconciled daily)

Alerting Planning in advance for any material shortages that might occur, to ensure timeous procurement of new material

Ensure adherence to financial procedures during stock counts and reconciling of counts

Provide timely and accurate decision support, reporting to management to assist in optimising manufacturing cost and meeting plant objectives.

Work with mill operations team to investigate results, adverse trends and communicate outcomes, as well as suggested corrective actions to relevant individuals.

Prepare daily production reconciliation reports

Declaration & Reconciliation of production and machine hours.

Track total waste trends and share weekly updates

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Baby Soft®. Kotex®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In this manufacturing role, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following:

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Grade 12 with accounting and 1-2 years’ relevant experience, preferably within a FMCG environment

3 Year tertiary Finance / Logistics qualification / ASCM accredited.

Computer literate, with SAP exposure

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to developing a diverse workforce. Preference will be given to candidates who promote representation within Kimberly-Clark in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to relevant background checks carried out in South Africa.

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Primary LocationCape Town Epping Plant

Additional Locations

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time