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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Manager

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Manager in Kwazulu-Natal | Other Professions | Job Mail | 4627441

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  • Ad Placed : 22 Jan 2020 21:01:21 Affiliate ad
  • Remuneration : R 800000 – PER YEAR
  • Employment Type : Full Time
  • Employment Level : Senior Management
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  • Region : Kwazulu-Natal
  • Company : Sharon Nurock Recruitment cc

This national manufacturing company is currently looking for a Manager – Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. Reporting to the Head of Operations, the role consists of:

About the Role:

  • Support GMP compliant manufacture of pharmaceutical products.
  • Appropriately deploy, develop and train the human resource base.
  • Champion compliance on a daily basis as a corporate lifestyle and standard approach to daily work.
  • Monitor and report production output and adjust resources to meet agreed upon targets.
  • Monitor and report expenses against budget.
  • Ensure that Capex assigned to the cost centre is properly maintained and meets financial audit requirements in conjunction with finance.
  • Assist the Division Head with strategic planning for the department with respect to headcount, capital equipment, budget, compliance and training. 

Minimum Requirements:

  • B.Sc in the Engineering or Life Sciences.
  • Minimum of 5 years technical experience.
  • Minimum of 3 years management experience in a manufacturing environment.

Additional Requirements:

  • MBA adds value but only if coupled with experience.
  • GMP manufacturing experience preferred.

Key Performance Areas:

  • Meet production targets. 
  • Manage production resources to minimize errors in manufacturing and streamlines workflow within the department.   
  • Ensure compliance with GMP and other relevant legislation.
  • Cost Centre Management by preparing reports and yearly budget in consultation with the Division Head.
  • Organizational development.
  • Ensure compliance with the OSH Act.

Specific SHE Requirements:

  • SHE related training is mandatory.
  • Adherence to SHE Instructions (Waste Segregation, Water and Energy Saving Initiatives).
  • Compliance to SHE Site Rules is compulsory.
  • Company uses hazardous and biologically active chemicals, the successful candidate will be required to use proper PPE and will go through medical examinations as per OSH Act requirements.

Competencies:

  • Manufacturing management in a process environment.
  • GMP Compliance – the ten principles in action.
  • Can apply process science problem solving skills in a manufacturing environment including robust level of statistical and numerical methods in the analysis of manufacturing and process data. 
  • Interpersonal skills base; appropriate to both a union shop floor environment and interaction with senior management.
  • Conflict resolution; negotiation; partnership building and influencing others.
  • Quality focus that includes balanced risk and change management.
  • Can work independently and seek peer review when needed.
  • Written and oral communication skills adequate for technically sound reports, oral presentations and effective interaction in formal and informal management forums and staff meetings.

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Cross Trades And Seafood Administration Team Leader

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A concern specialising in international imports and exports is seeking a Cross Trades and Seadfood Administration Team Leader to join their team.

Open position : Cross Trades and Seafood Administration Team Leader
Location : Port Elizabeth
Salary : R10 000 – R12 000 depending on experience
Type : Permanent position
Working hours : Monday to Friday (08:00 – 17:00)
Reporting to : Cross Trades and Seafood Category Manager

Job requirements :
– Matric
– Related tertiary qualification advantageous
– Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite
– Relevant experience advantageous
– Syspro experience advantageous
– Previous Supervisory Experience

Duties include :
– Applications and follow up on outstanding permits
– Monitor / plan when new permits are needed
– Assist with planning
– Help Clearing Agents and Procurement and Shipping Team with the correct HS Codes
– Design and proof labels for new products
– Assist with Label requirements and queries
– Forex requests and purchase order requisitions / amendments / cancellations
– Send new supplier information sheets to Finance for opening of accounts
– Updates regarding supplier information
– Validate supplier confirmation / Proforma Invoice with purchase order
– Ensure that management authorizes and signs purchase order requisition forms
– Upload documents and update reference numbers on the Dashboard
– Follow-up and obtain authorization and request deposit payment on orders and required date of payment
– Request and update supplier shipping schedules
– Assisting clearing agents with queries
– Assisting Haulage with cold store allocations
– Follow up on delivery of containers to cold store
– Advise cold stores of sample boxes and if loads are for re-export (no NRCS needed)
– Gather all required documentation and complete request to sample and advise NRCS of sampling request
– Follow-up on status of overdue micro results
– Aiding Sales Executives with information amendments / cancellations / swop outs
– Local / International sales order requests
– Check and authorize requisitions / amendments / cancellations / Swop outs
– Follow up on signed sales orders
– Follow up on load out of released stock in store and request release accordingly
– Confirm if payment reflects in bank for the Cash Account before releases can be done
– Check if customers’ accounts are not suspended or on hold before release of product
– Address any damaged boxes or stock with suppliers and put them on notice that there might be a potential claim
– Provide feedback on Small Balances report and Expired Stock Report
– Aiding Finance / International Claims / Local Claims with the information relating to all Returns / Claims
-Compiling and sending out monthly import statistics
– Compiling and sending out monthly / weekly reports
– Assist Admin Manager / Cross Trades / Seafood Category Manager with any duties required
– Working on Syspro, Outlook, Expedite and Excel and ensuring relevant emails are actioned

Candidates meeting the above criteria are invited to apply for the position by emailing their CV to lisa@kingrec.co.za

Please note, applications made via Facebook or LinkedIn will not be evaluated, only email applications will be considered, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

If you have not received contact from us within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

 

Health24.com | Brain waves offer insight into sleep struggles that accompany autism

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Shallower-than-normal brain waves may play a role in serious sleep problems in children with autism, a new study suggests.

Previous research has shown that between 40% and 80% of children with autism have sleep issues, such as trouble falling asleep or waking frequently during the night and rising early. These problems can be significant challenges for the children and their families.

Shallow and superficial sleep

Identifying the causes of these sleep disturbances is an important step in finding ways to ease them, according to researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

For the study, the researchers recorded the brain activity of 29 children with autism and 23 children without autism during an entire night’s sleep.

“For the first time, we found that children with more serious sleep issues showed brain activity that indicated more shallow and superficial sleep,” said study leader Ilan Dinstein, head of the National Autism Research Center of Israel.

Normal sleep begins with periods of deep sleep marked by high amplitude slow brain waves, the study authors explained in a university news release.

Promoting deeper sleep

But this study found that the brain waves of children with autism are, on average, 25% weaker (shallower) than those of children without autism.

That indicates that children with autism have trouble entering deep sleep, the most crucial aspect of achieving rest and rejuvenation, according to the report published recently in the journal Sleep.

The next step is to determine ways to promote deeper sleep and larger brain waves in children with autism, the researchers said.

This could include increased physical activity, behavioural therapy and drug treatment, such as medical cannabis, the team suggested.

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Sport24.co.za | ‘Quiet’ Sharks skipper Am won’t change in leadership

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2020-01-22 20:20

Cape Town – Lukhanyo Am is a man who prefers to let his actions on the field do the talking, but the decision to make him Sharks captain for the 2020 Super Rugby season was a popular one. 

That is the view of Sharks head coach Sean Everitt, who says the decision to appoint Am as his first skipper was “automatic”. 

“Lukhanyo and I go back a long way from his first days at the Sharks,” Everitt told media in Durban on Wednesday.

“For Lukhanyo and for me it was an automatic choice. He is a quiet guy who is popular amongst his mates. He is not a loud, outspoken leader but in his quiet way he gets people to follow him.

“We thought it would be good to give him that opportunity and it was definitely received very well amongst the players. They cheered the roof off when he was announced, so it was a very popular choice in the squad.”

Am himself said he was honoured to be given the role, but he would not change much in his leadership. 

“In our own positions, we’re all leaders in a certain way, so I just took the responsibility of being a leader in the position I was in,” he said.

“I don’t want to change much. Obviously I’ll learn on this journey, but I will stick to what I do which is trying to lead by example.”

Am will receive assistance from the rest of the Sharks leadership group.

“Scrumhalf Louis Schreuder, himself no stranger to a leadership role, will assist with game management, while Andre Esterhuizen will provide defensive support, with another World Cup winner in Makazole Mapimpi managing our transition and Curwin Bosch assisting with our attack,” the coach said.

“From a forward perspective, Thomas du Toit will assist with set-piece feedback.

“In the past the Sharks have been spoken about as a team with a lack in leadership, so the decision was taken to grow the leadership within the squad.

“It’s very difficult for Lukhanyo to oversee everything on and off the field, so we as management felt he would need assistance in that regard.”

The Sharks take on the Bulls in Durban on February 1 in their first Super Rugby assignment of 2020. 

– Compiled by Lloyd Burnard

News24.com | Govt has no plans to bleed jobs at ailing SOEs – ANC

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The ANC says the government has no plans to retrench staff at ailing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) despite referring to substantial restructuring.

The party held a post-lekgotla media briefing on Wednesday to outline the resolutions it had taken over the weekend.

Its economic committee chairperson Enoch Godongwana said restructuring did not necessarily follow retrenchments.

Godongwana added when the government talked of restructuring Eskom by separating generation and transmission, it meant “transmission must be available to everybody on a non-discriminatory basis”.

“So, you are separating generation to be owned by Eskom, so that all other generators must have equal access to transmissions. That is restructuring. It does not necessarily mean retrenchments.”

ANC secretary general Ace Magashule earlier read a statement that focused on the economy and state-owned entities.

The national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC had resolved that SAA, which cancelled nearly 20 domestic and international flights on Tuesday, should be retained as the national airline.

READ: Govt looking for funds and a partner to keep SAA in the skies

Magashule said this would require substantial restructuring, with Cabinet taking the operational decisions needed to achieve it.

“The NEC resolved that the ANC will continue to be guided by the vision outlined in its ‘Ready to Govern’ policy document, which stated that the balance of the evidence will guide our structuring and restructuring of state-owned companies and our decisions on when we need to increase or reduce public ownership in order to advance our economic programme,” he added. 

SAA is currently under business rescue, with the government seemingly unable to raise the R2bn needed for a bailout.

Magashule said the ANC was of the view that public enterprises needed to play a developmental role, especially through their production of goods and services.

“There should be a proper assessment of public enterprises’ strategic importance for the developmental agenda. Its mandates should be clear, costed and monitored consistently to ensure the successful restructuring of programmes,” he added. 

Last year, Cosatu parliamentary co-ordinator Matthew Parks said there was growing fear about possible full-blown retrenchments at SOEs due to government’s resuscitation attempts.

He clarified this after Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan released a paper on the road map for the future of Eskom, which promoted a diversified energy mix for the country. The ANC resolutions are in support of this road map. 

READ: Cutting costs and unbundling: All you need to know about Eskom’s rescue plan

“Labour’s fear is that in fact it may increase costs by requiring more CEOs, management and boards. Workers fear that it may lead to full-blown retrenchments and privatisation through the back door. Any attempts to retrench workers will lead to massive strikes by not only the NUM [National Union of Mineworkers], but the entire federation and its affiliates,” Parks warned.

22 January 2020 – Illicit trade – a threat to our people and sovereignty

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PRETORIA, Wednesday 22 January 2020 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) will celebrate International Customs Day (ICD) this weekend by honouring the men and women in its Customs division. Whilst the core focus of Customs offices is to manage ports of entries and facilitate travellers and traders, sadly there is a proliferation of illicit and criminal activity that requires Customs to remain vigilant in combatting this scourge.

It is estimated that illicit trade results in losses to the fiscus of billions of rands every year.

SARS Commissioner, Edward Kieswetter, has committed the organisation to work closely with other government agencies to stamp out the illicit trade in clothing and textiles, leather and footwear, precious metals and scrap metal, second hand vehicles, fuel and cigarettes because of its disastrous consequences for our economy and our people. He said:  “The losses in tax revenue and the negative impact on our domestic economy affects industries, erodes employment opportunities and generally denies the most vulnerable in society the social and economic well-being they deserve”.

SARS has found that importers or exporters in these sectors specifically are using various ways to avoid paying the import or export duties, as well as Value-Added Tax (VAT), that apply to the goods, which in turn impacts on the amount of revenue that SARS is able to collect for the growth and development of our country.

Another negative impact of illicit trade is the erosion of productive capacity in the country as goods are imported rather than produced locally. This in turn leads to job losses which aggravate already high levels of poverty and inequality.

That is why the Clothing and Textile industry, in particular, is a key focus area for SARS. Under-declaration of Customs value in this sector has increased from R5.2 billion in 2014 to R8.52 billion in 2018, with the under-declared Customs value in 2017 and 2018 representing 34% and 35% of the declared Customs value respectively. Some of the cases of non-compliance that Customs has come across recently in this area include declaring complete garments at values as low as 0.02 US cents, excess cargo (in one case, more than 80% of a container was not declared), fictitious importers’ addresses and misclassification of goods.

SARS forms part of an inter-agency working group with the DTI and Treasury, focusing amongst others on the Clothing Textile Leather and Footwear Industry. The working group is already seeing a number of successes since it was established last year. Within the first month of the project, Customs issued 20 letters of intent to seize goods from traders who were found to be non-compliant in terms of value, quantity, classification, licensing and registration. The potential loss to the fiscus of these intended seizures amount to about R20 million.

The Deputy Minister of Finance, who will attend the ICD event, on Friday has pledged his full support for the important work of SARS in this regard.

A media statement with more information will be released on Friday following an event to be held by SARS to celebrate International Customs Day.

Caregivers Vacancy

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Caregivers in East London | Wellness | Job Mail | 4629911

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We are in need of Caregivers with/without qualifications. Be a caregiver, a mentor, a confidant… Be someone who makes a difference in the life of another by providing personal care and supervision to individual(s) in your care. Responsibilities may include assisting individuals with their studies, finding activities of interest to do together and in some cases, personal hygiene may be needed. Send CV to: janice@cgdirect.co.za

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Marketing Coordinator (Witbank)

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Remuneration: R8000 – R9000 per month Market related 
Location: Witbank, Emalahleni
Education level: Diploma
Job level: Mid/Senior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #MC_HM
Company: Mustard Seed Relationship Marketing

Job description

We are an advertising agency, specialising in the marketing of shopping centres, seeking a marketing coordinator.

The person will represent the agency on-site at a shopping centre in Emalahleni. The person will also oversee a shopping centre in Monsterlus, Limpop and will travel occasionally.

The person will be responsible for the execution of above-the-line and below-the-line campaigns. They must also grow tenant relationships and build a trust relationship with various stakeholders. 

Should you not have received a response within 14 days, your application has been unsuccessful. 

Important: Please indicate your current/last salary on your application as well as your availability in terms of notice period.

Please note the salary on offer is between R8 000 and R9 000 per month. Only applicants residing in Emalahleni will be considered.

Requirements

  • Marketing/PR qualification (diploma/degree)
  • Experience in retail marketing
  • Exceptional organisational skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Creative flair
  • Excellent communicator

Posted on 22 Jan 16:09

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