{"id":3648520,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pedros-senior-production-manager","title":"Senior Production Manager","company":{"id":4472363,"name":"Pedros Chicken","domain":"pedroschicken.co.zm","url":"https://alion.io/company/pedros-chicken","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Simplify","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Pinetown, South Africa"],"countries":["ZA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-18T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T20:26:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":49,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":49},"description":"DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nTo manage all poultry and sauce production operations at the Distribution Centre (DC), ensuring production output benchmarks, yield targets, product specifications, food safety, hygiene standards, stock accuracy, traceability, people performance and SOP compliance are consistently achieved across all production departments\nMaintaining housekeeping and hygiene standards across all production areas at all times\nEnsuring Daily Deep Cleaning and Weekly Acid Washing are completed and verified without exception\nMaintaining zero cross-contamination incidents through strict color-coding and 3-Bucket System compliance\nEnsuring personal hygiene, PPE and handwashing compliance across all production staff\nAchieving production output benchmarks across all production lines\nAchieving required yield targets across poultry smalls and other applicable production categories\nMaintaining product specification compliance for fillets, strips and chicken products\nMaintaining stock accuracy, variance control and full traceability\nManaging supplier claims and NCRs within specified timelines\nEnsuring accurate daily reporting, effective staff management and continuous employee training\nREQUIREMENTS:\nA well experienced production manager (experienced in planning and forecasting)\nMust have a solid understanding of production yield\nHACCP certification\nTertiary qualification in Food Technology, Food Science, Production/Operations or Quality Management\nWorking knowledge of R638 (SA food premises hygiene regulations)\nA high degree of professionalism\nManagement level - Management of staff (conflict management skills in a diverse employment arena)\nComputer literate - MS Office\nSAGE - advantageous\nSolid track record of work experience\nNo criminal record\nPoultry and cold chain experience\nMust be well experienced from the food processing background preferably poultry (3 yrs+)\nStrong managerial skills especially on the HR and IR side (able to issue warnings, etc.)","description_format":"text","description_chars":1987,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T23:29:13Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.431,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":48,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pedros-senior-production-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pedros-senior-production-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T00:43:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1207,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4472363},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4472363"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpedros-senior-production-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpedros-senior-production-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpedros-senior-production-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pedros-senior-production-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpedros-senior-production-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3648520}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"pedroschicken.co.zm","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3648520},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}