Job Description
DO YOU HAVE THE APPITITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC?
Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.
Founded in Belgium in 1919,From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.
We’ve evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. It’s with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and let’s continue building the next 100 years of shared success!
Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.
Based at our Gauteng Branch to further strengthen our local operations, we are currently seeking a:
Warehouse Operations Coordinator – (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Reporting directly to the Operations Supervisor, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:
- Ensure accurate receiving, storage, and issuing of raw materials to support uninterrupted production.
- Maintain real-time inventory accuracy and strict batch traceability for all raw materials.
- Drive efficient binning, replenishment, and material flow between warehouse and production.
- Support safe, compliant, and audit-ready warehouse operations within a production environment.
- Improve labour productivity and stock handling efficiency in raw material areas
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Raw Material Receiving & Control
- Verify incoming raw materials against purchase orders and specifications.
- Capture and validate batch numbers, quantities, and bin allocations.
- Ensure materials follow QA hold/release processes before use.
- Binning & Storage Control
- Ensure accurate binning of raw materials immediately after receipt.
- Maintain strict adherence to:
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- FIFO / FEFO principles
- Correct storage conditions (including allergen segregation where applicable)
- Ensure bin locations are clearly labelled, organised, and system-aligned.
- Raw Material Issuing to Production
- Ensure timely, accurate issuing of raw materials to production lines.
- Prevent production stoppages through:
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- Proactive monitoring of stock levels
- Coordination with production teams
- Ensure correct material and batch issued per production requirement
- Replenishment & Material Flow
- Manage replenishment of forward pick / staging areas feeding production.
- Coordinate movement between:
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- Bulk storage
- Production staging areas
Ensure continuous availability of materials at point of use
- Inventory Accuracy & Control
- Maintain high bin accuracy across all raw materials.
- Conduct cycle counts and investigate discrepancies immediately.
- Identify and report:
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- Damaged stock
- Obsolete / slow-moving materials
- Near-expiry materials
- Machine Operator Coordination (Binning & Replenishment)
- Coordinate and guide machine operators responsible for binning and replenishment activities.
- Ensure operators:
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- Follow correct binning procedures
- Maintain accurate stock movements
- Adhere to SOPs and safety standards
- Monitor productivity and accuracy of these activities
- Safety, Compliance & Housekeeping
- Enforce HSE standards relevant to raw material handling (dust, stacking, equipment use).
- Maintain clean, organised, and audit-ready storage areas.
- Ensure compliance with:
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- Food safety standards
- Internal SOPs and audits
- Traceability & Documentation
- Maintain full traceability of raw materials from receipt to production issue.
- Ensure all stock movements are accurately recorded in system and documentation.
- Support internal and external audit requirements.
PROFILE
- Matric and Diploma/Degree in Logistics /Supply Chain/Operation Management
- At least 3 – 5 years’ experience in warehousing or food manufacturing warehouse (raw material focus preferred)with a proven track record of FMCG Experience will be an advantage
- Driver’s License
- Computer literacy: MS Office suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
- Over and above normal working hours, occasional overtime is required.
- Good communication skills - English is a prerequisite - ability to read and write; additional language(s) an advantage.
- Written comprehension – the ability to read and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Good personality, hardworking, teamwork, service orientated, creative, innovative, trustworthy, open to learn from feedback.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Collaborating effectively: spontaneously helps team members, networking, sharing information/results.
- Communicating effectively: actively listening, reporting, provides clear explanations that are easy to follow.
- Driving performances: results-driven, persistent, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
- Trainingfacilitating effectively: facilitation skills, flexible, strong presentation skills, grounded, openness, persistent.
- Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
- Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment, builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.
OFFER
Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape.
Interested persons who meet the requirements may apply at
www.chipkinspuratos.co.za
CLOSING DATE: 24 June 2026
NB: For our internal employees, please use SuccessFactors to put in your application(s) except for Warehouse and Production Floor staff.
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