Warehouse Co-ordinator

PURPOSE OF JOB

Coordinate the activities in the raw material warehouse. This is managing the stock levels, stock rotation, and warehousing of raw materials. This position ensures stock availability to enable on time production.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS 

Raw material planning, and receiving

• Utilising available tools to forecast usage to enable timeous ordering of raw material
• Liaising closely with Inventory Coordinator regarding stock levels, incoming orders, and planning
• Coordinating with production for the required raw material supply.
• Assist with identifying continuous improvement actions to improve the productivity.
• Enable the Warehouse team towards meeting objectives and targets through daily communications.

Warehouse management

• Stored raw material rows and stacks must be managed daily. A stack should only contain one product. This must be managed throughout the day.
• Ensuring optimum use of space considering legal stacking requirements
• Ensuring FIFO principle is applied
• Managing stock expiry dates according to De Heus policy
• Compliance of agreed product and stock levels

Stock Take

• Responsible for daily stock take of all raw materials
• Ensure that Stock inventory reports has been completed and all variances must be discussed with the Plant manager and Inventory Coordinator. To supply reasons for variances as well as a plan on how to improve.
• Responsible for the monthly stock take of all Warehouse items. 

Daily administration

• Processing all necessary activities on the DHApps according to company procedures.
• Ensuring timeously offloading of raw material truck with minimal standing time.

Sundries

• Ensure the correct minimum stock on hand and timeously placing of orders to replenish minimum stock requirements by communication to the Inventory Coordinator

Quality, Risk, Health and Safety, security, and Housekeeping        

• Monitor Warehouse personnel’s adherence to product and personnel quality and safety standards.
• Ensure that Health & Safety and Housekeeping in the Warehouse is done in accordance with Procedures and put checks in place.
• Ensure a clean and neat warehouse environment inside and outside during all times. 

Maintenance

• Escalate any concerns immediately to the shift supervisor

General company standards

• Continually striving to improve through teamwork with other employees all related aspects of De Heus (Pty) Ltd business.
• Using objective measurement, identifying problems within the company and subsequently identifying the “root cause” of problems.
• Ensuring always that corrective actions taken to resolve problems are, ultimately, permanent and preventative.
• Assisting, wherever possible, to ensure that all actions, functions and processes in De Heus’ business are conducted in a value-added manner.
• Complying, in line with the Policy Document, departmental procedures and practices.
• Ensuring that any subordinates reporting to you are effectively communicated to with regards to their responsibilities and authorities.
• Control of any company expenditure, which may be entrusted to you, in line with the overall company budget.
• To comply with any other work-related instruction which is relayed via a superior and which is deemed to be necessary and reasonable.
• The duties and responsibilities in this letter of appointment may be revised, by agreement, in line with the company’s overall Policy Document and the responsibilities matrix therein.
  The company expects the employee to carry out his/her duties and responsibilities to the best of their ability and commits itself to empower the employee with the authority to meet these requirements.

Knowledge, Qualifications & Experience

• Matric (Grade 12 Certificate)
• Degree or Diploma in Warehouse Management or Operation Management will be an advantage
• Exposure to safety requirements
• 1 Year experience in a coordinating/supervising position
• Working knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, Outlook
• Knowledge of feed milling
• Knowledge of Warehouse management

Skills

• Good organizational skills
• Problem solving and decision-making skills
• Conflict handling skills
• Communication and influencing skills
• Relationship building skills
• Computer skills (MS Office)
• Written communication skills
• Negotiation and Selling skills
• Excellent planning ability

Behaviours

• Positive, pro-active, results-driven attitude
• Innovative
• Highly ethical and principle-driven
• Committed, dedicated, motivated
• Self-starter and follow-though
• Energy, drive, courage and tenacity
• Required to work with minimum supervision
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Assertive, tolerant, patient, versatile would be an advantage to this position.
• Discretion, professionalism and confidentiality and an ability to make sound judgment

Adverse Working Conditions

• Some overtime and weekend work would be required

Applicants must submit a comprehensive CV, with work-related references to hrsa@deheus.com

Closing date:    14 January 2026

Please note that only applicants who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date, kindly consider your application unsuccessful. De Heus reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.