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Join the Karan Beef team

Join the Karan Beef team and play your part to continue building one of South Africa’s largest and most sustainable beef manufacturing companies. Browse through our available vacancies if you would like to join the Karan Beef team.

    Cattleman

    Karan Beef Farming (PTY) LTD has the following vacancy Cattleman Albert Falls (Pietermaritzburg).

    The successful candidates will be a well-experienced, hands-on, positive, accurate and administratively strong individual and will be in possession of the following:

    Requirements:
    • Matric (Grade 12)
    • nimal health and production qualification
    • years’ work experience at a cattle feedlot
    • onversant in both English and Afrikaans and Zulu
    • Mechanical Skills / General knowledge in Farm Equipment
    • Excellent leadership skills
    • xcellent people skills
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Computer Literate
    • Basic to advanced knowledge of Excel
    • Strong numeracy skills and attention to detail is paramount.
    • Must be prepared to work under pressure.
    • Must be able to work weekends, night shift, overtime and on public holidays.
    Duties will include, but will not be limited to the following:
    • Identify and attend to sick cattle.
    • Managing cow and calf herds
    • Processing incoming cattle
    • Offloading and dispatching of cattle
    • Re-vaccination of cattle
    • Placing cattle in the correct pens after processing
    • Management of grazing camps
    • Postmortems
    • Daily data capturing
    • Ordering and issuing of medicines and record keeping of medicines and stock.
    • Feed bunk management.
    • Checking dam water levels
    • Paperwork on incoming cattle
    • Ensuring that staff adheres to health and safety
    • Facilitate training and development of quality production operators
    • HR duties: Managing staff, timesheets, leave, discipline.

    Karan Beef is an equal opportunity Company and preference is given to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

    Correspondence will only be conducted with candidates who reach the shortlist. Candidates who are not contacted within two weeks from the closing date can assume that they have not been shortlisted for an interview and they are hereby thanked for their application.

    • Applications close 04 October, 2024

    HR ADMINISTRATOR CO-ORDINATOR – 6 MONTH CONTRACT

    Karan Beef Farming (PTY) LTD has the following vacancy HR Administrator Co-Ordinator at our abattoir in Balfour.

    The successful candidate will be a mature, detail orientated, self-disciplined, and motivated individual, and will be in possession of the following.

    Requirements:
    • Grade 12 (Tertiary qualification to your advantage)
    • At least 3 years’ working experience in HR or admin
    • Conversant in both English & Afrikaans
    • High level of confidentiality
    • Must be computer literate
    • Deadline driven
    • Attention to detail - important
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Excellent interpersonal skills
    • Strong planning and organizing skills
    • Ability to manage personnel
    • Must be able to work under pressure
    Duties include but are not limited to:
    • Time & Attendance – capturing and maintaining clockings on Chronos system
    • Capture new staff - screening process, and various HR inputs on SAGE300 People – (terminations, dismissals,
    • abscondence, bank details, personal info etc)
    • Capture and approve staff leave on ESS system
    • Employee benefits: Pension & Provident funds, Disabilities, death claims, funeral claims and
    • withdrawal forms.
    • Reporting of IOD’s on the Compsol system
    • Dealing with daily HR related queries
    • Ordering medicine for the on-site clinic
    • Month end preparation – all relevant documents
    • Must make sure all HR Clerk’s work is up to date
    • Filing and general HR duties
    • Ad Hoc duties

    Karan Beef is an equal opportunity Company and preference is given to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

    Correspondence will only be conducted with candidates who reach the shortlist. Candidates who are not contacted within two weeks from the closing date can assume that they have not been shortlisted for an interview and they are hereby thanked for their application.

    • Applications close 04 October, 2024

    Feedmill Assistant/Foreman

    Karan Beef Farming (PTY) LTD has the following vacancy Feedmill Assistant/Foreman at our feedlot in Nigel.

    The successful candidate will be a well-experienced, accurate and administratively strong individual and will be in possession of the following:

    Requirements:
    • Matric (Grade 12)
    • Computer Literate
    • Conversant in both English and Afrikaans
    • Strong numeracy skills, accuracy and attention to detail are paramount.
    • Must be prepared to work under pressure.
    • Must be able to meet deadlines
    • Must be able to work unsupervised
    • Excellent communication skills
    Duties include but are not limited to:
    • Compile daily reports and liaise with management
    • Running the day-to-day tasks
    • Assisting with stock management (receiving of stock premix)
    • Ration implementation
    • Assist with workshop service planning/Breakdown management
    • Check feed accuracy (problem solving/ time management/ checking of cribs etc)
    • Turn around time for: exemption approval on feed mixes, sign off delivery of feed/stock/supplies
    • Updating of feed files
    • Relief for Assistant Feedstore Manager
    Health & Safety:
    • SOP’s, toolbox talks, risk assessment and Health & Safety training
    HR
    • Supervision of staff

    Karan Beef is an equal opportunity Company and preference is given to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

    Correspondence will only be conducted with candidates who reach the shortlist. Candidates who are not contacted within two weeks from the closing date can assume that they have not been shortlisted for an interview and they are hereby thanked for their application.

    • Applications close 11 October, 2024

    Buyer

    Karan Beef Farming (PTY) LTD has the following vacancy in Heidelberg.

    The successful candidate will be a mature, detail orientated, self-disciplined, and motivated individual, and will be in possession of the following.

    Requirements
    • Matric/Grade 12
    • Min of 4 years’ experience as buyer
    • Purchasing degree/diploma or equivalent
    • Conversant in English and Afrikaans
    • Must have a technical background – (parts, vehicles, earthmoving machines, tractors, implements etc)
    • Computer literate
    • Excellent negotiation skills
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Valid Driver’s license
    • Dependable, reliable, responsible, and able to fulfil obligations
    • Own Transport
    Duties will include but not be limited to:
    • Checking order dashboard daily
    • Processing of purchase orders
    • Liaison with various suppliers
    • Tracking orders
    • Perform market research, product tests and evaluations
    • Regularly reviewing and negotiating supplier product pricing
    • Admin duties

    Karan Beef is an equal opportunity Company and preference is given to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

    Correspondence will only be conducted with candidates who reach the shortlist. Candidates who are not contacted within two weeks from the closing date can assume that they have not been shortlisted for an interview and they are hereby thanked for their application.

    • Applications close 10 October, 2024

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