Tiaan Van Nispen

Operational Leadership & Team Management

Oversee the full production lifecycle for human and pet meat snacks (air and oven-dried), managing processes from raw ingredient intake to final packaging.

Lead and mentor cross-functional teams across wet (marination/prep) and dry (slicing/packaging) lines to consistently meet quality and delivery targets.

Partner with executive leadership on recruiting, hiring, and coaching personnel, fostering a skilled workforce and improving overall team morale.

Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Maintenance to align production output with demand forecasts and strategic goals.

Strategic Planning & Process Optimization

Develop data-driven production schedules in coordination with analysts to optimize operational capacity and respond to market trends.

Drive continuous improvement (CI) initiatives to identify bottlenecks, streamline workflows, and significantly reduce waste and material costs.

Manage end-to-end inventory, collaborating with logistics and procurement to optimize stock levels and improve resource allocation.

Deliver comprehensive performance reports to senior management, utilizing production data to recommend strategic adjustments.

Compliance & Quality Assurance

Maintain 100% compliance with HACCP, ISO, SQF, and OSHA protocols, ensuring all USDA and FDA regulations are strictly upheld.

Direct quality control efforts and internal operational standards to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and product safety.

Resolve technical and maintenance issues rapidly to minimize downtime and maintain aggressive productivity targets.

• Performed preventative maintenance on equipment and machinery to ensure proper operation.
• Conducted regular inspections of facility infrastructure and equipment to identify potential problems.
• Replaced worn out parts, lubricated moving parts, and tightened connections to restore functionality.
• Repaired electrical wiring, plumbing fixtures, and other mechanical systems as needed.
• Responded quickly to emergency repair requests from staff or customers.
• Operated a variety of hand tools and power tools for various maintenance activities.
• Ordered necessary supplies from vendors when existing inventory was insufficient.
• Disassembled malfunctioning machines using appropriate tools and replaced defective components with new ones.
• Diagnosed issues with heating and cooling systems and took appropriate steps to resolve them.
• Collected trash from designated areas within the building on a daily basis.
• Repaired minor carpentry, electrical and plumbing issues to return equipment to functionality.
• Cleaned vents and replaced filters to verify proper air flow.
• Read work orders or received instructions from supervisors or homeowners to determine work requirements.
• Changed air conditioning filters to improve indoor air quality and help HVAC system perform properly.
• Routinely inspected equipment for preventive and emergency maintenance needs.
• Verified stock against invoices before loading onto trucks or other transport vessels.
• Transported items safely from storage locations to designated areas using forklift equipment or pallet jacks when necessary.
• Organized warehouse space for efficient storage of products.
• Loaded and unloaded trucks with hand-trucks, pallet jacks, and forklifts.
• Assembled orders according to customer requests.
• Managed hazardous waste removal operations per government regulations.
• Maintained a clean work area by sweeping, mopping, dusting shelves.
• Applied paint with brushes, rollers, spray guns or other equipment;.
• Drill & tap weights for Tiger company and paint them primer black.

• Reason for Leaving : Retrenchment
• Principle duties and responsibilities include:
• Oversee HR/Operational Management of clusters -I have 5 clients and 570 staff within the 5 Clients whereby I assist with all kinds of HR for example
• Section 197 Section 198 forms when staff needs to be reduced, Warning Hearings that needs to be done and to Simplify process at all clients so that the SLA can be achieved
• Assisting clients with their operation in terms of making sure my staff Pick, Receive, dispatch, correct and also to ensure that my staff do proper inventory control in the warehouse
• Administration and Reporting -Weekly Monthly reports in terms of Health & Safety Staff onsite cost, warning, audits ex
• Financial Responsibility – Debtors and Cost Management -Monthly invoices to clients to be checked and ensure payment comes thru, also assists
• With the cost drive in terms of ensuring clients cost is low but also to ensure we make enough money
• Project Liaison -short term project ensuring correct planning takes place to have enough staff for the amount of days and to maximize productivity & production
• Client Relationship Management -keeping a well maintained relationship as well as building a stronger one in terms of assisting and going the extra mile for the client and always try and help the client improving their business
• HR and Management of a team of Direct Reports -Have team working under me and ensuring they comply with the correct standards and managing the staff clientele correctly and to ensure that all deadlines are met daily weekly and monthly
• CCMA Cases / Hearings -Attending Conciliations & Arbitrations correct process should be followed and all paper work and evidence needs to be correct and hearing forms part of this whereby I always make sure correct process is followed as you don’t want to slip up especially if it ends up going for an con/arb.

• Planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans,
• Tilling soil with tractors and other farm machinery to prepare for planting.
• Applying fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides as necessary to maintain healthy crops.
• Cleaning animal pens and barns regularly to ensure cleanliness and hygiene standards are met.
• Feeding Cattle Daily.
• Maintaining records of livestock feedings, health checks.
• Moving hay bales into storage areas using tractors or other farm equipment.
• Repairing fences around pastures or enclosures where appropriate.
• Checking animal enclosures for any damages that need repair.
• Managing inventory levels of seedlings and supplies needed on the farm.
• Performing general maintenance tasks such as painting buildings, fixing tools.
• Cultivated soil to refine and prepare for planting.
• Cared for livestock by regularly feeding and watering animals.
• Maintained and repaired farming equipment to provide consistent usability, prime operational condition and alleviate downtime.
• Cleaned and maintained animal pens by raking up manure and putting down fresh straw and hay.
• Repaired buildings, fences and other pertinent structures to keep animals properly contained.
• Moved livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales and enclosures.
• Attached plows, sprayers or harvesters to tractors with bolts or hand tools.
• Drove trucks and tractors to distribute feed to animals.
• Drove truck moving soybeans and corn to bins and to the local elevator (Ategra and Poet).

• Operating irrigation systems to water crops when needed.
• Monitoring crop growth and conditions to identify signs of disease or pests.
• Cleaning animal pens and barns regularly to ensure cleanliness and hygiene standards are met.
• Feeding animals such as horses, cattle, on a regular basis.
• Maintaining records of livestock feedings, health checks.
• Moving hay bales into storage areas using tractors or other farm equipment.
• Repairing fences around pastures or enclosures where appropriate.
• Checking animal enclosures for any damages that need repair.
• Adhering strictly to safety protocols while working with heavy machinery or hazardous chemicals on the farm.
• Cared for livestock by regularly feeding and watering animals.
• Maintained and repaired farming equipment to provide consistent usability, prime operational condition and alleviate downtime.
• Cleaned and maintained animal pens by raking up manure and putting down fresh straw and hay.
• Repaired boards, barbed wire and electrified fences to maintain safety and security
• Applied troubleshooting methods to repair malfunctioning equipment.
• Watered and fed livestock and cleaned pens and enclosures to maintain farm animal health.
• Moved livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales and enclosures.
• Attached plows, sprayers or harvesters to tractors with bolts or hand tools.
• Drove trucks and tractors to distribute feed to animals.
• Used oil cans, hand tools and grease guns to lubricate and make minor repairs to farming machinery.
• Examined animals to detect illness, injury or disease.
• Administered medications and vaccinations or arranged for veterinarians to provide extensive treatment.

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• Principle duties and responsibilities include
• Running the entire Value Contract operations
• Have 30 QC’s 60 GW’s that check stock at various warehouses and offloading Stock across the entire
• Gauteng, these guys needs to be transported to each Site daily and not always the same sites
• This is for all major DC’s
• Payroll Billing and POD’s
• Handeling all POD’s sorting day to day deliveries doing staff hours and billing report on a daily basis to the client, also have monthly hours to be paid and billed to the client
• Site visits & Queries
• Resolve any queries that there is like damages extra stock and short stock and In the same time build good relationships with clients and get to know whom the correct people are at each site to speak to so that all queries and relationships are kept at high standards
• Sites I deal with
• Makro, Game, Dischem, Pick&Pay, Massbuild, Clicks, DHL Plumbago, Shoprite, Edcon, Africa Cash&Carry
• Continental Cash&Carry, House&Home, Spar, Defy, Hifi Corperation
• Woolworths and many more…
• Products I deal with
• Samsung, SJ Johnson, Beiersdorf, Sunpac, Republic Umbrella, Defy, JustFunToys, Henkel, Health
• Connection, Philips, Shield Chemicals, Ikusasa, Plush, Hendler&Hart, Alplas Plastic’s, Tuffy
• Brands, Iser Bravo, Levi Strauss Home of Living Brands, Mega Master and many more…
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• Reason for Leaving : Better opportunities
• Principle duties and responsibilities include:
• Operations - Profit & Loss
• Budgets for branch avg of 10mil on monthly basis including all Reports that needs to be checked daily
• Quality Inspector of Material /Stock Taking
• Ensuring that stock is not damages and ensuring regular stock take is done to make sure an 100% stock is accounted for
• Forklift Management and Diesel Consumption
• Risk Control/Security Facility Coordinator
• Inventory Control
• Organized and managed large stock areas comprising of 7000 line items and maintained excellent accuracy, initiated cycle counting greatly improving inventory integrity, facilitated materials expediting involving status checking and progressing
• Also to ensure allocating line items in correct bins to make picking easier and quicker according to fast- and slow-moving stock
• Inbound Outbound control o Looking After 4 Agents which is Swaziland Lichtenburg Kroonstad Klerksdorp o Looking After 5 On sites IPS JHB, WESBANK, FNB Hot Design, Ingenuit and
• Bankserv o Looking after outgoing freight SAA, BIC and SUN Coastal o Then I have 39 OD’s and 99 Routes
• Maintenance of Facility
• Staff Management & IR Misconduct
• Projects Included
• Mounties
• UNISA/ANA
• DAIKIN Air-condition’s
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• DBE Department of Basic Education
• Volkswagen SA : which Includes AUDI and SEAT
• Chrysler Automotive company

• Reason for Leaving : VISA Expired
• Principle duties and responsibilities include:
• Driving Kids to school
• After school activities with kids
• Picking up goods & helping in surgery Center, 9
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• Industry : Transport and Warehousing

• Inter exchange USA Aupair Exchange student 2010 / 2011
• Approximately +/-10

• Work during school holidays
• Principle duties and responsibilities include:
• Farm Foreman
• Fence work planting crops feeding animals fixing windmill 1 supervisor working under me andgeneral workers
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