Graduate: Industrial Engineer

Premier FMCG (Pty) LtdPaarl, Western CapeOn-siteFull-timeNew grad, 0–1 yearsListed 3 days ago

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About this role

About Premier FMCG

Premier FMCG is at the heart of South Africa’s FMCG industry, delivering trusted, iconic brands across our Bakery, Milling, Confectionery, Home & Personal Care and Culinary divisions. We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and a high-performance growth culture. We empower our people to strive for excellence ensuring that our products and people make a difference in the everyday lives of our consumers.

What will you be doing?

We have an exciting learning opportunity for a Graduate: Industrial Engineering, which will include exposure, understanding and application of the following:

- Design & Execute projects across a variety of Supply Chain aspects, involving cross-functional stakeholders and change management processes.
- Collecting data from various sources and maintaining data systems
- Developing and maintaining databases
- Analysing data using statistical and other appropriate techniques
- Identifying and interpreting trends in data sets
- Improving data integrity through ongoing data cleaning, categorisation and standardisation of naming conventions
- Build & maintain fit for purpose supply chain information sets/reports for the various supply chain requirements
- Working with supply chain functions to identify, scope & build appropriate information processes and systems

Essential skills and competence

- Advanced Excel Skills/MS Office skills
- PowerBI and/or similar
- SQL, R, or other programming language experience beneficial
- Attention to detail, critical thinker and analytical (data driven)
- Proactive self-starter

Requirements

Entry:

- Grade 12
- Completed B.Eng (Industrial) Degree

Programme:

- This is a 12-month graduate programme based at our Culinary Groot Drakenstein working in the Supply Chain department reporting to the Demand Planning & Logistics Manager

Graduates at Premier gain valuable in-service work experience, skills and knowledge that will assist them in starting their careers in the Food Quality field.

Closing Date: 13 November 2026