Cold Storage & Ripening Operations Manager
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Lead the full operating cycle of the cold-storage facility, from receiving and room allocation through ripening, inventory care, and dispatch.
Improve service reliability, energy efficiency, capacity utilization, product quality, and operating discipline while reducing spoilage and downtime.
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Company Overview
Royal Fruits Company is a Jeddah-based subsidiary of Kahelan Al Arab Holding Company.
The company specializes in temperature-controlled storage for fruits and vegetables, including receiving, storage, ripening, handling, and dispatch.
Role Overview
Lead the full operating cycle of the cold-storage facility, from receiving and room allocation through ripening, inventory care, and dispatch.
Improve service reliability, energy efficiency, capacity utilization, product quality, and operating discipline while reducing spoilage and downtime.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead receiving, storage, cooling, ripening, handling, loading, and dispatch operations.
- Maintain temperature, humidity, ripening, hygiene, food-safety, and traceability controls.
- Track capacity utilization, spoilage, turnaround time, energy consumption, equipment downtime, and customer-service performance.
- Coordinate preventive maintenance, refrigeration alarms, emergency response, and business-continuity measures.
- Plan staffing and shifts, supervise operating teams, enforce SOPs, and develop frontline capability.
- Investigate product loss, temperature excursions, customer claims, and operational incidents, then implement corrective actions.
- Prepare operating plans, budgets, forecasts, and management reports for the facility.
Qualifications and Experience
- A bachelor's degree or diploma in Operations, Logistics, Engineering, Food Science, or a related discipline is required.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in cold storage, fresh produce, food logistics, or temperature-controlled warehousing is required.
- At least 3 years of leadership experience is required.
- Practical knowledge of industrial refrigeration, ripening rooms, preventive maintenance, food safety, and warehouse controls is required.
- Strong command of operational KPIs, root-cause analysis, workforce planning, and cost control is required.
- Proficiency in ERP/WMS tools, Microsoft Excel, and operational reporting is required.
- Working proficiency in Arabic and English and availability for shift-related escalation are required.
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